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The Tricky Intersection Of Politics And Philanthropy
Thursday, August 9, 2012
SAN DIEGO The worlds of politics and philanthropy collided earlier this summer when the San Diego City Council approved a controversial plan to revamp parts of Balboa Park. The man behind the plan is billionaire Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs. Some praised Jacobs for his involvement. Others blasted him for using his money to get what he wants. But Jacobs is certainly not the only philanthropist to weigh in on the city's future.
Aired 8/9/12 on KPBS News.
Like many other cities, San Diego is increasingly relying on public-private partnerships to help get things done around the city. That's raising some difficult questions for everybody involved.
Philanthropy has long played a role in shaping San Diego, whether the gifts come from everyday citizens or bigger donors. And recent talks about renovating Balboa Park have started a discussion about the role philanthropy plays in local government.
Since San Diego was founded, the names of influential men have graced buildings around town, from the Horton Theater to the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. But University of San Diego history professor Iris Engstrand said back in those days, people didn't have a lot of extra money, so they weren't really philanthropists like we think of them today. Rather, they were businessmen looking to make a profit. She said the first real San Diego philanthropist was a woman, Ellen Browning Scripps.
"She spent most of her time trying to figure out ways to help the city and the natural history museum," Engstrand said. "Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Scripps Hospital, Bishops School."
Today the name Scripps can be easily found around town, along with the names Copley, Prebys and, of course, Jacobs. But while these high profile donors receive a lot of attention, Charlene Pryor with the San Diego Foundation said the majority of giving comes from everyday people supporting causes close to their hearts. She said that's evident in the connections the Foundation makes between people and charities.
Those include "1,800 relationships of all sizes, shapes and colors, and forms and interests," she said.
Religion generally tops the list of causes to which people donate. Pryor said health and environment issues are also popular and arts and culture are growing.
Laura Deitrick agrees that sometimes causes get trendy. She's the executive director of the Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research at the University of San Diego. Deitrick said such trends can be tricky for governments.
For instance, right now Price Charities is focusing a lot of resources on San Diego's City Heights neighborhood. While that neighborhood is receiving much needed attention, Deitrick points out other areas with similar needs aren't as lucky. She said that's something that needs to be dealt with as public-private partnerships become more common.
"You know, the rulebook isn't really written for that," she said. "I think it's going to put a lot of pressure on public officials and politicians, just like any special interest group, or anybody that comes with big money, be it a corporation or a lobbying group or whatnot, for those public officials to really hold the public's interest at the forefront and to be the guardian of that."
But what being a guardian means is up for debate. That was made clear at the City Council meeting about making over Balboa Park. For more than five hours, the public passionately testified about both the potential harm and benefit a bypass road and parking garage could bring the park. In the end, the council voted to approve the renovation, with many councilmembers saying it was both a good move for the park and an opportunity the city couldn't pass up because of Jacobs' involvement. Critics of the plan said the council was pushed into a bad decision because of the money Jacobs will bring to the project. Deitrick said there needs to be a different kind of conversation.
"We need government officials and philanthropists and non-profit leaders sitting down and talking about, what are the needs, not making assumptions about what the needs are in our various communities," she said. "How do we best address those needs? How do we work together to best address those needs?"
And as government budgets shrink and community needs grow, it's a question cities will likely be asking themselves a lot in the future.
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Syntropic | August 9, 2012 at 11:18 a.m. ― 4 years, 7 months ago
San Diego, as a City and as a Region, should be thinking about how it can best develop and demonstrate technologies and thinking toward addressing the needs of the community while creating a sustainable world. The Jacobs/Sanders plan demonstrates the mid-20th Century thinking which removed the electric streetcar (trolley) lines in favor of promoting the private auto and inadequate bus transit systems.
In my unsolicited ideas surrounding making 2015 a Regional Celebration instead of a Balboa Park focused celebration, I suggested that the City consider public/private implementation of emerging technologies within Balboa Park that address pressing social, environmental, and economic issues. These include removal of private autos and implementation of an internal transportation system of automated electric vehicles that operate in tram/platoon mode or independently; use of pavers made with titanium dioxide derived compounds which remove volatile organic compounds when exposed to sunlight and have self-cleaning properties; establishment of an energy station on the Arizona Landfill within Balboa Park that creates hydrogen and oxygen from the aquifer underneath the Park which are used with geothermal, solar, wind, and methane to produce power for fuel cell or induction charged vehicles; the use of hydrogen fuel cell buses manufactured in California to establish an external transit system connecting Downtown with Uptown/Hillcrest/University Heights.
Our communities need transportation that supports aging in place, local power generation from renewable energy sources, cleaner air, and innovative projects which generate jobs and interest within the region. They do not need more private autos and valet parking.
NancyJamison | August 13, 2012 at 10:56 a.m. ― 4 years, 7 months ago
The Balboa Park situation is reflective of both San Diego's tradition of philanthropy as well as the increase of instances where government looks to philanthropy to help fund community services and improvements. Though philanthropy has far fewer dollars to spend than government (even in the best of times), it can be a critically important partner in social solutions.
There will always be healthy debate about the influence of power and money over public issues and what is in the public interest – such debate is a hallmark of democracy. But if there's authentic motivation to collaborate and leverage resources of all kinds, and to engage stakeholders of all types in identifying the problem and solutions, we are all better off.
In my work as Executive Director of San Diego Grantmakers, I see how philanthropic individuals and organizations can embrace the challenges and opportunities of working in partnership with other stakeholders. This is far easier said than done of course, but there have been many successes. Locally we can point to the cross-sector development of a multi-faceted plan to end family homelessness (www.keystohousing.org), the Home Again (www.homeagainsd.org) plan to end chronic homelessness, and recent work on education in City Heights and Chula Vista, among many others.
I agree with Laura Deitrick that we must carefully consider how all sectors – philanthropy, nonprofits, government, business and academia – can work better together to address the challenges that lie ahead because of constrained public resources. It is indeed a tricky, tricky intersection, but one which we must navigate because there simply is no choice.
Nancy Jamison
Executive Director
San Diego Grantmakers


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I posted my bands last demo a while ago with mixed opinions. Here is what we have been working on since then.
We have 8 songs being finalized. We are doing them all ourselves so its still a demo but heres what we got.
In case you dont know im the vocalist and this is metal music. So if you dont like metal this wont be for you.
We purposely didnt put our craziest songs up first. Wanted something a little simpler for our first song up. Should be uploading a song every other week or so for a while.
Anyways tell me what you think!
edit: i couldnt figure out how to just link the song so i just linked our facebook page. you can click the music page from there :)

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Inspired by a song written by Carey Blyton in 1967, the TV series BANANAS IN PAJAMAS debuted in Australia in 1992 and become a hit with preschool children and adults worldwide. Other characters on the show included the three Teddies (Teddy Bears) and Rat-in-a-Hat.
