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Robin Schaufler's avatar

Beautiful ideas. I'd like to see some examples of positive journalism that aren't full of big business greenwashing like buying an EV and choosing a "green" supplier on your energy utility, and also aren't the outdated miniature green tips like buying your veggies at the farmers market, Meatless Mondays, and which numbers of plastic can be recycled in your area. Something that encourages deeper life changes. Would Dougald Hine's podcast and substack be an example?

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

For me the best part was the line about being the driver of the bus that picks up all the people waiting for someone to come collect them and get ready to do something constructive.

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Word salad (ing) (munching)'s avatar

Shooting from the hip here:

The podcasts that do live stream with chat, are a party of none, but the network of many.

Maybe some can recall how the risk of TV had ‘live’ TV which was revolutionary because there was every chance natural journalistic skill would spill the beans, this was removed with electronic delay techniques for broadcast, only to develop documentaries of long script, that were predominantly boring to the sensationalist viewing, the kind of boring in Noam Chomsky where an articulate rendering of extreme clarity, was not digestible in the speed of our misplaced desires, so much so, conspiracy is the only thing on offer.

Of course it takes courage to go live, but the main event is often the conversation, the ready administrators to cut the chaff, yet not the hours of mental preparation for the perfect performance.

I’ll drop such a character here, who talks about everything pertinent, as a sort of free spirit reading the chat and the chat talking to itself in equal measure of hosting a party, this character is already in your wheelhouse.

@Andrewism

https://youtube.com/@andrewism?si=pyR6jqvdFqQ7_1VM

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Content Carrier ('CC')'s avatar

Heyyyy, my kinda topic.

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