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How To Be A Journalist
Just a few simple techniques are all that's required
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Some people remain under the illusion that journalists are principled seekers of truth, motivated by a sense of noble mission and dedicated to helping others understand the world in which we all live.
OK, once we've all stopped laughing and have settled down, we can continue with this article.
Warning: those of a charmingly naïve disposition should stop reading now, because we're going to be pointing out some unhappy facts of life.
Still here? Thanks, mom!
Let's begin with the obvious: journalists can only make a living if what they produce attracts a sufficiently large audience. Those liquid lunches don't pay for themselves and so plenty of revenue must be generated.
Revenues come from two sources: subscriptions and advertising.
There's a great deal of content out there in the world and so every journalist is in competition not only with other journalists but with blogs and vlogs and Instatweets and all manner of other noise. To stand any chance of receiving a pay cheque, journalists know they need to grab eyeballs and hold onto them for as long as the human attention span permits.
Which, under ideal conditions, can be as long as eight seconds.
That's eight slender seconds in which to serve an ad or convince someone their subscription is worthwhile.
It follows from this imperative that journalists are actually in the business of grabbing our attention by any means. The idea that this is in any way connected with facts and accurate information is at best risible and at worst a catastrophic delusion.
Journalists are in the sensation business. They live or die according to how much sensation they can generate each day.
This is because we're not really interested in anything else. We blithely regard everything these days as entertainment and so our minds have become largely incapable of encompassing anything more demanding than the latest celebrity scandal. It's why we vote for the most entertaining candidate, believe the most absurdly alarmist drivel, and retweet the most outrageous nonsense.
But you, gentle reader, care nothing of this. You want to know how to become a journalist, and so without further ado let us meander our way through the dark arts of creating irresponsibly sensationalist content to mislead the masses and thereby generate a pleasing pay cheque with which to pay the mortgage and put pizza on the table.
Let's begin with the headline, because, frankly, it's probably all that most people will read.
A good headline is like a landmine: it explodes inside the head of the reader, shreds their slender ability to reason, and leaves them irreparably maimed and psychically bleeding in the gutter.
It's surprisingly easy to construct such headlines; all that's needed is a total disregard for the truth.
We can see how this works by means of a few simple illustrations.
Example One: a research paper is published in a reputable journal that details the preliminary results of a modest study using genetically engineered mice to suppress one gene that occasionally triggers a specific tumor in the mouse's liver. Headline: Scientists Defeat Cancer With Miracle Cure!
Example Two: the stockmarket index falls from 23,789 to 23, 650 (which is a totally insignificant change of 0.58%). Headline: Stocks Crash, Billions Wiped Out!
Example Three: an unusually strong storm results in seven beachfront houses being damaged and a pet hamster drowning. Headline: Killer Storm Devastates Community!
Example Four: a perfectly ordinary lump of space debris is passing through our solar system, pulled inward by the sun's gravity. Headline: Scientists Can't Rule Out Extra-Terrestrial Object Is An Alien Spacecraft!
Moving on now to the content of the story, we can note that life these days is much easier for journalists than was formerly the case. Back in the distant past (e.g. before 2016) journalists would pretend there were always "two sides to every story." This was, of course, absurd because in reality there are facts and then there are potentially thousands of "alternative facts." Nevertheless, it was widely believed that a "fair and balanced" report should include a core narrative and then some other tangential narrative.
This was the perfect recipe to enable blatant propaganda to be repeated, amplified, and fed to a gullible public.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, journalists deployed their "two sides to every story" routine to give us: The government of Ukraine today claimed that Russian soldiers are invading Crimea. The Kremlin issued a formal statement dismissing these claims and said that the several thousand individuals involved are all patriotic civilian volunteers acting to secure Russian lives from Ukrainian persecution.
In the UK we saw Brexiteers making all manner of blatantly untrue claims, all of which were dutifully reported by supine journalists in national newspapers and on national television and none of which were fact-checked or refuted. Campaigners for Brexit stated today that the UK will save £350 million per week by leaving the European Union and that this money will be spent to improve the National Health Service. The Prime Minister, speaking for the Remain side, said that the EU is a source of national prosperity.
And of course in the USA things were even worse. Donald Trump yesterday promised to bring millions of manufacturing jobs back to America and force China to buy more American goods to eliminate the balance of trade deficit. He also said he'd withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Hillary Clinton, speaking at a rally in Duluth, said that she would ensure the USA remains party to the five-nation Iran deal despite Israel's continued objections.
Today, however, life is easier. All editors know that the very last thing one ever does is risk upsetting one's audience. Journalists quickly learn to tell people what they want to hear and not a syllable more. This means the most important facet of modern journalism is to determine what the Agreed Narrative must be (because this is what will most strongly resonate with the audience and thus secure all-important revenues) and then cling to it ever after. Nothing must be permitted to disturb the Agreed Narrative.
