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How Might We Undermine the PMC?
How Might We Undermine the PMC? Fourteen years ago, I wrote a very long article that became the lion’s share of Chapter Two of Keith Farnish’s book Underminers. My article was about the Tools of Disconnection — the cultural mechanisms by which we became disconnected from each other and the more-than-human world, and hence willing and able […]
Weekend reads: Slowing down the news
Weekend reads: Slowing down the news A Q&A with Jeremy Klaszus, founder of the Calgary outlet The Sprawl Photo credit: Gavin John At Lean Out, we often write about what’s not working in Canadian media — but we also want to highlight what is working, particularly when it comes to local news. As such, we have an […]
Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma
Managing Chaos: Adventures in Alternative Media. Greg Guma An eye-witness account that explores the unique, tumultuous history of Pacifica radio and alternative media in America. After an eclectic career, Greg Guma discusses the evolution of radio and television, the impacts of concentrated media ownership, the rise of the alternative press, his own work in Vermont — before […]
Leaked New York Times Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Leaked New York Times Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives. The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the […]
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media
The Day We Stopped Trusting Media Imagine future election campaigns One of the first posts in this newsletter’s Shrinking Trust Horizon series was about how “deep fake” technology will make fake images, videos, and audio recordings almost indistinguishable from the real thing. This will kill millions of modeling and acting jobs, while weaponizing audio and video in […]
Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the “Source of Truth”
Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the “Source of Truth” Sydney residents question the implications of centralized truth and censorship in the wake of a government’s push to police online discourse. Offering a fresh perspective on the fallout of a recent Sydney stabbing attack, residents have expressed their anger and mistrust toward the police who […]
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech
Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech A major attack on free speech was introduced on April 1st. Scotland’s contentious “hate crime” legislation, widely criticized as an affront to free speech, is now in effect. Critics have voiced concerns that these new measures, while designed to address the alleged harm inflicted by hatred […]
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation What if a conversation between Russian officials discussing the explosion of a bridge in Germany had been revealed? Would Western press coverage also treat the leak as something more serious than threats of military attack? On March 1, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya […]
The Endgame, Part I
The Endgame, Part I The Russo-Ukrainian war and geopolitics of Europe In early February, I posted a poll on X asking whether I should write a geopolitical piece on the Russo-Ukrainian war, adding to my series mapping a worst-case scenario for the war. While the vote count for this particular poll was not very high, an overwhelming majority supported […]
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites ‘We No Longer Own The News’
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites ‘We No Longer Own The News’ Thanks to the internet and (shrinking) press freedoms, legacy media outlets no longer have a monopoly on information and narratives. Case in point, during a WEF discussion at Davos entitled “Defending Truth,” Wall St. Journal EIC Emma Tucker lamented this loss of control over ‘the […]
It Will Happen Suddenly
It Will Happen Suddenly As the Great Unravelling progresses, we shall be seeing many negative developments, some of them unprecedented. Only a year ago, the average person was still hanging on to the belief that the world is in a state of recovery, that, however tentative, the economy was on the mend. And this is […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX–Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX November 7, 2020 Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse Once more a comment posted in the Tyee in response to ongoing ‘debate’ with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not […]
#259: The way we live next
#259: The way we live next REFLECTIONS ON THE REAL ECONOMY “Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security”, according to a new report published by Nature. The technical jargon here references a “meandering jet stream” but, for non-specialists, what this means is that we can no longer rely on worse-than-average crop conditions […]
Chris Hedges: The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism
Chris Hedges: The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga. De-Pressed – Mr. Fish Reporters make mistakes. It is the nature of […]
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers Listen to a reading of this article: Research conducted by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and […]
