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Writers Guild members have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a
strike. The vote was approved by nearly 98% of the eligible voting
members. Credit, Getty
* Internet Access a Basic Human Right
* Writers Strike
* The Last Nuremburg Prosecutor — Censored Posthumously
* AI in the Working World
* Is NPR “State-Affiliated”?
* Getting It Wrong on Palestine
* Bitcoin: The Tulip of Tech
* Media Buzz Around the World
* When News is a ChatGPT Creation
* The Next Battle Over FCC Leadership
INTERNET ACCESS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT
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By Thalif Deen
Inter Press Service
A new University of Birmingham study has proposed that internet and
online access be declared a human right. “People around the globe
are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human
rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online
access must now be considered a basic human right”, says the study.
WRITERS STRIKE
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By Kristin Toussaint
Fast Company
The WGA’s contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and
Television Producers—a trade association that represents more than
350 Hollywood film- and TV-production companies, including Paramount,
Warner Bros., Disney, Netflix, and Apple+—expires on May 1. The
union has been negotiating for big changes, primarily to the pay
structure for writers, in line with the rise of streaming.
SHUTTING UP THE LAST NUREMBURG PROSECUTOR
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By Jon Schwarz
The Intercept
Benjamin Ferencz died last week at the age of 103. Ferencz was the
last surviving member of the team of prosecutors at the Nuremberg
trials after World War II. He also had strong opinions about the Iraq
War. But no mention of them in his obituaries.
AI IN THE WORKING WORLD
* PRO
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By Rani Molla, Vox
* CON
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By Nathan J. Robinson, Jacobin
IS NPR “STATE-AFFILIATED”?
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By Bill Chappell
NPR
Twitter added a "state-affiliated media" tag to NPR's main account on
Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that
Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda
outlets in countries such as Russia and China. NPR officials have
asked Twitter to remove the label.
GETTING IT WRONG ON THE AL-AQSA RAIDS
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By Abdul Rahman
Peoples Dispatch
Palestinian activist Mustafa Barghouti called the Times reporting on
the Al-Aqsa violence as “biased to Israel, adopting Israeli
narrative unconditionally, and trying to provide Israel with
impunity.” Another report by the BBC also invited strong reactions
from Palestinians. Slanted reporting on the Israeli violence at
Al-Aqsa and its subsequent airstrikes in Gaza is a routine practice
and nothing new.
BITCOIN: THE TULIP OF THE TECH AGE
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By Fabio De Masi
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Bitcoin’s blockchain technology, while exciting, is also inefficient
compared to banks or Visa’s financial technology, and the benefits
are unclear. After the 2007–8 financial crisis, crypto hype reached
the financial market and sold itself as an alternative to banks
creating new money (out of thin air) not backed by gold or other
assets (so-called “fiat money”) with the push of a button on their
computers.
MEDIA BUZZ AROUND THE WORLD
* UGANDA
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By Brunella Tipismana, NACLA Report
* TAIWAN
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By Lorenzo Lamperti, il manifesto Global
* HUNGARY
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By Lucy Martirosyan, openDemocracy
* EGYPT
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By Bahar Makooi, France 24
WHEN NEWS IS A CHATGPT CREATION
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By Chris Moran
The Guardian
A researcher had carried out research using ChatGPT. In response to
being asked about articles on this subject, the AI had simply made
some up. Its fluency, and the vast training data it is built on, meant
that the existence of the invented piece even seemed believable to the
named reporter, who absolutely hadn’t written it.
THE NEXT BATTLE OVER FCC LEADERSHIP
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By Craig Aaron
Free Press
They’re celebrating at Comcast and Fox, where their lobbyists
deserve most of the credit for concocting lies to derail Gigi Sohn’s
nomination. They falsely portrayed her as radical and divisive, even
though her years of experience tell a different story — about a
highly regarded expert who has reached across political divides to
support communications policies that help people.
* Human Rights
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* Internet
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* Writers Guild of America
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* Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
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* Benjamin Ferencz
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* Iraq War
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* artificial intelligence
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* Palestine
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* Bitcoin
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