[A plea to global media: Take the climate crisis seriously!]
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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES - NOVEMBER 2, 2021  
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November 2, 2021
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_ A plea to global media: Take the climate crisis seriously! _

Credit, Global Currents

 

* Open Letter to Global Media
* Facebook’s Gambit
* Corporate Media: Following the Money
* Net Neutrality is Back On the Table
* The Basic Problem of Platform Politics
* Trump’s WSJ Op-ed
* A Supranational Digital Economy
* TikTok Says Yes We Can
* More On Squid Game
* Tucker’s Gaslight Special
* Honoring Elliot Harmon (1981-2021)

OPEN LETTER TO GLOBAL MEDIA
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By Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate
Common Dreams

If your stories do not include the notion of a ticking clock, then the
climate crisis is just a political topic among other topics, something
we can just buy, build or invest our way out of.

FACEBOOK’S GAMBIT

THE NAME CHANGE
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 By James Muldoon, Jacobin

IT'S A CANCER SAYS AOC
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 By Tim Levin, Insider

FACEBOOK AND JANUARY 6
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 By Timothy Karr, Free Press

CORPORATE MEDIA: FOLLOWING THE MONEY
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By Andrew Perez, David Sirota and Walker Bragman
The Daily Poster

The bedrock of the political media ecosystem is the Washington gossip
rags that are quite literally “presented by” a rogues gallery of
corporate villains trying to buy politicians and kill the
reconciliation bill.

NET NEUTRALITY IS BACK ON THE TABLE
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By Sara Morrison
Vox

The FCC will finally have the Democratic majority it needs to bring
back Obama-era net neutrality rules, which have become a hugely
divisive issue between Democrats and Republicans.

THE BASIC PROBLEM OF PLATFORM POLITICS
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By Russell Brandom
The Verge

There was a time when a country-wide blockade of Facebook would have
been unthinkable. But Facebook is so toxic in US politics that it’s
hard to imagine a president lobbying foreign countries on its
behalf. 

TRUMP’S WSJ OP-ED
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By Chris Walker
Truthout

Several journalists have condemned _The Wall Street Journal_ for
publishing an op-ed by former President Donald Trump peddling lies
about the veracity of the 2020 presidential election — including
some journalists at the newspaper itself, who have worked diligently
to fact-check the former president in their own work.

A SUPRANATIONAL DIGITAL ECONOMY
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By Nelsy Lizarazo
Pressenza

if we go to the core of what is at stake when we talk about
international digital architecture, we see that it is a whole system
that is self-regulating and self-assembling in order to be able to
exercise digital capitalism.

TIKTOK SAYS YES WE CAN
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By Madison Malone Kircher
Slate

The idea that we need permission to celebrate ourselves, to indulge in
self-care, has become something of a running theme among several of
TikTok’s most popular trends this fall.

MORE ON SQUID GAME

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 By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus

AN ARCHITECTURE OF OPPRESSION
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 By Jerry Elengical and Anmol Ahuja, STIRworld

TUCKER’S GASLIGHT SPECIAL
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By Caleb Ecarma
Vanity Fair

The Fox News star came under fire for framing the Trump-incited
Capitol attack as a false flag operation, with colleague Geraldo
Rivera calling “bullshit” and Liz Cheney urging Rupert Murdoch to
step in.

HONORING ELLIOT HARMON (1981-2021)
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By Jillian C. York and Rainey Reitman
Electronic Frontier Foundation

A committed copyleft activist, he led campaigns against patent trolls
and fought for open access to research. He campaigned globally for
freedom of expression and access to knowledge, and his powerful
articles helped define many of these issues for a global community of
digital rights activists.

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