because my studies are so fascinating (note the irony in my cyber-voice), i have decided to share excerpts from two of my textbooks with you! i know, what a great idea, right?
cut me some slack. i like recording useless bits of information that i'm supposed to build my fucking career on.
THE CANADIAN PRESS STYLEBOOK:
A GUIDE FOR WRITING AND EDITING
14TH EDITION, BY THE CANADIAN PRESS -
CANADA'S NO.1 SOURCE FOR NEWS
Terrorism, hostage-takings
No news story is worth someone's life. Going for the scoop at any cost when lives are at stake belongs to a time long past.
That's why we treat terrorist incidents and hostage-takings with extreme caution: they are life-and-death situations.
Some guidelines:
1. Notify police immediately when you receive a phone call, fax or note about an unpublicized hostage-taking or other threatening act. Make all information available to police.
2. Do not move a story before checking a senior editorial supervisor at Head Office.
3. If the story is approved, write that the information was given to a news organization without naming CP. Naming CP would risk having it become an outlet for terrorist publicity.
... 7. Translate the languages of terrorists and police for readers: use plain English such as 'note' and 'kill' for 'communique' and 'execute'.
8. Terrorism is an international phenomenon, and there can be pressure on CP to match extensive coverage provided by American and other foreign networks or news agencies. Carefully weigh the need to inform the public against the risk of encouraging more such acts. Consult supervisors about the quantity of material moved, especially on serves that go directly to the public such as cable and CP Online, and the detail that should be provided.
9. Photo coverage from Canada and abroad should be monitored carefully to ensure that terrorists are not being glamorized, that victims are not being endangered and that the incidents are not being sensationalized.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, CONCEPT AND CONTEXT
BY BRIAN OREND
Negative vs. Positive Rights
... A negative right can be defined as one which imposes a correlative duty which calls only for inaction on the part of the duty-bearer, be it a person or institution. The duty-bearer can fulfil his duty merely by refraining from acting. For example, it is sometimes said that all a duty-bearer has to do, to fulfil his duty correlative to the right of free speech, is not to interfere with the speech of others. One fulfils one's duty by doing nothing. A positive right, by contrast, can be defined as one which imposes a correlative duty which does call for action on the part of the duty-bearer. The duty-bearer must do something to fulfil his duty in this regard. For instance, if the right is to a subsistence level of income, then social institutions have to provide that income to those who do not have it. They can do this through such means as social welfare transfers.
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