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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JULY 12, 2023
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_ The train wreck that is Twitter, and other fun stuff _
, Claytoonz
* Platforms and Human Rights
* Mark Mashes Musk
* Warner Discovery in the Clutches of an Idiot
* Berlin Court Backs Palestinian Journalist
* Fox News Reshuffles
* AI and Jobs
* World’s Oldest Newspaper Stops the Presses
* Covering the Court
* Is TCM Safe?
* The Politics of _Yellowstone_
PLATFORMS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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By Veridiana Alimonti, Daly Barnett, and Agneris Sampieri
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The right to seek, receive, and impart information has enabled the
exercise of other rights and strengthened the internet ecosystem, but
not without backlashes and critical challenges. The current
discussion about platform regulation in Brazil demonstrates that much
effort is going into addressing these challenges.
MARK MASHES MUSK
* AS THE SMOKE CLEARS
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By Dan Milmo, The Guardian
* THREADS: PUBLIC SQUARE OR MEGA-MALL?
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By Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch
WARNER DISCOVERY IN THE CLUTCHES OF AN IDIOT
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By Drew Magrery
SFGATE
David Zaslav is the man in charge of frankencorp Warner Bros.
Discovery and, in an impressively short period of time, has managed
to f—k up nearly everything within its considerable portfolio. You
have to really _try _to make CNN more inane than it already was.
Zaslav did.
BERLIN COURT BACKS PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST
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The New Arab
A court in Germany ruled that the dismissal of a
Palestinian-Jordanian journalist by German broadcaster _Deutsche
Welle_ for alleged expression of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views
was invalid. Farah Maraqa was one of five members of staff, of either
Lebanese or Palestinian origin, fired by _DW_ in February 2022.
FOX NEWS RESHUFFLES
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By Justin Peters
Slate
The changes were catalyzed by three main factors, the most important
of which is the network’s recent and alarming prime-time ratings
slump. Tucker Carlson lost the internal power struggle with Murdoch,
but it was a Pyrrhic victory for the network, which has foundered
since Carlson’s exit. Finally, Fox News wants to make sure that its
hosts avoid any more costly defamation lawsuits.
AI AND JOBS
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By Sonali Kolhatkar
CityWatch
The framing of “Will AI replace your job?” obscures the bigger
problem that has been at work for centuries: and that is how our jobs,
and therefore our educations, careers, and livelihoods, are at the
whims of a capitalist system intent on minimizing costs and maximizing
profits.
WORLD’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER STOPS THE PRESSES
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By Donna Ferguson
The Guardian
The world’s oldest national newspaper has printed its last daily
edition almost 320 years after it began. _Wiener Zeitung_, a
Vienna-based daily newspaper, will no longer print daily editions
after a recent law change meant it had ceased to be profitable as a
print product.
COVERING THE COURT
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By Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review
Reporters too often treat the Supreme Court as hallowed institutional
ground and its decisions as pure expressions of judicial science,
rather than as a political body engaged in politics. This
criticism has resurfaced during the Court’s most recent term and
has perhaps come into sharper focus than before.
IS TCM SAFE?
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By Kim Masters
The Hollywood Reporter
Film directors, including Scorcese and Spielberg, rushed to TCM’s
defense, pledging to be involved meaningfully in nurturing the channel
— though obviously they can do nothing to stem the erosion of cable
audiences at the root of the channel’s chaos.
THE POLITICS OF _YELLOWSTONE_
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By Andrea Long Chu
New York Magazine
Taylor Sheridan’s _Yellowstone_ is known for being a red-state
show. But its political ideology is lifted from the left. In fact,
the whole moral vision of _Yellowstone_ is founded on a striking
equivalence between the genocide of Native peoples and the present-day
encroachments on the rancher heroes’ way of life.
* Human Rights
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* social media
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* Threads
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* twitter
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* Elon Musk
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* Mark Zuckerberg
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* David Zaslav
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* Warner Brothers Discovery
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* CNN
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* Farah Maraqa
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* Deutsche Welle
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* Fox News
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* artificial intelligence
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* Jobs
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* Wiener Zeitung
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* Supreme Court
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* Turner Classic Movies
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* yellowstone
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