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Part 53: Social Media and Violence in Los Angeles and Beyond - Do the Ends Justify the Means?
By Zachary Ellison
You have to love Social Media! Even more than the Worlds behind Closed Doors, our Accounts provide a window into our daily reality that often escapes the intimacies of real life. So it seems my last column went over some heads slightly in a good way, sometimes I’m serious and direct but other times I’m using irony and sarcasm. You should still listen to the Rolling Stones “Street Fighting Man” but the debate around its message back in August of 1968. The simple point was sometimes people make business decisions for the smart reason of managing certain perceived risks.
For liability as I recently heard one person say, I always try to be careful about what I write. People get litigious toward journalists real fast, and especially one’s without newsrooms, so for liability reasons I don’t always share all my leads, or even my full story. In addition, I value people’s expectations for privacy who haven’t engaged in any newsworthy wrongdoing or were in any ways known witnesses to an event. That would be unfair, but when there’s audio, video, or documentary evidence involved that’s clear and compelling, I don’t hesitate to make a judgment on the facts.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-53-social-media-and-violence
You have to love Social Media! Even more than the Worlds behind Closed Doors, our Accounts provide a window into our daily reality that often escapes the intimacies of real life. So it seems my last column went over some heads slightly in a good way, sometimes I’m serious and direct but other times I’m using irony and sarcasm. You should still listen to the Rolling Stones “Street Fighting Man” but the debate around its message back in August of 1968. The simple point was sometimes people make business decisions for the smart reason of managing certain perceived risks.
For liability as I recently heard one person say, I always try to be careful about what I write. People get litigious toward journalists real fast, and especially one’s without newsrooms, so for liability reasons I don’t always share all my leads, or even my full story. In addition, I value people’s expectations for privacy who haven’t engaged in any newsworthy wrongdoing or were in any ways known witnesses to an event. That would be unfair, but when there’s audio, video, or documentary evidence involved that’s clear and compelling, I don’t hesitate to make a judgment on the facts.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-53-social-media-and-violence
This one should rub people on both sides in both the wrong and right ways with any luck. Thanks for your support DU!
Zachary "Obama" Ellison out~! : hide:
