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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JULY 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025
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_ SOS PBS NPR _
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* The Bell is Tolling for Public Broadcasting
* CBS and Colbertgate
* Against Fascist Infiltration in Digital Space
* AI Plunges Ahead
* NYPD, FDNY and Columbia Cross a Line
* Internet Access is a Lifeline for Gazans
* Trump vs MAGA Mediaverse
* ICE Has Your Medicaid Data
* Why Musicians are Leaving Spotify
* Library Cuts and the Digital Divide
THE BELL IS TOLLING FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
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By Mark Thiessen and David Bauder
Associated Press
The House, Senate and White House eliminated nearly $1.1 billion that
had already been appropriated for NPR and PBS. Trump had called for
the cuts, saying public media’s news programming was biased against
him and fellow Republicans, and threatened GOP members of Congress
with primary challenges if they didn’t fall in line.
CBS AND COLBERTGATE
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By Jeff Cohen
Common Dreams
Colbert is funny. What’s not funny is that our country’s
democratic experiment is on the verge of collapse—and it has less to
do with Trump than with the capitulation of corporate liberals and
corporate centrist institutions to Trump. The lesson to be learned
from today’s political reality is that big corporate institutions
don’t care about democracy or free speech.
AGAINST FASCIST INFILTRATION IN DIGITAL SPACE
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By Paulo Antunes Ferreira
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The left must move beyond regulatory solutions to embrace radical
alternatives: the democratic socialisation of digital infrastructure
and the citizen-led creation of alternative networks as acts of
technological disobedience and class struggle.
AI PLUNGES AHEAD
• WHEN AI BECOMES THE PRIMARY LEARNING TOOL
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By Rizwan Virk, The Conversation
• ASIMOV, A NEW KIND OF AI AGENT...
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By Will Knight, Wired
• ... AND ANOTHER ONE IN CHATGPT
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By Maxwell Zeff, TechCrunch
NYPD, FDNY AND COLUMBIA CROSS A LINE
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By Samantha Maldonado
THE CITY
A city fire marshal used FDNY’s access to a facial recognition
software to help NYPD detectives identify a pro-Palestinian protester
at Columbia University, circumventing policies that tightly restrict
the Police Department’s use of the technology. The protester, Zuhdi
Ahmed, is now a 21-year-old pre-med CUNY student going into his senior
year of college.
INTERNET ACCESS IS A LIFELINE FOR GAZANS
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By Hend Salama Abo Helow
Truthout
On June 8, Israeli forces bombed the core internet infrastructure in
both the north and south of Gaza. The Strip went dark. No messages in,
no messages out. It didn’t end with internet blackouts. Israel
jammed all telecommunications. For us, the internet wasn’t a luxury
— it was a lifeline, a way to transfer funds during the liquidity
crisis, a fragile system holding back hunger.
TRUMP VS MAGA MEDIAVERSE
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By Emily Bell
Columbia Journalism Review
Trump is now confronting the outcome of a media ecosystem he invented,
one based on panicky, consensus-squashing conspiracy theories. The
replacement of “difficult” journalists in the White House press
room with supposedly supine MAGA influencers is now causing the Trump
presidency more existential strife in five days than he’d
encountered in five years of scrutiny from legacy media.
ICE HAS YOUR MEDICAID DATA
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By Leah Feiger, Makena Kelly, Vittoria Elliott and Matt Giles
Wired
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to
the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to
acquire “information concerning the identification and location of
aliens in the United States.”
WHY MUSICIANS ARE LEAVING SPOTIFY
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By Daniel Alexis
Midnight Rebels
Artists are removing their music from Spotify because CEO Daniel Ek
invested heavily in an AI weapons company. This action links
long-standing frustration over low artist pay with the ethical
concerns of streaming profits funding “AI battle tech,” sparking a
debate about platform capitalism.
LIBRARY CUTS AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
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By Sam Drysdale
Franklin Observer and Medway Monitor
Summer reading programs, English language classes, online research
databases used in public schools across the state, free newspaper
archives, e-book access, and GRE and career prep resources are on the
chopping block as a cut to federal funding is poised to hit
Massachusetts libraries.
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* Donald Trump
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* Fascism
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