US Citizens, Phones stolen, detained without explanation, and officers refused to give names.
"OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman, her family, and her friends were detained for hours by US Customs and Border Protection on their way home from Canada. Everyone being held was a US citizen, and no one received an explanation. Sarah tells the story of their detainment, and her difficulty getting any answers from one of the least transparent agencies in the country."
It's an audio podcasts, but there are transcript as well.
That's funny, I got through the first paragraph and thought "wow, that was a short article". To my brain, chumboxes are what mark the end of an article.
What a great summary of the utter baseness of this type of advertising: a stomach-turning body horror image I never wanted to see, some article calling strangers "morons" based on some stupid superficiality, and gossip about the private lives of strangers that is, quite frankly, none of my business.
That being said, if these companies vanished tomorrow it wouldn't be a complete positive either, since the fine sociopaths of the advertising industry would simply use the resultant vacuum to come up with something even more contemptible. Fuck that industry.
Adjusting font size with vw is fun, but often the rate at which the font scales is kind of loopy especially when compared to small type. This article takes the example you mentioned above and takes it much further. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/05/fluid-typography/
Have used * + * before. It creates this huge dependence on the placement and ordering of your html you can't create psudo elements to pull off some style trick, there are often a bunch of exceptions when using it too that it kind of defeated the purpose of using it in the first place. Best to have a .class * + * in front of it to relegate it to a specific area.
I think the article is shortsighted. I can't argue for the merits of cable news, but there are many media organizations that have been increasingly shut out by this administration.
All media organizations not just the cable news channels, but also the AP, New York Times, and others are being shut out of many events which they formerly had access to.
Instead the clear strategy of administration has been to limit media access and to control the narrative by launching material through there own channels. Channels such as there youtube channel "The White House" where you can find the interview Hank Green is referencing. I haven't watched the entire interview, but if it is being hosted and potentially produced by the White House I can't consider it objective. I don't think I can consider it journalism either, but at the same time I don't think I can consider a lot of what is on Fox News as journalism either.
There are a lot of other people who I like to see interview the President, but never will. One person that comes to mind would be Amy Goodman. She isn't as hip as the Youtubers, but she has spoken at my college and many others. She definitely holds a clear leftists standpoint, but I know her questions would be unrelenting and would lead to a much needed discourse about actions of this administration.
There was this one instance were Bill Clinton accidentally ended up being interview by her.
Anecdotally I watched the State of Union last week. Not on CNN or MSNBC, but on Whitehouse.gov. Not positive, but it looked like is was using Youtube livestreaming services. In that stream alongside each of the points there preprepared supporting graphics.
This current "era" isn't defined by the number or scale of these tragedies but by institutions' and the public's reaction to them. If we want to protect the lives and welfare of the average U.S. citizen our money and efforts would be better spent tackling some of the less newsworthy health issues.
Also the time frame of the Sandy Hook Shooting was extremely brief. The shooter was believed to enter the school around 9:30 the first 911 call was made at 9:35 and the last shot heard was at 9:40 and the police enter at 9:44. The MRAP and other military artillery obviously wouldn't have made a difference due to time frame of the tragedy.
My little anecdote. I was at the library today and it was packed even though it was a Sunday and only open for about four hours. My library was is a definite hub of my community and if anything has only increased its presence over the past few years. It's an amazing resource and there are a tons of programs for folks of all ages. The selection at my local library is a bit limited, but I can reserve books online from the county network and they will ship and hold them at my local library for me.
There was a similar article to this on /r/books a while back I was really struck and inspired by this comment. It touches on the importance of libraries in larger communities.
I created an account just to join this discussion. I am a professional librarian and work in mid-sized city downtown library. Those of you who say that libraries do not end ignorance or stop illiteracy are correct. Those of you who say you can find just about anything you could ever want online are also correct. However, every day I assist grown adults who can barely read (and have zero computer skills) sign up for food stamps. I help people who have worked for years in food services apply online for fast food jobs because there are no more paper applications. I help construction workers apply for unemployment online. I assist people who can not afford attorneys with legal templates so that they can file for divorce or for child custody (no we do not give out legal advice.) I help people make copies of their IDs and receipts so that they can send a fax so that they can get their electricity cut back on. I proctor tests for college students who are taking distance ed classes. I maintain microfilm and digital newspaper collections of the local newspapers. Staff at the library, over the decades, have indexed the newspapers to make them searchable. (BTW the local newspaper is so badly staffed now that they rely upon the library exclusively for access to content that is over 15 years old.) We maintain local history documents. We maintain old and rare books that pertain to regional history. We select and provide assistance with databases that we feel meet the informational needs of the community. We answer mail sent from inmates in prisons asking for the addresses of half way houses and food stamp offices for when they get released. I have old out-of-print books of historic stock information for the odd guy trying to find out if the stocks he found from the 1940s in his grandfather's closet are worth anything. I have price guides, car repair manuals, and old city directories going back to the 1920s. My library is also a government documents repository, which mean we house both print and digital documents that were created by the various federal agencies. Looking for the City and County Data book from 1974? We got it. Staff have been trained to use the government resources. They will help you find what you need if it exists. Not only are libraries a place for information gathering and assistance. It is also a place for the community to come together. In an environment of drive-thru restaurants and online shopping, its one of the last few places where you can run into your neighbors and not have to buy something. It is a place for tutors to meet with their students. I see people everyday who come to the library just to get out of the heat or the rain, who come on their lunch breaks, who come after school, or walk over from the bus station (dragging luggage) because they missed their bus out of town and the next one will not come for hours. I don't know where communities will be without libraries. I imagine communities would be poorer without them.
US Citizens, Phones stolen, detained without explanation, and officers refused to give names.
"OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman, her family, and her friends were detained for hours by US Customs and Border Protection on their way home from Canada. Everyone being held was a US citizen, and no one received an explanation. Sarah tells the story of their detainment, and her difficulty getting any answers from one of the least transparent agencies in the country."
It's an audio podcasts, but there are transcript as well.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learn...
More on the subject. http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2014-02-28/