But ‘truthiness’ cannot be enough for news media, especially in this age of accusations of #FakeNews 52/60
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I admire journalists immensely and am sympathetic to newsroom cutbacks that have made reporting more challenging 53/60
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@NYTimes reporter@candersonSTO does incredible work. But why not pick up the phone@Metmuseum Islamic curators S Canby or M Rugiadi 54/603 replies 18 retweets 125 likesShow this thread -
Or any of the
@Metmuseum’s knowledgeable textile curatorial staff 55/60https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/conservation-and-scientific-research/textile-conservation/staff-list …1 reply 10 retweets 88 likesShow this thread -
And when
#medieval & particularly#Viking age is used as ideological weapon by#whitesupremacists/ 56/604 replies 22 retweets 107 likesShow this thread -
/& scholars like
@jonathanhsy@jeffreyjcohen@dorothyk98@Lollardfish are risking careers to fight#whitesupremacist appropriation 57/601 reply 23 retweets 143 likesShow this thread -
& not just
#whitesupremacists use#medieval to further contemporary agendas: same tactic used by#ISIS,#alQaeda who kill thousands 58/603 replies 27 retweets 121 likesShow this thread -
Then it matters that we get this right. Media can report on diversity of
#GlobalMiddleAges w/out trumped-up scholarship@onthemedia 59/602 replies 36 retweets 188 likesShow this thread -
But we need news media to be our allies, consult experts, and get facts right. 60/60/FIN
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Big thanks to everyone who has obsessed w/me this week!
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archaeology/history. The question that @DrSyrin pointed out in a thread--why if N. European burial materials you can do announce someone is
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