________
________
________
from Capital Press
The West's Ag Website
Washington farmers and fruit growers would have to report whether they use slaves under a bill endorsed Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee. Farm groups, for the record, say they oppose slavery, as well as human trafficking and peonage — two other forms of servitude producers would have to report. Introduced by Seattle Democrat Rebecca Saldana, Senate Bill 5693 would require farmers to report any incidents of slavery, peonage and human trafficking to retailers with more than $200 million in global sales. Peonage is also called debt servitude and involves an employer compelling workers to pay off a debt through their labor.
________
from The Chronicle Newspaper in Centralia, WA
Commentary: Why Does Bob Ferguson Go to Bat for Some Laws and Ignore Others?
Recently our state attorney general, and soon likely governor candidate, Bob Ferguson, seemed to be threatening 13 county sheriffs who said they didn’t plan to enforce all of I-1639 until courts have ruled on it. He seemed to suggest they might be liable if something bad happens as a result of their decisions. But why is the attorney general only speaking about risk on this gun initiative?
from Conciliar Post
As I approach the end of a four-year project to translate the New Testament from Greek, I have saved the Gospel of Matthew for last. What has struck me most while translating it is how often Jesus taught from Wisdom of Sirach in the first half of this Gospel. I worship, fellowship, and serve in a Restoration Movement congregation (a movement which comes from within Protestantism), therefore I have no denominational bias in favor of Sirach. While Martin Luther considered Sirach to be “profitable and good to read,” most Protestants ignore the profitable book, not realizing that Jesus both taught from it and apparently applied the book as prophetic toward Himself. All four of the apostolic branches of Christianity (ACOE, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Roman Catholicism) number Wisdom of Sirach among their Holy Scriptures.
________
from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Heroes of Progress, Pt. 12: Joseph Lister
Introducing the man who is commonly dubbed "the father of modern surgery," Joseph Lister.
________
from Los Angeles Times
Outrage culture is out of control
Why ask questions, when it’s more expedient, maybe more kickass, to turn anything you might disagree with into an emergency? A sense of emergency is what people on all sides have developed an addiction to. Show us the next person to hate and we are so there; we take an animalistic pleasure in destroying the kid in the MAGA hat, in fashioning a decades-old interview with John Wayne into a knife with which to posthumously eviscerate the actor. And then we look for the next target.
________
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
________
________
from The Washington Examiner
News & Media Website in Washington, DC
While national media carried water for Jussie Smollett, local media did it right
The first thing that caused newsman Rafer Weigel to blink when reading the TMZ report that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett had been brutally attacked by Trump-supporting-noose-wielding-racial-slurring assailants was the neighborhood in which the attack was reported to have happened. The Streeterville neighborhood is not exactly “this is MAGA country” at any time, let alone 2 a.m. “It is our job as reporters to be skeptical,” said Weigel, a local Fox affiliate news anchor and reporter who grew up in Chicago. How skeptical? “Well as the old adage goes, ‘If your mother says she loves you, check it out,’ so from the get go, when we heard this about Smollett, there were eyebrows raised for a whole host of reasons, just because we know the city well,” he said. As national media often omitted "alleged" from their reporting of the attack and instead went with the line that Smollett was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing people who were "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs" and "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim,” the newsroom Weigel works in, along with several other competing Chicago print and media organizations, mostly stuck "alleged" in their reporting. Local news organizations were doing what local news organizations do best: staying in constant contact with the local police, local officials, and the community, and pursing the past behavior of the victim to look for additional red-flags before going in head-first with a narrative.
While national media carried water for Jussie Smollett, local media did it right
The first thing that caused newsman Rafer Weigel to blink when reading the TMZ report that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett had been brutally attacked by Trump-supporting-noose-wielding-racial-slurring assailants was the neighborhood in which the attack was reported to have happened. The Streeterville neighborhood is not exactly “this is MAGA country” at any time, let alone 2 a.m. “It is our job as reporters to be skeptical,” said Weigel, a local Fox affiliate news anchor and reporter who grew up in Chicago. How skeptical? “Well as the old adage goes, ‘If your mother says she loves you, check it out,’ so from the get go, when we heard this about Smollett, there were eyebrows raised for a whole host of reasons, just because we know the city well,” he said. As national media often omitted "alleged" from their reporting of the attack and instead went with the line that Smollett was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing people who were "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs" and "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim,” the newsroom Weigel works in, along with several other competing Chicago print and media organizations, mostly stuck "alleged" in their reporting. Local news organizations were doing what local news organizations do best: staying in constant contact with the local police, local officials, and the community, and pursing the past behavior of the victim to look for additional red-flags before going in head-first with a narrative.
________
No comments:
Post a Comment