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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES - WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY  
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May 4, 2021
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_ Journalism remains a dangerous trade in 2021 _

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* Unhappy World Press Freedom Day 2021
* Reporting: Unraveling the Protest Paradigm
* Falun Gong, Steve Bannon and Internet Freedom
* Media Sidestep Chauvin Trial Lessons
* Morocco: Free Imprisoned Journalists
* “Law and Order” Is Switching Sides in New Series
* The Need to Re-write News Writing
* Florida’s Revenge on Social Media for Dumping Trump
* Online Advertising is Raking It In
* Remembering Said Zahari

UNHAPPY WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2021
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By Patrick Murphin
Heretic, Rebel, A Thing to Flout

How is it going on the press freedom front these days? Well
the needle on the dial hovers between not so
good and terrible. In fact the press both traditional media and
emerging digital media is under greater pressure in more nations
than at any time since the Second World War.

REPORTING: UNRAVELING THE PROTEST PARADIGM
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By Danielle Kilgo
Columbia Journalism Review

Protest movements that might convey their concerns through news
coverage instead see their efforts delegitimized by a press that
favors spectacle, conflict, disruption, and official narratives over
the substance of movements that challenge the status quo.
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all protests are treated as equals by the press.

FALUN GONG, STEVE BANNON AND INTERNET FREEDOM
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By David Folkenflik
NPR

The U.S. Agency for Global Media and the U.S. State Department
subsidized software developed by adherents of Falun Gong. Once the
software was approved for funding, a grand total of four people abroad
used it to access Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, a key purpose
for its subsidy. That’s right, four.

MEDIA SIDESTEP CHAUVIN TRIAL LESSONS
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By Jeff Cohen
Common Dreams

Corporate liberal media—owned and sponsored by the mightiest
economic forces in our society—have increased their talk about race
and racism in recent years, especially since the rise of
Trump. They’ve even used the phrase “systemic
racism”—while avoiding the corporate systems that propel and
reinforce racism. 

MOROCCO: FREE IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS
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By Stefano Mauro
il manifesto Global

Two Moroccan journalists who have distinguished themselves for their
criticism of the Moroccan government began a hunger strike on April 9.
They have been held in preventive detention for eight and ten months
respectively.

“LAW AND ORDER” IS SWITCHING SIDES IN NEW SERIES
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By Joe Otterson
Variety

“Law and Order: For the Defense” will take a look inside a
criminal defense firm. The series will put the lawyers under the
microscope, along with the criminal justice system with every week
delivering the promise of a contemporary morality tale.

THE NEED TO RE-WRITE NEWS WRITING
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By Dan Hind
openDemocracy

A system that cannot accurately describe its own nature cannot begin
to describe how repression in other countries is underwritten by our
own. We have to liberate our own media systems from the forms of
subtle control that distort its coverage and confound our
understanding.

FLORIDA’S REVENGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR DUMPING TRUMP
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By Kim Lyons
The Verge

Florida is on the verge of passing legislation that would
fine social media companies like Twitter and Facebook that
“knowingly de-platform” political candidates.  Florida
Republicans insist the bill has nothing to do with Trump, a famous
denizen of social media who was banned earlier this year by major
platforms.

ONLINE ADVERTISING IS RAKING IT IN
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By Megan Graham
CNBC

Facebook, Google and Amazon are reaping the benefits from
advertising’s pandemic hot streak.

REMEMBERING SAID ZAHARI
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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Inter Press Service

The name Said Zahari deserves to be immortalised worldwide as
symbolising the now universal struggle for press freedom. Today, on
the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, let us all salute Said Zahari
and his _Utusan_ comrades of 1961.

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