By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson
The FutureBook: Orna Ross, the Pudding Would Like a Word
At The FutureBook:
What’s important is for all of us to remember that our words, our expressions of opinion, can be hurtful, wrong, unfair, damaging. It’s incumbent upon us to be careful.
A tip from the long-lost arts of journalism: None of us knows what another is thinking, feeling, believing, or wishing. A good journalist never writes, “The police believe the Pudding was one egg short of a true Yorkshire.” Instead, he writes, “The police say they believe the eggs were not fresh but stale.”
Had Ross taken a moment to write, “Porter says he wishes this self-publishing lark would just stop,” she might have realized that she’d never heard the Pudding say any such thing.
Read the full article at TheFutureBook.com
Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends by Victoria Noe
It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The second of a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends, revisits a time when people with AIDS were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red ribbons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the difference: not just caregiving or memorializing, but changing the way society confronts the medical establishment and government to demand action.