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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES — APRIL 16, 2024  
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_ Warning! Small publishers are on the ropes _

, Press TV

 

* Queering the Joker
* Net Neutrality and the FCC
* The Digital Trade Paradox in Europe
* Orientalism and Palestine Coverage
* Assange and the Attack on Journalists
* Musk and Internet Democracy
* Collapse of Small Press Publishing
* Soros’s New Audio Project
* Pink Slime
* The Mad Dash for Artificial General Intelligence

QUEERING THE JOKER
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By John Paul King
Los Angeles Blade

“The People’s Joker” is by no means the kind of big-budget
blockbuster we expect from a superhero — or in this case,
supervillain — film. The filmmaker takes aim at the expected
targets – the patriarchy, toxic masculinity, corporate hypocrisy,
etc. – while scoring hits against draconian ideals of political
correctness and weaponized “cancel culture”. 

NET NEUTRALITY AND THE FCC
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By Gopal Ratnam
Roll Call

The Biden administration’s move to restore net neutrality will need
to pass legal tests to stick, and even then it will be at risk of a
rollback under a future administration if Congress doesn’t
act. The Federal Communications Commission last week said it plans to
vote later this month on a draft order that would classify
“broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications
service.”

THE DIGITAL TRADE PARADOX IN EUROPE
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By Deborah James
transform! Europe

Big Tech corporations are working to constrain the ability of
European Union (EU) democratic bodies to regulate their activities in
the public interest through permanent and binding “trade”
agreements. While the technological improvements are welcome, the
policy environment within which these new technologies operate defines
who stands to benefit, and who may suffer in the long run. 

ORIENTALISM AND PALESTINE COVERAGE
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By Joseph Daher
Al Jazeera Journalism Review

Western media coverage has largely focused on Israeli “suffering”
and “self-defense”, neglecting crucial context and casualty
details. Studies also indicate systemic media bias against
Palestinians in major Western nations. As violence in Gaza continues
unabated, pressing questions remain around disproportionate force and
the role of media in shaping the dominant narrative. 

ASSANGE AND THE ATTACK ON JOURNALISTS
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By Brian Karem
Salon

Whatever else you think of Assange, his actions, and what he’s being
prosecuted for, were acts of journalism that used to be commonplace
and are now extinct. The U.S. government hounds him because at the end
of the day, our government doesn’t want its dirty little or big
secrets aired.

MUSK AND INTERNET DEMOCRACY
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By Ari Paul
FAIR

Elon Musk, the right-wing anti-union billionaire owner
of Twitter (recently rebranded as X), has cast his defiance of a
Brazilian judicial ruling as a free speech crusade against censorship.
Such framing is, of course, bullshit. It is instead a political
campaign by a capitalist to use social media to reshape global
politics in favor of the right. 

COLLAPSE OF SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING
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By Adam Morgan
Literary Hub

After 55 years, Small Press Distribution (SPD)—one of the last
remaining independent book distributors in the US—was shutting down
immediately, with no advance notice or transitional support. Without a
distributor, small presses are completely cut off from their main
sources of income—and for some, SPD might have been the only
affordable option left.

SOROS’S NEW AUDIO PROJECT
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By Max Tani
Semafor

Over the last two years, Soros Fund Management, the firm founded by
the billionaire investor and now controlled by the Open Society
Foundations, has become an increasingly key player in the oldest
electronic mass media: radio. Soros typically invests in media both
to profit and to further what he sees as the democratic values of an
open society.

PINK SLIME
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By Marc Edge
Canadian Dimension

Corporations have set up local faux news operations to exert political
influence and “greenwash” their environmental records. The number
of pink slime sites, so-called after the meat byproduct sometimes
found in fast food hamburgers, almost tripled in the US from about
450 in 2019, studies have found, to more than 1,200 in advance of
elections there the following year.

THE MAD DASH FOR ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
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By Émile P. Torres
Truthdig

AI companies trying to build artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Many leading figures at these very companies have claimed, in public,
while standing in front of microphones, that one possible outcome of
the technology they are explicitly trying to build is that everyone on
Earth dies. And almost no one is freaking out about this.

* The People's Joker
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* net neutrality
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* FCC
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* digital trade
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* Europe
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* Palestine
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* Journalism
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* orientalism
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* Julian Assange
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* Elon Musk
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* internet democracy
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* small press publishing
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* George Soros
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* radio
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* fake news
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* artificial general intelligence
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