Lewis Raven Wallace @LewisPants Twitter profile

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Lewis Raven Wallace

3 years

Hello, my name is Lewis and I wrote a book and made a podcast about the myth of "objective" journalism and how it upholds dominant, oppressive systems and attitudes. I'm told it is relevant content for these times.

book — The View from Somewhere

The View from Somewhere is Lewis Raven Wallace's forthcoming book and podcast about the myth of journalistic "objectivity" and racial and social justice in journalism.

www.lewispants.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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3 years

URGENT: There are nine Haitian asylum-seekers on Desecheo, an island off of Mayagüez, which has no water or food. My partner works on a boat and saw them yesterday, swam in with some supplies. Her boat's captain called the Coast Guard who did not show up yesterday or today. 1/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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I know I have perpetuated pro-police narratives without realizing it before. This workshop and guide for journalists will help folks look out for the pitfalls of "copaganda" and ally with communities seeking a voice in a conversation that's long been lopsided.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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5 months

My thoughts on Uri Berliner’s predictable conservative critique of @npr ? Let’s start with this: many older, wealthier white men are demonstrably pissed that they are no longer being catered to at every turn, in every area of society.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

8 years

1/ On Monday I was fired from my job @marketplace for declining to remove this from my personal blog:

Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it

Like a lot of people, I’ve been losing sleep over the news of the last week. As a working journalist, I’ve been deeply questioning not just…

medium.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

So inspired by this art by @micahbazant with @prisonculture . “When something can’t be fixed then the question is what do we build instead.” - Mariame Kaba

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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2 years

How to not reproduce police narratives in our reporting...let me count the ways. 1. Don't act as a stenographer for police. It's that simple!

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

5 years

After I left public radio, one of my radio mentors told me she was sure I would work in the industry again soon, unless I wrote a book called, like, the Objectivity Myth or something. Well.

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@nhannahjones

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

For folks who missed today's event, Don't Be A Copagandist, we launched a few new resources! One, I have Office Hours now as part of the Abolition Journalism Fellowship at @interruptcrim . I am here to talk to you, journalists AND organizers doing abolitionist work (or trying!)

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

If these nine people are stranded they will die. A number of them are children. The boat my girlfriend is on does not have the ability to navigate in to pick them up. Someone needs to go and bring them food/water. The public also needs to pressure @CBP to rescue them. 3/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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It's not ideal that CBP is already involved. Because of the Biden administration's disturbing, anti-Black policies toward Haitian immigrants, they may also face deportation. Ideally they will receive safe passage to mainland PR and be able apply for asylum from there. 4/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

It's a catch-22 for all marginalized and oppressed people in mainstream U.S. journalism. Nothing changes unless we protest, but if we protest we are disciplined or fired. If we're lucky, later, we are recognized as having been right to protest.

ErikWemple

@ErikWemple

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The @nytimes said it won't "tolerate" participation by its journalists in "protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums” -- in reference to a letter attacking NYT coverage of transgender youth:

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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I actually feel like @prisonculture and @dreanyc123 's #NoMorePolice is restoring my faith in...journalism? Because it IS journalism! And it makes this really complex argument simple and accessible by citing real-world examples, many first reported by community journalists. !!!!

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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2 years

Who's your favorite *local* movement journalist? Bonus points: who's doing a great job covering "crime," violence and policing (whether or not they are a movement journalist)?

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

Things you can do: Please DM me if you are in or near Mayagüez and can help. If you are anywhere, please call CBP. The Puerto Rico press officer's number is (787) 729-6999, the desk/office number is (787) 729-6998. When I called, they said they knew nothing about it. 5/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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3 years

I talked to the Coast Guard office in San Juan several times. The third time I called, they said the issue was turned over to Customs and Border Protection. I just got off the phone with @CBP and they are not answering questions. 2/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

Thinking about this phrase, "racially motivated." In our workshops we focus a lot on IMPACT over INTENT. In other words — something doesn't have to be consciously "racially motivated" to be racist. What matters is the power dynamic and harm caused, which are always racialized.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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3 years

Say that you heard about the group of Haitian asylum seekers stranded on Desecheo, and you want to know whether they are going to be rescued or left to die. Express that it's urgent. Say that you want assurance that they will be allowed to apply for asylum from Puerto Rico. 6/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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4 years

I have been an abolitionist for 16 years w/the mentorship of @prisonculture @projectnia and @BLACKandPINKorg . Seeing these ideas go mainstream=kinda unreal//the struggle is long haul//hope is a discipline. Had a hard week but trying to celebrate this!