Thus art of exclusion has become nearly as important as the art of sensationalizing everything.
Let's imagine we're a local newspaper somewhere in Trump Country and that despite this unfortunate fact there are, astonishingly, some people among the general population who are able to read. The local newspaper is part of their community, part of who they feel themselves to be. When a local boy shows up at Walmart with seventeen AR-15 rifles, twelve Glocks, three Remington 870 shotguns, and a grenade launcher and proceeds to slaughter thirty-two people in the middle of their back-to-school shopping, it's clear there must be no mention of the phrase gun control.
Instead there will be a puff-piece about how the community is gathering to offer up their thoughts and prayers and a couple of sentences about how the local boy was known to be suffering from mental illness and finally the article will point out that after the killer had dispatched those thirty-two people stone dead he was shot in the leg by an off-duty police officer which totally proves that guns save lives, which is why god in his wisdom gave us the Second Amendment.
Conversely, let's imagine a national TV program that appeals to middle-class white liberals. It's obvious the editorial position will be to avoid transgressing whatever Politically Correct shibboleths are presently fashionable and it will take a comfortably predictable stance on every issue that's presented. Thus a school closure will be depicted in terms of the negative impact it will have on the local community and as an act of uncaring civic vandalism on the part of local government.
At no time will any mention be made of the fact that thanks to decades of union-led resistance to even the most rudimentary reforms, academic standards had continued to fall while teachers' benefits continued to rise, effectively bankrupting the County.
One of the many charms of the Agreed Narrative is that it removes any need for boring fact-checking. Even better, it requires little or no effort because all that's necessary is to learn what others who are aiming at the same general audience are saying and writing. A consensus view is therefore easily manufactured simply by copying the narrative wholesale. Once established, the Agreed Narrative becomes truth simply by ensuring that no contradictory information is ever included.
Journalists know that the average person is never going to stir themselves to look up the sources of their copy and potentially discover that these stories are at best infantile distortions and at worst wholly fabricated. Journalists know the average person just wants to be entertained and told what to believe.
The final key to being a journalist is to avoid providing any semblance of context. Nothing spoils a juicy headline or story more than boring old reality. What's more newsworthy: Scientists predict more than fifty billion people will die this winter from covid-19 or A group of statisticians are predicting mass death this winter, using the same model that produced their previous six predictions (which were all wildly wrong).
Amusingly, it is still believed in some circles that the so-called "Fourth Estate" is an essential bulwark against tyranny. According to this delightfully optimistic view, dedicated journalists ensure the good functioning of society by diligently uncovering and revealing malfeasance by the powerful, thus ensuring that wrongdoers are held to account.
In reality of course, journalism has become the predominant means by which liars and frauds succeed in winning votes. It is not a matter of chance that blustering incompetents like Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte, and a long list of other infantile halfwits have all won high office over the last few years. Each and every single one triumphed because journalists dutifully repeated their lies.
Why? Because those lies made better copy than dull boring old facts and truth. Which meant those lies did a better job of grabbing eyeballs and generating revenue.
And that, dear reader, is all that counts. No revenue, no pay cheque for the journalists. Job One is always and forever securing that pay cheque. And so the media promotes the least-capable because they are the most newsworthy.
What's better copy: Trump proclaiming that eating your toenails cures cancer, or a boring article on the details of protein misfolding? What will keep more viewers gawping mindlessly at their screens: Brexiteers claiming that leaving the EU will generate a thousand trillion new jobs overnight, or an interview with an economist who talks about global logistics, trade interdependencies, and the impact of tariffs?
We are the reason that journalists feed us infantile nonsense.
We are the reason the Trumps of this world are voted into office.
Because we just want to be entertained.
And that's why it is so easy to be a journalist these days.
But here's the thing: by pure accident a perfect feedback loop has emerged. Once "news" relies on sensationalism then everything must be sensationalized in order to stand a chance of grabbing attention. So when we hit on some wonderful sensationalist story like "Covid-19 is killing everyone everywhere, we're all doomed!" there's no way out of the loop. Every story has to be about how we're all going to die from coronavirus, because every other story is all about how we're all going to die from coronavirus. Ironically the only way to be heard is to sound like everyone else.
And thus a perfect self-reinforcing loop becomes established and there's no obvious way out.
People don't want to read about facts such as there's no meaningful correlation between infection rate and mortality rate (you can prove this yourself with 5 seconds of searching on Google). People aren't interested in being told that gross infection rate numbers are meaningless because as more people are tested what matters is actually infection rate per thousand tests. Ordinary folk just want mental pablum shoveled into their heads so they can believe something without making any mental effort, just as they consume endless McSlop because it doesn't require any chewing.
Journalists give us what we want, and it's killing us and destroying our societies. If we were smart, we'd ignore the media entirely and do our own primary research.
