[When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas]
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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – SEPTEMBER 20, 2022  
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September 20, 2022
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_ When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas _

Credit, David Fitzsimmons

 

* Objectivity in a Time of Moral Collapse
* Class Rage and ‘Us v Them’ Films
* Digital Warmaking
* Feminist Roots of Fan-Made Videos
* DIY ISP
* An Abolitionist Look at “Abbott Elementary”
* Fight Against Internet Censorship Law
* Vermont Media’s Big Difference
* Dominion’s Big Fat Lawsuit Against Fox News
* Fear, Skepticism and New Tech

OBJECTIVITY IN A TIME OF MORAL COLLAPSE
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By Emily Ann Russell
Columbia Journalism Review

Donald Trump’s presidency generated an acute anxiety about
objectivity in newsrooms. Throughout his presidency, journalists
wrestled with the core tenets of objectivity, balance, and fairness,
often suppressing their moral apprehensions toward the Trump
administration in an effort to appear legitimate by virtue of
neutrality. 

CLASS RAGE AND ‘US V THEM’ FILMS
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By Vanessa Thorpe
The Guardian

From “Triangle of Sadness” and “Parasite to The Maid”,
audiences are revelling in tales of inter-class violence that draw on
growing discontent at inequality.

DIGITAL WARMAKING
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By Sophia Goodfriend
The Baffler

These days, intelligence units are structured in the image of tech
conglomerates, and tech conglomerates are contracted to do the work of
intelligence units. From Israeli military bases to Silicon Valley
corporate campuses, warfare has simply become a white-collar tech job.

FEMINIST ROOTS OF FAN-MADE VIDEOS
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By Ashawnta Jackson
JSTOR Daily

“Vidding” is a form of grassroots filmmaking in which clips from
television shows and movies are set to music. For women, it’s been
an important tool for altering media in a way that “heals the wounds
created by the displacement and fragmentation of women on
television,” says film studies scholar Francesca Coppa.

DIY ISP
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By Jon Brodkin
Ars Technica

Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet
provider because he couldn't get good broadband service from AT&T or
Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government
money. Comcast once told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its
cable network to his house.

AN ABOLITIONIST LOOK AT “ABBOTT ELEMENTARY”
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By Eteng Ettah
Scalawag

Without cops or school resource officers roaming the
hallway, _Abbott _invites us into a world that's possibility-laden
and imaginative. It asks us both: What does it actually feel like to
be a Black student? And: What _should_ it feel like? 

FIGHT AGAINST INTERNET CENSORSHIP LAW
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By Aaron Mackey
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Two human rights organizations, a digital library, a sex worker
activist, and a certified massage therapist filed their opening
brief in a case that seeks to strike down the Fight Online Sex
Trafficking Act for its many constitutional violations. Their brief
explains why the law is a direct regulation of people’s speech, that
censors online intermediaries—classic First Amendment violations.

VERMONT MEDIA’S BIG DIFFERENCE
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By Bill McKibben
The New Yorker

Thanks to some remarkable people, and some good luck, Vermont has new
and legacy Web sites, radio stations, and newspapers that keep the
state not just informed but knit together. For the moment it shows
that the decline of serious local journalism is not as inevitable as
some imagine—and that “serious” means several different things.

DOMINION’S BIG FAT LAWSUIT AGAINST FOX NEWS
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By David Folkenflik
NPR

Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology
company, is seeking to strip away the curtain protecting what happens
behind the scenes at the nation's most watched cable news channel,
which holds a singular role on the American political scene. The suit
could also define what's fair game in journalism and politics in a
democracy very much on the edge. 

FEAR, SKEPTICISM AND NEW TECH
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PYMNTS

Whether it’s the cool embrace of fully digital banks, the
unavailability of instant payments or wanton cheating within the
subscription sector, a distinct “tech disconnect” shows the
uneven, inconsistent and often inexplicable relationship we have with
our increasingly digital, connected world.

* Journalism
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* objectivity
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* Films
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* class
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* warfare
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* vidding
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* Feminism
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* videos
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* broadband
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* Jared Mauch
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* abbott elementary
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* Police
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* censorship
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* SESTA-FOSTA
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* Vermont
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* Fox News
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* Dominion Voting Systems
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* New Technology
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