A man suspected of a string of crimes, including taking someone hostage and firing a gun at three family members, was fatally shot by police Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
I'm 100% not in favor of making a rule that censors it. Like you say, sometimes other sources aren't available anyway. I just think that if you're going to post it, you should caption it explaining why. We had a struggle a few days ago over some crime stats that was a bit like this.
At no point did I say it should be mandatory, or that people should be made to. But we should make efforts to contextualize posts when we make them. I don't think the poster is pro-cop either.
What would that sort of self-censorship achieve? Isn't it wise to understand how incidents are reported to liberals and the apolitical so that you don't come off completely unhinged when trying to discuss these topics with them? Hexbear as a whole should have adequate media criticism skills to rip apart a MSM article in the comments. It would be surprising if someone were to take it at face value here.
I feel like we should stop posting CNN's coverage of police actions. It's guaranteed to be fawning. Not a comment on this article, just in general.
Pretty sure this is a place that won't just suck down whatever narrative the MSM is pushing, and sometimes MSM is the only choice for a story.
Censoring or limiting media options would just end up in a shity struggle session.
I'm 100% not in favor of making a rule that censors it. Like you say, sometimes other sources aren't available anyway. I just think that if you're going to post it, you should caption it explaining why. We had a struggle a few days ago over some crime stats that was a bit like this.
Captions should not be mandatory for allowed sources or enough people will complain that we will have to have captions for all sources.
There is simply no reason to presume the poster of a MSM news article here is pro-cop and would need to explain a news post from MSM.
Making people "explain themselves' for posting MSM is ridiculous.
At no point did I say it should be mandatory, or that people should be made to. But we should make efforts to contextualize posts when we make them. I don't think the poster is pro-cop either.
Yeah, people should post in any story they post as a rule of netiquette going way back, but it is not going to happen every time.
Having a struggle over it is just going to result in less posts.
I mean, I wasn't trying to start a struggle here. I guess I should have known it might come off that way, though. :shrug-outta-hecks:
What would that sort of self-censorship achieve? Isn't it wise to understand how incidents are reported to liberals and the apolitical so that you don't come off completely unhinged when trying to discuss these topics with them? Hexbear as a whole should have adequate media criticism skills to rip apart a MSM article in the comments. It would be surprising if someone were to take it at face value here.
I don't necessarily disagree, but write something about this in the description text. No sense in uncritically posting copaganda in the news comm.
This was actually the subject of a minor struggle over crime stats this last week.