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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MAY 2, 2023
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* A Test of the News
* A Tucker Born Every Minute
* AI Spam
* Fox News Needs You
* California’s Media Regulation Bill
* Goodbye Twitter, Hello Bluesky
* Bots and Political Bias
* Groaners from Netflix’s _The Diplomat_
* History and the Decline of Local News
* Farewells
A TEST OF THE NEWS
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By Wesley Lowery
Columbia Journalism Review
News organizations across the country often rely on euphemisms instead
of clarity in clear cases of racism (“racially charged,”
“racially tinged”) and acts of government violence
(“officer-involved shooting”). Such decisions are journalistic
failings, but also moral ones: when the weight of the evidence is
clear, it is wrong to conceal the truth. Justified as
“objectivity,” they are in fact its distortion.
A TUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE
* ALL FALL DOWN
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By Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review
* MORNING AFTER
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN
* MISSING THE SON-OF-A-GUN
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By Andrew Prokop, Vox
AI SPAM
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By John Licato
The Conversation
The arms race between spam blockers and spam senders is about to
escalate with the emergence of a new weapon: generative artificial
intelligence. With recent advances in AI made famous by ChatGPT,
spammers could have new tools to evade filters, grab people’s
attention and convince them to click, buy or give up personal
information.
FOX NEWS NEEDS YOU
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By Madeline Peltz and John Knefel
Media Matters for America
Fox News is now pursuing an even more aggressive strategy to raise
revenue by increasing the fee paid by cable and satellite providers to
$3 per subscriber. These fees are the majority of revenue for Fox,
more even than advertising, and they are significantly higher than
those charged by the network’s competitors.
CALIFORNIA’S MEDIA REGULATION BILL
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By Grace Geode
CalMatters
A California bill would hold social media companies legally
responsible for addicting kids to their platforms. Tech lobbyists,
digital rights advocates, and others say the proposal would run afoul
of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
GOODBYE TWITTER, HELLO BLUESKY
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By Ashley Belanger
Ars Technica
There's a reason why Bluesky seems like a great replacement for
Twitter. The app is designed with a decentralized system with user
data stored in independent servers and not in a company server. A
major perk would be the ability to transition Bluesky account
information, including all followers, when users want to switch to a
different social platform.
BOTS AND POLITICAL BIAS
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By Will Knight
Wired
A data scientist based in New Zealand drew attention to the issue of
political bias in ChatGPT. Several weeks ago, after documenting what
he considered liberal-leaning answers from the bot on issues including
taxation, gun ownership, and free markets, he created an AI model
called RightWingGPT that expresses more conservative viewpoints. It is
keen on gun ownership and no fan of taxes.
GROANERS FROM NETFLIX’S _THE DIPLOMAT_
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By Roxana Hadadi
New York Magazine
_The Diplomat_ is full of othering and historical revisionism, which
are irritating enough in how they position characters working on
behalf of the American empire as tormented by the burden of their
loyal sacrifice. When Keri Russell’s Kate is
simply_ too _irresistible to her colleagues and her childish ways
are positioned as empowerment, _The show_ becomes a superficial slog
of self-important “herstory.”
HISTORY AND THE DECLINE OF LOCAL NEWS
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By Rachel Matthews, Carole O'Reilly, Martin Conboy and Andrew
Pettegree
History Today
It’s bad news for local newspapers, with reports that they have
reached their lowest numbers since the 18th century. How will
historians study the provincial past when they can’t read all about
it?
FAREWELLS
* BUZZFEED
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN
* VICE NEWS
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Al Jazeera
* JERRY SPRINGER
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* Journalism
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* NETFLIX
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* The Diplomat
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