Reimagining Justice: A Primer on Defunding the Police and Prison Abolition

Political scientist Dr. Megan Ming Francis offers insight into the movements to ‘defund the police’ and abolish the prison system.

getpocket.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 9/ I can’t be objective on the question of my own humanity. I shouldn’t have to pretend to in order to do my job

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

Again, these folks will die if they are not rescued, ideally before nightfall tonight. CBP needs to know we are watching. Please retweet this thread. Thank you. 7/7

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

Literally no one is saying cis women can't call themselves women. No one.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

4 years

Reporters: the "fact that the protest was peaceful" is not an angle. It's a damaging dichotomy that distracts from the violence of police, the lived violence Black folx are rising up against. Please don't make the historical record be about how "polite" people were in response.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

1 year

When I got fired from @Marketplace for naming the myth of "objectivity" in the face of rising racist and transphobic rhetoric, @Samuel_Worley supported me with everything he had. Now he's resigned his editorial job over...rising racism and transphobia.

A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart

Half the staff of Atlanta magazine has quit after the publisher challenged their effort to present a modern picture of life in a diverse, LGBTQ-friendly town.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

Don't Be A Copagandist! event for journalists and activists is happening. Oct. 6 from 2-4 Eastern / 1-3 Central / 11-1 Pacific. with @interruptcrim @dreanyc123 @ChelseaWiseRVA @LisaMcCray @FeliciaArriaga @SamTLevin and more TBA. Register here:

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

4 years

Four years since I was suspended @Marketplace for publicly questioning "neutrality" in the face of Trump's lies, transphobia and racism. Still waiting for the apology, the commitment to anti-racism, and the repair they owe to many people — not just me.

I was fired from my journalism job ten days into Trump

On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

Check out this resource we've created about avoiding "copaganda" in reporting if you want to get an idea of the kinds of conversations we are having:

Don't Be A Copagandist — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

6 years

Know what though? I don't just want rights. I want a fundamental transformation of the way we think, talk, and learn about gender. I want all gendered violence to stop. I want police and prisons out of our communities. I want reparations for slavery and rape.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

5 months

Here, he’s not naming “liberal bias,” he’s naming his own racism and transphobia.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

Journalists are encouraged to have close relationships with police and businesses while close relationships with the (many more) people harmed and exploited are an afterthought. Let's follow the examples of @MLK50Memphis and @baltbeat and flip it!

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

About to give a talk to reporters and editors at @WBEZ where I started my work as a full-time journalist! What an exciting full circle moment, for me...

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

4 months

I spent the morning crying as I read articles about Congressional Republicans' bullying of @NorthwesternU President Schill - a Jewish man - simply for supporting his students and faculty in their right to protest and openly discuss Israel and Zionism on campus.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

Update at 10 p.m. -- please call in the morning. Offices are closed/phones are ringing with no answer. We still don't know if they have been picked up. @CBP hasn't responded to reporters, either.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

I got my second vaccine and my doctor was wearing a BLM pin AND he was hot and I’m just so happy in this moment

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 2/ Initially it was just a suspension. The whole story is here:

I was fired from my journalism job ten days into Trump

On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016.

medium.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

1 year

I have been hearing stories from multiple sources recently about radical conservative ideology being repackaged as an objective or nonpartisan stance in newsrooms. This is one of the more egregious examples.

A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart

Half the staff of Atlanta magazine has quit after the publisher challenged their effort to present a modern picture of life in a diverse, LGBTQ-friendly town.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

I...um...

kellymcb

@kellymcb

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NPR ethics policy update: Journalists can now participate in activities that advocate for “freedom and dignity of human beings” on social media and in real life.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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4 years

On my mind today: The white person desire (I feel it often) to not "alienate people" but what we really mean is white ppl/our families/our bosses/etc. Meanwhile we alienate BIPOC all the time and don't usually even know we have done that b/c of power differentials...

