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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 4, 2025
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February 4, 2025
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_ The exodus from mainstream media _
, Steve Bell
* Trump and Tech
* Deepseek Turns the Tables
* Mindblowing Capitulation at Public TV Station
* Covering the Kakocracy
* TikTok Takes
* Political Cartoonists’ Dilemma
* Exiting Stage Left
* Information Wants to Get Out
* They Say AI, We Say Fight Back
* A Call to Media Organizations
TRUMP AND TECH
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By Cédric Durand
_New Left Review_
Only a few years ago, the vast majority of tech billionaires were
outspoken supporters of Biden and the Democrats. The crucial question
concerns the nature of this realignment: is it a simple opportunistic
turnaround, within the same systemic parameters? Or is this a moment
of rupture worthy of being called a great event in history?
DEEPSEEK TURNS THE TABLES
* SHAKING UP THE HEAVYWEIGHTS
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By Tongliang Liu, _The Conversation_
* POPPING THE AI BUBBLE
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David Dayen, _The American Prospect_
* DEEPSEEK AND CLIMATE
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By Bill McKibben, The Crucial Years
MINDBLOWING CAPITULATION AT PUBLIC TV STATION
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By Andrew Lapin
_Jewish Telegraphic Agency_
A rabbi in South Carolina used the occasion of a Holocaust memorial
ceremony to draw parallels to modern-day federal and state policies on
refugees, LGBTQ issues and book bans — only to have his speech cut
out of the state public television station’s archived video of the
event. The decision to pull the segment came from the South Carolina
Council on the Holocaust, not the government.
COVERING THE KAKOCRACY
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By Dan Froomkin
_Press Watch_
Rather than speaking truth to power, the MSM have become stenographers
with amnesia, hiding the truth through the use of anodyne adjectives,
convoluted phrasing and buried leads. In some cases they have been
explicitly muzzled -- told by their bosses to “be forward-thinking
and to avoid pre-judging Trump,” as CNN chief Mark Thompson told his
staff.
TIKTOK TAKES
* THE BIG FLIPFLOP
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By Emily Taylor, _The Guardian_
* A BOON TO TEACHING
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By Kaitlynne Rainne, _Her Campus_
* THE ONLY TRULY DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL PLATFORM
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By Sophia Smith Galer, _The Guardian_
POLITICAL CARTOONISTS’ DILEMMA
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By Zach Rabiroff
_The Comics Journal_
It would be nice to think that our political cartoons can make a
difference: that perhaps they can provide some measure of, if not
comfort to the afflicted, then at least an assurance that they are not
insane to believe in the affliction. But even if they do not, they –
all of our jokes – are acts of affirmation of the world for its own
sake.
EXITING STAGE LEFT
* PAUL KRUGMAN QUITS NYT
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Paul Krugman, _The Contrarian_
* JIM ACOSTA QUITS CNN
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By Brian Steinberg, _Variety_
INFORMATION WANTS TO GET OUT
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By Dan Sinker
_Unfinished Business_
We need to build new things in new ways independent of the oligarchs
that now control the government after already controlling much of our
lives. That means moving away from the platforms that have dominated
the way we’ve connected, collaborated, and disseminated information
for the last couple decades.
THEY SAY AI, WE SAY FIGHT BACK
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By Marty Hart-Landsburg, _Socialist Project_
* IT’S THE POOR WHO PAY
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By Kevin De Liban, _Inequality.org_
A CALL TO MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS
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By Maya Schenwar, Negin Owliaei and Ziggy West Jeffery
_Truthout_
Throughout the first Trump campaign and presidency, corporate
newsrooms acted as if they were dinghies buoyed along a naturally
occurring wave to the right. When these outlets did choose to take a
stand, it was often around attacks on a free press — which
mainstream media depicted as a distinct issue, rather than recognizing
its connections with attacks on oppressed communities.
* Donald Trump
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* Big Tech
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* Deepseek
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* artificial intelligence
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* Climate
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* public television
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* South Carolina
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* censorship
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* mainstream media
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* TikTok
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* HillmanTok University
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* political cartooning
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* paul krugman
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* new york times
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* Jim Acosta
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* CNN
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* independent media
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* media organizations
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