The Standard

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The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other. But the standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others. 

Or put it this way. If your moral ideas can be truer, and those of the Nazis less true, there must be something-some Real Morality--for them to be true about. 

If the Rule of Decent Behaviour meant simply 'whatever each nation happens to approve,' there would be no sense in saying that any one nation had ever been more correct in its approval than any other; no sense in saying that the world could ever grow morally better or morally worse.

CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 29

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***WRITING & READING 

The Weirdest Book Titles On Amazon https://www.sadanduseless.com/weird-amazon-books-list/

How do you cope with knowing that the project you poured years of your life into is not quite setting the world on fire? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/writing-is-tough-my-book-went-so-unnoticed-i-won-an-award-for-it

The Last Decade Has Been Tumultuous For The Publishing Industry https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782867252/the-last-decade-has-been-tumultuous-for-the-publishing-industry

Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books www.openculture.com/2019/11/prisons-around-the-u-s-are-banning-and-restricting-access-to-books.html

Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/29/handwriting-identifies-elizabeth-i-tacitus-translation

 

***JOURNALISM

New York Times dropping most social media trackers https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-social-media-trackers-47f547d5-a241-424a-a398-12344c78ac32.html  

Reporting That Hits People Where They Live — by Reporters Who Live There Too https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2019/11/14/new-generation-storytellers-changing-rules-abc

How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news https://lwlies.com/articles/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project-director-interview/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

5 Photojournalists Sue Homeland Security for First Amendment Violations https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/5-photojournalists-sue-homeland-security-for-first-amendment-violations.html

Americans favor mobile devices over desktops and laptops for getting news https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/19/americans-favor-mobile-devices-over-desktops-and-laptops-for-getting-news/ 

An Exhaustive Ranking of Movie Journalists  https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/11/25/20974644/movie-journalists-ranked  

 

***JOURNALISM & AI

The relationship of journalism to AI http://bit.ly/35z5F6s    

Relevance of AI in Accelerating Journalism and Newsroom Workflow https://www.analyticsinsight.net/relevance-ai-accelerating-journalism-newsroom-workflow/

Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/ai-ethics-journalism-and-computation-ibm-new-york-times.php

 

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

9 charts about America’s newsrooms https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/26/9-charts-about-americas-newsrooms/

Putting a price tag on local news https://knightfoundation.org/reports/putting-a-price-tag-on-local-news/

AP to add 14 statehouse reporters in collaboration with Report for America https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/ap-to-add-14-statehouse-reporters-in-collaboration-with-report-for-america

Portland Has Been Overcharging People for Public Records, Court Finds https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/11/19/27502241/portland-has-been-overcharging-people-for-public-records-court-finds

 

***STUDENT MEDIA

Student reporters at BYU-Idaho allegedly pressured not to publish negative stories https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/11/student-reporters-at-byu-idaho-allegedly-pressured-not-to-publish-negative-stories/

High school journalists who fought censorship win award https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/11/25/burlington-high-schoolers-censorship-granted-journalism-award/4295236002  

Lawsuit pits father against daughter after article alleging sex abuse appears in UNC student newspaper  https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/no-turning-back-in-lawsuit-pitting-father-against-daughter-after/article_f093b659-134f-5fd8-a7ad-6b98c9f9be2f.html

 

***FAKE NEWS

The neuroscience of how fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories, and appeals to our emotions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/galaxy-brain-the-neuroscience-of-how-fake-news-grabs-our-attention-produces-false-memories-and-appeals-to-our-emotions/

Fake News Is Costing the World $78 Billion a Year https://cheddar.com/media/exclusive-fake-news-is-costing-the-world-billion-a-year

The Incredibly True Story of Fake Headlines https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredibly-true-story-of-fake-headlines/

Before Trump: the real history of fake news https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/factitious-taradiddle-dictionary-real-history-fake-news

 

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283 (video) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/cancel-culture-victims.html 

Facebook still isn’t clear about why it won’t take down false political ads https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/18/20970942/facebook-political-ads-policy-carolyn-everson-code-media   

‘This app is free and therapy is not’: Gen Z will keep using TikTok even if they don’t trust it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/15/this-app-is-free-therapy-is-not-gen-z-will-keep-using-tiktok-even-if-they-dont-trust-it/

