<![CDATA[Joseph Stashko · Storify]]>http://storify.com/josephstashNodeJS RSS ModuleMon, 20 May 2013 09:34:48 GMT<![CDATA[Let's Talk About Men]]>

This week the New Statesman put together a series of themed posts based around male issues, identity and discussion. I've collected them all here.

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Fri, May 25 2012 04:15:01

First up was Rhiannon and Holly of Vagenda, talking about the extreme end of the men's rights movement and looking at equality between genders. 
New Statesman - The men's rights zeitgeistNew Statesman - The men's rights zeitgeist
Don't buy into this pretend battle of the sexes. It's been one hell of a week for women. Not only did we see Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai...
Tuesday's entry was Stephen Baxter talking about admitting to male vulnerability and stereotyping men as loud, competitive and boorish. 
New Statesman - No, I will not "grow a pair"New Statesman - No, I will not "grow a pair"
Men need to admit their vulnerability. If there's one phrase I'd love to get rid of, it's "grow a pair". You hear it a lot nowadays, not ...
Wednesday saw two pieces, first, Ally Fogg's excellent and measured review of the Second Sexism, followed by Alex Hern's look at the gender pay gap.
New Statesman - The Second Sexism: don't judge a book by its pressNew Statesman - The Second Sexism: don't judge a book by its press
David Benatar's book has valid comments to make about the position of men. Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will p...
New Statesman - The surprising truth about the pay gapNew Statesman - The surprising truth about the pay gap
One of the few examples of genuine institutional prejudice against men is set to be closed this year. The Queen's Speech contained the br...
Thursday included a piece by me, which drew on my own experiences to talk about eating disorders suffered by men and the distinct issues that are attached to them.
New Statesman - What it is like to be a man with an eating disorder?New Statesman - What it is like to be a man with an eating disorder?
Too often, help and discussion is targeted only at women. I still remember, vividly, the time I realised I had an eating disorder. I was ...
On Friday, James Ball wrote about promoting more male identity, discussion and acknowledging that yes, men also face complex challenges, as do women. The week was wrapped up with a look at male unemployment rates by Alex Hern.
New Statesman - A shed of one's ownNew Statesman - A shed of one's own
Millions of men are losing out - too often below the radar. We need to talk about men, and we don't do so. Quite often, because of the cu...
New Statesman - Why isn't male unemployment an issue?New Statesman - Why isn't male unemployment an issue?
The last time the male unemployment rate was lower than female was September 1980. Ever since then, men have been more likely to be unemp...
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This morning I logged on to find that a half hour video documenting child abduction and young soldiers had gone viral. People were talking about it on Facebook, it was trending on Twitter. Here's what you need to know.

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Mar 07 2012 16:08:07

KONY 2012 ·
Good to raise awareness and spread the word, surely? But debates on Facebook soon sprung up about the value of awareness that doesn't translate into action. As seems to be more common these days, Reddit provided some eye-opening details about presenting the other sides of the story.
"Is awareness good? Yes. But these problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow.  "Giving your money and public support to Invisible Children so they can spend it on funding ill-advised violent intervention and movie #12 isn’t helping. Do I have a better answer? No, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it’s something. Something isn’t always better than nothing. Sometimes it’s worse."
Visible Children - KONY 2012 Criticism
You do not need to ask my permission to share this. Please link it widely. For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts. I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a very evil man.
You can also read the Reddit conversation thread below:
Am I the only one who is suspicious about Invisible Children, the organisation behind Kony 2012 movement? : AskRedditAm I the only one who is suspicious about Invisible Children, the organisation behind Kony 2012 movement? : AskReddit
I've done a fair bit of looking into it, and everything doesn't add up. Heres my findings and I have included sources. Will probably get ...
And Matthew Taylor put it like this: "This group sends funds to the Ugandan Army to find someone who likely isn't even in Uganda.  "And the Ugandan military are responsible for crimes of their own.Oh and they pay themselves almost $90,000 a year in salary, and it cost $7.5 million to make this video (all marked as expenses)"
Should I Donate Money to Kony 2012 or Not? | VICEShould I Donate Money to Kony 2012 or Not? | VICE
So you probably woke up this morning to discover that something called Kony 2012 had taken over the internet. In case you haven't worked it out yet, Kony 2012 is a film produced by the charity Invisible Children, raising awareness about the child soldiers of Uganda.
Full article here
And a reasoned take on things titled "Bad guys, good guys and the people in between" was flagged up by Daniel Bentley:"Don’t get me wrong. I’m unashamedly hopeful about the ability of humans to change their own situations. But the events of the Arab Spring certainly remind us that lasting change must come from within."
How Matters /  Bad guys, good guys, and the people in betweenHow Matters /  Bad guys, good guys, and the people in between
I won't share the video that many of my fellow bloggers reacted to today. Because of its slick production value, Invisible Children's Kony2012 campaign will get plenty of attention without a link from me.
Currently 816 people are signed up to this public Facebook event in Nottingham, to "raise awarness by spreading our message all over the city centre".
Kony 2012 - Nottingham - Cover The Night | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to ke...
"It is hard to respect any documentary on northern Uganda where a five year-old white boy features more prominently than any northern Ugandan victim or survivor.  "Incredibly, with the exception of the adolescent northern Ugandan victim, Jacob, the voices of northern Ugandans go almost completely unheard."
Taking ‘Kony 2012′ Down A NotchTaking ‘Kony 2012′ Down A Notch
As we speak, one of the most pervasive and successful human rights based viral campaigns in recent memory is underway. Invisible Children...
And the inevitable Vice article:
Should I Donate Money to Kony 2012 or Not? | VICEShould I Donate Money to Kony 2012 or Not? | VICE
So you probably woke up this morning to discover that something called Kony 2012 had taken over the internet. In case you haven't worked it out yet, Kony 2012 is a film produced by the charity Invisible Children, raising awareness about the child soldiers of Uganda.
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Collected photos, video, information.