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Five years ago, doctors and researchers began to acknowledge something that those of us who've undergone chemotherapy had long known: this aggressive cancer treatment can cause significant mental issues. Now, further research intimates that chemo's cognitive side effects – "chemo brain" – may linger not just for months or years, but for decades.
Like so many women with invasive breast cancer, I had chemotherapy as part of my treatment. Choosing from an alphabet soup of different regimens, my oncologist prescribed a common combination, FEC: fluorouracil (5FU), epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide.
Four months later, weak, bald, recovering from mouth sores and pneumonia, I was back on the road to health – physically, at least.
Little did I know that mentally, my life had changed forever.
I had chemo brain.
In a 2007 post to this site, I wrote the following:
If your mind is a blackboard, chemo brain is the eraser. I couldn't remember my phone number, my mother's name, the street I lived on… not always, but frequently enough to be scary.
I didn't know which way to turn a water tap, to make it work; my vocabulary evaporated like a summer shower on hot pavement. Heck, when I forgot my phone number I couldn't even look it up in the phone book, because I couldn't figure out what order the letters of the alphabet went in – THAT'S chemo brain.I lived with chemo brain for four years; I made my peace with it, and developed a bunch of coping strategies that worked pretty well (lists, lists, lists!). But now, in the past six months or so, I've realized I'm getting better. I still struggle to find certain words – and that's an issue, when you're a writer.
But I seldom forget my best friend's name, my son's address at school, or the difference between left and right. Things are looking up; the sun is starting to clear the fog from my head.
Five years later, the fog is still here; it never did dissipate, entirely. The clear-headed, sharp woman I was at age 47, pre-cancer, has never returned.
My 50-something girlfriends say it's not just chemo; menopause (a.k.a. mental-pause) seems to wreak the same type of intellectual havoc. The wry saying is, it's OK if you forget where your keys are… so long as you remember what they're for.
But still, 10 years post-chemo, I didn't expect I'd be dealing with its side effects every minute of every day. Which is what I'm doing as I struggle to complete sentences, remember common aphorisms, and juggle a laundry list of tasks that really shouldn't be as challenging as it seems.
In a new study released Feb. 27 by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), researchers show an association between chemotherapy and long-term cognitive dysfunction, including poor word recall; slow information-processing, and lowered coordination of thinking with hand movement (performing simple functions using your hands). The study involved women who received a common type of chemo (CMF) about 21 years ago. -
On average, these women performed more poorly on an array of cognitive tests than their peers who hadn't received chemo; and about the same as women who'd recently completed chemo. Overall, the magnitude of the loss was "comparable to roughly six year of age-related decline in mental function," according to the study.
Dr. Tim Ahles, director of the Neurocognitive Research Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is the acknowledged leader in chemo brain research. Interviewed upon the release of the study, he cautioned that not all women experience cognitive problems post-chemo; and that even in women who do, symptoms may vary in severity. Women with more demands on their brain (e.g., a professional woman in a high-powered job) seem to have more issues than women enjoying a more relaxed lifestyle.
And Dr. Marisa Weiss, founder of breastcancer.org, notes that there are probably many additional factors playing into chemo-brain – including the hormone therapy drugs so many women take for 5, 10, or even more years after diagnosis.
Still, it's nice to have official acknowledgement from the scientific community – once again – that chemo brain isn't "all in my head."
It's real. And unfortunately, it's lasting.
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Saba Island (TNCS). Saba island in FSX is much improved over the flat island which came with FS2004 but the airport could have been better placed. The default airport does not have precipices at each end of the runway and taking off from runway 30 aims you straight at a mountain. The airport height is also lower than the real world airport. This re-work addresses these problems within the confines of the default scenery and FSX default scenery objects are used for additional embellishments. No other downloads are needed. By Colin Dietrich.
Unzip the file to a temporary location. this will give you three .bgl files for two locations plus some pictures and this installation_readme.txt file. Two of the files, SABA_ADE_CD.bgl and SABA_ADE_CD_CVX.bgl, can be put in the FSX\Addon Scenery\Scenery folder and the other one, saba_newheight.bgl, can be put in the FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder. This file is needed there to change the default height of the airport. Installation to these folders should automatically make the update available in FSX. Put the pictures wherever you prefer or delete them if not required.
Those of you who have their own folders for additional afcads ( or ADEs as they might more truthfully be described) may use their own destinations but the saba_newheight.bgl is best in the folder previously indicated.
What has changed?
Saba island in FSX is much improved over the flat island which came with FS9 but the airport could have been better placed. The default airport does not have precipices at each end of the runway and taking off from R30 aims you straight at a mountain. The airport height is also lower than the real world airport. This re-work addresses these problems within the confines of the default scenery and FSX default scenery objects are used for additional embellishments. No other downloads are needed. The airport height has been raised to its true 18m/60ft and the whole thing shifted seawards. One end of the 396m runway has been moved closer to the cliff edge. The other end still has a steepish slope but is not really a precipice as it should be. With full default autogen there are lots of trees at one end, less so at the other and those that affect the flight path to the runway have been excluded. I couldn't find an FSX terminal building that looks like the real one so have used a control tower as a substitute. Four small parking spaces have been added with one coded for Winair to allow for extra AI. An extra building has been added but, without a small firefighting vehicle to put in it, it currently holds assorted cargo. White X's at each end of the runway suggest that it is closed but this is more a warning to pilots unaware of the shortness of the runway (extended slightly to allow these white crosses). A helipad has also been added as has a carpark with additional vehicles. While trying to maintain some realworld aspects of this airport, its siting and other assets may not be accurate.
If you want to try landings and takeoffs from Saba fire up a DH Twin Otter (Twotter) or BN Norman Islander, both used by Windward Islands Airways (Winair), take off from St Maartens (TNCM) and aim for touchdown on one of the white crosses on SABA. There are no navaids and no ATC from SABA so, you're on your own!
There are flightplans available for Winair as well as repaints for their aircraft fleet. The aircraft and repaints were intended for FS9 but work equally well in FSX. The flightplans I found didn't contain flights for SABA so you might have to write your own to add to the others.
Colin Dietrich
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Journalism ethics and standards
Numerous guidelines exist regarding how journalists and the agencies they work for should do their jobs in an ethical manner.
Evolution and purpose of codes of journalism[edit]
The principles of Journalistic codes of ethics are designed as guides through numerous difficulties, such as conflicts of interest, to assist journalists in dealing with ethical dilemmas. The codes and canons provide journalists a framework for self-monitoring and self-correction.
Codes of practice[edit]
While journalists in the United States and European countries have led in formulation and adoption of these standards, such codes can be found in news reporting organizations in most countries with freedom of the press. The written codes and practical standards vary somewhat from country to country and organization to organization, but there is a substantial overlap among mainstream publications and societies. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launched a global Ethical Journalism Initiative in 2008 aimed at strengthening awareness of these issues within professional bodies. In 2013 the Ethical Journalism Network was founded by former IFJ General Secretary Aidan White. This coalition of international and regional media associations and journalism support groups campaigns for ethics, good governance and self-regulation across all platforms of media.
