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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
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_ What “balanced” coverage covers up about Trump’s bombast and
Project 2025 _
, Lalo Alcaraz
* Trump Gets a Pass – Again
* Movement Media Organizations Are Coming Together
* Age Limits for Social Media
* The Worst Magazine in America
* The Business Crisis of Local TV
* Project 2025 Coverage
* Russian Influencers
* When to Update Your Apple System
* Cyberboss: AI and Class
* Signal and Surveillance Capitalism
TRUMP GETS A PASS – AGAIN
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By Parker Molloy
The New Republic
Journalists have a responsibility to consistently remind the public of
these lies in future coverage. Every article about Vance should
mention his willingness to spread xenophobic misinformation. Every
piece on Trump should reference his history of transgender
fearmongering. These lies should color all future coverage of these
candidates, becoming an integral part of their political identity.
MOVEMENT MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS ARE COMING TOGETHER
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By Maya Schenwar and Lara Witt
Truthout
The Movement Media Alliance (MMA) is a newly formed coalition of
grassroots-aligned, social justice-driven journalism organizations
committed to accurate, transparent, accountable, principled and just
media. Members include _Truthout, Prism, In These Times, Convergence,
Waging Nonviolence, Scalawag, Inquest, The Real News Network _and
Haymarket Books.
AGE LIMITS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Josh Taylor
The Guardian
The prime minister of Australia’s plan to impose an age limit for
teenagers to access social media kicked off a debate this week over
what the age should be, whether a ban is feasible and if the
restriction would be good for kids. While experts in mental health
and other industries warn it could force kids into less safe
situations, the teens who are affected have largely been absent from
discussions.
THE WORST MAGAZINE IN AMERICA
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By Nathan A. Robinson
Current Affairs
The ideological suppositions that predominate (with exceptions)
in _The Atlantic_’s pages are morally repugnant. But the arguments
themselves are also shoddy and unpersuasive, purely as pieces of
reasoning.
THE BUSINESS CRISIS OF LOCAL TV
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By Richard J. Tofel
Second Rough Draft
Pew reports that more than 20% of the people who said in 2018 that TV
was their preferred source of local news have now shifted to digital.
Newspapers also continue to shrink, of course, although radio is
holding steady (and is now tied with newspapers as a preferred
source!). Those numbers for local TV news are likely to get worse over
time.
PROJECT 2025 COVERAGE
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By Ray Levy Uyeda
Prism
Project 2025 is an attempt to withhold political power from the
classes of people who stand to benefit from accurate climate change
information and who would otherwise be the most motivated to use that
information to mitigate climate impacts. But you wouldn’t be able
to tell that from most media coverage.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCERS
• HARD SOFT POWER
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By Catherine Luther and Brandon Prins, The Conversation
• RT AND TENET MEDIA
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By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen, Columbia Journalism Review
• META BANS RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA
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By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press
WHEN TO UPDATE YOUR APPLE SYSTEM
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By Adam Engst
TidBITS
As promised, Apple has released the initial versions of all its 2024
operating systems. If you aren’t already running a beta of the X.1
releases that support Apple Intelligence, you could consider
upgrading. But should you?
CYBERBOSS: AI AND CLASS
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By Craig Gent
openDemocracy
Digital technologies appear to be changing the world of work at a
fundamental level. Left unchecked, they may well lead to forms of work
that are increasingly stressful, injurious and dehumanising. What
unites the GrubHub rider’s app with the largest Amazon fulfilment
centre is a shared technology.
SIGNAL AND SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM
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By Andy Greenberg
Wired
Signal started 10 years ago as a virtuosic hacker project that was
pushing against a dominant paradigm that was almost universally
celebrated by everyone at the time: the surveillance business
model. Now it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
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* Project 2025
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* Climate Change
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* American Jews
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* mainstream media
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* class
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* surveillance state
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