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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES — SEPTEMBER 15, 2026  
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September 15, 2026
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_ Buried alive in AI _

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* Bernie and Bannon on the Same Page
* Will Political Cartooning Survive?
* Anthropic Scandals
* Fighting Media Oligarchy
* Amazon’s New Encryption Method
* UK’s Fox News: GB News
* A Solar-Powered Community Network in Kenya
* Truth Social is a Money Magnet
* A Media United Front Against – Muslims?!
* New Orleans Says NO to High Tech Policing

BERNIE AND BANNON ON THE SAME PAGE
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By Kathryn Watson, _CBS News_

Steve Bannon, one of President Trump's earliest advisers, and
independent Sen. Bernie Sanders — along with a bipartisan group of
members of Congress — appeared at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in
Washington, D.C. They're calling for a “human-centric” approach to
developing artificial intelligence technology, and are skeptical of
the AI companies leading the industry. 

WILL POLITICAL CARTOONING SURVIVE?
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By Fern Shen and Mark Reutter, _Baltimore Brew_

The _Baltimore Sun_ fired its celebrated political cartoonist Kevin
“KAL” Kallaugher last year. It felt to him and his fans like the
ultimate indignity. But in an even more mortifying development, _The
Sun_ has begun publishing cartoons produced not by professionals like
Kallaugher. Or by human beings at all. Welcome to the brave new world
of A.I. journalism. 

ANTHROPIC SCANDALS

BIG TECH DIVIDED
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  By Yuvraj Malik, _yahoo!finance_

ALTMAN AND MUSK BACK AMODEI
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  By Robert Booth_ _and_ _Julia Kollewe, _The Guardian_

THE WHISTLE BLOWER
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  By Jon Queally, _Common Dreams_

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FIGHTING MEDIA OLIGARCHY
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By Victor Pickard, _The Progressive_

We must lay the groundwork now to launch necessary structural reforms
the moment we dethrone Trump and his ilk. This project requires a
clear analytical framework for understanding exactly why such run-amok
media concentration is bad for democracy, and why breaking up media
conglomerates is both necessary and insufficient for reconstructing
the media we need from the ground up.

AMAZON’S NEW ENCRYPTION METHOD
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By Erica Portnoy and Thorin Klosowski, _Electronic Frontier
Foundation_

Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras. The idea
is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the
company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while
it might technically add a speed bump to accessing full video content,
it doesn’t deliver nearly the level of privacy we should be
demanding from video doorbells and other security cameras.

UK’S FOX NEWS: GB NEWS
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_The Week_

GB News went live on 13 June 2021, the first news channel start-up in
the UK since Sky News in 1989. Broadcast free on most platforms, it
promised to serve audiences on the right who felt ignored by
traditional media with a news agenda not governed by liberal
metropolitan values and assumptions: it calls itself “the people’s
channel”.

A SOLAR-POWERED COMMUNITY NETWORK IN KENYA
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By Débora Prado, _Association for Progressive Communications_

In many communities overlooked by major internet service providers,
connectivity is not the only missing piece. Community networks seeking
to bridge this gap often face other structural challenges, including
the lack of reliable electricity supply. In Kenya, Arid Lands
Information Network has turned to a form of clean energy – solar
power – as its primary power source in Sipili.

TRUTH SOCIAL IS A MONEY MAGNET
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By Noah Hurowitz, _The Intercept_

A lawsuit filed with the Freedom of the Press Foundation argues the
president is restricting First Amendment-protected information in a
scheme to enrich himself.

A MEDIA UNITED FRONT AGAINST – MUSLIMS?!
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By Eoin Higgins, _The Intercept_

No surprise that Bari Weiss’s tenure at CBS News would see the
network devolve into rank Islamophobia. But the tying of Michigan
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to the 9/11 attacks was an
unexpected new low. To make matters worse, many centrist Democrats and
their allies cleared the way for just this kind of attack. 

NEW ORLEANS SAYS NO TO HIGH TECH POLICING
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By Mike Ludwig, _Truthout_

A $300 million grant program for cities of more than 100,000 people
offers to pay for high-tech policing and public safety infrastructure
in exchange for local officials complying with federal mass
deportation efforts. Edith Romero, an organizer in New Orleans with
the privacy group Eye on Surveillance, says local advocates pushed the
city away from applying for the grant.

 

 

* Bernie Sanders
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* Steve Bannon
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* Pro-Human Assembly
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* artificial intelligence
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* political cartooning
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* Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher
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* The Baltimore Sun
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* Anthropic
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* Big Tech
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* Sam Altman
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* Elon Musk
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* Jacob Coxon
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* Media mergers
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* Amazon
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* privacy
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* GB News
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* Kenya
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* Arid Lands Information Network
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* Truth Social
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* Freedom of the Press Foundation
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* Muslims
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* Bari Weiss
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* Abdul El-Sayed
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* CBS News
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* New Orleans
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* policing
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