One of the leading voices in the U.S. on the subject of Journalistic Standards and Ethics is the Society of Professional Journalists. The Preamble to its Code of Ethics states:
- ...public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility.
The Radio Television Digital News Association, an organization exclusively centered on electronic journalism, maintains a code of ethics centering on—public trust, truthfulness, fairness, integrity, independence and accountability.[1]
Common elements[edit]
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The primary themes common to most codes of journalistic standards and ethics are the following.
Accuracy and standards for factual reporting[edit]
- Reporters are expected to be as accurate as possible given the time allotted to story preparation and the space available, and to seek reliable sources.
- Events with a single eyewitness are reported with attribution. Events with two or more independent eyewitnesses may be reported as fact. Controversial facts are reported with attribution.
- Independent fact-checking by another employee of the publisher is desirable.
- Corrections are published when errors are discovered.
- Defendants at trial are treated only as having "allegedly" committed crimes, until conviction, when their crimes are generally reported as fact (unless, that is, there is serious controversy about wrongful conviction).
- Opinion surveys and statistical information deserve special treatment to communicate in precise terms any conclusions, to contextualize the results, and to specify accuracy, including estimated error and methodological criticism or flaws.
Slander and libel considerations[edit]
- Reporting the truth is almost never libel,[2] which makes accuracy very important.
- Private persons have privacy rights that must be balanced against the public interest in reporting information about them. Public figures have fewer privacy rights in U.S. law, where reporters are immune from a civil case if they have reported without malice. In Canada, there is no such immunity; reports on public figures must be backed by facts.
- Publishers vigorously defend libel lawsuits filed against their reporters, usually covered by libel insurance.
Harm limitation principle[edit]
During the normal course of an assignment a reporter might go about—gathering facts and details, conducting interviews, doing research, background checks, taking photos, video taping, recording sound—harm limitation deals with the questions of whether everything learned should be reported and, if so, how. This principle of limitation means that some weight needs to be given to the negative consequences of full disclosure, creating a practical and ethical dilemma. The Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics offers the following advice, which is representative of the practical ideals of most professional journalists. Quoting directly:[3]
- Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by news coverage. Use special sensitivity when dealing with children and inexperienced sources or subjects.
- Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.
- Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance.
- Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone's privacy.
- Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.
- Be cautious about identifying juvenile suspects or victims of sex crimes.
- Be judicious about naming criminal suspects before the formal filing of charges.
- Balance a criminal suspect's fair trial rights with the public's right to be informed.
In addition to codes of ethics, many news organizations maintain an in-house Ombudsman whose role is, in part, to keep news organizations honest and accountable to the public. The ombudsman is intended to mediate in conflicts stemming from internal and or external pressures, to maintain accountability to the public for news reported, and to foster self-criticism and to encourage adherence to both codified and uncodified ethics and standards. This position may be the same or similar to the public editor, though public editors also act as a liaison with readers and do not generally become members of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen.
An alternative is a news council, an industry-wide self-regulation body, such as the Press Complaints Commission, set up by UK newspapers and magazines. Such a body is capable perhaps of applying fairly consistent standards, and of dealing with a higher volume of complaints, but may not escape criticisms of being toothless.
Ethics and standards in practice[edit]
As with other ethical codes, there is a perennial concern that the standards of journalism are being ignored. One of the most controversial issues in modern reporting is media bias, particularly on political issues, but also with regard to cultural and other issues. Sensationalism is also a common complaint. Minor factual errors are also extremely common, as almost anyone who is familiar with the subject of a particular report will quickly realize.
There are also some wider concerns, as the media continue to change, for example that the brevity of news reports and use of soundbites has reduced fidelity to the truth, and may contribute to a lack of needed context for public understanding. From outside the profession, the rise of news management contributes to the real possibility that news media may be deliberately manipulated. Selective reporting (spiking, double standards) are very commonly alleged against newspapers, and by their nature are forms of bias not easy to establish, or guard against.
This section does not address specifics of such matters, but issues of practical compliance, as well as differences between professional journalists on principles.
Standards and reputation[edit]
Among the leading news organizations that voluntarily adopt and attempt to uphold the common standards of journalism ethics described herein, adherence and general quality varies considerably. The professionalism, reliability and public accountability of a news organization are three of its most valuable assets. An organization earns and maintains a strong reputation, in part, through a consistent implementation of ethical standards, which influence its position with the public and within the industry.
Genres, ethics, and standards[edit]
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Advocacy journalists — a term of some debate even within the field of journalism — by definition tend to reject "objectivity", while at the same time maintaining many other common standards and ethics.
Civic journalism adopts a modified approach to objectivity; instead of being uninvolved spectators, the press is active in facilitating and encouraging public debate, and examining claims and issues critically. This does not necessarily imply advocacy of a specific political party or position.
Creative nonfiction and literary journalism use the power of language and literary devices more akin to fiction to bring insight and depth into often book-length treatment of the subjects about which they write. Such devices as dialogue, metaphor, digression and other such techniques offer the reader insights not usually found in standard news reportage. However, authors in this branch of journalism still maintain ethical criteria such as factual and historical accuracy as found in standard news reporting. They venture outside the boundaries of standard news reporting in offering richly detailed accounts. One widely regarded author in the genre is Joyce Carol Oates, as with her book on boxer Mike Tyson.
Investigative journalism often takes an implicit point of view on a particular public interest, by asking pointed questions and intensely probing certain questions. With outlets that otherwise strive for neutrality on political issues, the implied position is often uncontroversial - for example that political corruption or abuse of children is wrong and perpetrators should be exposed and punished, that government money should be spent efficiently, or that the health of the public or workers or veterans should be protected. Advocacy journalists often use investigative journalism in support of a particular political position, or to expose facts that are only concerning to those with certain political opinions. Regardless of whether or not it is undertaken for a specific political faction, this genre usually puts a strong emphasis on factual accuracy, because the point of an in-depth investigation of an issue is to expose facts that spur change. Not all investigations seek to expose facts about a particular problem; some data-driven reporting does deep analysis and presents interesting results for the general edification of the audience which might be interpreted in different ways or which may contain a wealth of facts concerned with many different potential problems. A factually-constrained investigation with an implied public interest point of view may also find that the system under investigation is working well.
New Journalism and Gonzo journalism also reject some of the fundamental ethical traditions and will set aside the technical standards of journalistic prose in order to express themselves and reach a particular audience or market segment. These favor a subjective perspective and emphasize immersive experiences over objective facts.