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Tue, Feb 28 2012 00:58:43

police line and protesters on the steps #occupylsx · journodave

"Police and bailiffs have moved in to remove protesters from the Occupy London site at St Paul's Cathedral.

Occupy London was last week refused permission to appeal against a High Court decision to allow their eviction to proceed.

The Court of Appeal's decision meant the City of London Corporation was free to clear the site.

Occupy London, which campaigns against corporate greed, set up the camp on 15 October."


More here: 

Occupy London eviction under wayOccupy London eviction under way
27 February 2012 Last updated at 19:22 ET Police have moved in to remove protesters from the Occupy London site at St Paul's Cathedral. O...
What the camp looked like hours before the eviction: 
IMG_8511-8513 · hko_s
Map that shows where people at #OccupyLSX came from:
Twimg
Livestream from the scene:
Live at St Pauls · NAFFYOLSX
Members of OccupyLSX being moved by Police:
Police remove Praying Christian from the step of St Paul's - Occupy LSX - February 28 · tzimnewman3
A member of Occupy, George Barda, describes the conditions of the eviction order, earlier in the day.
OccupyLSX Update 27th Feb 2012.MP4 · frantaag
Praying as the bailiffs rip his tent up #occupyLSX · HeardinLondon
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Built on an iPad

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Feb 22 2012 00:55:36

Storify for the iPad 3 · jeffthechimp
Storify for iPad is here, free.Storify for iPad is here, free.
Storified by Storify · Wed, Feb 22 2012 02:59:01 Storify is reinventing storytelling for the social media age, and today we're bringing our platform to the device that is reinventing computing: the iPad. Our free app is a powerful tool that gives you a new way of creating content on a tablet.
Storify's new iPad app makes it Twitter's Pinterest ·
Introducing Storify for iPad ·
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Information about the fire in west London. Scroll down for video, photos and location information.

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Tue, Jan 31 2012 03:14:25

15 fire engines and around 75 firefighters are currently tackling a fire on Wood Lane, Shepherds Bush W12. The fire is at a dairy.


The Brigade was called at 0935. Fire crews from Hammersmith, North Kensington, Willesden, Kensington, Paddington and Chiswick fire stations are attending the incident.


Station Manager Rod Horton said: “The fire is affecting a range of industrial buildings on the dairy site. It’s a challenging and developing incident at the moment and we’re likely to be at the scene for some time.”


"The cause of the fire is not known at this stage." 


http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsContainer_31jan2012ra.asp

Unigate Fire - Shepherd's Bush - Google MapsUnigate Fire - Shepherd's Bush - Google Maps
View maps and find local businesses on the web.
Er, quite a large fire... #fb · Petalstomp
Early morning fire in West London near my house! · ameliaarsenic
Londons burning #fire · jacallum
31.01.12 Fire smoke from london shepherds bush. · 7zNzNzNz7
Unigate factory fire near white city · richardakenny
White City fire · coderkind
yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/kfm4jyoj Shared by suellewellyn · suellewellyn
@LondonFire looking really bad from here in latima! Hope no1 is hurt! · hurt!
Big fire in west London · davidemery
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Reports of power cuts/surges in Penwortham, Lostock Hall, Bamber Bridge

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Sun, Jan 29 2012 14:34:43

Incidents of power loss started at around 7pm this evening. Blog Preston have contacted several energy suppliers with no reply as of yet. 
Low Key Light Bulb · AlexFQuality
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Coverage, photos and video of the day's protest.

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Nov 09 2011 03:58:07

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Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Oct 26 2011 23:01:50

L Catherine M's Twitter Photo · L Catherine M
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Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Oct 26 2011 23:15:49

@JosephStash @NazKinsella @Fazimundo @jebutlin I drew this in last week's PA lecture. · twitpic.com
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]]>http://storify.com/josephstash/bad-political-rappinghttp://storify.com/josephstash/bad-political-rappingFri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:17 GMT<![CDATA[A summary of the #Leveson Inquiry]]>

Summary and collected articles on the Leveson Inquiry

Storified by Joseph Stashko · Wed, Oct 26 2011 23:11:22

The first two of three Leveson Inquiry seminars took place Thursday 6 October at the Queen Elizabeth conference centre.

