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That's bullshit. These are elected public officials. Whatever they say (unless agreed to be off-the-record in advance) is fair game. This misinformed wishy-washyness is toxic to journalism and allows those who hold power not to be held to account.


















Medill is no longer an accredited school of journalism and does a lot of stuff to harm both journalism and the news industry. They equate marketing and news (with a professor there saying they're the same), partner deeply with adjudicated monopolist Google and of course are all-in on AI stealing from news.

I see Medill as a corrupt organization "taking a payoff to do the wrong thing for journalism." I am an alumni.











If it is AI, how can we know anything it sends is true? It's a waste of time if we have to double-check everything the AI provides. Will the AI also be the source of quotes? More lies not worth consideration. We will ignore your slop.



















Yet another non-journalism-practitioning dilettante non-profit industrial complex d-bag who wants to tell us how to do our jobs. There's a whole lot of you already.





No debate, just mockery is all they deserve. "Is that what your magic book says, or is that what your imaginary friends tell you."



Depends on the writer. Some have got the "patter" of journalism writing down pat; others need assistance. A good editor working with a writer on an ongoing basis will collectively work together to improve the output over time. There's also many circumstances where the "reporter" just reports, and the desk does a lot of the construction. I always let writers review drafts before publication.



































I use Gimp, Darktable, Inkscape, OpenShot, Scribus, Blender, Audacity and many others. They all keep getting better all the time, and from a capability standpoint, they do everything I need them to do in a professional media setting.

They are free, they are reliable, and they are better than Adobe, if only for the reason that Adobe has definitively demonstrated that it cannot be trusted as a vendor business partner.

I can trust open source. I cannot trust Adobe.







I've been using a "fish in a barrel" base that's one of the pharmacy stores with a big hole in the middle of its roof. I have cleaned out the shopping area and the hole, and use the roof for farming and water-gathering, and the pre-existing basement bunker for forge, storage, workshop, etc. For every blood moon, I sit by the hole in the building roof, wait until the zombies break in, then pick them off for XP. A couple pillars near the hole give the zombies something to attack, which keeps them stationary for picking off. Note that much has been tweaked and upgraded at the POI over time ...


Bailing from Vimeo with enshitification imminent
Bailing from Vimeo with enshitification imminent

Does anyone have any faith that things aren't going to go to shit with Vimeo now that it's been bought out by uncaring private equity?

This is the No. 1 sign that a vendor is no longer going to provide good service. I'm likely not renewing my pro subscription and migrating to another platform.

Private equity always ruins everything it purchases as it follows its business model of hollowing out successful companies and selling the remains for profit.





















I was neutral on AI until I learned it was built on stolen goods, and when I also found out it has scraped away my work and livelihood (local news website), I hated it even more.






Hi! I and my family are frequent visitors to Vermillion and to our family's nearby farm in Union County, with my extended family having real estate and business engagement in Vermillion itself.

We really like the Main Street overhaul and hope that the town can support its businesses and attract visitors from outside the area. We always try to monitor for events we can attend when we're visiting.





Newspaper "leaders" and academics have been leading my industry into ruin for decades. Failures like these should not be heeded. Publishers will win by prioritizing audience service and rejecting audience exploitation. Every news desert is a market opportunity.