TikTok Denies Censoring A Teen Who Criticized China's Concentration Camps — They Said They Banned Her After A Joke About Osama Bin Laden Thirst https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/teen-tik-tok-china-osama-bin-laden

Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-wont-delete-the-accounts-of-dead-people-for-now

 

***LANGUAGE

The Loudness Of Vowels Helps The Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/20/780988618/the-loudness-of-vowels-helps-the-brain-break-down-speech-into-syl-la-bles

‘Climate Emergency’ Is the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-11-20/climate-emergency-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year 

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?   https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/education/what-happens-when-college-students-discuss-lab-work-in-spanish-philosophy-in-chinese-or-opera-in-italian/2019/11/18/0eef3f7a-0985-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

 

***LITERATURE 

The 50 best nonfiction books of past 25 years  https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/50-best-nonfiction-books.html

Author hits back after library removes LGBT picture book from shelves  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/author-west-virginia-library-removes-lgbt-book-shelves-daniel-haack-prince-and-knight   

George Eliot translation of Spinoza sheds new light on her fiction  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/george-eliot-translation-of-spinoza-sheds-new-light-on-her-fiction

 

***POETRY

‘My cell is smaller than my size’ – how writing poetry saved a political prisoner (video) https://aeon.co/videos/my-cell-is-smaller-than-my-size-how-writing-poetry-saved-a-political-prisoner

Finding poetry in the letters of Vincent van Gogh https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/finding-poetry-in-the-letters-of-vincent-van-gogh-1.4090884   

Typewriter poet pounds out poems in 20 minutes https://www.ktre.com/2019/11/22/webxtra-typewriter-poet-pounds-out-poems-minutes/      

In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/style/in-the-woods-of-greenwich-a-studio-for-writing-poetry.html   

Don’t Let Your Children Become Insufferable Poets https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/future-humanities-science-education.html   

Gay Poet's Book Canceled Over Sexy Instagram Pictures https://www.out.com/books/2019/11/15/gay-poets-book-cancelled-over-sexy-instagram-pictures

Who’s More Qualified to Write About Death Than a Funeral Director Poet? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/books/review/the-depositions-thomas-lynch.html

 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Key takeaways on Americans’ views about privacy, surveillance and data-sharing https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-about-privacy-surveillance-and-data-sharing/

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-force-child-porn-suspect-to-reveal-his-password-court-rules/

 

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How to Make Your Podcast Sound Like NPR  https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-podcast-sound-like-npr-1840048544

A Peaceful Mind

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 Frequently, I find that people who are lacking in inner peace are victims of a self-punishment mechanism. At some time in their experience, they have committed a sin and the sense of guilt haunts them. They have sincerely sought Divine forgiveness, and the good Lord will always forgive anyone who asks Him and who means it. However, there is a curious quirk within the human mind whereby sometimes an individual will not forgive himself. 

He feels that he deserves punishment and therefore is constantly anticipating that punishment. As a result he live in a constant apprehension that something is going to happen. In order to find peace under these circumstances, he must increase the intensity of this activity. He feels that hard work will give him some release from his sense of guilt… Peace of mind under such circumstances is available by yielding the guilt as well as the tension it produces to the healing therapy of Christ. 

Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

 

Love and Boundaries

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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. Once the precious moment of falling in love has passed and the boundaries have snapped back in place, the individual is disillusioned. Real love (the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth) is a permanently self enlarging experience. Falling in love is not.

M Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Nov 22

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***HIGHER ED

Has a U.S. College Given Russia Too Friendly a Platform  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/arts/american-university-russian-influence.html  

U.S. Colleges Suspend Hong Kong Study Abroad Programs Amid Violence https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/university/hong-kong-study-abroad-programs/

As more colleges become Hispanic-serving, some are playing catch-up https://www.educationdive.com/news/as-more-colleges-become-hispanic-serving-some-are-playing-catch-up/567700/

At women's colleges, rules vary widely for trans and nonbinary students https://www.educationdive.com/news/at-womens-colleges-trans-and-nonbinary-applicants-face-inconsistent-rules/567537/

