Evening all,
My views are that the approach taken during the community news was OK:
* The original comments are available should anyone wish to follow them up
* As already stated, the commenter can make a show if they wish to
elaborate
* I firmly believe the presenters of the community news have the right
to choose whether to repeat comments verbatim, or to summarise them,
as long as it is clear when they have been summarised. No one has
the right to put words into the presenter's mouth, without the
presenter having the right to refuse to say them.
Best regards,
Paul
On 04/07/2025 21:19, Ken Fallon via Hpr wrote:
Hi All,
For a normal show, we expect hosts to mark shows that may be sensitive
in nature to include a "Parental Advisory" as described in "hpr2210 ::
On Freedom of Speech and Censorship"
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2210/index.html. See "hpr1309 ::
Assisted Human Reproduction"
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1309/index.html for an example.
Nothing offensive is in the notes, or summaries but the show includes
sufficient warning to give Parents, Guardians and people likely to be
triggered by the topic, time to turn it off.
During the last months community news recording, I felt the words
[mass maceration / mass suffocation / mass gassing] are not
appropriate for reading out in the Community News, and so limited my
comment to the giving the spirit of the "the fate of male chicks in
the egg industry is horrific".
The commenter has objected and feels that I should have read out the
comments. Therefore I am putting the decision to the community.
Does the policy allow for the Janitors to skip sections of the
comments while reading the Community News ?
The policy reads:
https://hackerpublicradio.org/about.html#not_moderated states
"The audio of your show will not be moderated." ... We do not vet,
edit, moderate or in any way censor any of the audio you submit, we
trust you to do that. ...Please note that this only relates to the
audio you upload. The rest of the meta-data, are managed by the HPR
Community, and may be edited."
My view is that the Community News is a welcoming show, where new
hosts come to get feedback on their episode, and for many who use it
to decide which shows to download. The spirit of the comment was
conveyed, and reading it verbatim would have required wrapping the
episode in a "Parental Advisory", reducing it's download appeal, and
as such the community as a whole would suffer.
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