Nicholas Quah: “The vast majority of the charts draw upon the same few concepts, deriving from the same few traditions, borne of the same few sensibilities. Touchy-feely reportage. Public radio two-ways. Public radio science-y shows. Shows about music. Comedians talking with comedians. People talking with people like themselves. Celebrities talking celebrity things. Conversationals. True crime true […]
If people from a cultural group say a costume is offensive, I just won’t wear it. There is no costume that is so important to me that it is worth making a group of people feel excluded or belittled, regardless of my own thoughts on the subject. And that’s my hot take on cultural appropriation […]
You’ve earned your cynicism if you’re a woman and have watched men in power try to trample on your rights, or if you’re aboriginal and you’ve been ignored for eons, or if you’re a Muslim woman whose existence suddenly became politicized. You’ve earned it if you’re trans and have seen government after government barely acknowledge that your suicide rates are out of control.
“You don’t want to sound like a reporter, you want to sound like a regular person. So use the word ‘like’, like… like a lot.”
“Come and get some lemonade!”
Bill Phillips on the latest hire at city hall, Rob van Adrichem from UNBC: “Give them credit for hiring locally. That’s two in a row, as city manager Kathleen Soltis was named Beth James’ successor earlier this year. “Mayor Lyn Hall and the new council elected last fall, wasted no time in getting rid of […]
“Hydro One has other employees to consider, people who might not feel comfortable working under or beside a man who has made it clear that sexually harassing women while they work is something fun that he’s entitled to do, and if they object they are failing in their duty to feel grateful they don’t have a vibrator in their ear.”
Just two weeks after the Prince George Free Press shut down, editor Bill Phillips is back, writing a column for the online-only 250News.com (which, incidentally, just celebrated its ten-year anniversary). Glad we’ll still have his voice.
This is really clever. From the “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast: “We ask a question; you answer it. We’ll feed our favorite answers back into the app for your listening pleasure. Some of your answers will wind up on our show (like here). And sometimes we’ll collect questions from *you* for a special podcast guest. […]
When I started at CBC, we had millions more in our budget and hundreds more people working for us. It was five years ago.
“Recently surveyed Home Sweet Home customers would like less bitchiness from us at the store. This is problematic for us, since we are bitches.”
“So what do the recent changes to the Oxford Junior Dictionary mean? I think it’s fair to say that it means that school-aged children – the target audience of this dictionary – aren’t holding buttercups under chins. They aren’t catching amphibians. They aren’t listening to birds. They aren’t playing games among tangles of willows. They are, instead, being influenced toward corporatized indoor loneliness instead of towards a corporate outdoor solitude.”
“I very much fell into the trap of only being exposed to the voices of men. My blog subscriptions were all to male writers. Those I followed on Twitter were almost all male. I spoke at many conferences, and in every case, the speaker line-up was either almost completely or exclusively male. Those men then amplified other male voices, perpetuating the effect.
“It’s vital, for all our sakes, that we make an effort to change that.”
Felix Salmon, in Reuters: “Today, when you read a story at the New Republic, or Medium, or any of a thousand other sites, it looks great; every story looks great. Even something as simple as a competition announcement comes with a full-page header and whiz-bang scrollkit graphics. The result is a cognitive disconnect: why is […]
“Listeners have always complained about young women reporting on our show. They used to complain about reporters using the word like and about upspeak, which is when you put a question mark at the end of a sentence and talk like this. But we don’t get many emails like that anymore. People who don’t like listening to young women on the radio have moved on to vocal fry.”
Ad nauseam
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