UC Berkeley keeps a lid on 2,000 protesters, allowing conservative commentator Ann Coulter to speak https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-22/uc-berkeley-keeps-a-lid-on-2-000-protesters-allowing-conservative-commentator-ann-coulter-to-speak

 

***COLLEGES & FINANCE 

Private colleges convinced company to scuttle release of list of projected college closures  https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/private-colleges-convinced-company-scuttle-release-list-projected-college-closures

A Doomsday List of Possible College Closures Inspired Panic and Legal Threats. That’s Telling. https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Doomsday-List-of-Possible/247592?cid=wsinglestory_6_1a

What to Know About Lists of Financially Challenged Colleges https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/01/publishing-colleges-financial-information-has-long-history-and-raises-larger-set

Moody Foundation Gives $100M to SMU https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/11/13/moody-foundation-gives-100m-smu

 

***RACISM ON CAMPUS

The Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’ https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/11082019-OleMiss

Racist Incidents At Syracuse University Spark Fear Among Students https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781514681/racist-incidents-at-syracuse-university-spark-fear-among-students

Security tightened at Syracuse University after a white supremacist manifesto was posted on a campus forum https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/19/syracuse-university-manifesto-security-tightened-after-latest-racist-incident/4237543002/

***TEACHING

A Baylor ASL professor apologized after a guest speaker began promoting conversion therapy https://nbcnews.to/33uefTg

Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom’ A white professor offers her views. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/12/author-discusses-her-new-book-teaching-about-race-and-racism

 

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

The play centers around an accusation of plagiarism by an aging female professor, toward a young male college student http://ashlandtidings.com/lifestyle/third-takes-on-many-meanings-in-third

Two Arkansas chemistry professors arrested for allegedly making meth https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/arkansas-professors-arrested-meth/

Professor keeps job despite "racist, sexist, and homophobic" posts https://www.cbsnews.com/news/professor-get-to-keep-job-despite-posts-school-calls-racist-sexist-and-homophobic/

 

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 

After Christian College found out she was married to a woman, she was expelled, lawsuit says https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-21/she-married-woman-expelled-by-college-lawsuit-says  

Student wins Lip Sync battle: Comes Out to Christian University  https://www.pride.com/music/2019/11/18/student-comes-out-christian-university-dazzlingly-gay-lip-sync

Calls for Shared Governance at Loyola Chicago https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/18/professors-loyola-chicago-object-presidents-top-down-leadership-style

 

***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

A former Liberty University student was convicted Tuesday of aggravated sexual battery against an instructor https://www.newsadvance.com/news/crime/ex-lu-student-convicted-of-sexual-battery/article_e0e1ed1d-32fd-59f1-a33d-434ee0c80b63.html

Liberty University announces $5 million new indoor tennis facility on campus https://wset.com/news/local/liberty-university-announces-new-indoor-tennis-facility-on-campus

 

***RESEARCH 

It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/it-is-okay-to-lose-confidence-in-your-previous-research

How 1 Study Changed The Field Of Psychiatry Forever https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/780563160/how-1-study-changed-the-field-of-psychiatry-forever

Should we mind if authorship is falsified? « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/15/should-we-mind-if-authorship-is-falsified/

Survey: Most educators find research hard to access https://www.educationdive.com/news/survey-most-educators-find-research-hard-to-access/567772/

 

***STUDENT LIFE

When a College Student has a troubled roommate https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/well/family/college-student-roommate-anxiety-depression-mental-health-son-daughter-parents.html

W&L Law Students Demand Right To Strip George Washington And Robert E. Lee From Their Diplomas https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/11/wl-law-students-demand-right-to-strip-george-washington-and-robert-e-lee-from-their-diplomas.html

How To Find A Mentor And Make It Work https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773158390/how-to-find-a-mentor-and-make-it-work

Why millennials are ditching diamond engagement rings https://www.abc27.com/news/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/why-millennials-are-ditching-diamond-engagement-rings/

Nearly 1 in 3 students at San Ysidro School District are homeless https://www.10news.com/news/nearly-1-in-3-students-at-san-ysidro-school-district-is-homeless

