on January 28, 2014
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN WRITE
From being in an award-winning high school drill team, I can tell you that in life, there are four kinds of people.
There are people in the parade; there are people watching the parade; there are people trying to disrupt the parade; and there are people saying, “What parade?” The last group is representative of Carrie Moss’ Matrix line, “Your men are already dead.”
The third group of people is the people we fight because they produce the lies and disinformation.
The second group of parade people are those who need and want education, else they wouldn’t be watching the parade.
We, as patients and especially models, are in the parade. Since we are models and patients, and not stoners [see bottom link story] we must lead the parade to provide for the proper direction.
The proper direction is important because
• We seek to eliminate the stigma surrounding medical use of cannabis
• We want to educate that being sick is not necessarily looking sick. Because many of us are finer than frog hair does not mean we are not patients
• Models are sponsored to endorse but reporters interview and get paid for integrity reports. We are the real FDA for the MMJ.
• Patients must never be lumped into the catch-all bin of ‘stoners.’
• The Usual Subjects (organizations/mags/commercial ventures) all speak capitalism. We speak CANNABIS. They are water and water dries. We are oil and coat.
• Being real is the new ‘in’ as people are recognizing media manipulation
• We speak for and to the youth, because the youth are always the future
• We are the joint of hope that didn’t fall out of Pandora’s Box
• We reserve the right of HIPAA not to divulge our illness diagnosis under duress
There are a few tricks to reporting the news technically.
1. Always use spell check.
2. Read vocally, if possible, the report you have just written. This will reveal phrasing, typos, and flow.
3. If your report is edited from what you originally wrote, read the new version and see why it was edited the way it was.
4. Always double check Proper Nouns. People need the proper spelling to fact check you, and that’s what we want.
5. Try to find the original source of the story to draw from.
6. Live event, keep ears open for a story scoop or new source.
7. Make one point at a time and move to a conclusion.
8. If cut ‘n’ pasting a mainstream/Usual Suspects story, edit out words like ‘may’ and ‘could’ to sharpen the story point you want to make.
9. Credit your source either by mention or link, depending on how much original is used.
10. Find and use a good picture lead-in. Peter Griffin is right, visual aids are a must.
11. Put in all the facts you can, including videos/link if you mention its existence in a story.
For the last week or so, various stories have been posted at the [middle link]NEWS illustrating each of the points listed above. For further illustration of story points look at top link, especially the one not on the list, No. 12. Be unique from others in story selection; you already are as 420Nurses.
Editor's note: from writing here that I have read, many of these notes are already being followed. All interns take what you need.
From being in an award-winning high school drill team, I can tell you that in life, there are four kinds of people.
There are people in the parade; there are people watching the parade; there are people trying to disrupt the parade; and there are people saying, “What parade?” The last group is representative of Carrie Moss’ Matrix line, “Your men are already dead.”
The third group of people is the people we fight because they produce the lies and disinformation.
The second group of parade people are those who need and want education, else they wouldn’t be watching the parade.
We, as patients and especially models, are in the parade. Since we are models and patients, and not stoners [see bottom link story] we must lead the parade to provide for the proper direction.
The proper direction is important because
• We seek to eliminate the stigma surrounding medical use of cannabis
• We want to educate that being sick is not necessarily looking sick. Because many of us are finer than frog hair does not mean we are not patients
• Models are sponsored to endorse but reporters interview and get paid for integrity reports. We are the real FDA for the MMJ.
• Patients must never be lumped into the catch-all bin of ‘stoners.’
• The Usual Subjects (organizations/mags/commercial ventures) all speak capitalism. We speak CANNABIS. They are water and water dries. We are oil and coat.
• Being real is the new ‘in’ as people are recognizing media manipulation
• We speak for and to the youth, because the youth are always the future
• We are the joint of hope that didn’t fall out of Pandora’s Box
• We reserve the right of HIPAA not to divulge our illness diagnosis under duress
There are a few tricks to reporting the news technically.
1. Always use spell check.
2. Read vocally, if possible, the report you have just written. This will reveal phrasing, typos, and flow.
3. If your report is edited from what you originally wrote, read the new version and see why it was edited the way it was.
4. Always double check Proper Nouns. People need the proper spelling to fact check you, and that’s what we want.
5. Try to find the original source of the story to draw from.
6. Live event, keep ears open for a story scoop or new source.
7. Make one point at a time and move to a conclusion.
8. If cut ‘n’ pasting a mainstream/Usual Suspects story, edit out words like ‘may’ and ‘could’ to sharpen the story point you want to make.
9. Credit your source either by mention or link, depending on how much original is used.
10. Find and use a good picture lead-in. Peter Griffin is right, visual aids are a must.
11. Put in all the facts you can, including videos/link if you mention its existence in a story.
For the last week or so, various stories have been posted at the [middle link]NEWS illustrating each of the points listed above. For further illustration of story points look at top link, especially the one not on the list, No. 12. Be unique from others in story selection; you already are as 420Nurses.
Editor's note: from writing here that I have read, many of these notes are already being followed. All interns take what you need.
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