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Our local public radio station is begging for donations. It has lost 40% of its corporate support in the last five years. Companies have been switching their ads to online platforms. Our local newspaper was bought by Gannett Corporation a few years...
by AliceT4
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 01:14 PM PDT
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ESPN’s daily podcast on Friday devoted itself to the then unfinished pursuit of Shohei Ohtani (he has subsequently signed with the Dodgers for 700 million dollars. �For perspective, his annual ...
by angryea
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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There’s no “liberal media.” OK, there is, but you have to go out of your way to find it. Daily Kos, for example. And Mother Jones. And Charlie Pierce in Esquire. And maybe some of the prime-time hosts on MSNBC (when they’re not platforming the Michael...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 02:13 PM PST
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World’s richest “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is trying to suppress the free speech of Media Matters for America because it reported on a series of facts on Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Those facts have proven financially...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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I’ve spent my life working in media, including (still) the online world. I’ve been a publisher, editor, photographer, gopher and janitor — whatever it took — at numerous print publications and then transitioned to online. I fully understand that like...
by mt41w
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on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 05:58 AM PST
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Sad news today of the passing of one of the best TV investigative reporters, Drew Griffen, a personal favorite of mine over many years at the untimely age of 60. His work did a lot of good stuff, some of which can be found here: www.cnn.com/… One of...
by Falcon Hawke
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on Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM PST
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Over at “Breaking the News,” James Fallows congratulates the newly named executive editor at the New York Times: Joseph Kahn. Fallows has quite a pedigree in journalism, and what he says should be listened to. He warns Kahn that this will be a tricky...
by JoeCarl
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on Wed Apr 20, 2022 at 03:41 PM PDT
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Two investigative journalists, one from the Philippines and one from Russia, received a Nobel Peace Prize this year. The journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, received their prize on Dec. 10�...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Sat Jan 01, 2022 at 09:00 AM PST
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I don’t know how to categorize the fourth thing. It may be biased, but not politically. “News” about the shenanigans of some rock star is not really news at all, but it’s presented as “news”. Also, a “news” report about a candy bar being available in a...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Nov 28, 2021 at 10:22 AM PST
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The infamous Liberty University is making headlines again, this time for allegedly punishing students who report sexual assault. According to ProPublica , students who report rape are in violation ...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Oct 29, 2021 at 05:30 PM PDT
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So usually I scrape data for the country, and four states (CA/TX/FL/NY) on Saturday mornings because the data is usually pretty close to being complete at that time. For the first time in a long time, there is a big zero for Florida yesterday. The...
by tampaedski
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on Sat Aug 21, 2021 at 06:47 AM PDT
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In summary: Like many places in the nation, Washington, DC, has seen large and sustained demonstrations since George Floyd’s murder. Reporting has influence — whether through exaggerating violence (white nationalist instigators, police, or ...),...
by A Siegel
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on Mon Jun 08, 2020 at 02:32 PM PDT
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Many low-income countries are successfully handling COVID-19, but biased reporting hasn’t covered it by Divya K Chhabra, M.D. With the pandemic hitting countries regardless of gross domestic product, COVID-19 is front and center in our lives, and thus, our newsfeeds. Given financial pressures to publish “clickworthy” news, media is...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Fri May 29, 2020 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Back in April, it became clear that Florida was intentionally hiding a list of daily deaths that had previously been compiled by county medical examiners. Since that time, those examiners, as well as hospitals and local officials, have complained that...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu May 28, 2020 at 05:40 AM PDT
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An earlier study looking at sites around the world came to a clear conclusion—deaths due to COVID-19 are being underreported. Deaths in those nations where the novel coronavirus has become widespread are up as much as 60% over past years, which is far...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Apr 29, 2020 at 11:12 AM PDT
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I took a core sample of broadcast news on the evening of November 23, 2019, on NBC. There were brief glimpses of the president’s tweeted and shouted responses to this week’s public impeachment testimony. There was a story on the most recent outbreak of...
by janecollins
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on Sun Nov 24, 2019 at 10:02 AM PST
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Just now saw this article by Janine Jackson on FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on further consolidation of news media… the purchase of Gannett by GateHouse Media, with probable firing of more reporters…. and even worse reporting of global...
by boblite
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on Sat Aug 24, 2019 at 07:20 AM PDT
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This sounds like a page out of the Nazi Germany playbook from the 1930s-40s.
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'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump.'
The...
by jcitron
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on Thu May 16, 2019 at 07:23 AM PDT
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I’m sure many of you reading this diary saw Aaron Blake’s column for WaPo’s “The Fix” tut, tutting over AOC’s “very bad defense of her falsehoods.” For Blake, the offending passage occurred during AOC’s interview with Anderson Cooper. In response to...
by NotAhab
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on Mon Jan 07, 2019 at 02:01 PM PST
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