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 3/ I want media to change, to rise to the challenge of this moment. And to stop tokenizing ppl like me w/out welcoming our actual views

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

5 years

Celebrating Ida B. Wells' legacy with @nhannahjones , today on the View from Somewhere (subscribe: )

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

@tuckwoodstock Agree. I feel like the concept of performative allyship is important in interpersonal contexts but we're out here trying to change narratives! I hate the idea that folks are discouraged from speaking out by the fear of appearing to not do enough

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@NPR Berliner’s complaints include that NPR is focused on ending systemic racism; that NPR allows trans people to dictate how trans people should be talked about; and that NPR doesn’t cater to ideological conservatives, or even makes them feel uncomfortable or unseen.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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3 years

"The bill’s language that calls for “impartial instruction” of history and banning any lessons “promoting division” amongst racial groups gives the illusion of racial neutrality but is really designed to reproduce racism in U.S. society."

Tennessee legislature showed lack of knowledge with critical race theory ban | Opinion

Ultimately, the new law attempts to prohibit any meaningful discussions of racism, the history of white supremacy, and the power of resistance.

www.tennessean.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

4 years

Journalism is more important than ever right now. Here are some ways journalists can report ethically on police violence. From @presson_south @FreedomLifted #MovementJournalism

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

5 years

Cisgender media makers are showing up decades into a difficult struggle, suddenly interested in what trans people are saying. Then they are surprised when we have touchy reactions to their crappy coverage. Guess what? I'm annoyed! And wrote a thing

Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people

Get over the pronoun hump. Do it now. I’m annoyed that we’re still talking about pronouns. Not to sound salty, but I came out as genderqueer in the year 1999, when trans politics were still playing...

www.cjr.org

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

4 years

In early 2017, I wrote that instead of waiting and seeing, journalists should clarify our anti-racist, anti-oppression values so that we could better fight back against rising authoritarianism. I (and many others) ...tried....to....tell...y'allllll....

Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it

Like a lot of people, I’ve been losing sleep over the news of the last week. As a working journalist, I’ve been deeply questioning not just…

medium.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

Today is my first day as a Movement Journalism Fellow (AKA as myself) at @interruptcrim with @prisonculture and @dreanyc123 and I'm so ready!!! To work!!! It is a true full-circle moment as exactly 10 years ago I started my first full-time gig in journalism thanks to Mariame...

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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4 years

I just want to work on our podcast and start a new news organization and transform the information infrastructure toward justice and make journalism orgs pay racial reparations by restructuring at every level and write a bunch and also crawl in a hole where there is no pandemic

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

2 years

On Monday @thrasherxy mentioned an NYT editorial where a straight lady is upset about the use of the word queer. I said, "this came out which year?" and he said "yesterday." This is why I cannot with the Times.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

6 years

The white silence on Trump's white supremacy has been thunderous. I want to talk about how white journalists could have been in solidarity with ppl like @jelani9 @fivefifths @nhannahjones and @jdesmondharris , and how we can do better in the future.

Journalists of color were right about Trump. Why didn't we listen?

Why America's newsrooms must employ more minority writers

theweek.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

5 years

Finding uplift from @eveewing interviewing @prisonculture . So much love ❤️

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@LewisPants

8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 4/ Public media exists to serve the public. The most marginalized and at-risk should be at the center

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2 years

Abolitionist journalists, activist media makers: I'm here @interruptcrim to help you connect with each other, access resources, and do what you do even more effectively. Sign up for office hours this month if you wanna connect!

Abolition Journalism — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 10/ History tells us “objectivity” shifts as the center does. As center moves away from democracy and human rights, will media shift too?

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@LewisPants

5 months

Don't I know it! Not that I think he *should* be fired. But it's not lost on me that almost all of my colleagues in public radio were silent when I was fired over a blog post about transphobia and white supremacy, and the people who did speak publicly were not white men.

🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻

@thrasherxy

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This white man who stirred up shit at NPR is lucky the entire American media power structure caters to him, because if he’d critiqued NPR as a person who was trans, nonwhite, and/or LGBTQ, he’d have been fired the day his complaint was published & never let back into the bldg

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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3 years

@HaitianBridge @UndocuBlack

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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6 years

Oh hey, that's me!

CJR

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A new podcast will explore the history of 'objectivity' in journalism:

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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4 years

I just realized my followers are all journalists, socialists, trans/nonbinary/genderqueer, or a combo. True?

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@LewisPants

6 years

Talk about the Uberization of journalism. Everything is a "fellowship" (read: we underpay you and don't actually hire you on), nothing is a JOB.

