"American media won’t question the mental health of those who gleefully blow up neighborhoods full of children and hunt, humiliate, torture and kill for sport as we see with the IDF. That isn’t viewed through a lens of dysfunction; but protesting it by self-immolation? Of course."
Almost all mainstream media treated Aaron Bushnell as a mental health crisis, just another random suicide, and ignored everything he said.
@immibis@israel@palestine the American legacy press is worse than useless - they’re lapdog shills for intel agencies and the economic elite, who have the absolute fucking gall to front like they’re saving the world by telling everyone how to think based on identity politics.
every time the American so-called “press” colludes to crush a story like this - and they’ve been doing it A LOT since 2016 - more people wake up to the fact that CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, NPR, and hrk The Atlantic, are every bit as guilty of being propaganda as Fox News, and worse than that, the Blue Team propaganda comes with a layer of smug so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.
notice how every time they write a hand-wringing treatise on the state of #journalism in the USA, there is zero introspection on why poll after poll reveals that nobody trusts the #legacymedia?? the so-called #journalists never seem to address that. funny, isn’t it?
✉️May I suggest the media ask every Congressional member who speaks at CPAC, and every Republican presidential candidate for that matter, the following three questions:
Do you reject Jack Posebiec’s comments?
Do you support democracy?
Do you respect the separation of church and state?
And don't stop asking until you get answers.✉️
Via janus.bsky.social @janusrose 10:09 AM · Feb 22, 2024
"#VICE has shut off our ability to download our emails after we received an anonymous tip that they’re going to be deleting our entire website today.
fun times in the media death spiral!!! will update once i know whether or not we’re all fired"
11:09 AM · Feb 22, 2024
"hey guys what’s everyone up to today? i’m just backing up 14 years of my professional work onto an external hard drive"
Via Wajahat Ali @wajahatali
6:02 PM · Feb 22, 2024
"Right before an election, #journalists are being fired and media is being consolidated by people who only care about the bottom line. What could go wrong? Meanwhile right wing money pouring millions into their #radicalization media outlets."
These questions and issues don’t just matter in the current moment (though this is when they matter the most), but also for the legacy of #Canadian#journalism — for how the public here and abroad, scholars, legal figures, government officials, and future #journalists look back at what the Canadian #media did during what there is a chance may be ruled a #genocide.
#WashingtonDC PR firm #SKDK, which allegedly has close ties to the #WhiteHouse, also runs the communications of the 10/7 Project, an initiative established after the Hamas' 7 October attacks to advocate for greater US support for #Israel.
“The first is the pressure applied to your company,” he said, referring to Tel Aviv’s efforts to block stories that could hurt their image from being published.
“The second is the fear of being assigned somewhere else when you step on Israeli toes,” he added.
"In Dnipro, we visited an apartment building where at least 64 people had died in an earlier #Russian missile strike. Eerily enough, we could still see clothes hanging in a top-floor closet — visible because the entire front wall of the building was gone. Other Russian missiles have struck #hospitals, #schools & shopping malls in the area. These are targets of no military value whose destruction amounts to #crimes against humanity" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/
"The situation is even grimmer in #Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which is located only about 20 miles from the #Russian border... The city’s best hotel, once favored by Western #journalists and aid workers, was destroyed on Dec. 30...
We visited a “subway school” held underground, because it’s too dangerous for children to go to their normal classrooms...
"At least 85 journalists and media workers, such as interpreters and support staff, have been killed over four months of war in the Middle East, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The rate, about five a week, is the highest since the CPJ began keeping global records over 30 years ago. All but seven of them were Palestinians killed in Israel’s war in Gaza." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3UI2yFQ
"The CPJ said it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the killings of so many #journalists. But these inquiries are constrained by the lack of access to #Gaza, the large number of cases... & the killing of some family members of journalists, who would have been key witnesses...
Want to find ACTIVE journalists on Mastodon? This spreadsheet is just amazing. A couple days ago Martin Holland @mho posted a project of his to promote journalists. It starts with known journalism accounts from the @tchambers list, but also tracks their activity, so you can see who is actually posting regularly.
This is an absolutely wonder resource, and a great asset for the fediverse!
Collating reams of journalist accounts is a good thing.
The problem I have with most of the folks on that list is that it's almost misleading, in some respects. The old Twitter mentality is persistent with the perceptions of these journalists (that's our fault), and as a result, we get a tease and a link, and depending on the particular Fediverse platform or client we're using, we may or may not get a link preview.