Tabloid journalists are often accused of sacrificing accuracy and the personal privacy of their subjects in order to boost sales. The 2011 News International phone hacking scandal is an example of this. Supermarket tabloids are often focused on entertainment rather than news. A few have "news" stories that are so outrageous that they are widely read for entertainment purposes, not for information. Some tabloids do purport to maintain common journalistic standards, but may fall far short in practice. Others make no such claims.
Some publications deliberately engage in satire, but give the publication the design elements of a newspaper, for example, The Onion, and it is not unheard of for other publications to offer the occasional, humorous articles appearing on April Fool's Day.
Relationship with freedom of the press[edit]
In countries without freedom of the press, the majority of people who report the news may not follow the above-described standards of journalism. Non-free media are often prohibited from criticizing the national government, and in many cases are required to distribute propaganda as if it were news. Various other forms of censorship may restrict reporting on issues the government deems sensitive.
Variations, violations, and controversies[edit]
There are a number of finer points of journalistic procedure that foster disagreements in principle and variation in practice among "mainstream" journalists in the free press. Laws concerning libel and slander vary from country to country, and local journalistic standards may be tailored to fit. For example, the United Kingdom has a broader definition of libel than does the United States.
Accuracy is important as a core value and to maintain credibility, but especially in broadcast media, audience share often gravitates toward outlets that are reporting new information first. Different organizations may balance speed and accuracy in different ways. The New York Times, for instance, tends to print longer, more detailed, less speculative, and more thoroughly verified pieces a day or two later than many other newspapers.[citation needed] 24-hour television news networks tend to place much more emphasis on getting the "scoop." Here, viewers may switch channels at a moment's notice; with fierce competition for ratings and a large amount of airtime to fill, fresh material is very valuable. Because of the fast turn-around, reporters for these networks may be under considerable time pressure, which reduces their ability to verify information.
Laws with regard to personal privacy, official secrets, and media disclosure of names and facts from criminal cases and civil lawsuits differ widely, and journalistic standards may vary accordingly. Different organizations may have different answers to questions about when it is journalistically acceptable to skirt, circumvent, or even break these regulations. Another example of differences surrounding harm reduction is the reporting of preliminary election results. In the United States, some news organizations feel that it is harmful to the democratic process to report exit poll results or preliminary returns while voting is still open. Such reports may influence people who vote later in the day, or who are in western time zones, in their decisions about how and whether or not to vote. There is also some concern that such preliminary results are often inaccurate and may be misleading to the public. Other outlets feel that this information is a vital part of the transparency of the election process, and see no harm (if not considerable benefit) in reporting it.
Objectivity as a journalistic standard varies to some degree depending on the industry and country. For example, the government-funded BBC in the United Kingdom places a strong emphasis on political neutrality, but British newspapers more often tend to adopt political affiliations or leanings in both coverage and audience, sometimes explicitly.[4] In the United States, major newspapers usually explicitly claim objectivity as a goal in news coverage, though most have separate editorial boards that endorse specific candidates and publish opinions on specific issues. Adherence to a claimed standard of objectivity is a constant subject of debate. For example, mainstream national cable news channels in the United States claim political objectivity, but to various degrees Fox News has been accused of conservative bias and MSNBC accused of liberal bias. The degree to which these leanings influence cherry-picking of facts, factual accuracy, predominance of non-news opinion and commentators, audience opinion of the issues and candidates covered, visual composition, tone, and vocabulary of stories is hotly debated.
News value is generally used to select stories for print, broadcast, blogs, and web portals, including those that focus on a specific topic. To a large degree, news value depends on the target audience. For example, a minor story in the United States is more likely to appear on CNN than a minor story in the Middle East which might be more likely to appear on Al Jazeera simply due to the geographic distribution of the channels' respective audiences. It is a matter of debate whether this means that either network is less than objective, and that controversy is even more complicated when considering coverage of political stories for different audiences that have different political demographics (as with Fox News vs. MSNBC).
Some digital media platforms can use criteria to choose stories which are different than traditional news value. For example, while the Google News portal essentially chooses stories based on news value (though indirectly, through the choices of large numbers of independent outlets), users can set Google Alerts on specific terms which define personal subjective interests. Search engines, news aggregators, and social network feeds sometimes change the presentation of content depending on the consumer's expressed or inferred preferences or leanings. This has both been cheered as bypassing traditional "gatekeepers" and whatever biases they may have in favor of audience-centric selection criteria, but criticized as creating a dangerous filter bubble which intentionally or unintentionally hides dissenting opinions and other content which might be important for the audience to see in order to avoid exposure bias and groupthink.
Taste, decency and acceptability[edit]
Audiences have different reactions to depictions of violence, nudity, coarse language, or to people in any other situation that is unacceptable to or stigmatized by the local culture or laws (such as the consumption of alcohol, homosexuality, illegal drug use, scatological images, etc.). Even with similar audiences, different organizations and even individual reporters have different standards and practices. These decisions often revolve around what facts are necessary for the audience to know.
When certain distasteful or shocking material is considered important to the story, there are a variety of common methods for mitigating negative audience reaction. Advance warning of explicit or disturbing material may allow listeners or readers to avoid content they would rather not be exposed to. Offensive words may be partially obscured or bleeped. Potentially offensive images may be blurred or narrowly cropped. Descriptions may be substituted for pictures; graphic detail might be omitted. Disturbing content might be moved from a cover to an inside page, or from daytime to late evening, when children are less likely to be watching.
There is often considerable controversy over these techniques, especially concern that obscuring or not reporting certain facts or details is self-censorship that compromises objectivity and fidelity to the truth, and which does not serve the public interest.
For example, images and graphic descriptions of war are often violent, bloody, shocking and profoundly tragic. This makes certain content disturbing to some audience members, but it is precisely these aspects of war that some consider to be the most important to convey. Some argue that "sanitizing" the depiction of war influences public opinion about the merits of continuing to fight, and about the policies or circumstances that precipitated the conflict. The amount of explicit violence and mutilation depicted in war coverage varies considerable from time to time, from organization to organization, and from country to country.
Reporters have also been accused of indecency in the process of collecting news, namely that they are overly intrusive in the name of journalistic insensitivity. War correspondent Edward Behr recounts the story of a reporter during the Congo Crisis who walked into a crowd of Belgian evacuees and shouted, "Anyone here been raped and speaks English?"[5]
Campaigning in the media[edit]
Many print publications take advantage of their wide readership and print persuasive pieces in the form of unsigned editorials that represent the official position of the organization. Despite the ostensible separation between editorial writing and news gathering, this practice may cause some people to doubt the political objectivity of the publication's news reporting. (Though usually unsigned editorials are accompanied by a diversity of signed opinions from other perspectives.)
Other publications and many broadcast media only publish opinion pieces that are attributed to a particular individual (who may be an in-house analyst) or to an outside entity. One particularly controversial question is whether media organizations should endorse political candidates for office. Political endorsements create more opportunities to construe favoritism in reporting, and can create a perceived conflict of interest.
