Please check the mod logs. I submitted a story to the US News group linking to an official statement by the Ohio House of Representatives on their decision to not respect a recent election result enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution. I linked to their actual statement at the Ohio government web site. That is a canonical source. And it was removed for not being actual news because it didn’t link to a news publisher.

This is an insane result. One no actual news organization would ever choose to do. They link to canonical sources.

I am objecting to this in the support group because I don’t know where else to go. The issue here is not about my submission, it is about journalistic standards. This is not acceptable.

EDIT Because there remains a dispute witj admins on what constitutes proper sourcing of documents published by a state government legislative body…

Please contact the main administrative offices of Poynter, The Columbia School of Journalism, or The Neiman School at Harvard and say that you run an online news forum, explain the particulars of this issue, and ask if a professor of journalism or other professional in referral is willing to give an informed opinion on proper practices of sourcing in this situation. Please get an external reality check by a professional in the field. Not for this submission, as that’s water past the bridge, but to craft a reasonable policy going forward for future submissions.

I believe if you’re concise and respectful and do not debate the individual, you’ll have no trouble getting an informed opinion.

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    9·
    11 months ago

    Not at all, this is literally what actual news sites do.

    Go to CNN, AP, Reuters, anyone- Do they just reprint sources wholesale, or do they summarize key points, give context, give counterpoints, and omit self-serving partisan speech? Obviously the latter. That is news reporting.

    There are TONS of dumb political statements put out by politicians all over the world every day, and most of them go unreported-on, because they’re not newsworthy.

    The fact that these politicians stated the intent to do this stuff, is news. You can convey that actual news in a couple sentences, which is about how much the AP quoted from the GOP statement. All the rest of the GOP’s statement is not news, and posting it is, as I said, political amplification.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Of course they do more than just reprint raw sources. They have to provide value. They’re in the business of news reports. That doesn’t mean that the original sources aren’t news.

      The fact that these politicians stated the intent to do this stuff, is news. You can convey that actual news in a couple sentences

      So you’re saying it IS news. It seems what you want is commentary, which isn’t news. Or opinion, which isn’t news.