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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MARCH 18, 2025
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* Crypto and the Far Right
* The Media the Left Needs
* The Online Ecosystem Leans Right
* Trump’s Scorched Earth Media Policy
* China and the RedNote Surge
* Bezos Goes to Work on Washpost
* AI and Cinema
* How Hollywood Embraced Torture Scenes
* Data Colonialism
* Trade War Coverage
CRYPTO AND THE FAR RIGHT [[link removed]]
By John Feffer
_Foreign Policy in Focus_
Back in 2021, Donald Trump called cryptocurrency “a disaster
waiting to happen” and a “scam.” As he got closer to regaining
the White House, however, Trump changed his mind, probably as a result
of the millions of dollars that flowed into his campaign coffers
from industry donors. To the delight of these donors, Trump promised
to make the United States the cryptocurrency capital of the world.
THE MEDIA THE LEFT NEEDS
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By Anthony Nadler and Reece Peck
Jacobin
The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won
with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that
speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to build
a media ecosystem that resonates.
THE ONLINE ECOSYSTEM LEANS RIGHT
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By Kayla Gogarty
_Media Matters for America_
This analysis was based on 320 online shows with a right-leaning or
left-leaning ideological bent. We found that right-leaning online
shows dominate the ecosystem, with substantially larger audiences on
both politics/news shows and supposedly nonpolitical shows that we
determined often platformed ideological content or guests.
TRUMP’S SCORCHED EARTH MEDIA POLICY
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By Sara Fischer
_Axios_
Once considered a bastion for free expression, America's record on
press freedoms has fallen to a historic low, according to Reporters
Without Borders. Under Trump's second presidency, the press is "under
siege," the group argues. Trump is targeting traditional media
sources at a moment of tremendous vulnerability for the industry.
CHINA AND THE REDNOTE SURGE
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By Rohit Sharma, Nikhil Prashar and Kashish Kunden
_The Diplomat_
The Chinese platform RedNote quickly gained traction among TikTok’s
displaced users. However, what appeared to be a natural shift for
users was, in fact, a carefully orchestrated relocation backed by an
apparent influence campaign, which raises significant concerns about
digital privacy, influence, and security.
BEZOS GOES TO WORK ON _Washpost_
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By Andrew Rosenthal
_Columbia Journalism Review_
Every big shot of American industry has prattled on about free markets
that apply only to them. The _Post_ has surrendered its position in
the national debate to, I guess, an unending stream of commentary
about the purity of late-stage capitalism and so-called libertarian
ideals. How can you define bias in any other way?
AI AND CINEMA [[link removed]]
By Aaron Timms
_The Baffler_
_The Brutalist _represents AI’s most meaningful incursion to date
into the sanctum of Serious Cinema. Historically, technology has been
a boon to creativity. But AI is a different beast from color film, or
the Louma crane, or the hand-held camera: it’s steroidal,
aesthetically corrupting, and unlike these earlier advances it
confronts the filmmaker with real ethical questions.
HOW HOLLYWOOD EMBRACED TORTURE SCENES
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By Richard Beck
Verso Books
_Saw_, _24_, and _The Passion of the Christ_ came from two different
media and three different genres, but each of them presented its
audience with a world in which torture was effective, inevitable, and
above all necessary. The fantasy that unites them isn’t that the
right side always wins; it is that heroes can do evil things without
compromising their moral integrity, so long as they are forced to do
them.
DATA COLONIALISM
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By Chinmayi Arun
_Lawfare_
Colonialism’s inherited inequalities order where people are in
data’s value chain. In addition to data colonialism’s
informational harms, people such as exploited data
workers and physical laborers, who are often erased from
discussions of the data economy, experience material harms.
TRADE WAR COVERAGE
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By Dan Froomkin
_Press Watch_
It is only traditional-media reporters – their common sense
outweighed by their self-righteous refusal to engage in anything
remotely like partisan political judgements – who make the trade war
sound like something that came about for legitimate reasons.
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* far right
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* Donald Trump
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* media
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* the Left
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* online messaging
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* Media Bias
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* media industry
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* China
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* RedNote
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* Jeff Bezos
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* Washington Post
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* artificial intelligence
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* cinema
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* torture on film
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* data colonialism
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