Pathetic timidity from the most powerful journalism organization in the nation: The NY Times says the illegal, outrageous police raid and seizure of everything electronic at a Kansas newspaper merely "raises questions" about freedom of the press.
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 In your opinion, does credulous repetition like this have more to do with corporate ownership or the vanishingly small number of reporters responsible for still producing a larger volume of “stories?”
I thought the immediate “resolution” of this impasse seemed remarkably easy given DeSantis’s previous stance on education.
nostr:npub1nygedj3fdkq436949mjzv8zhf8w6n2r7qu2ktke4xykemwl9avhqrer8cv Conning Big Journalism's political reporters has been going on for decades.
SIgh, NPR this morning said Trump's lifelong corruption and attempt to overthrow a national election isn't "quite" equivalent to Hunter Biden's sleaze.
I suppose this is progress -- given that NPR has been the champion of false equivalence, "both sides" bullshit in American broadcasting.
At this rate, NPR will arrive at telling basic truths in 2050 or so.
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 the entire story is crazy and incredibly scary - a simple document t tney decided not to publish turns into a full confiscation of all of their work.
nostr:npub1mqzrggp0zux4eksjgg0u9phfmehw4mehwxjnqs0p2v3yk3x3qp3q7nc9g5 More info is starting to emerge. The settlement the town will have to pay will be considerable.
Are we teaching our students about the world they're entering?
This looks like the most brazen and direct government attack on freedom of the press in a long, long time.
No doubt, Big Journalism will speak as one to denounce this almost certainly illegal raid and confiscation of computers and more.
I hope our nation's journalism will realize that the extremists who run one of our two major parties are itching to bring our news media to heel, and killing democracy is the way they will start.
Wake the hell up, folks.
Once again, a right-wing Republican cons the press and gets away with it.
https://popular.info/p/psyched-out-how-the-desantis-administration
Learning from experience is still not part of Big Journalism's playbook.
nostr:npub1wfxgp3257hkjwlepg3vqzzqgd8q7q7futxj4sfult7lld04qsx0s5g8uy3 Yes, he perjured himself almost certainly.
Look, Clarence Thomas is a thoroughly corrupt person. There is not a shred of doubt anymore.
But just in case you were still uncertain, nostr:npub16nxgzeq466nun42zslat4cgrj0r6dt4u0tdspyj7q85lpjpz8ursrjrj8k has gone deep and wide on "his penchant for taking expensive favors from his uber-wealthy and connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.”
One of America's best political observers, nostr:npub1ma0yqvyl0nnwkapdzm6fyxltpl8fz99js022dz08dcwvj33u7szsxz2wrm, says Democrats will have to get back to the basics -- serious local organizing -- now that they (and also the Republicans) have spammed us so relentlessly that we automatically ignore their emails.
https://theconnector.substack.com/p/have-we-finally-hit-peak-email
Important development in the journalism / social media world: Australia's big broadcaster, ABC, is shutting down its Twitter presence due to the growing toxicity at the Saudi-government-funded site. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Naturally, Musk responded with his usual deceit, an absurd claim about free speech mumble mumble.
nostr:npub1ntq8qqr07h3znwxcx7nttsgdgtzcheh26w2qex3npeysep6w06ls69rg38 Thanks, I'll take a look.
nostr:npub12wg6sx338wu3nn2a659qjdh0wuu87sx6prjd74dlmc94aw664xvqf6zq4n Fair point. The referendum they were trying to block will tell more of the story.
nostr:npub1ntq8qqr07h3znwxcx7nttsgdgtzcheh26w2qex3npeysep6w06ls69rg38 What's the best way to find out where to find specific topics?
nostr:npub1y9galcprj4vu43hdms7accwcx32qj46kcac035c0p6zjtdcs8ekq9rgavh With that logic you basically just wiped out all personal technology. nostr:npub1lslwn6kpyfkj3xp3zk6jd2epur5gjdeawklnsh9nd498xy50ezdqfz9c2x
Deep-red Ohio -- the "deep" part is due to grotesque gerrymandering -- is telling the forced-birth extremists to get lost. This is the coalition that can save democracy.
Authors going berserk over machines **reading** their work are completely missing the point. There is nothing wrong with reading.
There are some legitimate worries about what machines do after they read -- and store -- the material.
But as nostr:npub1lslwn6kpyfkj3xp3zk6jd2epur5gjdeawklnsh9nd498xy50ezdqfz9c2x points out in this latest case of misguided author freakout, that's a nuance that creators -- and journalists -- can't be bothered to consider:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/
Hate to say it, but Reddit has indeed destroyed the rebellion against its greedy, control-freakish new policies.
For my part, I canceled my account and have actively sought alternatives for the subreddits I was using (mostly for tech support).
nostr:npub1efvh0km06s5fqtz2mczx9yutnc6f4ksn39f6z0nz5n8hgde6x7vqp04jx2 I hope you'll publish some examples...
An otherwise sound article in the Houston nostr:npub1wnnp4l034tcrkfncc6yfnqe7pct9y4k2n2t085v0t56ua0jktusq990j59 makes what is a standard journalism error these days: It uses the word "conservative" to describe right-wing extremism, the current norm in the Republican party.