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Criminal 'Madness'...
J6 Attack Repeat?
True "Fake News"...
Constant Corruption!!
Kow Tow to China.
Sell Out Puppet...
True Bad Joke!
That's MAGA.
What Future?
UnStable Idiot...
Bunker Mania!!
Folks, enjoy yourselves tonight.
Never the End!!
Surely the ‘mainstream’ media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The BiggBoss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country. ‘Ambani’ is one of those names the farmers at Delhi’s gates invoke in their slogans. At other, lower levels too, it’s been a long time since we could actually distinguish between Fourth Estate and Real Estate. The ‘mainstream’ media are too deeply embedded in this universe to put the interests of citizens (let alone farmers) above those of corporations. The demonisation of the farmers in their papers and channels – rich farmers, only from Punjab, Khalistanis, hypocrites, Congressi conspirators and more – in the political reports (with some brilliant – and usual – exceptions) has been steady and relentless. The editorials of Big Media, though, take a different tack. Crocodile compassion. Essentially, the government should have handled it better. These are after all a bunch of ill-informed yokels who cannot see, but should be made to understand, the genius of the establishment economists and the prime minister – who have made such caring laws, so important for farmers and also the larger economy.
P Sainath, 'And you thought it’s only about farmers?', People's Archive of Rural India
The Washington Post is feeding into Trump’s agenda by turning fact-checking into an ideological weapon.
I’ve been fascinated by the very recent, nominal focus on “fact-checking” by media establishments from newspapers to 24/7 news channels.
The obsession is largely performative---because your entire purpose as a journalists has, and always will be, to report facts. Fact-checking is inherent to journalism; that media outlets should have specific columns or segments dedicated to “Fact-Checking” purposes should be completely redundant.
It’s the kind of thing that should always be happening, at all times, running in the background.
Not one American newspaper has called for Trump to resign
More than 100 called for Clinton to resign.... https://t.co/rlXaB8RByr
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch)
September 22, 2019
The Chicago-based media company bought the brawny New York tabloid less than a year ago. On Monday, it announced major cutbacks.
Today, The New York Daily News announced that it was laying off 50% of the newsroom staff, as well as the entire social media team, most of the photography department, much of the sports team, and more. The editor-in-chief, as well as other top staff, were also pushed out. It is an absolutely devastating blow to a paper that has a history of producing excellent journalism, and that had won a Pulitzer just last year for reporting on NYPD’s abuse of eviction rules.
What makes this truly disturbing is that, as local journalism is buried under financial strain and business takeover, political abuse and corruption will most certainly proliferate. Local papers have journalists in the courtrooms, in city hall, reporting on the little violations and abuses and scandals that national media doesn’t care to cover. Just as we look to national media to report on the corruption of the Trump administration, we look to local media to do the same for New York City, Baltimore, Miami, and others.
But that’s changing, and that check on local political power is fading away.
On this episode of The New York Public Library Podcast, Jelani Cobb looks back to Joseph McCarthy as a master manipulator of the media, inspecting the Wisconsin senator's behavior toward the press for clues about today's relationship between politicians and journalists. He examines the dynamics at play in the 2016 election, the role played by print, broadcast, and social media, and the implications of those dynamics for the fourth estate on the more immediate and long-term futures of American politics. Cobb also uses his experience teaching in Russia to help think through what could have made Russia interested in influencing the American presidential election in the first place. Listen now.