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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – APRIL 29, 2025
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_ A future with (an even more) controlled press _
, Scott Stantis | Copyright 2017 Tribune Content Agency
* The End of Press Freedom?
* A Tidal Wave Started on Reddit
* Antitrust Agony
* News Coverage of Mass Opposition
* DeepSeek Goes Global
* Tech Oligarchs’ Prophetic Visions
* OpenAI Innovator Ordered Out of the Country
* Netflix CEO Says Theaters are Finished
* A Political Sitcom to Remember
* WFMU Forever
THE END OF PRESS FREEDOM?
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By Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect
One of the oddities of America’s slide into dictatorship is that
it’s all playing out publicly and being reported on by a still-free
press, often to Donald Trump’s embarrassment. As Trump tries to
destroy one free institution after another, sooner or later he will
come for the press. For the moment, his forays against the press have
been petulant and feeble rather than systematic.
A TIDAL WAVE STARTED ON REDDIT
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By Rachel Leingang
The Guardian
It started with a Reddit post. “50 PROTESTS – 50 STATES – 1
DAY,” the user who goes by Evolved Fungi wrote, kicking off a
movement that has since drawn hundreds of thousands to the streets in
protests against Donald Trump across the country.
ANTITRUST AGONY
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By Mathew Ingram
Columbia Journalism Review
Google has been found to be guilty of anticompetitive conduct in both
its search and online advertising operations. The government is
expected to argue that Google should be forced to sell off significant
chunks of its business. And those sales—if and when they actually
come to pass—could change the way that online publishing works in
some fundamental ways.
NEWS COVERAGE OF MASS OPPOSITION
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Media and Democracy Project
The same media institutions and newsroom leaders that fail to respond
to a constitutional crisis and fail to stand up for American democracy
in its existential battle against oligarchy and the fascist MAGA
movement are insufficiently covering the pro-democracy movement.
Combined, these two media failures enable the dismantling of American
democracy.
DEEPSEEK GOES GLOBAL
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By Mimi Zou
The Conversation
When small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company
DeepSeek released a family of extremely efficient and highly
competitive AI models last month, it rocked the global tech community.
The release revealed China’s growing technological prowess. It also
showcased a distinctly Chinese approach to AI advancement.
TECH OLIGARCHS’ PROPHETIC VISIONS
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By Evgeny Morozov
EL PAÍS
The oracles of Silicon Valley want to enforce the futures they once
envisioned. First, they sold us an idea of the world. Now, they intend
to implement it — reshaping laws, institutions, and cultural
expectations until their private fantasies become reality.
OPENAI INNOVATOR ORDERED OUT OF THE COUNTRY
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By Kyle Wiggers
TechCrunch
Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in
the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam
Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. Another OpenAI
employee, Dylan Hunn, said in a post that Chen was “crucial”
for GPT-4.5, one of OpenAI’s flagship AI models.
NETFLIX CEO SAYS THEATERS ARE FINISHED
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By Ethan Shanfeld
Variety
“Folks grew up thinking, I want to make movies on a gigantic screen
and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater
for two months and people cry and sold-out shows … It’s an
outdated concept.”
A POLITICAL SITCOM TO REMEMBER
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By Willie Carver
MSNBC
When the first run of Roseanne Barr’s eponymous working-class
comedy premiered on ABC in 1988, it stood in stark contrast to the
prime-time glamour of “Dallas” and “Dynasty_,_”_ _which then
dominated television. Instead of sparkling gowns and champagne-fueled
catfights, plots on “Roseanne” involved unpaid electric bills,
broken washing machines and kitchen-table spats.
WFMU FOREVER
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By John Erik Hmiel
Jacobin
For the DJs of WFMU, free-form radio is not simply a means to play
music without boundaries. It is a vital alternative to corporate
streaming platforms like Spotify, which treat music as nothing other
than monetizable data.
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