But we're not smart, and so we have journalists. Who are, in the words of Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel and voiced by the incomparable Roberta Flack:
Killing us softly with their song, killing us softly…
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10 Things We Learned in 2018 (And How They Can Help Your Newsroom)
Center for Media Engagement
S-Town: how it uses narrative techniques
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No, Calgary Herald, That's Not Why We're Mad


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who I wanted to live for.
The one moment I chose ME.
As a beacon to guide my subsequent decisions.
The one moment when you choose YOU.
I can't believe I did it – but I did. I have successfully blogged every day of BlogFEST 2012. Today is the last day and I'm linking in with Journey of Life's prompt: One Moment In My Life. Thank you for all your support, dear readers.
I chose… at the moment…I know God will understand.
Great job Corinne. I'm still catching up on the posts. But it was an awesome experience.
You said it.. 🙂 and I liked the way you summed it all..
hey there stopping by from NaBloPoMo love the site and will be following along all month cannot wait to read what comes next!
Ooh great post, Corinne! I admit it is something I am relearning. It's easy for me to feel guilty, but I know I also need to take care of myself, set my own priorities, and make decisions for ME. If I take care of ME, it would be much easier to help other people.
Yes, I chose ME too. 🙂 And though I don't remember that exact moment, I am highly grateful to it. It changed my life completely.
What a great finale to a blogfest! I do have a moment when I chose ME — that you do too makes me quite happy. 🙂 Great poem.
To love oneself unconditionally is the best one can do to oneself.Without love for self there can never be any love for others. However, there are many people who think otherwise.
Sadly, we're often taught to put the whole world before ourselves, Rama. Taking care of oneself is almost considered selfish. But I learnt that wasn't true and I hope everyone else learns too.
Wonderful lines, Corinne.. and the moment we choose us, is the moment that redefines us. 🙂 For good or for bad.. Good for us, Bad for the judging world.. nevertheless, ALWAYS, always, categorically choose ME. It is not selfish – it is self-respect. And I hope your poem reaches millions.
I chose myself too. And I am glad I did. Had I not, I would have been stagnating as a rotten vegetable.
Only one person can give me the maximum priority in life and thats I! 🙂 Lovely!
Oh es, Jaish. And the sooner we realize that, the happier we'll be and consequently make the world a happier place too.
You are an inspiration, Corinne! You made it! There was never a shred of doubt in my mind that you could. Because, you are comfortable and at ease with the you God created you to be. What a wondrous relief it is to find that path at last where we walk hand-in-hand with Him.
May blessings abound for you as you "choose me" because the Lord chose you!
I made it, Martha. I wonder at how you used to post a meditation every day! 🙂 So you see, dear friend, you are the inspiration!
Yes, the underpinning belief is that God chose us first – that makes all the difference!
You are too kind, my friend! Blessings!
now you are trying poetry?? whats else do you hv up your sleeve, you talented soul?
Look who's talking. I've been so bad about catching up with your posts. Glad to know that you guys are okay! I must have been scary.
YAY Corinne!! Wonderful post. I have enjoyed doing BlogFest with you!
That was beautifully written, how that one moment that you have chosen–yourself– has shined thru who you are today.
Thank you Corrine for participating in the prompt of the day, One Moment in Your Life.
Thank you so much, A. It was a great prompt and I enjoyed responding to it.
wow! corinne, congratulations! i cannot imagine blogging every single day. although i didn't read every single post, i read many of them and they were always well done and interesting or intriguing. living for YOU looks GREAT on YOU!
Kudos for choosing yourself…and congrats…we did it. Boy! am I glad that this blogfest is over?
That one 'Aha Moment' can be very inspiring and enlightening.
Yes, that one Aha-moment can guide us through life.
Ah what a ride… I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every post so much.
I wanted to try a blogathon…but then I felt I blog too extensively (well that is what some people tell me) so I don't know if a blogathon would make sense!
Can surely try… please send. Will try my best!!
Congratulations on your achievement Corinne!
One person's weakness is another person's art, huh? 😉 Thank you all the same, Harleena. I need to learn how to write at length though.
Well done Corinne! I have to admit, I've never attempted to blog more than twice a week. Today's choice was perfect. Choosing to live for oneself and not giving away your power. This is a lesson I keep relearning. Each time the stakes seem to go a little higher. Sending love, my powerful posting sister. Thank you for the gift of you!
Loving oneself is something I converted to and I would wish that for everyone else – especially you.


