US: Did reporters have the right to solicit info from VA Tech students' blogs?
On Media Guardian, the argument materialized in a written debate between Guardian feature writer Patrick Barkham and blogger Jeff Jarvis.
Barkham says that the heated reactions from bloggers against the mainstream media “betrays a lack of understanding of both the internet and the duty of modern professional journalism.” Barkham feels that big media connects people to stories like Paul’s that they wouldn’t have found otherwise.
“Incredibly, some bloggers don't seem to grasp that blogs are public places, where people go of their own free will to publish and share information, understanding that their comments will be read around the world,” he argues.
Barkham likens reporters’ asking questions on a blog to their approaching people physically standing near the site of a tragic news event. Traditional media’s job is “not to passively point people in the direction of raw information, it is to interrogate that information, test its accuracy and present as comprehensive and reliable a picture of events as possible,” he says. “Reporters have a responsibility to ask questions, even when people are grieving, upset and angry.”
Jarvis agrees that verification is a natural reporter reflex and still has value, but “will become increasingly impractical in the new architecture of news when anyone…may publish or broadcast, even live, as news happens.”
As people publish on their own sites, finding ways around giving their stories to the traditional press, it will become increasingly difficult for the press to verify every piece of information they wish to publish.
Jarvis’s solution? “News organizations will need to issue caveats - 'this comes from a usually reliable source' or 'this comes from someone we don't know' - and make the public more media savvy.” This, he thinks, will allow the public to have the same information the big media has and make their own decisions, without forcing the media to make futile attempts at verifying huge amounts of information.
Source: Media Guardian
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in some ways we are all are from Jacob and Esau ... Jacob is Caucasian, and Esau is Negroid, and both will produce Mongoloid ... or ambidextrial offspring
Jacob is right handed as Esau is left handed
essau is more like the black race, Native Indian, Latino
and Jacob is more like the Asian, European, lighter skinned people
one can separate those born in the snow with those born in non snow as a jacob to essau people ....
i accept the sun better then my siblings, that makes me more essau then they
research shows that the people who accept the strong sun at the equator over time will live there, as opposited to those that cant take the sun as a result of low skin melanization .....
over 1000s of yrs, the people with a high iron diet also loved the warmer climate ..
high iron diet in any people group produces darker skin tone
over time, those women on a non meat diet will want to live in snow country ....
now this is melting down to people of color and non people of color
or those that hunt for meat compared to those that gather produce, nuts, roots, shoots ...
in any family of 4 children, 2 will be more meat eaters, essau, darker skinned, have more melanization in their bodies
interesting huh .... see the link below
http://phaeomelanin.quickseek.com/
the info below suggests that darker skinned people groups get sick in colder climates as they have too much melanization in their skin and cant absorb the less powerful sun's UV rays needed to make chemicals as vitamin D3 for calcium absorption and good bone, skeletal growth ....
the same for light skinned, especially reddish, or blondish hair, light blue eyed people, they cant live in the equator as they will get too much of the sun's UV rays which are always more intense at the equator
As populations spread from Africa, it seems likely that dark skin color was less well suited to environments with lower UV radiation levels in the temperate zone. While dangerous in excess, UV radiation is essential for the synthesis of previtamin D3, which is needed for calcium absorption and normal skeletal development. In tropical areas, there is no problem receiving enough UV light for D3 synthesis. In higher latitudes, though, where exposure to UV light is significantly less, a high concentration of melanin may hinder the passage of enough radiation to synthesize the necessary amount of the vitamin precursor. Medical records show that people with darker skin living in the higher latitudes are at greater risk for vitamin D3 deficiency (which can trigger the onset of various bone density diseases that can result in immobilization, deformities, and death). For this reason, it is believed that as populations moved north, natural selection favored lighter shades of skin. The point is that by understanding the biological benefits of traits, it is possible to understand the evolution of them.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/faq/race.htm
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, Casa Frela Gallery director Lawrence Rodriguez with guest curator Noreen Dean Dresser as part of the Feminist Art Project is hosting an international group exhibition: Her- humanity: Transformative Agency and Advocacy. The exhibition opens on February 05, 2007 and runs through March 31, 2007. There will be an opening reception with the National Board of the Women's Caucus for Art will be 5 PM to 8PM on February 18, 2007.
Her-humanity is an international exhibition of small works created through the lens of feminist theology. The artworks recognize and celebrate our common humanity. The eleven artists and the issues they
present are globally diverse. Each artist was specially selected for advocating social transformation through an empathetic or relational stance towards self and other. This moment of insight allows for the
common ground to emerge and that is the catalyst of change.
