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(108,898 total)“There are many occasions in which it is valuable for a journalist to make themselves the centre of the story they are telling. But journalists must choose those moments wisely, and as readers we should always ask: why should this person be at the story’s heart? And whose voice has been lost in order…”
— Sarah Manavis, Influencer journalists must stop making the war in Ukraine all about them
“Visuals, because of their persuasive potential and attention-grabbing nature, are an especially potent choice for those seeking to mislead. Where creating, editing or sharing inauthentic visual content isn’t satire or art, it is usually politically or economically motivated.”
— PBS News Hour, How to spot fake or misleading footage on social media claiming to be from the Ukraine war
“In 2020, Black women in the U.S. were almost three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to new data from the CDC. One first-time mom-to-be shared how Black maternal mortality rates played into her decision to get pregnant.”
— Maura Hohman, She Grew Up Hearing Black Moms Are More Likely To Die in Childbirth. Now She's Pregnant
“If time is the substance we are made of, as Borges so memorably wrote the year the teenage Eunice Waymon began studying to become “the world’s first great black classical pianist” before she made herself into Nina Simone, then there is something singularly haunting and mysterious about the fragments…”
— Maria Popova, Nina Simone’s Gum and the Shimmering Strangeness of How Art Casts Its Transcendent Spell on Us
“Switzerland and Sweden were neutral even during World War II. Today Switzerland is freezing Russian assets, and Sweden is sending 5000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Putin has united and awakened the free world — perhaps more than ever before.”
— Tristan Snell, Switzerland and Sweden were neutral even during World War II.