Investigative methods[edit]
Investigative journalism is largely an information-gathering exercise, looking for facts that are not easy to obtain by simple requests and searches, or are actively being concealed, suppressed or distorted. Where investigative work involves undercover journalism or use of whistleblowers, and even more if it resorts to covert methods more typical of private detectives or even spying, it brings a large extra burden on ethical standards.
Anonymous sources are double-edged - they often provide especially newsworthy information, such as classified or confidential information about current events, information about a previously unreported scandal, or the perspective of a particular group that may fear retribution for expressing certain opinions in the press. The downside is that the condition of anonymity may make it difficult or impossible for the reporter to verify the source's statements. Sometimes sources hide their identities from the public because their statements would otherwise quickly be discredited. Thus, statements attributed to anonymous sources may carry more weight with the public than they might if they were attributed. (See also: news source.)
The Washington press has been criticized in recent years for excessive use of anonymous sources, in particular to report information that is later revealed to be unreliable. The use of anonymous sources increased markedly in the period before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[6]
Examples of ethical dilemmas[edit]
One of the primary functions of journalism ethics is to aid journalists in dealing with many ethical dilemmas they may encounter. From highly sensitive issues of national security to everyday questions such as accepting a dinner from a source, putting a bumper sticker on one's car, publishing a personal opinion blog, a journalist must make decisions taking into account things such as the public's right to know, potential threats, reprisals and intimidations of all kinds, personal integrity, conflicts between editors, reporters and publishers or management, and many other such conundra. The following are illustrations of some of those.
- The Pentagon Papers dealt with extremely difficult ethical dilemmas faced by journalists. Despite government intervention, The Washington Post, joined by The New York Times, felt the public interest was more compelling and both published reports. (The cases went to the Supreme Court where they were merged and are known as New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713.[7]
- The Washington Post also once published a story about a listening device that the United States had installed over an undersea Soviet cable during the height of the cold war. The device allowed the United States to learn where Soviet submarines were positioned. In that case, Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee chose not to run the story on national security grounds. However, the Soviets subsequently discovered the device and, according to Bradlee, "It was no longer a matter of national security. It was a matter of national embarrassment." However, the U.S. government still wanted The Washington Post not to run the story on the basis of national security, yet, according to Bradlee, "We ran the story. And you know what, the sun rose the next day."[8]
- The Center for International Media Ethics, an international non-profit organisation "offers platform for media professionals to follow current ethical dilemmas of the press" through its blog. Besides highlighting the ethical concerns of recent stories, journalists are encouraged to express their own opinion. The organisation "urges journalists to make their own judgments and identify their own strategies."[9]
- The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists, a joint venture, public service project of Chicago Headline Club Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and Loyola University Chicago Center for Ethics and Social Justice, provides some examples of typical ethical dilemmas reported to their ethical dilemma hotline and are typical of the kinds of questions faced by many professional journalists.
A partial listing of questions received by The Ethics AdviceLine:[10]
- Is it ethical to make an appointment to interview an arsonist sought by police, without informing police in advance of the interview?
- Is lack of proper attribution plagiarism?
- Should a reporter write a story about a local priest who confessed to a sex crime if it will cost the newspaper readers and advertisers who are sympathetic to the priest?
- Is it ethical for a reporter to write a news piece on the same topic on which he or she has written an opinion piece in the same paper?
- Under what circumstances do you identify a person who was arrested as a relative of a public figure, such as a local sports star?
- Freelance journalists and photographers accept cash to write about, or take photos of, events with the promise of attempting to get their work on the AP or other news outlets, from which they also will be paid. Is that ethical?
- Can a journalist reveal a source of information after guaranteeing confidentiality if the source proves to be unreliable?
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman of the National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand argued that journalistic professionalism is a combination of two factors, secondary socialization of journalists in the workplace and the fetishization of journalistic norms and standards.[11] In this way, undesirable traits in new journalists can be weeded out, and remaining journalists are free to cynically criticize journalistic professional norms as long as they keep working and following them. This criticism is adapted from interviews of twenty political journalists from BBC News, Sky News, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post and MSNBC/NBC News, and from philosopher Slavoj Žižek's concept of ideology.[12]
See also[edit]
- Advocacy journalism
- Citizen journalism
- Ethical Journalism Network
- Ethical Journalism Initiative
- Fourth Estate Core Journalism Standards
- Gamergate controversy
- History of American Newspapers
- History of Journalism
- International Federation of Journalists
- Journalism
- Objectivity (journalism)
- Ombudsman
- Order of the Occult Hand
- Organisation of News Ombudsmen
- Parachute journalism
- Public Editor
- Reporters Without Borders
- Yellow journalism
- Code of ethics in media
- Code of ethics in media#Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics
- International Council for Press and Broadcasting
- International Council for Press and Broadcasting#Media Ethics Code
- ^ "RTDNA Code of Ethics". Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). September 14, 2000. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ "Truth Is No Longer Absolute Libel Defense". Media & Communications Policy.
- ^ "SPJ Code of Ethics". Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). September 6, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ^ http://www.democraticaudit.com/2013/12/18/the-political-affiliations-of-the-uks-national-newspapers-are-becoming-more-fluid/
- ^ "In Praise of Insensitive Reporters" by Jack Schafer, Slate, April 17, 2007
- ^ "Unnamed Sources: A Utilitarian Ex... preview & related info - Mendeley". mendeley.com.
- ^ "New York Times Co. v. United States". Legal Information Institute. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
- ^ [1] Archived March 4, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Center for International Media Ethics".
- ^ "Typical Questions Asked to Ethics AdviceLine". Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
- ^ Hearns-Branaman, Jesse Owen (February 17, 2013). "Journalistic professionalism as indirect control and fetishistic disavowal". Journalism. 15 (1): 21–36. doi:10.1177/1464884912474202.
- ^ Žižek, Slavoj, 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London, Verso)
Further reading[edit]
- Global Journalism Ethics. Ward, Stephen J.A. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective. Ward, Stephen J.A. and Herman Wasserman, eds. New York: Routledge, 2010.
- The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond. Ward, Stephen J.A. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
- Good News, Bad News - Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries) by Jeremy Iggers (New York, Westview Press, 1998)
- Journalism Ethics—A Reference Handbook (Contemporary Ethical Issues) edited by Elliot D. Cohen and Deni Elliott (Abc-Clio, 1998)
- Media Ethics and Accountabilityprogress.
- Crisis of Conscience - Perspectives on Journalism Ethics. Carl Hausman. New York, Harper Collins, 1992.
- Ethics & Journalism, Sanders, Karen. London, Sage Publications, 2003.
- To Tell You the TRUTH—The Ethical Journalism Initiative by Aidan White (IFJ, 2008)
- The Ethical Values of Journalists. Field Research among Media Professionals in Catalonia. Alsius, Salvador, ed. (2010). Generalitat de Catalunya. ISBN 978-84-393-8346-8
- Ethics and Media Culture: Practices and Representations, David Berry, Focal Press, 2000.