Her-humanity features the artwork of Pamela Cento, the Dialoguistas, Michelle Rogers, Maya Freelon, Karen Frostig, Sarina Khan Reddy, Sol Kjok, Yasue Saraoka, Gisella Sorrentino, Anoush Ter Taulian and Saimair S. Amani. Casa Frela Gallery honors these exceptional eleven artists and the values they hold.
Sol Kjok is a Norwegian artist working in New York. Her drawing and painting begin with staged studio performances and investigate the model - artist - viewer relationship. Her work questions gender roles and comments on the sexualized relationship between artist and subject.
Pamela Cento is an Italian artist working with pixilated digital photography. Her most recent work follows Anna Maria Franzoni, a women in Italy accused of killing one of her sons.
The Dialoguistas are Graciela Bustos, Fendando Calderon and Bertha Cohen. Working as a group in Detroit, Michigan, their most recent installation is: Alpha, Omega, Alpha; beginning, ending, beginning.
It consists of ash from burned newsprint.
Michelle Rogers grew up in a small-industrialized town in Ireland called Dundalk bordering the British North. Confronting religion, terrorism, police action and soldiers early, Michelle Roger’s work creates meditations with the mood of moral decay and darkness.
Maya Freelon is an African-American artist working in Massachusetts. Using digital photography, tissue paper and tape, Freelon challenges notions of subjectivity in her recent work, Exceeding Expectations.
From artwork objectifying her sacred femininity and honorable Blackness comes the freedom of abstract thought.
Karen Frostig is an American artist working in Massachusetts. Her digital photographic installations include, Legacy of War and Autopsy. Legacy of War is a conversation about war and its aftermath.
Autopsy challenges the destruction of woodlands and its relationship to global warming. Frostig’s Tattoo project takes the form of a website. Tattoo seeks to change the culture of violence against women.
Sarina Khan Reddy is an Islamic-American artist working in Massachusetts. Her most recent photographic work explores the Disney “Picture Spot,” its colonialist imagery, authenticity and the role
of photography in tourism.
Yasue Saraoka is a Japanese artist working in Columbus, Ohio. Her folded paper installations have evolved from traditional Japanese origami shapes. Saraoka’s installations help us perceive and imagine
full landscapes, oceans and structures.
Gisella Sorrentino is an Italian artist working in New York. Her self- portrait photography scrutinizes and describes her identity, her relationship with the outside world, and her search for personal
consciousness.
Anoush Ter Taulian is an Armenian-American artist working in New York. Her video, photography, painting and poetry document, commemorate and highlight the Armenian Freedom Struggle. Her artwork
is about resisting assimilation and supporting the visibility of women of color.
Saimair S. Amami is a Tunisia artist working New York. His black and white photos capture women in New York City at work and play.
Her-humanity: Transformative Agency and Advocacy is part of The Feminist Art Project. From 2006-2009, the Feminist Art Project is celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and its impact on art history.
The Feminist Art Project is a national initiative recognizing the aesthetic and intellectual impact of women on the visual arts and culture. Feminist artists, curators, teachers, and writers are organizing across the nation and across generations to bring public attention to the significant and continuing impact of women and their art on all aspects of contemporary art practice, highlighting their international influence, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.
The nationwide campaign is anchored by major art events taking place in early 2007. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum opens in March, including the permanent
installation of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party. Global Feminisms, an international exhibition of contemporary feminist art curated by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, will be mounted simultaneously. Dr.
Nochlin will be awarded a Distinguished Scholar by the Women’s Caucus for Art, an affiliate society of the College Art Association.
The Feminist Art Project is administered at Rutgers University. For further information about programming, visit their website: feministartproject. Rutgers.edu. You may also contact:
Nicole Plett,
Margery Somers Foster Center
Douglass Library
Rutgers University
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8527
tfap@rci.rutgers.edu
(732) 932-9407 x27.
Parlour 153 will host special salon events on February 11, February 17, and March 12, 2007 from 3pm to 5pm to provide conversations with selected Her-humanity artists. Parlour 153 was created to provide a
forum for established writers, artists, and other creative professionals sharing works in progress for a receptive audience. For more information about these salon events, contact Noreen Dean Dresser, Noreen@parlour153.com or visit the website, www.parlour153.com.
Liz Dodson is an American artist working in Minnesota. Dodson’s text, sound and images address the passageways of life and the edge between meaning and abstract. Her installation, Petite’s Story,
considers the effect of the dominant male paradigm on the female mind, body and spirit.
Lawrence Rodriguez, Curator and Director
Casa Frela Gallery
47 West 119th Street
New York, New York 10026
(212) 722-8577
(865) 342-9038 fax
casafrela@runbox.com
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