{"id":180908,"date":"2016-11-28T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/28\/props-to-the-associated-press\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:42:00","slug":"props-to-the-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/28\/props-to-the-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Props to the Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have just <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ap.org\/behind-the-news\/writing-about-the-alt-right\">updated their definition of &#8220;alt-right&#8221; to say that it means racist dirtbags<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Recent developments have put the so-called \u201calt-right\u201d movement in the news. They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacism.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAlt-right\u201d (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the \u201cself-described\u201d or \u201cso-called alt-right\u201d in stories discussing what the movement says about itself.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters\u2019 actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the AP&#8217;s position on copyright is maximalist and counter-productive, (they act as if fair use excerpting does not exist) this is a very worthwhile update to their standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have just updated their definition of &#8220;alt-right&#8221; to say that it means racist dirtbags: Recent developments have put the so-called \u201calt-right\u201d movement in the news. They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacism.\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201cAlt-right\u201d (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[867,874,898,875],"class_list":["post-180908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-journalism","tag-language","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}