The volume of journalist published information is minimal, much akin to what things like Lemmy and Kbin, HackerNews, or Reddit might afford us - and it's unnecessary. A list of external, 3rd party news resources is great, but I am here.Right here - In the Fediverse, with my Fediverse client (That's my reader), and a shitload of journalists who themselves have already migrated over. I have RSS, ActivityPub Follow and alert capabilities, and can appreciate journalists actually publishing their articles here, in the Fediverse, much more than elsewhere that I have to travel to, so to speak... and maybe hit a God damned paywall.
I think part of the problem here is that many of the journalists flowing into the Fediverse are indoctrinated with the old mastodon/twitter decrepit shortcomings that left them with little capability other than to publish elsewhere and link to it from here. I don't want to have to go somewhere else to read the things that interest me - and there's no need. All the tools are here. In the Fediverse. Now.
Most Fediverse platforms don't constrain the users and publishers like the old mastopub way of doing things. i.e., lack of #Markdown or other #Rich_Text capabilities and the inclusion of inline graphics or other multimedia file types in articles, or that persistent, cringy, paltry, 500 character limit that the draconian mastodon interfaces are constrained with, along with their inability to Quote-post. This is why the so-called #mastoforks have been so successful, overcoming many, if not most of those barriers, although they're still almost indistinguishable from the typical #mastopub interface.
We're building critical mass amongst journalists, and this is remarkable, yet we need to encourage greater awareness initiatives on just what the Fediverse platforms have to offer nowadays (and it's only getting better).
Those journalists that I've had the pleasure of admiring here have for the most part, leveraged things like one of the Misskey family of platforms with multiple link previews per post, and quite the rich formatting of their text to make their articles pop with life and entice the reader to visit.
Another issue? Many of these journalists and commentators publish their articles and provide links, but they resolve to paywall sites. I think we need to rethink our ability to, at the instance level for each and every individual user, block shit that links to paywalls. We already have several good browser plugins that do so.
The sooner we sufficiently inform the lions share of these journalists to the opportunities they have on Fediverse platforms that are more contemporary and capable than mastodon, the sooner they can get down to the business of focusing on the monetization of their repertoire here in the Fediverse (and keep ALL the money earned); in turn, we (the rest of us) get quality, original, unique content here, compelling even more folks from the world of the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolithic silos to come and co-exist here with us as fellow Fedizens.
Already, several Fediverse platforms enable the full immersion into the ecosystem here with facilities for monetization - either native to the platform or as a plugin. For example, one of the quickest ways for a journalist to take advantage of a "Substack", "Medium" or other popular monetized platform in the Fediverse is to merely create an account on one that provides these utilities - Like WordPress or Mitra or WriteFreely - create an account, plugin your donation/subscription payment info, and start publishing interesting, informative, original content :)
***One thing we as consumers of the news can do right now, is take the time to individually contact each person we can on this list of journalists and let them know these things. Point them to this article with a link, or to the actual resources that they can experiment with and deploy their unbridled and untapped resources to reach out and in turn themselves be reached.
I'll leave links below, to a couple of the Fediverse platforms I've referenced above. If you're viewing this post on a platform that is one of the Misskey family of forks, then you'll see the graphic below as well as all of those link previews for all of those resources.
Instead, they’re chasing engagement on #Twitter, #Threads, and now #Bluesky. Many have abandoned accounts here with thousands of followers, while others just broadcast links now and then. I get it, but…
Of course there are a ton of exceptions, and other voices worthy of following, but discovering becomes a part-time job.
#TuckerCarlson’s assertion was astonishing given that two #journalists who are #UnitedStates citizens are now jailed in Russia: #EvanGershkovich, of The WSJ, who was accused of espionage & seized by #FSS agents last year during a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, & #AlsuKurmasheva, of #RadioFreeEurope /Radio Liberty’s who has dual U.S. and Russian citizenship and who was arrested in October while visiting #Russia from Prague where she had been living.
This post is by journalist Yousef (ph_youseeff). He’s a cancer patient and he has been trying to evacuate for a very long time now to continue his treatment. His health condition has been deteriorating in light of the lack of hospitals health care.
"In 2022, days after Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by an Israeli sniper, Ruth Anderson wrote an article on Index on Censorhip’s website about the matter. Neither Israel nor the Israeli army were mentioned."