Oxford Union president resigns after outcry over treatment of blind student https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/20/uk/oxford-union-president-resignation-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

High school student views on the First Amendment: Trends in the 21st Century https://knightfoundation.org/reports/high-school-student-views-on-the-first-amendment:-trends-in-the-21st-century/

 

***THE GEN DIVIDE

OK boomer: The psychology of why baby boomers complain about millenials and Gen Z https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/11/12/20950235/ok-boomer-kids-these-days-psychology

Gen Z Is Calling Gen X The "Karen Generation" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/gen-z-is-calling-gen-x-the-karen-generation

'OK, Boomer' Vs. 'OK, Millennial': Workplace Nightmare, Or Just A Meme? https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/779783608/-okboomer-vs-okmillennial-workplace-nightmare-or-just-a-meme

What is a VSCO girl? OK, boomer. A parents' dictionary to teen slang words, sksksksksk https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/parenting/2019/11/15/vsco-girl-ok-boomer-teen-slang-words-explained-parents-dictionary/2456251001/

 

***CAMPUS CRIME

Police fail to provide timely information in second Meriam Library shooter threat https://theorion.com/82207/opinion/police-fail-to-provide-timely-information-in-second-meriam-library-shooter-threat/

 

***STUDENTS & FINANCE 

Divorce? Marry off your kid? As financial aid confusion grows, parents consider drastic measures https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/11/22/fafsa-college-financial-aid-what-is-efc/3930953002/ 

Michael Murphy: University of Florida Student President Faces Impeachment Over $50,000 Donald Trump Jr. Visit https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-murphy-university-of-florida-student-president-faces-impeachment-over-dollar50000-donald-trump-jr-visit

Five facts about student loans https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/11/12/five-facts-about-student-loans/

When it comes to higher ed, there's no debate about what today's students need (opinion) https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/471176-when-it-comes-to-higher-ed-theres-no-debate-about-what-todays

 

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Former Title IX coordinator alleges she was forced out for doing her job https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/21/former-title-ix-coordinator-claims-she-was-forced-out-upholding-law   

Anonymous: What they don’t say about sexual assault on your campus tour (opinion) https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/11/10/opinion/anonymous-what-they-dont-say-about-sexual-assault-on-your-campus-tour/

Articles of Interest about Religion - Nov 21

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***RELIGION

A tale of mistake and retraction: Kids from religious homes are not less generous than secular children https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/31/a-tale-of-mistake-and-retraction-shows-that-science-works-eventually

Exorcisms make a 21st century comeback in Minnesota www.startribune.com/exorcisms-make-a-21st-century-comeback/564708901/ 

Scholars of religion and biblical literature object to having conference badges coded and scanned https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/11/scholars-religion-and-biblical-literature-object-having-conference-badges-coded-and

Long journey' ahead for evangelical women seeking greater equality in the Church https://christiantoday.com/article/long-journey-ahead-for-evangelical-women-seeking-greater-equality-in-the-church/133602.htm

Bible museum replaces chief executive after one year https://wapo.st/2rYFDLc  

   

***RELIGION BY THE NUMBERS 

Americans' Views on Religion in Society, Politics https://www.pewforum.org/2019/11/15/americans-have-positive-views-about-religions-role-in-society-but-want-it-out-of-politics/ 

Christianity’s Uncertain future in the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/opinion/letters/christianity-us.html

 

***RELIGION AND POLITICS 

Evangelical Christians On Faith And Politics https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/778343677/evangelical-christians-on-faith-and-politics

Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779465137/who-is-an-evangelical-looks-at-history-of-evangelical-christians-and-the-gop

Ohio Lawmakers pass bill prohibiting students from being penalized when their work is scientifically incorrect (if they attribute it to their religious beliefs) https://gizmodo.com/this-ohio-bill-gives-students-religious-exemptions-for-1839878738 

 

***RELIGION & THE LAW

Christian financial adviser Dave Ramsey goes after YouTuber https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191118/23400843407/evangelical-financial-whiz-who-apparently-hates-gossip-sues-youtuber-criticism.shtml

CompassCare, First Bible Baptist sue state over reproductive health law https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/11/20/rochester-compasscare-sues-state-reproductive-health-laws-abortion/4247474002/

