ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", { "Hashtag": "as:Hashtag", "sensitive": "as:sensitive" } ], "id": "https://smithcompound.blog/2024/10/25/sad-days-in-journalism/", "type": "Note", "attachment": [], "attributedTo": "https://smithcompound.blog/@smithcompound.blog", "content": "<h2>Sad days in&nbsp;journalism</h2><p>In the past few days, two major newspapers failed their readers and the rest of us in the face of threats to the constitution.</p><p>Shame on both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post, or more specifically on their mega-rich owners, who made the decisions to not endorse any presidential candidate.</p><p>Some members of their editorial boards promptly resigned in protest.</p><p>The actions by the owners &#8212; Patrick Soon-Shiong at the L.A. Times and Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post &#8212; both failed to stand up for the First Amendment and pretty much everything else that matters to protecting our freedom.</p><p>Whether this was cowardice or greed or distaste for democracy doesn&#8217;t really matter at this point. Both have committed journalistic malpractice.</p><p>The New York Times endorsed Harris weeks ago. <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\">Read it here</a>. No punches pulled.</p><p>B.J., former journalist hoping the press remains free</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/crime/\">#Crime</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/journalism/\">#Journalism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/politics/\">#Politics</a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<h2>Sad days in&nbsp;journalism</h2><p>In the past few days, two major newspapers failed their readers and the rest of us in the face of threats to the constitution.</p><p>Shame on both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post, or more specifically on their mega-rich owners, who made the decisions to not endorse any presidential candidate.</p><p>Some members of their editorial boards promptly resigned in protest.</p><p>The actions by the owners &#8212; Patrick Soon-Shiong at the L.A. Times and Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post &#8212; both failed to stand up for the First Amendment and pretty much everything else that matters to protecting our freedom.</p><p>Whether this was cowardice or greed or distaste for democracy doesn&#8217;t really matter at this point. Both have committed journalistic malpractice.</p><p>The New York Times endorsed Harris weeks ago. <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\">Read it here</a>. No punches pulled.</p><p>B.J., former journalist hoping the press remains free</p></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/crime/\">#Crime</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/journalism/\">#Journalism</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://smithcompound.blog/tag/politics/\">#Politics</a></p>" }, "published": "2024-10-25T23:44:20Z", "tag": [ { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://smithcompound.blog/tag/crime/", "name": "#Crime" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://smithcompound.blog/tag/journalism/", "name": "#Journalism" }, { "type": "Hashtag", "href": "https://smithcompound.blog/tag/politics/", "name": "#Politics" } ], "updated": "2024-10-26T00:22:18Z", "url": "https://smithcompound.blog/2024/10/25/sad-days-in-journalism/", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/activitypub-1.0/sites/31057770/actors/0/followers" ], "replies": { "id": "https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/activitypub-1.0/sites/31057770/posts/7636/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "id": "https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/activitypub-1.0/sites/31057770/posts/7636/replies?page=0", "type": "CollectionPage", "partOf": "https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/activitypub-1.0/sites/31057770/posts/7636/replies", "items": [] } }, "sensitive": false }