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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-10 06:34 PM
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Journalism Warning Labels
Edited on Sat Aug-14-10 06:35 PM by kpete
Journalism Warning Labels
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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.
http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/warnings.pdf




and my favorite:


more:
http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-10 06:35 PM
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1. Ha!
I saw that earlier.

I love this idea!
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-14-10 06:36 PM
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2. That's some epic win right there!
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