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PILOTS DROP EIGHTH STRAIGHT Jamestown comes into Newark and wins 14-10 in extra innings
NEWARK, NY (6.10.17) – The Newark Pilots (1-8) fell at home to the Jamestown Jammers (8-2) 14-10 in 11 innings to run their losing streak up to 8 games. Newark took an early 6 nothing lead in the bottom of the first, then added one in the second to go up 7-0. Jamestown scored runs in the third, fourth, and sixth to cut the lead to 7-4. The Pilots put up 2 in the bottom of the eighth to go up 9-4 heading into the ninth. Then the Jammers found a way to tie it up at 9 in the ninth scoring 5 runs on 1 hit, 5 walks, and one big error in the inning.
Peter Battaglia (Niagara) kicked off the scoring in the bottom of the first with a bases clearing 3-run triple. He came around to score on a Tanner Huddleston (Jones County JC) sacrifice fly. Po-Chuan Pan (Fu Jen Catholic) then hit a two-out 2-run double to round out the scoring in the first. The Pilots added a run in the second on a Jonathan Parker (Jones County JC) single to go up 7-0.
Jamestown added a run in the third on a Ben Brookover (UTSA) single. The Jammers got two in the fourth on a John Conti (Canisius) 2-run single. And one in the sixth on a Conti sacrifice bunt to cut the lead to 7-4.
Newark scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to take a 9-4 lead going into the ninth. One run came on a Graham Hackbarth (Pearl River CC) single, and the second run scored on the same play when Center Fielder Skyler Valentine (UTSA) allowed a ball to get under his glove.
The Jammers got to Pilots Closer Jake Bernardo (Fordham) in the top of the ninth after allowing 5 runs on just one hit and 4 walks. Connor Rule (Kansas State), Christian Deaton (Canisius), and Conti walked in a run off of Bernardo. Christ Conley (Canisius) drove in a run with a hit by pitch, and Brookover walked in a run off of Jordan Miller (Coastal Alabama CC).
The two teams exchanged runs in the tenth. Jamestown got theirs on a fielders choice with the bases loaded by Deaton, and Newark scored on a single by Po-Chuan Pan.
It was 10-10 heading into the eleventh when the Jammers put the game out of reach. They scored two runs off of both Miller and John Balliet (Orange Coast CC) to go up 14-10, they would win by the same score. Jimmy Standohar (Mercyhurst) scored on a single by Chris Estrada (UTSA), Brookover and Estrada then came around to score on the same play thanks to errors by the Center Fielder D'Marcus Guillory (Motlow State CC) and Shortstop Tyler Odekirk (Irvine Valley CC). They added their fourth run on the inning on a bases loaded walk to Conti.
Connor Ryan (Mercyhurst) picks up the win in relief, throwing 3 innings, 2 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts and 1 earned run. Miller picks up the blown save and the loss for the Pilots, going 1.1 innings, 0 hits, 3 runs (2er), 5 walks and 1 strikeout. Peng-Fei Wang (Vanung University) took the no-decision after tossing 5 innings, 4 hits, 3 runs (1er), 3 walks, and 4 strikeouts.
Brookover went 5-5 with a double, 2 runs batted in and a run scored, he also walked twice. Deaton went 1-2 with 5 walks, 2 runs batted in and 2 runs scored, and Conti drove in 5 runs for the Jammers. Odekirk scored 3 runs for the Pilots, Battaglia scored 2 and drove in 3. Pan went 3-5 with 2 doubles and 3 runs batted in.
For the full boxscore click http://baseball.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?
gameid=416242.
The Pilots be at Geneva tomorrow night for a game against the Red Wings. The
Jammers are off tomorrow and will be back here at Colburn Park Thursday night.
For more information please contact Leslie Ohmann, General Manager for the Newark Pilots, at (315) 576-6710 or Leslie@newarkpilots.com.
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The Great Recession devastated many industries, but health information technology was not one of them.
The stimulus package Congress and President Obama approved in 2009 included $29 billion in incentives for U.S. hospitals and clinics to adopt electronic health records (EHR) systems. The legislation ignited a period of explosive growth for companies that develop software for managing those records.
A 2010 White House report on using technology to improve healthcare envisioned an ideal setup in which all systems are "interoperable and intercommunicating, so that a single authorized query can locate a patient's records." The list of leaders whom the report credits for their input includes executives from two leading EHR vendors: Watertown, MA-based Athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) and Epic Systems, based in the Madison, WI, area.
Five years later, the industry still seems nowhere close to achieving the functionality described in the White House report. Epic is among the companies chastised by critics who consider it a "closed platform."
"It can be challenging and costly for hospitals [that use Epic] to interface their EHR with the clinical or billing software of other companies," according to a 2014 report from the Rand Corporation.
Given that unfavorable assessment, it may come as a surprise that Epic was rated as an industry leader in overall interoperability, according to a report published earlier this year by Klas, a market research firm.
Observers are naturally starting to ask whether the $29 billion was money well spent. Anecdotes abound from people inside and outside the healthcare industry on the headaches that result from incompatible systems.
