Lying about our #democracy can cost you. A jury awarded R Freeman & S Moss $148M from Giuliani. Fox News settled with Dominion for $787M after facing the prospect of a lengthy & damaging trial. #Media orgs like OANN/Project Veritas/Salem Media have issued retractions & apologies for their false election claims. We don’t know exactly how this rebalancing towards truth will impact the 2024 election. Those actors-certain to pause-. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/lying-about-the-2024-election-will
"American media corps., probably: you know who we need running our news outlets this election year? Foreigners who convinced their own country to cripple itself with Brexit."
-W Clark
According to people whose judgment and expertise I trust, Alina Chan is a conspiracy theorist whose work was discredited a long time ago. If that's the case, what is this doing in the NYT opinion section? #journalism
Looks like my old workplace is turning into another media shitshow. Editor Sally Buzzbee was shit-canned on a Sunday night and a WSJ dude who's pals with the reich-wing publisher is now in charge.
A friend of mine who was a science editor at the Post recently left after just 18 months. Abandon ship...
Top editors at the Post have never cared much about science, even though stories tend to be well-read. They have terminal politics brain. It was a double-edged thing when I was there...we got left alone to do mostly what we wanted but it was challenging to get good play.
My story on the discovery of the Higgs boson - biggest news in physics in 50+ years - almost did not make the front page.
Local news is crucial to democracy, and it's disappearing — according to a new book by Steven Brill, excerpted in @Semafor, approximately twenty-two hundred papers and their websites went out of business between 2005 and 2021. That's created a vacuum into which "pink-slime" sites have poured. Brill writes about these sites that present themselves as legitimate publishers but are created to boost specific candidates and secretly financed by partisan funders, Democrats and Republicans alike.
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“If you are concerned and you want a justice that’s going to stand for the working men and women in this country—it’s not going to be Judge Alito. If you are concerned about women’s privacy rights, about the opportunity for women to gain fair employment in America—it’s not Judge Alito...if you are looking for someone that is going to be a friend of the disabled—it’s not going to be Judge Alito.”
Corporate #media works for the rich and powerful. Stop expecting them to care about the rest of us. They do not care. As long as you remember this, every story they write makes more sense.
while i'm almost impressed by otter.ai's hall of fame level #enshittification, i'm still outraged that they more than doubled the monthly price for the same services & i now need to find a solid offline non-subscription #transcription app. recommendations (besides macwhisper), anyone?
For some a stressful week has ended well, #justice having been served at the ground level, even as Sir #TrumpVirus claims vindication (pre retribution) - while attacking the jurors his attorneys chose.
(Wonder if they'll be paid now!)
But the verdict resulted in lots of new contribution$, driving the #DJT stock up.
Yesterday, a dozen New York residents did what legacy #press and GOP lawmakers have long refused to do: See the facts, call it like they see it and hold the former president to account.
Now mainstream and legacy journalists can call him something else, something they know he is as well as anyone else does: a criminal.
But calling #Trump a criminal is only a small part of the solution to a nearly decade-long problem with the #political press’s coverage of the man .
@br00t4c trumps fixer lawyer cohen did 2 yrs for most of these crimes donald has been found guilty of so it is only fair for the boss-donald having him-cohen do it for him to do as much or more time then cohen did