Unsurprisingly for a magazine founded by a waxed-anus Fascist, Vice Magazine has bent the knee to Trump

theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vi…

#Fascism #ViceMagazine #Media #trump #FarRight

don’t let the failures of some (major) news outlets disillusion you with media as a whole. and ESPECIALLY don’t let those failures desensitize you to attacks on free expression.

we can criticize media failures while also fiercely defending media freedom.

#journalism #media

I was just thinking something similar to what this article is saying. Social Media is NOT a source of news, it is other people's reactions TO the news.

She has some interesting insights.

#News #Media #SocialMedia

"I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news."

niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-jou…

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.

Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

^{Nieman Lab}

In a mission statement earlier this week, the team at @ProPublica explained their plans on holding the incoming Trump administration’s feet to the fire. Here, they dive into the specific issues journalists will be following, and how to get in touch with reporters if you have information to share.

propublica.org/article/second-…

#Trump #DonaldTrump #News #Media #Journalism #WomensRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Second Trump Presidency: Issues We’ll Be Watching and How to Get in Touch

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will continue our focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them.

^ProPublica

Last week, we asked #NewstodonFriday readers if anyone else felt sick at the thought of the U.S. election, and here we are. Not much levity in this week’s thread, but rather stories on the state of journalism and media, how different outlets plan to tackle the Trump administration, and even one about how political polarization can literally make you sick. We’ve sprinkled a little lighter fare in there, including a beautiful Tiny Desk concert from Meshell Ndegeocello (close your eyes and scroll to the bottom if you can’t bear to read any news). Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. Independent media matters now, more than ever.

⤵️

#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

The "uninformed' are an existential threat.

It was a #media problem, but Rs' decades of lies -just as guilty. Voters: insufficiently alarmed about the damage Trump will do +actually thought he has some way to make the economy better & bring inflation down -result of a massive info. system failure.

Brosphere, TikTok, podcasts, Fox News... were vectors for mis/dis: info., but 68% of Americans say (ABC, NBC or CBS): either a major or minor source of their pol news-.
#USPol presswatchers.org/2024/11/i-bl…

I blame the media | Press Watch

The American people were insufficiently alarmed and insufficiently informed.

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

A post-election message from Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova to our members, readers, and the rest of our extended community.

texasobserver.fundjournalism.o…

#journalism #Media #Texas #politics #USpol #fundraiser #nonprofit #future #immigration #news

@Npars01
#USpol #Media

WTAF, Admistration?

Twitter, Washington Post, Google,...

mstdn.social/@Npars01/11343309…

Nicole Parsons

2024-11-06 00:08:48

Google's Saudi investors sure are getting pushy.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

^{Mark Bergen (Bloomberg)}

As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect:

"For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about honest, fearless journalism."

#media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump
/1

readtpa.com/p/its-time-for-a-m…

It's Time for a Media Reckoning—No Matter Who Wins Tomorrow

For too long, legacy media outlets have only responded to right-wing criticism. That needs to change.

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

Latest comic: The Last Firewall

#uspol #USPolitics #cartoon #comic #election #democracy #fascism #media #journalism #vote

Election anxiety and thoughts of the future? Our latest Editor's Letter from @gusbova finds him preoccupied too. Welcome to the November / December issue of Texas Observer magazine: texasobserver.org/editors-lett…

#journalism #news #election2024 #media #activism #future #politics #USpol

Editor's Letter: Introducing Our November/December Issue

A note from the interim editor-in-chief

^{Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)}

Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @thetyee.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/…

#RefugeesWelcome #Books @bookstodon #Culture #Canada #Journalism #Media #Eritrea #AsylumSeeker #Immigration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

This time next week, the U.S. will have voted. Anyone else feel sick?! This is our regular #NewstodonFriday thread, which highlights the newsrooms and reporters who have an active presence in the fediverse. Inevitably, we have political stories and politics-adjacent stories, along with some lighter fare, and some that straddle the two (@TexasObserver’s story on a new Greg Abbott musical fits perfectly into that category). Please check out the stories, follow the publications, click on the stories, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can. See you on the other side.

⤵️

#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

"Readers do not distrust opinion journalists for forming opinions and sharing them with the public. They distrust condescending, ham-fisted plutocrats who have no blessed idea what they’re talking about, moving fast and breaking stuff."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
/6

"Bezos is right to worry about waning trust in the media. But he does not understand that people like him are in large part responsible for this distrust, and that cosplaying as a pundit while pandering to the worst-faith actors in American politics is not a plan for restoring it."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
/5

~ Jay Willis

newrepublic.com/article/187685…

Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem

Brace yourself, but The Washington Post’s owner’s decision to destroy his paper’s credibility in order to restore trust in journalism may have a few flaws in its logic.

^{The New Republic}

"I’d hoped (forlornly) that all major outlets would see the rush for the exits at the Post and start asking themselves whether they’re taking their own subscribers for granted. Seems they did not."

~ Brian Beutler

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
/4

offmessage.net/p/ama-thursday-…

AMA Thursday

Cancel culture.

^{Brian Beutler (Off Message)}

"The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs: The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice. " #media

niemanlab.org/2024/10/the-wash…

The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs

The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.