A key question is whether vendors are deliberately walling off their systems in an attempt to add customers. In June, Connecticut became the first state to pass a law banning the use of EHRs to block the flow of data. Politico reported that independent practices are accusing large hospital groups—including Yale New Haven Health System, an Epic client—of using their records systems to coerce the smaller groups, who might be on different systems or still using paper records, into joining their networks. Epic could not be reached for comment regarding the law.
By contrast, the Klas report found that information blocking, which it defines as intentionally refusing to share data, is rare.
Still, sectors like telecommunications and banking are light-years ahead of healthcare when it comes to data sharing, something industry-leading companies are now acknowledging by launching cross-vendor networks known as health information exchanges (HIEs). In 2013, Kansas City, MO-based Cerner (NASDAQ: CERN), Athenahealth, and five of their peers formed CommonWell Health Alliance. According to the association's website, its goal is "to drive forward ubiquitous interoperability."
Noticeably absent from CommonWell is Epic, which belongs to Carequality, another vendor collective. On Monday, Carequality announced it has published an interoperability framework, which it said is an alternative to "one-off legal agreements" that have heretofore been necessary any time organizations wished to share information.
Last month, during a panel discussion at a healthcare technology conference in Madison, Bob Robke, vice president of interoperability at Cerner, invited Epic to join CommonWell.
"We have a lot invested in CommonWell, and we'd love for Epic to be part of that," Robke said. "That would guarantee [its] success."
Peter DeVault, Epic's interoperability director, did not say whether it would join. Instead, he explained that Epic will proceed based on the wishes and needs of its customers, and that scrapping its interoperability work in favor of CommonWell would be "going backwards."
"The way we operate is our customers say who they want to connect to," DeVault said. "If they want to connect to CommonWell, we can make it happen. We have nothing against CommonWell."
He went on to say that there will always be a need for multiple systems.
"This is the world we will always be living in," DeVault said. "There's no magical future down the road in which there's one HIE called CommonWell."
The focus of vendors should be to "make sure that Carequality, CommonWell, … Next Page »
Jeff Buchanan is the editor of Xconomy Seattle. Email: jbuchanan@xconomy.com Follow @_jeffbuchanan
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Elite Defenders
The current "strategic incapacitation" approach to policing protests can have a chilling effect not only on protesters in the streets on a given day but on whole movements.
The greatest violence at every convention in memory has been perpetrated by the state.
Photo by Erik Drost.
On April Fool's Day, Republican operative and former Trump advisor Roger Stone took to Twitter and the neocon, conspiracy-ridden airways of the Infowars talk show to call for mass protests by Trump supporters at this year's Republican National Convention in Cleveland. At that point, it seemed not just possible but even likely that party elites might try to wrest the nomination from Trump on procedural grounds. "Only mass demonstrations and a deft maneuvering inside the hall will prevent" it, Stone said, and promised "a reverse Saul Alinsky . . . These are our Days of Rage."
The absurdity of a dandyish GOP hit man appropriating the Weathermen and invoking Saul Alinsky—who was utterly opposed to mass demonstrations—prompts laughter that lodges in the throat. By April, it had already become clear that nothing was truly funny this election season. Even the Bernie Baby, who had become a micro-meme by appearing at rallies in a frowsy Bernie wig, had died of SIDS.
The number of Trump supporters who took up #DaysofRage was small, and that particular movement-building moment faded after Cruz withdrew. But that didn't spell the end of the hot and heavy romance between the media and the prospect of violence at this week's Cleveland convention.
Throughout the spring, a steady stream of stories predicted violence in Cleveland's streets. There was, at one point, an explosion of support for a petition to allow Ohio's "open carry" firearms law to remain in place inside the Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention is occurring. In March Trump said, "I think you'd have riots" if his nomination were blocked at the convention, and a few days later, the Cleveland Police Department began a shopping spree for military-grade riot-control gear, made possible by the $50 million grant that Congress authorizes for every convention-hosting city. It almost seemed like Cleveland was taking Trump's threats seriously, although in fact in the rapid militarization was unexceptional: since September 11, nominating conventions have been designated as "National Security Special Events." This automatically brings in the FBI, the Secret Service, federal surveillance capabilities, along with major federal dollars for the purchase of the accouterments of the military state. For Cleveland, this included, among other things, two thousand Elite Defender Riot Control suits and the same number of retractable steel batons.
All of this occurred before this summer's spasms of actual violence in Orlando, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, Dallas—an American road atlas of killings. But one thing that has remained consistent is the media's use of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention as the historical analogy for what might happen in Cleveland. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Nation have all used it multiple times: "[S]treet riots contributed to Hubert Humphrey's loss," went one Times story this month. The Washington Post: "[The Republicans' convention] is going to be as unhinged as the Democrats' in 1968."
