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Admin:
What an effort!  This is spectacular.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GVbuddri8

Night Wing:
Just heard about it and watched it on the national CBS Evening news.

PonoBill:
I'm currently reading "Lost and Wanted". Good timing. Great book by the way. But an undercurrent of the book is persistent male bias in almost any field in the face of evidence of how pointless it is. The internet trolling that Katie Bouman experienced is typical of what an accomplished woman being recognized for any achievement can expect from misogynistic morons. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081

Admin:

--- Quote from: PonoBill on April 12, 2019, 10:43:27 PM ---I'm currently reading "Lost and Wanted". Good timing. Great book by the way. But an undercurrent of the book is persistent male bias in almost any field in the face of evidence of how pointless it is. The internet trolling that Katie Bouman experienced is typical of what an accomplished woman being recognized for any achievement can expect from misogynistic morons. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-picture-black-hole-made-katie-bouman-overnight-celebrity-then-n994081

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That is an interesting article.  Yet another example of a huge problem problem online and in the media.  I get the profit motive, but it is so far out of balance right now. 

Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at nonprofit research institute Data & Society who studies extremism on YouTube, said this was another example of YouTube’s algorithm “rewarding engagement and time spent on the site to maximize advertising revenue” instead of facts.

“Time and again, we see that this leads YouTube to recommend sensationalist content that is often conspiratorial or bigoted,” Lewis said. “In turn, content creators are incentivized to create this kind of content, and a culture has emerged on the platform that is deeply reactionary.”

This seems like a well balance view of how this project unfolded:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/29-old-katie-bouman-apos-140350631.html

PonoBill:
The media has always had that problem, they were just better at pretending they didn't. In my relatively short career as a PR hack I spent a subjective lifetime at media gatherings. Time passes slowly at a gathering of self-congratulatory drunks, and "party" is far too joyful a word. Inevitably the conversation would turn to how deep their journalistic ethics were. Their position was that they were soldiers in the battle for truth. My position was that they existed to sell readers to advertisers and their choices of coverage, angle and emphasis reflected that. We rarely approached agreement.

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