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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JUNE 11, 2024  
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June 11, 2024
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_ A crisis moment for media _

A vigil in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022 for British journalist Dom
Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Credit, André Penner/AP


 

* The Media Moment We’re Living Through
* Anti-Trust and Big Tech
* TikTok’s Microfeminism
* NY Daily News Staff is Angry
* Climate Crisis Journalists
* Lobbyists Lining Up to Influence AI Deregulation
* Right Wing Media Reckoning
* Banning “Addictive” Algorithms
* Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests
* Remembering Greg Philo

THE MEDIA MOMENT WE’RE LIVING THROUGH
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By Jon Allsop
Columbia Journalism Review

Vigorous, well-proportioned accountability journalism is essential to
society, whatever it looks like and whether or not people feel minded
to pay for it (not that these are small questions). If the market
isn’t funding it at requisite levels—and it’s not—the most
pressing question for the news business is _So how _do_ we pay for
it?_, not _So what do we do instead?_

ANTI-TRUST AND BIG TECH
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By Jody Godoy
Reuters

The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have
reached a deal that clears the way for potential antitrust
investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI and
Nvidia play in the artificial intelligence industry. Regulatory
scrutiny is gathering steam amid concerns over concentration in the
industries that make up AI.

TIKTOK’S MICROFEMINISM
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By Jessica Guynn
USA TODAY

Watched by 2.8 million, a TikTok video touched off a viral
conversation about microfeminism, inspiring women – and men – to
respond with their own small but mighty clapbacks at sexism that are
spreading online and off. 

NY DAILY NEWS STAFF IS ANGRY
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By Natalie Korach
The Wrap

Unionized staffers at New York Daily News approved a vote of no
confidence against the newspaper’s executive editor. The union has
been engaged in a bitter dispute with management as the newspaper’s
owner Alden Global Capital has directed staffing cuts while
circulation and revenue dwindle. The vote was signed by 46 members,
or nearly 87% of the union.

CLIMATE CRISIS JOURNALISTS
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By Nina Lakhani
The Guardian

Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate
crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of
their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to
groundbreaking new research. The volume of coverage of the climate
crisis is still not commensurate with the gravity of the problem.

LOBBYISTS LINING UP TO INFLUENCE AI DEREGULATION
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By Luyi Cheng and Mike Tanglis 
Public Citizen

AI is not just an issue of concern for AI and software corporations:
While the tech industry was responsible for the most AI-related
lobbyists in 2023 – close to 700 – the total amounts to only 20
percent of all the AI-related lobbyists deployed. Lobbyists from a
broad distribution of industries outside of tech engaged in AI-related
issues.

RIGHT WING MEDIA RECKONING
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By Erik Ortiz
NBC News

Right-wing media that became purveyors of 
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and amplified false claims as Donald Trump undermined the results of
the 2020 election are finding themselves on the losing end of legal
challenges — or facing new ones. In just a few months, a handful of
high-profile fringe media operations have been hit with courtroom
losses.

BANNING “ADDICTIVE” ALGORITHMS
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By David Robinson
Democrat and Chronicle

New York lawmakers passed bills banning internet companies from
exploiting personal data and using "addictive" algorithms designed to
keep kids hooked on social media. Gov. Kathy Hohul is also pushing
a ban of smartphones in schools that will be debated in coming
months.

SURVEILLANCE DEFENSE FOR CAMPUS PROTESTS
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By Rory Mir, Thorin Klosowski, and Christian Romero
Electronic Frontier Foundation

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been
met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from l
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enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that
the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the
dangers faced by all of the communities colleges are meant to support,
and only serves to suppress lawful speech.

REMEMBERING GREG PHILO
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By Tom Mills
Jacobin

Greg Philo, who died last month, was a giant in the field of critical
media studies. Philo and his colleagues exposed the conservative bias
of TV news across a whole range of issues, from workers’ strikes to
Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.

* media
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* Journalism
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* Anti-trust
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* Big Tech
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* TikTok
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* Feminism
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* New York Daily News
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* Climate
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* climate journalists
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* artificial intelligence
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* Washington lobbyists
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* right wing media
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* New York State
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* Kathy Hochul
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* social media
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* schools
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* Smartphones
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* surveillance
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* Student protests
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* Greg Philo
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