- Journalism, Ethics and Society, David Berry, Ashgate Publications, 2008.
- Journalism Ethics and Regulation (3rd edtn) Frost, Chris London: Pearson Education 2011.
External links[edit]
Library resources about Journalism ethics and standards |
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: How To Run A Newspaper |
- Code of Ethics – Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
- Center for Journalism Ethics
- Center for International Media Ethics CIME
- Ethical Journalism Network
- Ethical Journalism Initiative A global campaign of the International Federation of Journalists
- Journalistic Standards and Practices of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- BBC Editorial Guidelines: code of ethics for content producers
- Databank for European Codes of Journalism Ethics
- Canadian Association of Journalists Ethics Committee
- The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association "Canon of Journalism"
- Medialaw.com's review "Code of Ethics of Various Journalists' Unions in Asia"
- Journalism Ethics Cases Online
- Chart – Real and Fake News (2016)/Vanessa Otero (basis) (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Chart – Real and Fake News (2014) (2016)/Pew Research Center
- Fourth Estate - Core Journalism Principles, Standards and Practices


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Seduction of a Babysitter Part II
Fantasy, Authoritarian, Consensual Sex, Male/Teen Female, Masturbation, Older Male / Female, Teen Female Solo, Young
Author's infos
Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Tue 23rd of October 2012
Reader inspired story. Please read part I first. The seduction of the babysitter continues as Melissa finds a way to get him to make love to her. Hope you all enjoy this part.
Nathan told Melissa, "well clean up and we'll get something to eat." Ignoring what she had said. He straightened himself up, and left her room, and headed for the kitchen. As he pulled some food out of the fridge, the phone began to ring.
Nathan sat the food on the counter and answered the phone, "hello White residence." Melissa's mom was on the other end, "hey Nathan, its Janis."
"Oh hi Ms. White, how's it going?" Nathan said. "Just what I was going to ask you," Janis said. "Oh everything's going fine, was just getting ready to fix the food to eat," he said. "Excellent, Melissa's not giving you any problems?" She asked. "Nope, not at all," he answered, his mind then racing back to what had happened just a bit ago. "Ok good, listen I have a favor to ask of you," she said. "What's that?" He asked. "I have to work a double shift tonight, is there anyway you can stay there tonight?" She asked sincerely.
Nathan was standing there, thinking it over. "I guess I can do that tonight," he finally answered. "Oh my god, thank you so much Nathan, you will compensated well for this," Janis said. "No problem, see you in the morning," Nathan said, and hung up after she said, 'goodbye.'
Melissa had taken off her sheets and threw them in the washing machine. She put on a t-shirt, boy shorts, and pajama pants, and came into the kitchen. "So what are we eating?" She asked, seeing him working on the counter. "Looks like goulash, it was already prepared by your mom," he answered, not looking at her. "Ok sounds good," she said as she turned to leave. "Hey, your mom called," Nathan said, before she left.
Melissa turned around and looked at him, "oh, what did she want?" Nathan looked at her, "well she has to work late, so I'll be staying here tonight." Melissa's face lit up as she said, "oh really, so you get to be here all night?" Nathan nodded slowly, noticing her happiness. "Yay," she said excitedly, clapping her hands quickly and jumping. She then turned around and walked into the front room, before Nathan could say anything.
While their dinner was baking, Nathan called his mom and asked her to bring a change of clothes over. Just before they sat down to eat, his mom stopped by and dropped them off.
After they were done eating, Melissa went off to take a shower, while Nathan washed everything up. While she was in the shower, she thought about how she could get Nathan to make love to her. As she washed up, and thought about how to get him to, her slid her hand between her legs and started rubbing her tight slit, up and down. She threw her head back and closed her eyes as she rubbed her middle finger between her pussy lips, feeling her clit getting harder, imagining it was Nathan rubbing her pussy.
"Oh god," she softly moaned, rubbing her clit harder and faster. Her pussy lips began fill with more blood and begin to swell slightly, as she got more turned on. "Please don't stop, I'm gonna cum baby," she moaned louder. She started fondling one of her tiny tits, sinking her finger into her pussy, as her orgasm shot through her body. "I'm cumming Nathan, ohhhhh," she groaned, her body trembling and jerking, as her orgasm coursed through her. Pussy juice coated her finger and some leaked out running down her inner thighs.
Melissa's body continued to shake and jerk as she came down from her orgasm. She opened her eyes, and slipped her finger out of her leaking pussy. "Oh my god," she said to herself, a little out of breath. She finished washing up and climbed out of the shower. She quickly dried off and looked at herself in the full-length mirror on the door. Her nipples were hard and standing proud, her pussy lips still swollen with excitement.
As Melissa studied her swollen pussy lips, she figured out how she might be able to seduce him into having sex with her. She wrapped the towel around herself and quickly went to her room. She put on some tiny, bikini cut, panties, and a tight fitting sports bra, that showed off her nipples. Her panties were tight against her pussy lips, and with them being swollen, showed a small cameltoe.
When Melissa walked back into the front room, Nathan was watching TV. He looked over at her as she entered, feeling a lump grow in his throat again, as he looked at her perky nipples. His eyes went from her chest, right to her cameltoe. He didn't take his eyes off of it as she she walked past him, seductively swaying her hips. His dick twitched and began to harden as her hips swayed in front of him.
Melissa stopped in the middle of the room and looked over at him, "I need the remote so I can do my exercises." Nathan didn't say a word, holding the remote out for her. She giggled as she took the remote from him and changed the TV to input, and turned the DVD player on.
Nathan's dick was fully hard again, unable to take his off of her now. He knew he should get up and leave now, before he did something he may regret, but he couldn't find the willpower to leave.
Melissa looked over at Nathan , giggling to herself, as he stared at her. 'I think my trick may work now," she thought to herself, turning back to the TV and finding the exercise routine she wanted to do today.
It was a yoga exercise routine. Melissa wanted to try out for gymnastics next year, so her mom had gotten her some DVDs to help with her flexibility. She had been doing yoga for almost 3 months now and noticed herself getting more flexible. She started off with a simple exercise, sitting down on the floor with her legs straight out to each side of her, then she sprawled her body straight out, keeping her feet pointed straight up in the air.
Nathan sat there, mesmerized by her flexibility. His dick throbbed hard in his jeans as she changed to the next position. She sat up, then laid on her back and raised her legs straight up in the air, using her hands to steady her back, with her elbows on the floor. Nathan stared at her as she then split her legs apart again, pointing her feet at the floor. "Jesus," he said to himself at the sight, her panties hugging her swollen lips even tighter.
Melissa then brought her legs back up straight, then slowly moved them until her feet were on the floor, above her head. Nathan looked on, noticing a small wet spot on the crotch of her panties. She used her feet to turn herself, until her crotch directly faced him.
