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The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024
The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024 Scientists warn of ‘societal collapse’ on Earth with worsening climate situation – Irish Star Experts sound alarm over massive threat facing 16,500 US dams — here’s what you need to know No acceptable alternative | All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake Burning Man–The Failure of the Green New […]
NYT: Zelensky’s Government Crushes Press Freedoms in Ukraine
NYT: Zelensky’s Government Crushes Press Freedoms in Ukraine Reporters and press freedom monitors say the pressure, intimidation, and restrictions imposed on the media go well beyond the country’s wartime security needs Journalists and media groups have come under intense pressure from the Kiev regime, including spying and other forms of persecution during Ukraine’s war with […]
Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back
Weekend reads: The American press gets its groove back U.S. media is ‘dragging itself back from the brink.’ Will Canada follow? Bettmann/Getty Images A story broke last weekend that I’ve been waiting a long time to see. In an interview with Ben Smith at Semafor, Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, effectively […]
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 […]
Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering of Al Jazeera
Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering of Al Jazeera *** “Politics,” as the harsh, albeit successful German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck claimed, “is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.” To that should be added the stark awareness of being prudent, gingerly wise, appropriately cautious. Mind how you go […]
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 battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism
The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism Journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude. Now we face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden […]
“It’s Disgusting What They’re Doing”: Tucker Carlson Describes Visit With Julian Assange
“It’s Disgusting What They’re Doing”: Tucker Carlson Describes Visit With Julian Assange As Julian Assange approaches his ‘final’ appeal against extradition to the United States, where he faces some 18 counts related to the release of vast troves of damning and embarrassing evidence against the US government, the 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder received a visit from Tucker Carlson to […]
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 […]
Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times’ Russiagate Coverage
Prestigious Liberal Watchdog Condemns New York Times’ Russiagate Coverage The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has issued a scathing indictment of the New York Times for yellow journalism during the Trump-Russia saga. In short, the hyper-partisan ‘paper of record’ was operating in bad faith. It’s wasn’t just the Times either. CJR’s findings accurately reflect what most objective thinkers have known this […]
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers 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 changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.” […]
Elon Musk Calls Out ‘Corporate Journalism’ Over Coverage of His ‘Twitter Files’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway, on Aug. 29, 2022. (Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk Calls Out ‘Corporate Journalism’ Over Coverage of His ‘Twitter Files’ Elon Musk has criticized mainstream media outlets over their coverage of the so-called “Twitter Files.” […]
No Such Thing As An Objective Journalist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
No Such Thing As An Objective Journalist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive […]
Turkey Adopts Legislation That Could Jail Journalists for ‘Disinformation’
Peoples’ Democratic Party’s Zuleyha Gulum holds a banner “Truths cannot be obscured” as she stands with a covered mouth, in protest over a new media law that could lead to up to three years of jail for spreading “fake news” by reporters and social networks users, at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, Turkey, […]
