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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – OCTOBER 29, 2024
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_ Down to the wire _
Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch
* Trump’s Plans for the Media
* Anticipatory Obedience: Major Dailies Withhold Endorsements
* Communication Rules for Activists
* AI vs the Status Quo
* Steering NPR Rightward
* Disability Rights are Technology Rights
* Editing _Jewish Currents_
* Brazil Plays Hardball Against Musk
* UnitedHealth Has Major Data Breach
* Appreciating David Burnham
TRUMP’S PLANS FOR THE MEDIA
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By David Folkenflik
NPR
On the campaign trail and in interviews, Trump has suggested that if
he regains the White House, he will exact vengeance on news outlets
that anger him. More specifically, Trump has pledged to toss
reporters in jail and strip major television networks of their
broadcast licenses as retribution for coverage he didn't like.
ANTICIPATORY OBEDIENCE: MAJOR DAILIES WITHHOLD ENDORSEMENTS
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By Lois Beckett
The Guardian
When two American billionaires blocked the newspapers they own (_Los
Angeles Times_ and _The Washington Post_) from endorsing Kamala Harris
this month, they tried to frame the decision as an act of civic
responsibility. Veteran journalists and media critics are saying the
two billionaires, among the richest men on the entire globe, are
performing “anticipatory obedience” to Donald Trump.
COMMUNICATION RULES FOR ACTIVISTS
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By David Fenton
Bucks County Beacon
Why have progressives been so much less effective at public
communications than the right? Partly because people on the left look
down on the idea of “selling” ideas. People on the right who go to
business school and who have mastered marketing, communications, and
cognitive science, have triumphed by using communications principles
we pioneered in the ‘60s, then largely abandoned.
AI VS THE STATUS QUO
• ABUSING THE ELECTION
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By Barbara A. Trish, The Conversation
• BREAKING COPYRIGHT LAW
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By Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo
• EXACERBATING INEQUALITY
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Craig Aaron, Free Press
• HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS
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By Sarah Jaffe, In These Times
• UNIMAGINABLE ADVANCEMENTS IN ROBOT CAPABILITIES
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By Raúl Limón, EL PAÍS
STEERING NPR RIGHTWARD
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By Julie Hollar
FAIR
The CPB providing funding to National Public Radio to hire editors
that will make sure its programming adheres to standards that include
“objectivity,” “balance” and “the obligation to include
diverse viewpoints.” NPR staffers have every right to be worried
about that. How will the new editors define these terms?
DISABILITY RIGHTS ARE TECHNOLOGY RIGHTS
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By Cory Doctorow
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The needs of people with disabilities are especially idiosyncratic and
fine-grained. Everyone deserves and needs the ability to modify,
improve, and reconfigure the assistive technologies they rely on. But
the same tech companies that devote substantial effort to building in
assistive features often devote _even more_ effort to ensuring that
their gadgets, code and systems can’t be modified by their users.
EDITING _JEWISH CURRENTS_
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By Arielle Angel
New Left Review
_Currents_ was founded as the American Communist Party’s magazine
for the Jewish community, in 1946. It was then called _Jewish Life_.
After 1956 and the Khrushchev speech, that project fell apart; some
felt betrayed by the way the magazine had stuck to the Party line. So
they relaunched it as _Jewish Currents_, which they conceived as a
magazine for a ‘community, not a party’.
BRAZIL PLAYS HARDBALL AGAINST MUSK
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By Cecilia Rikap and Cédric Durand
Jacobin
The clash between Elon Musk and Brazil highlights a dilemma that goes
much deeper than social media. It’s about the complexities of a
sovereign nation regulating a digital space overwhelmingly ruled by US
corporations. The broader transformations of the digital landscape in
the past decades underscore that it’s not enough to just “let the
market rule.”
UNITEDHEALTH HAS MAJOR DATA BREACH
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By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch
A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health
tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest
data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. At
least 100 million people are now known to be affected by the breach.
APPRECIATING DAVID BURNHAM
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The Pinnacle Gazette
Remembered fondly by many, his legacy lives on through countless
journalists who adhere to the principles he modeled. The community of
investigative journalism is mourning the loss of one of its greats.
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* Elon Musk
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* David Burnham
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