<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Ziyad Habash, who is a friend of mine, is the fellow behind the Durham Dispatch. It is a relatively new site, and he is finding his way. I’m sure he would be interested in your feedback. It is NOT an AI-driven site. Ziyad may not agree with everything that he posts on the Dispatch, however, he is seeking to bring in a wide variety of voices. Where there is no by-line, I would guess that those are articles that he himself writes. He sometimes sends me drafts for comment of his own articles, which I generally find to be well-researched and thoughtful. <div><br></div><div>-Sherri</div><div><br></div><div>Sherri Zann Rosenthal<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 12, 2024, at 9:41 PM, bruce@paintingsbybruce.com wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><p>I think you're right to be suspicious. The absence of ANY identifying info and its bare-bones structure suggest automation. The 'filters' applied to pictures for many of the articles seem weird, too. I can only speculate at this point as my cursory searches for details yield only more questions. So far, though, I'm getting a very strong whiff of AI from this Durham Dispatch operation.</p><p>I'm not about to click on their social media links, as I avoid that stuff like the plague that it is. Do let us know if you learn more. </p>
<div id="signature"></div><p>Thanks! </p><p>Bruce </p><p id="reply-intro">On 2024-07-12 17:55, R Z wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry. By "byline" I mean a person with a name. All I'm seeing are links to the original work which, from the ones I have checked, are just press releases from political activist groups or NGOs. No author names are mentioned that I can see. Nothing wrong with that but I would just like to see who is behind it, like the names on the masthead or a real byline. Maybe I'm just overlooking it...</span>
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<div class="v1gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM Mary Molina <<a href="mailto:mymolina49@yahoo.com" rel="noreferrer">mymolina49@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<br><p style="font-size: 15px; color: #8473ff; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Friday, July 12, 2024, 5:06 PM, R Z <<a href="mailto:richard.ziglar@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer">richard.ziglar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">They seem to be an aggregator but their articles very often are not bylined. <br><br><a href="https://www.durhamdispatch.com/post/the-landlord-cartel-realpage-and-why-your-rent-is-going-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.durhamdispatch.com/post/the-landlord-cartel-realpage-and-why-your-rent-is-going-up</a><br><br>--Richard</div>
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