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@LewisPants

5 months

Also: given that it’s a whole essay criticizing @NPR for "telling people how to think,” I’m fascinated that he cannot cite a single actual example of NPR actually telling people how to think. Everything has a frame, yes -- he just doesn't like the frame as much now.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

So, has anyone else noticed it's kinda like, um, end times? How are you coping? I'm anxious af.

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@LewisPants

5 months

If there’s anything to criticize @NPR for in this realm, I’d say it’s the tendency to frame political discussions in terms of party politics. “Viewpoint diversity” insists on and reinforces precisely that frame, ignoring the forms of diversity that are truly still lacking at NPR.

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What this essay – and all analyses of “viewpoint diversity” that I have seen – there’s a key (and perhaps stubborn) misunderstanding of people in this country. White men in the center often assume that everyone's most important and polarizing identity is a partisan one.

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@LewisPants

8 years

. @Marketplace @Medium 7/ We need more courage, more resources, more experimentation, more reporters. Support your local public radio station! and risk-taking!

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5 months

But for most people, there are dozens of concerns, identities, and social locations that matter more than left versus right: class, race, gender, geography, vocation, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality among them. In fact, people are TIRED of left/right polarization.

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3 years

I love it when Dr. Thrasher @thrasherxy breaks down transphobia for people, and reminds people that while these cis assholes whine about being cancelled and silenced, many trans people (me included) have been ***FIRED AND REMOVED FROM THE PREMISES*** for defending our community.

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@LewisPants

6 years

Two years ago today I learned I was being fired from my job as a reporter at Marketplace for refusing to remove this blog post from @medium .

Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it

Like a lot of people, I’ve been losing sleep over the news of the last week. As a working journalist, I’ve been deeply questioning not just…

medium.com

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@LewisPants

5 years

The students at @thedailynu did something not enough journalists are willing to do—they apologized for harm or potential harm caused by their reporting, and tried to repair it. @troy_closson should be held up as a model for the humility and curiosity journalism could use more of.

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7 years

I would love to see a straight white cis writer do a piece on how his identity affects his ability to be neutral and see all sides

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@LewisPants

4 years

I spent months last year working on this devastating story about a racist utility policy in LaGrange, GA. I just learned that the @Georgia_NAACP and @ProjectSouth WON their lawsuit against the city, and the policy will be overturned!

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5 months

My book The View from Somewhere is one of many places where you can learn about how "liberal bias" has been deployed by conservatives to persuade media not to cover the issues of Black, Brown, and queer people -- for decades. It is a deliberate strategy that is not new.

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4 months

Alert: North Carolina is poised to make wearing a mask for public health reasons illegal, as a part of a crackdown on protest in general. Chilling, but an opportunity for us to ramp up our solidarity across issues of disability, religion, race, gender...

Anti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements

Several states are considering expanding bans on public masking as a means to repress protest.

truthout.org

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@LewisPants

3 years

You know who I'd like to deplatform? Jesse Singal. You know who I'd like to review transphobic books for the New York Times? Nobody. That shit should not get a review.

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4 years

The enemy is not and never was Donald Trump. It is white supremacy and the totalitarian impulse that supports it. We must continue to fight without a drop of complacency. Only an anti-racist, intersectional movement can accomplish this, so the dems will need to get on board.🌈🔥

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Some personal news. I have just taken a job as ethics czar at the New York Times. JK. JK. But my DMs are open if any media org out there wants revolution over reform and offers health benefits!

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Announcing the Southern Movement Media Fund! @PressOn_South is making grants of $5,000 for individuals, $15,000 for organizations, with deadlines Oct. 2 and Oct. 23. Read all about it here:

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An aside, this whole argument for “viewpoint diversity” is an invention of Right Wingers who want to deploy faux objectivity to silence marginalized people. If you don’t believe me, read my book? I wrote a history of this, in a chapter ironically called “Public Radio Voice.”

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I hate this because on the one hand, it's undermining Nina Totenberg's reporting as a woman, because of her friendship w/another smart and powerful woman. On the other hand, I was fired from public media for the "bias" of calling objectivity a myth and Donald Trump a racist. So.

Murphy Woodhouse

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Nina Totenberg was close friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Was that a conflict for NPR? - The Washington Post

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It just so happens that his POV has massive institutional support and a very organized media machine behind it, saying it over and over every chance they get.

