✖ Via Tom Scott: Journalism Warning Labels
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well. (more)
About Tom Scott:
Tom Scott is a geek comedian. He won the 2008 Kevin Greening Award for Creativity at the Student Radio Awards, once got in trouble with the Cabinet Office for his version of their Preparing for Emergencies site, and has been described as a “sometime internet funny man” by The Register.
He runs the British part of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and accidentally got elected as president of his students’ union after running as “Mad Cap’n Tom”.
His work has been shown on BBC One, Channel 4, and at the paraflows net-art exhibition in Vienna. (About)
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• Aug 22, 2010 link notes tagged: technology communication critic humor media integrity news journalism information bias judgment health mind