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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 21, 2023
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_ Fox News stands naked, and more media world shockers _
, Michael de Adder, Washington Post
* Bernie Proposes New Deal for Journalism
* Open Secret Now on the Record: Fox Lies
* NYT and the Anti-Trans Backlash
* Scientists Reject Privatizing Data
* Forbidden Stories
* Russian Journalist Jailed
* ChatGPT Blues
* Tech That Went Bye-Bye Last Year
* Bitcoin Mining
* Jen Angel 1975-2023
BERNIE PROPOSES NEW DEAL FOR JOURNALISM
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By Julia Conley
Common Dreams
The U.S. should have “nonpartisan public funding of media” to
ensure local news outlets can stay afloat and keep communities
informed about “their city council, their school board.” Such a
system would also prevent news networks like CBS from relying on
advertising dollars, which encourage the corporate media's hostility
towards progressive proposals for the public good.
OPEN SECRET NOW ON THE RECORD: FOX LIES
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By Charles Kaiser
The Guardian
Dominion Voting Systems’ brief requesting summary judgment against
Fox News for defamation – and $1.6bn – makes it clear that senior
figures from Rupert Murdoch down knew immediately after the election
that claims of voter fraud were false. But hosts repeated lies about
everything from imaginary algorithms shaving votes from Dominion
machines, to non-existent ties to Venezuela.
NYT AND THE ANTI-TRANS BACKLASH
* CONTRIBUTORS PROTEST
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By Ari Paul, FAIR
* TIMES EDITORS BITE BACK
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By Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill
* ROWLING
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By Christina Cauterucci, Slate
SCIENTISTS REJECT PRIVATIZING DATA
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By Andrea Capocci
il manifesto Global
Outsourcing the flow of official data on people and businesses to a
software house involves obvious union-related issues regarding workers
and the public resources to be transferred to the new company. But
above all, it affects the quality and control of public data, a
strategic knowledge asset for any country in the information age.
FORBIDDEN STORIES
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By Kyle Pope
Columbia Journalism Review
A media consortium that aims to continue the work of fallen and
censored journalists, released a series that it is calling “Story
Killers,” an investigation into the global disinformation industry.
Bringing together a hundred journalists from thirty media
organizations around the world, they have produced an impressive
chronicle of how disinformation is paid for and spreads.
RUSSIAN JOURNALIST JAILED
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By Paul Kirby
BBC News
Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for six years for
posting on social media about a deadly attack by Russian warplanes on
a theatre in Ukraine. The court in Barnaul in Siberia found her
guilty of spreading “fake news”, under laws introduced aimed at
stifling dissent about the invasion of Ukraine. She was also barred
from activities as a journalist for five years.
CHATGPT BLUES
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By Scott Staring
rabble.ca
ChatGPT did not emerge out of nowhere. It is just the latest phase in
a decades-long effort by Big Tech to reduce knowledge to a monetizable
on-demand product, and this ambition is helping to transform the very
idea of what it means to learn. As artificial intelligence becomes
smarter, does it risk having the opposite effect on students,
education, and society at large?
TECH THAT WENT BYE-BYE LAST YEAR
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By Cecily Mauran
Mashable
As we look back on 2022, it's important to take some time and pour one
out for the tech we lost this past year. Whether these products,
platforms, and companies lived a long life or barely made it past the
pilot stage, burned too brightly like a star or slowly faded away into
obsolescence, they all left their mark in some way.
BITCOIN MINERS PLAY CHICKEN
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By Joel Khalili
Wired
Over the past year, crypto-mining has been battered by a slump in the
price of bitcoin, combined with a spike in the cost of energy and an
increase in mining difficulty—a reflection of the amount of
computing power directed at the bitcoin network, which dictates the
proportion of coins miners are able to win.
JEN ANGEL 1975-2023
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Crimethinc.
Jen got her start in do-it-yourself print media and counterculture at
an early age, before the internet brought digital connectivity to the
average North American household. Her career extended from the high
point of the do-it-yourself counterculture through the
turn-of-the-century movement against capitalist globalization to the
Occupy movement, the Trump era, and the George Floyd uprising.
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* Rupert Murdoch
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* trans rights
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* J.K. Rowling
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* privatization
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* scientists
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* Italy
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* data mining
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* Forbidden Stories
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* disinformation
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* Maria Ponomarenko
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* Russia
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* ChatGBT
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* artificial intelligence
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* Big Tech
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* Bitcoin
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* Jen Angel
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