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. @Marketplace @Medium 12/ Please read what I wrote and comment, I hope to carry on a rigorous discussion!

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Maybe the problem with journalism's business model is...capitalism.

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Don't Be A Copagandist Guide for Journalists is live. // No seas un poligandista

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6 years

Straight, white, non-trans men created newsroom structures and continue to hold disproportionate leadership positions, which means that changing newsroom culture is also about addressing power. Objectivity is not enough.

To rebuild trust, we need to change journalistic process

Even in the age of Trump, and with trust in journalists at historic lows, much of the industry remains convinced that it can triumph on truth-telling alone. But the problems are self-evident: News...

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The least @NPR can do is not repeat conservative talking points that are being blasted out on Fox News already. Thank you NPR for your good judgment on that front, seriously.

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2 years

We also created an index for journalists to make use of the new book No More Police by @dreanyc123 and @prisonculture . You can use it find stats and analysis you need for your reporting.

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If journalism isn’t anti-racist, it’s probably racist. If it’s not intentionally working to combat patriarchy, it’s upholding it. If it’s not actively trans-affirming, it’s probably harming trans people. And so on.

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My latest, with big influence from @prisonculture @interruptcrim @dreanyc123 @miamingus and the wonderful people of @MLK50Memphis "What keeps us safe? We, the people, do"

What keeps us safe? We, the people, do

Editor’s note: On July 26, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will conduct a “pattern or practice” review into the Memphis Police Department. In Memphis, 2022 was dominat…

mlk50.com

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It's nearing the two-year anniversary of this transformative incident in my life. And I'm FINALLY producing a podcast, "The View From Somewhere," about journalists who have stood up to gatekeeping and white supremacy. More info coming soon, stay tuned!!!

I was fired from my journalism job ten days into Trump

On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016.

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@LewisPants

5 months

Imagine an @NPR that was all about the interests of working class and poor people. Or an NPR whose stories were focused on Black and brown communities primarily. You feel me?

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@LewisPants

5 months

His examples are all about news judgment - things that he thinks should have been covered less, or more. And yet news judgment changes depending on who is in the room, whose needs are considered. That is part of the argument for all kinds of diversity in newsrooms.

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@LewisPants

7 years

A little over a year since I was fired for publishing this piece. People continue to share it, and I am now writing a book on the topic for @UChicagoPress . I'm learning so much, and I can't believe the love I've received, and the humbling process of knowing our history.

Kumara S Raghavendra

@kumariimc

7 years

“Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it” by @LewisPants

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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I'm overwhelmed about my to-do list but I now have a pet pig, so I'm generally pretty happy. 12/10 would recommend.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

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So me and Uri do have something in common. He’s over there saying conservatives should get more air time. I’m over here saying NPR should cater to the interests of the most marginalized and underrepresented, across the political spectrum. These are both ideological viewpoints.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

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I'm feeling just absolute rage and deep grief at the death of Lorena Borjas. What it takes for trans people of color to survive to age 59 is no joke. Then to die from this.

MTV Shows

Stream MTV Original TV shows and reality TV shows, including Siesta Key, Beavis and Butt-head, Aeon Flux, and more.

www.paramountplus.com

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

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Campus cops don't keep us safe. My latest... @interruptcrim @truthout

Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.

The recent campus crackdowns underscore the danger of the decades-long rise in school policing.

truthout.org

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

3 years

What we're calling "transphobia" is a mode of fascist ideology, not a coherent worldview based in shared reality or even shared ignorance. Trans people threaten a social order that has used racialized patriarchy + white supremacy to effectively control people for centuries.

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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

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Proud to have supported my Jewish and Palestinian friends with @jvplive yesterday. I was arrested alongside over 300 others at the capitol. We demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and also support Palestinian calls for their self-determination (1)

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Lewis Raven Wallace

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White supremacy is upheld by the things we white folks don't do (not just by active white supremacists). What white-dominated media choose not to cover is a part of that. My latest from @Rewire_News and @scalawagmag

Why Media Outlets Cover Racial Reconciliation but Not Racism

In January 2017, national media flocked to the small Georgia city to cover a public apology for a lynching—the first in the country. While there, they completely overlooked LaGrange’s institutional...

rewirenewsgroup.com

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