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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – DECEMBER 10, 2024  
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December 10, 2024
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_ Are media owners surrendering press freedom? _

Credit, Cathy Wilcox

 

* Newsroom Leaders! Show Some Spine
* Clock’s Ticking on TikTok
* Where To, MSNBC?
* Public Broadcasters on Thin Ice
* _Haaretz_ Carries On
* Afghan Women Documented in Smartphone-Made Film
* _LA Times_ Owner Gets a Bias Controller
* Digitizing the AIDS Quilt 
* Why Bitcoin is Booming
* Claud Cockburn’s Legacy

NEWSROOM LEADERS! SHOW SOME SPINE
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By Margaret Sullivan
American Crisis

When would-be authoritarians take power, one of the first things they
want to do is stamp out independent journalism. We can’t let that
happen. I hope that top newsroom leaders — the decision-makers at
the _New York Times_, the _Washington Post_, CNN, _Wall Street
Journal_, the broadcast networks and others — are clearly
communicating to their staffs that they’re not going to knuckle
under.

CLOCK’S TICKING ON TIKTOK
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By Ari Paul
FAIR

A federal appeals court ruled that a congressional ban on TikTok can
go into effect in the next few weeks. A TikTok ban has been in the
works since the first Trump administration. Lawmakers have argued for
years that the Chinese government is using the app to spy on
Americans by collecting their personal data and to spread propaganda
that could be used to influence US elections.

WHERE TO, MSNBC?
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By Eric Berger
The Guardian

The parent company of the channel, Comcast, recently revealed that it
would spin off the cable news network. The negative reports about the
channel over the last month are just the latest examples of an
established US media company struggling to find its footing as people
continue to drop cable television packages and instead use streaming
services.

PUBLIC BROADCASTERS ON THIN ICE
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By Max Tani
Semafor

Republicans’ focus on the media has never been remotely this
intense. While PBS has found some success on YouTube, NPR’s
incomplete digital transformation, declining radio listenership, and
high-profile political stumbles have left it weaker than ever. Now
there’s greater concern among public radio figures than there has
been in years about the future of NPR and public radio broadly.

_HAARETZ_ CARRIES ON
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By Nathan Klabin
The Media Line

Creating a battle line between freedom of speech and the media’s
role in political discourse, the Israeli government severed ties with
_Haaretz_ on November 24. The newspaper’s official response to
Netanyahu’s government stated: “_Haaretz_ will not balk and will
not morph into a government pamphlet that publishes messages approved
by the government and its leader.” 

AFGHAN WOMEN DOCUMENTED IN SMARTPHONE-MADE FILM
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By Radhika Seth
British Vogue

_Bread and Roses_ is an ode to the unimaginable resilience and
solidarity of Afghan women: a rough-and-ready documentary which tells
the story of the Taliban entering Kabul and everything that followed.
Most of it is made up of footage stealthily recorded by the women
themselves, as they attend marches, meetings and rally together with
their loved ones. 

_LA TIMES_ OWNER GETS A BIAS CONTROLLER
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By Liam Reilly and Jon Passantino
CNN

_Los Angeles Times_ owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the
newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its
editorial board, says he will implement an artificial
intelligence-powered “bias meter” on the paper’s news articles
to provide readers with “both sides” of a story.

DIGITIZING THE AIDS QUILT
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By Maria Peña
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online
collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of
the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States
available to a global audience. The digitized archive is now reunited
online with the communal folk art of the quilt panels. These
digitized collections will make the Quilt available to everyone. 

WHY BITCOIN IS BOOMING
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By Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea
Vox

The price of bitcoin surged past $100,000 for the first time on
Thursday, continuing a post-election run buoyed by the
pro-crypto promise of the incoming Trump administration. Trump has
been an ardent cryptocurrency supporter throughout his most recent
presidential campaign, and his choices to lead key government agencies
related to its regulation reflect that enthusiasm.

CLAUD COCKBURN’S LEGACY
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By Patrick Cockburn and Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders and Friends

In the Hitler era, a young British journalist quit his job with the
prestigious London _Times_ and founded _The Week_, an independent
newsletter that became famous for its scoops and opposition to fascism
and to the Western powers that were enabling its rise. He wrote under
many pen names, including Frank Pitcairn, but his real name was Claud
Cockburn.

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* independent journalism
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* TikTok
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* MSNBC
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* NPR
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* public broadcasting
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* Haaretz
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* Afghan women
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* Bread and Roses
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* Los Angeles Times
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* artificial intelligence
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* bias
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* Patrick Soon-Shiong
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* AIDS quilt
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* Bitcoin
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* Claud Cockburn
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