These allusions to an event most media consumers didn't attend and many weren't alive for haven't changed as the summer's body count has climbed. And more's the pity. Because recent events have made Chicago 1968 truly relevant, even oracular—but not for the reasons that most people think.
The gist of the Chicago narrative invoked by the media is this: Things got really ugly in 1968 and protesters got beaten. The problem—really the extraordinary sloppiness—of this protagonist-free analysis is that it leaves out the fact that the perpetrators of the worst violence were, by all accounts, the police. It erases, too, an ongoing debate about whether this violence was caused by individual cops or ordered, organized, and authorized by municipal authorities including Chicago's Mayor Daley himself. Speculation about whether Cleveland will get violent has centered almost entirely on whether protesters will act out: whether pro- and anti-Trump camps will duke it out in the streets the way that they have at Trump rallies throughout the year. Using Chicago as the reference point for this speculation suggests that all violence is created equal. Equating protester-on-protester violence with police-on-protester violence is a bloody corollary to All Lives Matter. The history of significant convention protests tells us that violence occurs not when protesters seek it, but when the state feels there is a growing movement that it is imperative to suppress.
1968 saw Hubert Humphrey arriving, not unlike Trump, with the delegates to secure the nomination but neither the confidence nor the physical presence of a major champion. Humphrey hadn't entered a single primary. He was Lyndon Johnson's man, having become a candidate only after the sitting president declined to run for reelection.
The protests happening outside the convention were the result of months of planning by the Yippies and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (the "Mobe"). There had been real debates about whether to organize anything at all: McCarthy and RFK—both antiwar—had also declared their candidacies, and in the early months before the August convention, the Mobe in particular had been divided over the wisdom of protesting in Chicago given the possibility that these candidates might co-opt their rallies, making them about a single war instead of the entire American imperial project, the racism and oppression peddled overseas and at home.
Johnson announced that he wouldn't seek reelection on March 31, 1968. On April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped out of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis and was assassinated. In the days that followed, America's cities filled with citizens gripped by grief and rage. Many of them were people of color, though not all. In Chicago, the streets began to fill soon after the news hit. The initial activities were peaceful, but in the forty-eight hours that followed, there was rioting and looting, and vast swaths of West Madison Street burned.
The Chicago Police Department was, at that time, still guided by the principles of its reformist former superintendent, O.W. Wilson, who had retired in 1967 after systematically working to increase the number of non-white police officers on the force and establishing a departmental norm of overlooking minor violations of the law during protests.
After the April 1968 riots, Chicago's Mayor Daley went up in a helicopter to survey the damage, and by the time he landed, Wilson's work was undone. The charred city blocks were an affront to Daley's leadership, evidence that his police and fire departments had been emasculated—and nothing seems to incite violence like feeling unmanned. After the aerial tour, Daley announced that his police would no longer look the other way when protesters skirted the edge of the law. They'd "shoot to kill" arsonists, he declared. When it came to looters, the order was to shoot "to cripple or maim."
The police force that filled the Chicago streets three months later, when the convention took place, in August 1968, was composed of men who may have been sincerely afraid for their lives on West Madison Street. They had heard rumors of Black Panther snipers set up on rooftops to mow them down. They had been told by their leader that the earlier riots had happened because they had been too tolerant toward angry, but largely unarmed, people in the streets. They were told that nothing less than the honor of the city itself—their proud hometown—depended on their keeping order.
Whether on orders or spontaneously, many members of this police force responded by using extreme force on the protesters they encountered at the convention. They did so after a series of violent protests focused on American racism and in the context of the threat of black gunmen out for their lives.
This isn't what the media meant when they wondered, back in April, whether Cleveland would be like Chicago. Despite the events of the past few weeks, it's not what most of them mean when they make the comparison now.
1968 is not the only convention that should come to mind in preparing for this year's events. Philadelphia, where the Democratic National Convention will be held in a week's time, was the site of the 2000 Republican Convention ("R2K," as it was known) where much of today's police playbook for dealing with convention-related protest was debuted, under the leadership of then–Police Commissioner John Timoney (who now provides security advice to the monarchy of Bahrain).
In Crashing the Party, a recent, necessary history of R2K, long-time activist Kris Hermes reviews the characteristics of different eras of police-protest engagement that have been mapped out by scholars of the field. The response to Chicago 1968 happened in the era of "escalated force," a paradigm in which law enforcement was encouraged to use as much violence as necessary to disperse crowds. Beginning in the 1980s and informed by backlash against COINTELPRO–era infiltration and surveillance tactics, a new strategy emerged. Sociologists Clark McPhail, David Schweingruber, and John McCarthy have dubbed this approach "negotiated management" and argue that it was characterized by more open, even collegial communication with activists, increased use of protest permits, less violence, and fewer arrests. But 2000 ushered in the new and ongoing era of "strategic incapacitation"—a term coined by Patrick Gilham and John Noakes, who associate this strategy with, as Hermes writes, "neutralizing (rather than tolerating) free expression" and using aggressive tactics before and during protests to undermine demonstrations. These include entrapment, infiltration, elevated bails and charges, preemptive arrests of known or suspected leaders of activist movements, and extensive restrictions on the spaces where protesters can gather and the routes along which they can move.
