@gideonstevens.bsky.social
Director, BookoftheDay.org. @bookofthedayorg.bsky.social USCG Veteran. Advocate for civil discourse. Occasional person of interest. RTP.NC.USA
Fredrik Backman's Writer's Anxiety.☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuS...
Song of the Day 🎵
Enjoy 💙
Perhaps independence comes from a journalist being willing to swim against that tide, and a medium willing to allow that opposing point of view. In our tightly polarized society, that seems rare. I will keep looking. 4/4
27.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 'fair and balanced' game shows a thoughtful and eloquent representative from our side, and the most extreme whacko we could find from the other. 3/x
27.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0All media has an owner, whose hiring and management practices will favor a point of view; investors, advertisers, and ultimately the audience all influence what stories are reported and how they are slanted. 2/x
27.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed answer. The examples of Sinclair and Gannett make the not-independent ones clear. So independence comes down to 'is the journalist/talking head being told what to say'? It seems impossible to be entirely free from influence. 1/x
27.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I used to live in Quincy, but it's a long way now, so I can't attend. But if I could, and if you had a Q&A, my question(s) would be:
People keep telling me to seek out "Independent Media." What is that, and is there even such a thing? Independent of what? And why is it better?
People have forgotten. England was in business for hundreds of years before us; China too. We show up and in about 2 hundred years we are the most powerful country on the planet. How did we do it? Immigration! It's our super-power.
22.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my favorites for years!
07.06.2025 05:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What we've lost with this is serendipity. I might want the comics most, but I'd turn through the pages and see headlines of other things that might catch my interest. I honestly miss it, and I think we are all poorer for the specialization online.
03.06.2025 23:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Rogue typesetter.
20.05.2025 19:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for posting the slides!
07.05.2025 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Adding this to my 2025 playlist. I'm noticing a lot of what's on that list came from your recommendations. Thank you!
15.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yep. Got a mention on NPR yesterday. Can't decide if the analogy is Tom Sawyer or Brer Rabbit - but as long as they spell your name right!
14.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm certain I would enjoy it. Thank you.
14.03.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Any chance this will be recorded? I can't travel for a while.
14.03.2025 18:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your comment on my post.
bsky.app/profile/boom...
A group of ten friends are making a decision. 9 of them think "A" but they all know that Jennifer hates "A." If the vote were anonymous "A" would win, but if asked for a show of hands, some of those votes would side with Jennifer. Which is fair, 'cause they all know she can be belligerent.
06.03.2025 02:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Perhaps they had to "kneel and pray" and "crawl and bark" is just a colorful description.
06.03.2025 02:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It also, at some point in 1973, had the most profound impact on my life of any music I'd ever heard. I remember quoting some lyrics to my father ("So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, ...") He thought for a minute and said, "Wisdom can sometimes be found in unexpected places."
04.03.2025 04:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just posting this so I can find it again. There's something inside this I need to understand. By working together, the crowd lost its wisdom.
youtube.com/shorts/Hb-w7...
I can tell you where they do shop. Between Amazon, Apple, B&N, and Kobo - the clicks all go to Amazon. (YMMV). Apple has gained a little lately - some people like to read on their phone - but is still statistically insignificant. Not being available on Amazon is like being on p.2 of Google results.
03.03.2025 03:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even Lil' Marco was embarrassed by this juvenile behaviour.
01.03.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0With random precision.
24.02.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"...not a label of honor." Couldn't be more clear. They probably found out you're a squid.
21.02.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0lol. I remember this sort of thing. Over a dial-up connection that might drop any minute.
21.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Celebrating my 100th day on Bluesky! I like it; think I'll keep it.
21.02.2025 19:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just heard that Steven Miller attended Duke University. As a Carolina fan, I really didn't need another reason to hate Duke, but here we are.
20.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