Nathan couldn't control himself any longer as he looked directly at her panties pushing into her slit. He quickly got up and knelt down over her feet so she couldn't move. It took Melissa by surprise, but when she felt his hand pull her panties to the side, she didn't protest.
Nathan looked at her swollen pussy. It glistened in the light from her excitement and from her earlier play. Nathan licked his lips as he leaned forward and dipped the tip of his tongue into her wet pussy. Melissa's body shivered and she squealed with pleasure, as he pushed his tongue further into her pussy. Nathan was more turned on now, than he was earlier, and he knew it was because of her flexibility.
Melissa's legs began to tremble and shake, as Nathan started moving his tongue in and out of her pussy. Nathan used his fingers to hold her pussy open, as he used his thumb on her clit, flicking it side to side. Melissa began moaning loudly underneath him, "yes Nathan, please make love to me."
Melissa reached around her legs, blindly searching for the button on his jeans. After she found it, she unbuttoned them and pushed them and his boxers down as far as she could, his dick springing free. She found it with her hand and wrapped it around the base, then she slowly began to stroke it, while fondling his ball sack with her other hand.
Nathan groaned into her moistening pussy, as he moved his hips with her hand. "Oh my god, my pussy is so wet, mmm," Melissa moaned, her legs trembling even more as she got even more excited. Nathan could tell her pussy was getting extremely wet, as he moved his tongue faster in her pussy.
When he felt she was wet enough, he pulled away, her pussy juice glistening on his chin. He stood up, allowing her to move her legs around and sit on the floor. Melissa looked at him, wondering what was next. He slipped out of his jeans and boxers, he looked at her and said, "move up to the couch baby." She smiled at him as she stood up and pushed her panties down and sat down on the edge of the couch, her legs spread open.
Nathan could not stop himself, even if he wanted too. He knelt down on the floor between her legs and moved closer to her. He looked at her and asked, "are you ready to see what it feels like?" Melissa vigorously nodded, "yes Nathan, yes." Nathan let out a deep breath as he held his dick steady and began pushing the head against her pussy.
Melissa bit her lower lip as she sat up, trying to see what was happening. Both of them watched her pussy lips open up as the head of his dick slipped past them, the tip beginning to enter her pussy. Nathan was taking deep breaths as he concentrated on taking it slow. Melissa's breathing hastened as she felt the head of her lover's dick begin to enter her pussy. They watched her tiny pussy lips stretch around his dick as it slowly disappeared into her.
When about 2" of his dick was in her, Melissa wrapped her arms around Nathan's neck and began kissing him deeply. There tongues fought with each other, as they passionately kissed, and he continued pushing his dick into her.
Nathan was expecting her to have a hymen, but his dick slid fully into her pussy, with no resistance. His ball sack was pressing against her pussy lips, his dick fully inside of her. They were still kissing as he made his dick throb deep inside of her tight pussy. Melissa moaned into the kiss, when she felt his dick throb deep inside of her.
Melissa broke the kiss and looked into his eyes, "oh my god Nathan, thank you." She moved his arms down his body and pulled him close, hugging him tightly.
Nathan was surprised he didn't cum as soon as his dick was fully inside of her. After Melissa broke the hug, she laid back on the couch and looked up at him, "you are making me so happy right now Nathan." Nathan smiled as he put his hands on the couch, looking down at where they were joined. He looked back at Melissa and smiled, "ok now you get to experience sex." Melissa smiled wide and nodded.
Nathan looked back down and began to move his hips back. He groaned as he felt her pussy squeeze his exiting dick, watching her pussy lips cling to the shaft as it left. He moved his hips back until he could see the glans of his head just peeking out of her pussy lips. He let out a breath then steadily pushed back into her.
Melissa let out a loud groan as his dick slid back into her, "ohhhhh." Nathan felt her pussy squeeze his dick even harder as he was fully in her pussy again, causing him to groan as well. He then pulled back out, then pushed back into her, starting a steady rhythm, as her pussy adjusted to his dick.
Melissa started moving her hips into his inward thrusts, moaning, "oh my god, oh my god," over and over. As Nathan started moving a little faster, Melissa put her hand on her clit and started rubbing it vigorously. Nathan continued to move faster with each stroke, watching her young pussy lips cling tight to his dick as he pulled out, then go back in as he drove into her.
Melissa could feel her orgasm building inside of her, as she rubbed her clit harder and moved her hips harder into Nathan. Before her climax exploded, Nathan suddenly pulled out her. She looked at him, a look of confusion and disappointment on her face. He saw the look and smiled, "I wanna see how flexible you really are. Can you put your legs behind your head?"
Melissa quickly nodded and moved her legs up and easily put her feet behind her head. Then she put arms over her legs, so her shoulders rested on her calves. Nathan looked at her and mouthed, 'wow.' She looked almost like a pretzel, her pussy was now slightly splayed open in front of him.
Melissa giggled at his reaction and started rubbing her clit again, "is that good?" Nathan slowly nodded as he guided his dick back into her pussy. He let a loud groan as he slid it fully into her, enjoying the new feeling. He started moving in and out of her again, feeling the head of his dick brush against her soft g-spot as it became more and more inflamed.
Melissa's orgasm began to build quickly again as she felt his dick hit her g-spot with each stroke, sending shockwaves through her entire body. Melissa started getting louder as her orgasm neared, "yes Nathan, I'm gonna cum, god I love making love to you, please don't stop." Nathan was grunting loudly as he felt her pussy getting even tighter, her g-spot getting even bigger.
On Nathan's next outward movement, Melissa's g-spot forced his dick out of her pussy, as her orgasm shot through her body. "Ohhhh mmmyyyy fffuuuccckkkiiinnnggg gggoooddd," Melissa screamed. Nathan watched her pussy hole close, then fluid came squirting out from her pussy. It shot up almost a foot in the air, going everywhere, some of it landing on Nathan, landing on her stomach, the floor, and the couch cushions.
Nathan watched as her pussy hole opened and then closed again, as more fluid shot out of her. Melissa screamed more throughout her orgasm, and rubbing her clit hard.
Her orgasm slowly began to fade, her pussy still opening and closing, as she brought her legs back in front of her and moving her hand from her sensitive clit. Nathan stared at her in awe, "what was that?"
Melissa lightly chuckled, "I don't know, I've never cum like that before, but holy shit was it incredible," she said, out of breath. Nathan scoffed, unable to comprehend what he had just seen, he knelt back up, still a little baffled as he guided his dick back into her.
Melissa's pussy was extremely wet now as he pushed into her. Melissa jumped a little and groaned, "careful, its really sensitive now." Nathan nodded as he moved in and out of her slowly. "Oh my god Melissa, your pussy is so wet now," he groaned as moved faster.