All of these tactics were in play at R2K in 2000. The convention took place from July 31 to August 3. On August 1, police used a baseless warrant to raid the warehouse where protesters had been preparing puppets and banners for a carefully planned series of themed protests (poverty, health care, "criminal injustice") set to take place over the course of the convention. The police destroyed the contents of the warehouse, so that the activists were left largely prop-less and banner-less, making it easier for the city to substantiate its subsequent claims that the activists had no purpose out in the streets except causing mayhem. Police infiltrators, who had joined the activists prior to the raid—painting signs, attending meetings—later drove a vanload of protesters onto a median strip so that the city of Philadelphia could arrest them.
The protests continued regardless and were accompanied by mass arrests and the strategic use of elevated charges and elevated bail. Also on August 1, Kate Sorensen, a veteran organizer and marshal for the protest against the criminal justice system was arrested and charged with ten felonies. Her bail was set at $1 million. She would ultimately spend ten days in jail, much of it in solitary confinement. Other Philly activists were also targeted—picked up off the street whether or not they were attending protests. Many of the activists arrested opted for court and jail solidarity, choosing not to post bail and to fight their charges in courtrooms rather than accepting reduced pleas, an exhausting process that dragged on for months and in some instances years after the protest was over.
Some of what happened in Philadelphia also happened in Chicago. Activist groups were infiltrated, and violence was instigated by undercover agents who then stepped back and let the protesters following their lead take the blame. But what has changed is as important as what has stayed the same: surveillance is far more sophisticated now, and has been accepted as somehow necessary in the post–September 11 era. "Protester" and "terrorist" have been collapsed into a single category that justifies the use of any means necessary to keep the public safe.
For many months, the assumption in the comparisons between this week's convention and Chicago '68 has been that the police force and the country as a whole are better, less racist, less violent than they were back in 1968.
The most recent events have dispensed with this supposition. In the wake of the shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, the Cleveland Patrolman's Association implored the governor to suspend the state's "Open Carry" law during the convention; in the days before the convention kicked off, as police thronged the street, some reportedly covered their badge numbers—a strategy for minimizing identification and culpability—with black tape, saying it was "in solidarity with Dallas."
Well before this, though, Cleveland had a history of excessive use of police force that made it a questionable venue for a convention. In May 2014, two black Clevelanders, Timothy Brown and Malissa Williams, were in a car that backfired as it drove away from a traffic stop. That sound startled the police and prompted a car chase involving upwards of sixty cop cars. It ended only after Michael Brelo, a police officer, plastered himself on the windshield of the backfiring car and emptied his gun into the passengers' bodies. On July 8 of that year, the Republican National Committee recommended Cleveland for its next political convention. Tamir Rice had, at that point, less than five months to live.
The possibility of another "active shooter" has, finally, made the media slightly less bloodthirsty in its speculations about violence in the streets. Barring another catastrophic outbreak of lethal force, the greatest danger in Cleveland this week is that the police response, having grown ever more sophisticated in recent decades, will fracture the movements and slow the momentum that have been building this summer.
In 2016, as in 1968, the rising tide of historical events has mooted the question of whether or not it's wise to protest at the nominating conventions. In both cases, the killings of black men sparked outrage that seemed to demand a presence in the streets. No major political leader or candidate has been killed in this campaign season—and let us all pray it stays this way. But the outright violence of recent months plus the hatred espoused by the Republican's presumptive nominee have no parallel in recent memory.
In 1968, and in 2000, the sense of urgency and the momentum leading up to the convention protests was not lost on law enforcement. The anti-protest playbook debuted in Philly was developed precisely because there was a growing, successful global justice movement. There were connections between the protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle 1999, the "Jubilee 2000" demonstrations to drop global debt in April 2000, and the global AIDS treatment activist movement that, just weeks before R2K, took to the streets in a historic march demanding AIDS drugs for Africa. This momentum was dangerous, and so it was not allowed to develop.
In 2016, momentum is building again, and the primary focus is on the institutional racism that manifests itself clearly and lethally in this country's policing. This summer we've seen the steady growth of Black Lives Matter; the mobilization, post-Orlando, of LGBT activists for gun control; Latinos and Muslims and women standing up and fighting back against Trump's divisive rhetoric. (Events have moved so fast that the media all but missed the crucial moment when Black Lives Matter in the Bay Area withdrew from the local Pride parade because of the increased security presence prompted by Orlando. They were, they said, more afraid of the police than the threats the police were supposed to be protecting them against.)
