DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com
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Editor & Publisher, @TucsonSentinel
- authentically local independent watchdog news from Southern Arizona's Borderlands | (((Enemy of the People))) | Founding Chair, @LIONPubs
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@Kmac Locally for my newsroom, as well as supporting local news outlets around the country, Facebook was far more impt than Twitter. Tucson just isn't a Twitter town — and that company never spent any money to foster rebuilding and positive change in the news biz. The staff at the FB Journalism Project did vital work.
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I’m glad to see officials from within the Biden administration calling out the bullshit.
Mayor Pete: “If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows.
Don’t you dare act surprised.”
@amay206 News outlets should set up their own instances. It's not tough. Reporters don't use Yahoo emails; they use accounts connected to the base URL used by their newsroom.
@pbump "That Maricopa County is more blue than the rest of the state isn’t really surprising."
Deep blue Pima County, where there's barely a functioning GOP, laughs and laughs.
@palafo "swear less"? whazzat? ; )
@palafo I go for the really peaty stuff, myself, but that's a very nice tipple indeed.
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Veteran stopped Club Q shooter. Per NYT
It was Mr. Fierro’s first time at a drag show, and he was digging it. He had spent 15 years in the Army, and now relished his role as a civilian and a father, watching one of his daughter’s old high-school friends perform.
“These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it,” he said as he described the night. “I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever they hell they want.”
@dwillanski Just toss that right out the window
Another good reason for news orgs to have in-house instances, rather than potentially allowing admins to see communications that should be a bit more private
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The AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for the retracted story claiming Russian missiles crossed into Poland that relied upon a single unnamed government source https://www.thedailybeast.com/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-russian-missiles-story
Arizona recount context: Don't expect much to change.
In 2014's recount of the race btwn Ron Barber & Martha McSally, the challenger picked up just 6 votes over her initial margin — out of 219,261 cast
@davidheath He'll start greenwalding soon if he's not careful
@faduda @jeffjarvis @dublininquirer
No need to open them to the public. Our email server isn't open to public signups. But using domain-connected accounts indicates that a user is who they claim to be.
We're not much larger — our plan is to have this a staff-only instance, not a public one. It took just a few minutes to spin up (and an hour or so debugging the email & Amazon S3 settings) with a droplet on Digital Ocean.
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It took me all day to find some more words to throw at this evil in Colorado Springs.
I waited because I wanted to be careful. I wanted to be a good reporter and not saying anything I didn't know for sure.
We can't wait forever though. At a certain point, you have to call a hate crime a hate crime.
Democrat Kris Mayes ekes out narrow win for Arizona attorney general; beating GOP's Abe Hamadeh by 510 — Maricopa County counts final ballots/recount pending
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Football / soccer journalist Grant Wahl on being detained for about 30 minutes for wearing a rainbow shirt when trying to enter the stadium to cover #WAL #USA #WorldCup game today. https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/an-unexpected-detention-by-world
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FIFA really is a dank pile of flaming garbage, aren’t they? #fifaWorldCup #LBGTQA #humanrights
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Editor & Publisher, @TucsonSentinel
- authentically local independent watchdog news from Southern Arizona's Borderlands | (((Enemy of the People))) | Founding Chair, @LIONPubs
| Ethics @spj_tweets
Joined Nov 2022
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