"Mmm hmm," Melissa moaned, moving her hips into him hard as well. "Holy shit, your pussy is gonna make me cum soon baby, where do you want me to cum?" Nathan groaned, feeling his cum boiling up in his balls. Melissa moaned, "please cum inside of me, show me what it feels like and how much you love me." She wrapped her legs around him, so he couldn't pull out of her.
Nathan groaned at her words, as his thrusts became more forceful and deliberate. "Are... you... sure?" He grunted out. Melissa bit her lower lip, her eyes closed, and nodded, feeling his dick growing bigger inside of her. "OK here it comes, oh fuck I'm cumming," Nathan growled as he kept thrusting. His dick throbbed and shot the first shot deep inside of her.
As the first shot entered Melissa's pussy, her eyes opened and she moaned, "oh my god, its so hot." Nathan kept moving, grunting as his dick throbbed again and unloaded more cum into her pussy. As his orgasm faded, his dick fired two weaker shots into her pussy. He collapsed on top her breathing heavily.
Melissa wrapped her arms around him, feeling his seed filling her pussy, feeling loved, as she rubbed his back up and down. Nathan regained his strength and pushed himself up and off of her, his dick going limp inside of her, as it still lightly twitched.
They smiled at each other, as Nathan leaned in and kissed her on the lips. He moved back up straight and slowly withdrew his dick from her. As it exited her warm recess, he looked down at her slit and saw a string of cum still stuck to the head of his dick, still connecting to her agape pussy.
Melissa lightly giggled as she felt some of Nathan's cum leak out of her and run down the crack of her ass, tickling her. Nathan smiled as her wide and asked, "so did you enjoy that." Melissa's face lit up, she nodded excitedly, "oh heck yeah, I hope we can do that again." Nathan gave her a half smile, knowing this couldn't happen again.
He looked back down at her pussy, noticing a steady stream of his cum leaking out of her and onto the couch cushion. "We better get you and the couch cleaned up before we go to bed," Nathan said, standing up.
To be continued. Constructive criticism please.
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Missing part one of... pretty much all your stories.
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2015-04-06 01:08:35
You fucking sick son of a bitch why would you write about child molestation you sicko.
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I am 30 year
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2014-12-02 06:48:34
Kathleen Parker wrote a book about "Saving the Men". She's got a Dowdian obsession with gndeer roles and rigid adherence to them: men should be strong, women should be nurturing, and, for God's sake, don't go being gay because that screws up everything (and, somehow, like EVERYTHING she disapproves of, makes you a narcissist). She would love nothing more than to make McCain's decision be about pussy. But that decision was all about craven politicking and poor planning.
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Wow, that's a really clever way of thninikg about it!
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Apple Withdraws Lawsuit Against Wiki Site Owner Over iPhone/iPod Interoperability Hack Discussion
from the took-'em-long-enough dept
Last November, the EFF took Apple to task for threatening the owner of a wiki site. Apple claimed that an ongoing discussion on the site about how to build interoperability between iPods and iPhones and alternative software other than iTunes violated the DMCA -- which requires quite a novel interpretation of the DMCA. After Apple refused to back down, EFF sued in April. Somewhere along the way, it looks like Apple's lawyers started to realize that it had pretty close to no chance whatsoever and has now withdrawn this particular threat. The EFF is dropping the lawsuit, but isn't pleased that the whole thing had to happen in the first place:
"While we are glad that Apple retracted its baseless legal threats, we are disappointed that it only came after 7 months of censorship and a lawsuit," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann. "Because Apple continues to use technical measures to lock iPod Touch and iPhone owners into -- and Palm Pre owners out of -- using Apple's iTunes software, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more discussions among frustrated customers about reverse engineering Apple products. We hope Apple has learned its lesson here and will give those online discussions a wide berth in the future."Indeed. While the Palm Pre situation is in the other direction (interop between alternative hardware and iTunes software, rather than alternative software with Apple hardware), it shows again that Apple will do whatever possible to stop people from making legal use of products they purchased.


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Puddle (Macintosh)
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Puddle is a reworked version of the 2010 student game of the same name largely by the original team. Just like the initial title it is a physics-based game where the player indirectly controls a different type of liquid in each environment. Control is indirect as only the screen can be tilted left or right to change the liquid's flow. It needs to be guided to the end of the level with a certain amount of liquid left inside the puddle to complete the stage. Parts of the liquid can be lost through various hazards and the player needs to avert it with quick movement to make it flow safely. Compared to the original game, much of the initial visual style is still present but many more environments have been added or reworked. These include a Nursery set of levels in the woods and some take place inside a human body, a laboratory and a sewer. Liquid can be used to open up platforms with its mass.Fire is the main enemy as it causes evaporation, but each environment has its own hazards such as venus flytraps that slow the liquid down or rotating blades that cut it in half. At times it is required to slow down to make sure the different drops stay together, as the ones that stay behind eventually disappear out of view, cannot catch up, and become lost permanently. Some levels have shorter, time-based challenges where a passage needs to be opened up by pushing against a lever. Not all levels are entirely based around liquid. In one the player controls a burning of pot of sodium chloride to activate a sprinkler system. In another a glass snowball needs to be guided around without causing it to break. In yet another a metal, triangular shape needs to be moved around. In some levels typical characteristics of liquids are used, such as yellow jodium chloride that turns black and burns through organic tissue or ammonium nitrate that is used as a fertilizer to make plants grow. Later levels are set in the stratosphere where gravity is different as the liquid floats upwards and needs to be guided through air control.
Lives are called "whines" and come in a limited number. The game contains secret levels that can be unlocked.
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- "Puddle THD" -- Android title (for the NVIDIA Tegra 3/4 chip)
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Years of oppression and war have led to extreme poverty in Lietnhom. Most families survive on meager incomes from raising cattle, or selling firewood or thatch. Small farms are rain fed and vulnerable to droughts, which are common here. There are only three wells in this village of 10,000 people, so many people collect water from filthy ponds. The children in Lietnhom show signs of malnourishment and sicknesses like malaria and typhoid. The majority of people are illiterate and unskilled.
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Let's catch up: SLO County: One week after the pink slip, King Harris was rehired by the new ownership of KVEC 920am. Hope his week's vacation was enjoyable as the listeners sent their demands to the station, declaring "let the morning news be the King's domain!"
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Co-edited by Daniel Blackburn and Karen Velie, these two are looking under the rocks and shining the light of day on what they find. Seems to me they're keeping the spirit of journalism alive. This week's blockbuster story: how local investors appear to have lost millions of retirement dollars in shaky SLO county real estate developments.
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Uncovering The Truth In 2008
Dressing up for 2008: Looking toward the right column you'll see three phrases that are prompting current news headlines delivered by Google. Local real estate conditions are a big item right now. If you'd like to see a different search phrase in the future, let me know with a comment. Thanks for reading. See ya back here soon.
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