The current "strategic incapacitation" approach to policing protests can have a chilling effect not only on protesters in the streets on a given day but on whole movements. Not only has Cleveland placed a variety of extreme restrictions on the locations and ways in which people can protest this week, it's offered the Cleveland Police Department at least one training by an expert on the infiltration of "dangerous" protest organizations. Activist groups have responded with their own rules for "security culture"—sharing as little information as possible with people they don't know, organizing in tight cells, and so on. At an event like a convention that draws protesters from all over the country, this works against movement building and the safety of individuals.
The ACLU has warned that people who get arrested without being tied to a group that has legal support and dedicated observers could find themselves in the system for days. These current police strategies are not aimed at containing rowdies once they get a little out of control but, rather, at sapping activist organizations well before the people are in the streets. Cleveland activists have reported "door knocks" from the FBI. Even rumors of these types of activities can discourage new protesters from joining movements and turning out.
It's ugly and weird and hard to look away, but the fact of the matter is that the greatest violence at every convention in memory has been perpetrated by the state. The police are the agents but not the ultimate source of this violence. This inconvenient truth has been written out of the official historical record over and over again—Chicago 1968 and Philadelphia 2000 are just two examples. And so the warning for protesters heading to Cleveland and for those watching from afar is simply this: if physical violence ensues in the streets, the story will be distorted. If you are watching from afar, be incredulous. If you are in the streets: pay attention. Or consider this: George Lakey, an activist who has raised concerns about the utility of protesting conventions, has suggested that the only worthwhile aim for activists in Cleveland is to use it as a learning lab for how to deal with unpredictable and escalating force: Go to Cleveland to practice, not to preach.
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Confidence Continues to Climb for Small and Midsize Businesses to Pre-Pandemic Levels
CEOs making hiring plans despite being realistic about slower timing and pace of recovery
Confidence in the economy among small and midsize business CEOs rose to pre-pandemic levels, scoring an 88.0 in the Q4 2020 Vistage CEO Confidence Index, up from the low of 65.5 recorded in Q2. However, economic fallout due to COVID-19 is still on the forefront of SMBs' minds nationwide, with 76% of respondents saying the economy recently worsened.
"Despite the strong overall gain, few CEOs believe the current state of the economy had recovered to anywhere near last year's performance. Importantly, CEOs held much more favorable expectations about the outlook for the national economy, although the pace of those expected gains has significantly slowed. Moreover, the country now faces a horrendous increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths as well as the arrival of vaccines that could eradicate the viral threat over the next year. Renewed lockdowns and other restrictions on businesses in the months ahead could worsen conditions before they experience a lasting and robust recovery," said Dr. Richard Curtin, research associate professor at the University of Michigan, who analyzed the data.
The spread of COVID-19 continues to postpone economic recovery, with most CEOs anticipating that recovery will take at least six more months. Just over half (51%) of CEOs expected recovery would take greater than six months in Q2 2020, a figure that increased to 59% in Q3 and held steady at 58% in Q4. The most promising indication that small and midsize businesses are preparing for a robust recovery is their more expansive plans for hiring and fixed investment spending, both of which posted significant fourth-quarter gains, restoring these plans to their pre-pandemic levels.
While there is still some uncertainty about the recovery of the economy, hiring plans are extremely optimistic for the next year with 64% of CEOs planning to expand their workforce in the next 12 months, a 12-point increase from Q3. Forty percent also say they are looking to increase investment expenditures in the next year, up from 36% in Q3.
"While news of multiple successful vaccines gives small businesses hope for the next year, the impacts of COVID will be felt for a while," said Joe Galvin, Chief Research Officer at Vistage. "2021 will be a rebuilding year with businesses beginning to hire and invest again in hopes of growing their business."
When asked how long their cash reserves would last, the same underlying pattern emerged: the proportion of firms who said their cash reserves would last for six months or longer was nearly identical from the 3rd quarter (66%) to the 4th quarter (67%) surveys. "The new stimulus package should help those SMBs that have been hardest hit," said Galvin.
Survey highlights include:
76% of CEOs believe the economy has worsened compared with a year ago.
59% believe the economy will improve in the next 12 months and 24% believe it will remain the same.
67% believe that their firm's sales revenues will increase in the next 12 months and 55% believe their firm's profitability will improve.
64% expect their total number of employees will increase and 29% believe it will remain the same.
22% of CEOs say their revenues have increased due to the Coronavirus pandemic and 64% say it has decreased.
40% of respondents say their cash reserves will last more than a year and 27% say they will last 6-12 months.
43% say that the economy will begin to recover in the next 6-12 months.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise, 62% say they are taking steps to address workplace safety by communicating expectations for employee behavior outside of the workplace.
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