Home » Posts tagged 'journalists' (Page 2)
Tag Archives: journalists
The Controversy around Skin in the Game
The Controversy around Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is another addition to the Incerto, now volume 5; I avoided duplication by referring to where in the Incerto some points were developed such as via negativa or monoculture of forecasters or expert problems. You simply don’t repeat in chapter 23 what was said in […]
Turkey Has The Most Jailed Journalists Worldwide
Turkey Has The Most Jailed Journalists Worldwide According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a record 262 journalists are being held in prisons around the world. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, nearly three-quarters of them are being held on anti-state charges while at least 21 have been charged with “false news”. The worst three jailers are […]
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists?
Is the Mexican Government Spying on Journalists? On the season finale of ‘CYBERWAR,’ Ben Makuch investigates why government spyware is cropping up on Mexican reporters’ smartphones. On Tuesday, VICELAND is airing the season finale of CYBERWAR, sending Ben Makuch to Mexico to investigate the government’s potentially fraught use of hacking tools. Mexican authorities purchased spyware […]
Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America?
Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America? So what do you do when you fail to elect your chosen candidate and your former political allies and mainstream media turn against youby painting you not as the ‘progressive’, open-minded, friendly tech company that you used to be but as an evil, racist, […]
Newly-Declassified Documents Show that CIA Worked Closely with Owners and Journalists with Many of the Largest Media Outlets
Newly-Declassified Documents Show that CIA Worked Closely with Owners and Journalists with Many of the Largest Media Outlets Newly-declassified documents show that a senior CIA agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence worked closely with the owners and journalists of many of the largest media outlets: The United States Senate Select Committee to Study […]
Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its “Magical Fairyland” of Tax Avoidance
Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its “Magical Fairyland” of Tax Avoidance LUXEMBOURG IS TRYING to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the “LuxLeaks” exposé that revealed the tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance. The trial of Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, two former employees […]
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia Russian news agency Sputnik’s Turkish bureau chief has been blacklisted by Ankara, who refused him entry to the country in an airport, and seized his residence permit and press credentials. “I landed in Istanbul at 0:40 today with Aeroflot’s […]
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad When right wingers go off on NPR and the New York Times for being mouthpieces of the Democratic Party or left wingers criticize Fox News and PBS for having too many conservatives on the air, it makes my head spin. Is there no such thing as truth anymore or not a single honest […]
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets The Pentagon has released an 1,176-page book of instructions on the “The Law Of War” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaces the Bush era “unlawful enemy combatant.” As The Washington Times reports, an […]
Russian journalists attacked, robbed at nationalist torchlight march in Kiev (VIDEO) — RT News
Russian journalists attacked, robbed at nationalist torchlight march in Kiev (VIDEO) — RT News. Two Russian journalists have been attacked, beaten and robbed during a radical torchlight march in central Kiev. Thousands took to the streets in the Ukrainian capital for the birthday anniversary of radical nationalist WWII leader. The rally was dedicated to Stepan […]