Kentucky Judge: If you're going to allow pro-Christian vanity license plates, you cannot deny the same of other religions, or atheists https://apnews.com/b508ac7343734476ab6d67344eabdc8d

San Diego Religious Charity sues California over licensing shelter https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/20/children-of-the-immaculate-heart-sues-california-o/

 

***DENOMINATIONS 

Tennessee Baptist Convention Resolution denounces Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality https://capstonereport.com/2019/11/20/tennessee-baptists-reject-critical-race-theory-in-rebuke-to-southern-baptist-convention/33326/

 

***CATHOLIC 

Catholic sexual abuse: Accused priests aren't on sex offender registry https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/11/11/catholic-sexual-abuse-accused-priests-arent-sex-offender-registry/4012206002/

U.S. Catholic Bishops Elect Hispanic Immigrant as Leader https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/archbishop-jose-gomez-president.html

Vatican youth seminary scandal grows with new abuse claims https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-16/vatican-youth-seminary-scandal-grows-with-new-abuse-claims

Three more altar boys say they were abused by priests in Vatican https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/16/three-more-altar-boys-claim-they-were-abused-by-priests-in-vatican

 

***RELIGION & LGBTQ ISSUES

Chick-fil-A no longer donates to controversial Christian charities after LGBTQ protests
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/18/chick-fil-a-drops-donations-to-christian-charities-after-lgbt-protests.html

What happened when a gay choir toured America's Bible belt https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/21/gay-chorus-deep-south-lgbtq-mtv
 

***RELIGION & KANYA 

Kanye West tells crowd at megachurch he’s no longer in the service of money or fame https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/11/kanye-west-tells-crowd-at-megachurch-hes-no-longer-in-the-service-of-money-or-fame.html 

Kanye West's 5 most outrageous claims at Joel Osteen's church https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-11-18/kanye-west-joel-osteen-service-lakewood-church

judgmental attitudes

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How do we keep from developing judgmental attitudes? This used to be my big hang-up when I first started counseling. Whenever people shared their problems with me, I found myself thinking, 

“If he had stay away from the wrong crowd, this would never have happened.”

“He should have known better.”

“A little common sense could have prevented this…”

“A good lecture show sort her out.”

One day I shared my difficulties with an older counselor, who said, “That used to be my problem, too— and this is how I overcame it.’ Reaching into a desk drawer he took out a stone and a rusty nail. ‘I keep these here,’ he said, ‘for a special reason. The stone to remind me of the text, “Let him who is without sin.. be the first to throw a stone” and the nail to remind me what a Friend did for me a long, long time ago on a hill called Calvary.’ Since then, whenever I counsel anyone who has gone astray, I say to myself, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”

A Counselor 

It is True or False?

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One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience’s mind the question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is good. And in the discussion they will at every moment try to escape from the issue “True – or False” into stuff about a good society, or morals, or the incomes of Bishops, or the Spanish Inquisition, or France, or Poland – or anything whatever. You have to keep forcing them back, and again back, to the real point. Only thus will you be able to undermine their belief that a certain amount of ‘religion’ is desirable but one mustn’t carry it too far. One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.

CS Lewis, God in the Dock

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 16

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***WRITING & READING

Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological Association https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-endorsed-american-psychological-association 

Hey, young adult authors: writing for teenagers is no excuse to act like them https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/15/young-adult-ya-authors-sarah-dessen-brooke-nelson    

 

***JOURNALISM

Why journalists need to think twice about reporting on arrests https://www.cjr.org/analysis/out-of-omaha-arrest-reporting.php

Proposed Lafayette County resolution threatens to prosecute media outlets that do not print news releases verbatim https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/11/08/county-threatens-prosecute-media-who-dont-print-full-news-releases/2533143001/      

Judge dismisses Arpaio lawsuit against CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2019/10/31/judge-dismisses-joe-arpaio-lawsuit-against-cnn-huffpost-rolling-stone/4115742002/

A game of society': Why a group of Italian journalists turned Instagram into a board game https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/-a-game-of-society-why-italian-journalists-turned-instagram-into-a-board-game/s2/a746637/

Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/api-updates/ask-audiences-what-questions-they-have-about-your-reporting 

University of Illinois Is Stifling NPR Reporting on Sexual Misconduct, Critics Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/npr-university-of-illinois-aclu-sexual-misconduct.html

In Data Journalism, Tech Matters Less Than the People https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/technology/personaltech/data-journalism-economics.html

How the New York Times gets Los Angeles hilariously wrong: The bingo game https://la.curbed.com/2015/2/19/9991026/new-york-times-los-angeles-bingo

I Am Extremely Here for (Journalism) Paperwork Movie Season https://gen.medium.com/i-am-extremely-here-for-paperwork-movie-season-252e8cba5b16

 

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/11/04/historic-shift-salt-lake/

Hundreds of local newspapers are now under one umbrella company following Gannett/GateHouse merger https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/media/gannett-gatehouse-merger-approved/index.html

Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php

 

***FAKE NEWS

These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton

AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race http://bit.ly/2pkpAXk

 

***STUDENT MEDIA 

The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them  https://reason.com/2019/11/11/daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-editorial-triggered-students/

News or ‘Trauma Porn’? Student Journalists Face Blowback on Campus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/college-campus-journalists-newspapers.html

The 800 papers stolen from the Radford University campus - and the school's failure to say who took them https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-case-of-the-missing-radford-university-newspapers-is-cracked-but-whodunit-isnt-being-shared/2019/11/11/104359b4-0495-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html 

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Screen time might be physically changing kids’ brains https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614672/screen-time-might-be-physically-changing-kids-brains/

Who are the U.S. users of Instagram? www.city-data.com/blog/7177-who-are-the-u-s-users-of-instagram/

Measure for Measure: ‘Like’ it or not, influencer marketing is changin https://www.nielsen.com/uk/en/insights/article/2019/measure-for-measure-like-it-or-not-influencer-marketing-is-changing/

Sex Education on TikTok https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-education-is-so-bad-these-teens-are-doing-it-on-tiktok

Tech companies target your sanity https://www.axios.com/turning-point-online-mental-health-bc1d5fd1-c637-43e1-b4b1-e7cb02d674cb.html

 

***LANGUAGE

Students create Japanese language-learning game geared toward gamers https://dailybruin.com/2019/11/05/students-create-japanese-language-learning-game-geared-toward-gamers/

How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary https://daily.jstor.org/how-linguists-are-using-urban-dictionary/

 

***LITERATURE 

The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-slowness-of-literature-and-the-shadow-of-knowledge

Cult of the Literary Sad Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/leslie-jamison-sylvia-plath-joan-didion-jean-rhys.html

Despite the Twerking and F-Bombs, Dickinson Gets Emily Dickinson Right https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/dickinson-apple-tv-accuracy-poetry.html

25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/style/essential-modern-love-essays.html

 

***POETRY

'Dickinson' flips everything you learned about female poets upside down https://www.mic.com/p/dickinson-flips-everything-you-learned-about-female-poets-upside-down-19300957  

'Emergency Poet' at world's first walk-in poetry pharmacy prescribes caring words https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1617224/emergency-poet-at-worlds-first-walk-in-poetry-pharmacy-prescribes-caring-words 

An Evening of Poetry in Nine Languages https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2019/11/an-evening-of-poetry-in-nine-languages.html

Best Canadian Poetry 2019 https://quillandquire.com/review/best-canadian-poetry-2019/

 

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA   

The Boomers' media behemoth https://www.axios.com/aarp-is-a-media-behemoth-412b5106-f879-477d-806d-6130148956bf.html  

 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY  

Privacy And DNA Tests https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777888000/privacy-and-dna-tests

DHS expects to have biometrics on 260 million people by 2022 https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/

Facebook caught actively using iPhone cameras while users scroll feeds https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

Google, Ascension analyzing data without patients' knowledge https://www.axios.com/google-ascension-data-sharing-fd6c67eb-73f4-41e1-b4a0-3c4db858b076.html

Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/12/court-rules-against-warrantless-searches-of-phones-laptops 

Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/google-medical-data-project-nightingale-secret-transfer-us-health-information

Facebook is secretly using your iPhone’s camera as you scroll your feed https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/