LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

Post by Auracle » Mon, May 31, 2021, 5:51 AM UTC

ultrastable wrote: post #258

Auracle wrote: post #161

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There’s an easy litmus test for news organizations - words. Do they use Latino or Latinx, for example? Illegal alien vs. undocumented immigrant vs refugee. Sex vs gender assigned at birth (usually when talking about a trans person). NPR used to be fairly centrist, but these days they’re far to the left. If I turn on my car there’s about a 9/10 chance my local station will be talking about some form of identity politi…

"undocumented immigrant" isn't necessarily the same as "refugee", likewise sex vs assigned gender. if you're going to critique word choice you should know what those words mean

I know what the words mean, but "refugee" usually means "someone who shouldn't qualify as a refugee but is going to try to use it/lie to get in to an economically favorable country" nowadays, but that's a bit of a mouthful.

Post by Auracle » Mon, May 31, 2021, 5:58 AM UTC

tomjakubowski wrote: post #180

Auracle wrote: post #161

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There’s an easy litmus test for news organizations - words. Do they use Latino or Latinx, for example? Illegal alien vs. undocumented immigrant vs refugee. Sex vs gender assigned at birth (usually when talking about a trans person). NPR used to be fairly centrist, but these days they’re far to the left. If I turn on my car there’s about a 9/10 chance my local station will be talking about some form of identity politi…

When you tune into public radio you're most likely not listening to NPR. Public radio stations draw their programming from many sources, including in many cases shows produced by the station. NPR does distribute more content to public radio stations than do APM, PRI/PRX, or WNYC, but their programs don't comprise a majority of public radio content. Unfortunately your litmus test especially doesn't work that well for…

The hosts of All Things Considered regularly use latinx, but at least the last time I heard them use a Hispanic reporter they used the word latino. I don't know if that was a change in policy or if the reporter doesn't like the word themselves.

All Things Considered may be "boring" politically, but they are far from neutral - I don't listen to the other two very often. Easy example - for weeks, if not months, they called what was going on at the border "Trumps Family (sometimes Child) Separation Policy," even though anyone informed knew the very first day that it was not his policy. It wasn't until the story finally started to die down did they used the (at least somewhat) correct phrase "The increase in family separations due to Trump's zero tolerance policy."

Re: LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month

Re: LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month