The inquiry looked at the pressures facing journalists in the competitive modern environment. 

Speakers were a veritable who's who of media, and you can view the full invitation list below:
Invitation-List.doc - Google DocsInvitation-List.doc - Google Docs

Former Daily Star journalist Richard Peppiatt cited the issue that each journalist had to fit in with an owner's agenda: 

"In approximately 900 newspaper bylines I can probably count on fingers and toes the times I felt I was genuinely telling the truth, yet only a similar number could be classed as outright lies. 

"This is because as much as the skill of a journalist today is about finding facts, it is also, particularly at the tabloid end of the market, about knowing what facts to ignore." Link to Guardian liveblog entry.

It's something that media analyst Claire Enders agreed with. She said: 


"Commercial pressures vary on titles, you see no correlation between ethical or unethical and profitability. 

"In fact the most ethical seem to be the ones that lose the most money and the most unethical seem to be the ones with the most complaints to the PCC." Link to Guardian liveblog entry.

One of the issues that phone hacking has raised is regulation. Should the press be self-regulating? Externally regulated? Or is there a third way?


Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, said that "Gagging the media on the pretext of the public interest is one means of ensuring the public never learns the answer."

Gordon Rayner of the Telegraph has a full analysis of Rusbridger's speech:

Leveson Inquiry: British press freedom is a model for the world, editor tells inquiry - TelegraphLeveson Inquiry: British press freedom is a model for the world, editor tells inquiry - Telegraph
Alan Rusbridger, the editor-in-chief of The Guardian, told a seminar of editors and journalists at the inquiry that MPs who suggested licensing newspapers and journalists should learn the lessons of history. He said that for the past 400 years a free press had been the enemy of totalitarian governments and remained "as crucial to democracy as a clean water supply or a fire service".

Dominic Mohan was up to speak about an hour after Rusbridger's first speech, and he spoke about how celebrity journalism sharing similar traits with the political lobby system - relying on a network of contacts. 

Check out the Audioboo by Lisa O'Carroll below:

Dominic Mohan at Leveson inquiry seminarDominic Mohan at Leveson inquiry seminar
An Audioboo by lisaocarroll
Notable contributions in the afternoon of Thursday 6 October included Trevor Kavanagh, former political editor of the Sun, who laid into those who he believed are condescending toward tabloid newspapers. 

He said that tabloid journalists are the: "finest creative professionals in the business. Men and women who can adapt just as successfully as on other newspapers, though the reverse is not always the case.


"The tabloids drive the news agenda...they are followed up almost without question by the broadsheets," 

Of course the speech which got the Twittersphere talking was when Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail stepped up on October 12 to deliver a speech. You can view a full version of it below along with some analysis from Roy Greenslade, but I've also included some choice quotes:

On policitians

"Indeed, am I alone in detecting the rank smells of hypocrisy and revenge in the political class's current moral indignation over a British press that dared to expose their greed and corruption -- the same political class, incidentally, that, until a few weeks ago, had spent years indulging in sickening genuflection to the Murdoch press."

On regulation

"I'd like to try to persuade this inquiry that self-regulation -- albeit in a considerably beefed up form -- is, in a country that regards itself as truly democratic, the only viable way of policing a genuinely free press.

"This growing clamour for more regulation ignores the uncomfortable truth that the Press is already on the very cusp of being over regulated. Indeed, over the past twenty years, restriction has been piled upon restriction.

The Data Protection Act means that reporters can be criminalised for such basic journalist practices as obtaining ex-directory numbers which they need to do to check stories are accurate."


On corrections and clarifications


"I believe corrections must be given more prominence. As from next week, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and Metro will introduce a "Corrections and Clarifications" column on page two of these paper."


He predictably raised a few eyebrows on Twitter:

Paul Dacre's speech at the Leveson inquiry - full textPaul Dacre's speech at the Leveson inquiry - full text
Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. Let me start by making it clear that I unequivocally condemn phone hacking and payments to the police. Such practices are a disgrace and have shocked and shamed us all. They need to be purged from journalism and reforms instigated to prevent such criminal activities ever happening again.
Paul Dacre at the Leveson inquiry: familiar anger, but a few surprisesPaul Dacre at the Leveson inquiry: familiar anger, but a few surprises
Paul Dacre, the scary guy that brings virtually all non-Daily Mail readers out in hives, rarely speaks in public. On those occasions when he does, words are not minced. In a 2007 Hugh Cudlipp memorial lecture, he bashed the BBC and took a swipe at the cosy relationship between Rupert Murdoch's paper and Tony Blair's Labour government.
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