Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Sept 25
/***JOURNALISM
FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-arrests-army-soldier-allegedly-discussed-plans-bomb/story
Remembering Cokie Roberts, Who Forged A Path For Female Journalists
Growing hostility’ between student media and administrators – Investigative Reporting Workshop
https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/growing-hostility-between-student-media-and-administrators/
Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow
Someone Is Doxing Hong Kong Protesters And Journalists — And China Wants Them To Keep Going
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/hong-kong-doxing-protesters-china-encourage
***FAKE NEWS
Google has released a giant database of deepfakes to help fight deepfakes
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614426/google-has-released-a-giant-database-of-deepfakes-to-help-fight-deepfakes/
Anti-vax movement targets Maine law on vaccine exemptions
https://www.axios.com/anti-vaccine-movement-targets-maine-ffdffe55-adaf-4aa4-b700-6e61f3b6117e.html
***GRAMMAR
Pope Francis criticises overuse of adjectives
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/24/pope-francis-criticises-overuse-of-adjectives
A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’
Does Influencer Grammar Matter?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/style/influencer-grammar-watchdog-accounts-southeast-asia.html
***WRITING & READING
Physical books still outsell e-books — and here's why
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/physical-books-still-outsell-e-books-and-heres-why.html
1,000-page sentence is hard work all around
It's Banned Books Week. Here are the 11 most challenged books last year
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/banned-books-week-2019-trnd/index.html
***LANGUAGE
Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/09/gretchen-mcculloch-because-internet/
Study shows facial features track with intonation of words
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-facial-features-track-intonation-words.html
***LITERATURE
When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been found
***POETRY
A vending machine that pops out poems! Positively precious
One of Elizabeth Warren's strategists is longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry
Teaching poetry at a correctional facility through the lens of parenting a teen son
Poem: Small Kindnesses
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Broadcast Radio Under Threat from Perfect Storm of New Tech
FCC loses in court, judges say agency would fail “intro statistics class”
***SOCIAL MEDIA: TIKTOK
How TikTok Holds Our Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/how-tiktok-holds-our-attention
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
https://medium.com/@mattprd/how-tiktok-is-changing-the-world-and-youre-missing-it-fa283338649a
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies
Brain Privacy