^{Nieman Lab}

from #NewYorkTimes
[gift article - expires in 30 days]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

U.S. Questions #Israel After ‘Horrifying’ Strike in Northern #Gaza Kills Dozens

Matt Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said the #Biden administration had contacted the #Israeli government to ask about what he called a “horrifying incident.” At least 55 people were killed, according to #Palestinian Civil Defense.

[plus other articles on Gaza on Updates page]

October 29, 2024

nytimes.com/live/2024/10/29/wo…

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

I think we all knew this was happening—why else overpay by $25b?—but I guess confirmation is good.

Imagine being the kind of chump who clings to Zombie Twitter because “that’s where the conversation is” only to have your work throttled while everyone is guaranteed to see Catturd’s latest insights.

wapo.st/4fmNIvF
#elonmusk #trump #Election2024 #media #fascism

The point here is not to plead for pity for the poor #press. Courageous reporting is courageous because it puts #journalists in conflict w/powerful people. Anyone who expects adulation all the time should go into a different business. (This also goes for any #media owner who might feel tempted to tone down criticism of #Trump [#Bezos].)

#Fascist #Tyranny #Autocracy #Authoritarianism #illiberalism

#democracy #FreePress #journalism

Featured: “Effectively, the business model here is deception. It’s not just about them being partisan. It’s about them being dishonest and crossing basic lines of journalism. They’re not even doing #journalism.” texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-…

#media #Dallas #NorthTexas #politics #USpol #News #Texas #election2024 #democracy #corruption

The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government

Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments.

^{Steven Monacelli (The Texas Observer)}

October 26th and October 27th.

Related?

#Election2024 #media #bezos #trump #fascism

Oh wow 👀

~Washington Post publisher Will Lewis reportedly tried to kill story about his involvement in UK hacking scandal~

(from June of this year)

#media #NewsMedia #WashingtonPost #WaPo

/2 🧵

cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/washi…

When the LA Times' owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, killed its endorsement of Kamala Harris, he also quashed a multi-part series, tentatively called "The Case Against Trump," @TheWrap says. So far, three staffers — editorial writer Karin Klein, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Green and editorials editor Mariel Garza have quit over the lack of endorsement, with Klein calling Soon-Shiong a "chickensh**." To date, the LA Times Guild is the only institution from the paper that has commented publicly. Here's more — free registration may be required to read the full article.

flip.it/AXqtI9

#LATimes #Politics #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Media #Journalism

LA Times Planned 'Case Against Trump' Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner Quashed It | Exclusive - TheWrap

Patrick Soon-Shiong's interference with the paper's editorial freedom has sparked a crisis that includes canceled subscriptions and several high profile resignations

^{Ross A. Lincoln (TheWrap)}

Most media in the US is owned by a handful of corporations or is being bought up by billionaires. Can nonprofits take it back? nonprofitquarterly.org/a-free-…

#media #journalism #freepress

A Free Press Needs a New Kind of Journalism - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Most media in the United States is owned by a handful of corporations or is being bought up by billionaires. Can nonprofits take it back?

^{Rithika Ramamurthy (Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly)}

"This is a dark day in American journalism. Both papers [Los Angeles Times and Washington Post] have made clear their disdain and disrespect for Donald Trump and published numerous columns on their editorial pages calling him unfit to serve. The refusal of the Washington Post and LA Times to publish editorials endorsing Kamala Harris at this point is nothing but chickenshit."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #LosAngelesTimes #media
/14

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

The Washington Post and LA Times have already told us what they think about Donald Trump.

This is a dark day for American Journalism.

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

The aren't obeying in advance.

They want Trump to win.

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis #LosAngelesTimes #media
/7

Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Guardian states that Harris Harris represents a hopeful future, while Trump will drag Americans back into a reactionary past.

Trump’s authoritarianism may be the end of US democracy, The Guardian concludes.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #TheGuardian
/16

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Guardian view on the US presidential election 2024: a Democratic government is the one we need

Editorial: This election presents a critical choice. Do we embrace a hopeful future or retreat to a reactionary past? We’re backing Kamala Harris. She will unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws

^{Harry Fischer (The Guardian)}

And an important piece of information we may need to assess why Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris: as Sewell Chan, previously an editor at Los Angeles Times, reminds us:

"Elon Musk … is friendly with Soon-Shiong — they are both South African-born billionaire entrepreneurs."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #ElonMusk
/15

cjr.org/business_of_news/los-a…

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

^{Columbia Journalism Review}

"In a statement, the L.A. Times Guild said it is especially concerned 'that he is now unfairly assigning blame to Editorial Board members for his decision not to endorse.'"

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
/14

"Mariel Garza, the Los Angeles Times' editorials editor, resigned yesterday after Patrick Soon-Shiong, the newspaper's billionaire owner, blocked the outlet’s decision to endorse Harris. This has further strained Soon-Shiong's already tense relationship with Times staff during a year marked by newsroom cuts and turmoil."

~ Brian Stelter

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong
/13

view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa…

"No one else in modern politics has been given more leeway for aberrant behavior than Trump."

~ Renée Graham

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
/12

bostonglobe.com/2024/10/22/opi…

Opinion | When will media stop coddling Trump?

Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.

^{The Boston Globe}

Jeff Sharlet looks at the term "sanewashing," which Parker Molloy has popularized to characterize how the corporate media treat Trump, and says,

"I think Parker would agree with this; It’s fascist-washing."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
/11

lithub.com/jeff-sharlet-on-san…

Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straigh…

^{Literary Hub}