A #juror was quickly dismissed at the start. She was among the 7 already selected, she said she was very worried that despite the fact the court ruled to keep jurors’ name secret, she would still be exposed & targeted.
We are down to 6 jurors, & apparently waiting to hear from another, juror 4. The judge is addressing the #NewsMedia, saying there is a reason #reporters are taking measures to keep the #jury#anonymous.
It “kind of defeats the purpose of that" when so much information is #publicized about them.
If the headlines on your information sources are not the climate crisis, threat of fascism, seriousness of Covid, guns #1 cause of death for children and inequality you should ask yourself why that is.
... they want a handful of transnational corporate DataFarmers to subsidise it instead. Through government-imposed mandates to pay for commercial license on uses like linking and quoting, which don't violate copyright (or they could take legal action on those grounds).
This extended essay from @pluralistic has at least three themes.
I’m highlighting the last one: the dangers of #monopolies in general and in #NewsMedia in particular.
The main purpose of #MonopolisticPower is “taking #money and #power away from working people and giving it to rich people.” This is why [#Biden’s very vocal/visible #union support is admirable and important.]
"#Outragemedia isn’t #news. It responds to the news. It reacts. It’s performative and entertaining. There is drama and conflict. The show hosts and pundits talk about the news, but they make no attempt to cover all the news. Instead, they select from the news of the day, and then reinterpret, reframe, and unpack the news “through the lens of ideological selectivity.”
"Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty and the pig enjoys it." - Anonymous
People calling themselves "journalists" are wrestling with a pig (the Shitbird site), they are getting dirty, and the pig is enjoying it.
I've read the article below, and what I take out of it is that the vast majority of journalism is bread and circuses. As bread and circuses, they are quite happy to stay on the Shitbird site, because what they peddle is entertainment and not actually journalism.
It is really not hard to have a real presence in the Fediverse. If a news outlet or a journalist has no presence in the Fediverse, that is because THEY DO NOT CARE to be here.
Nothing else.
But if what they peddle is bread and circuses, maybe they should stay there.
He already calls my compatriots in the Washington press corps “the enemy of the people,” and reporters, editors and producers already received regular threats of injury and death. If he becomes president again, my compatriots will experience much worse. We already know this. Yet my compatriots seem to be in the mood to pretend otherwise.
It is great to see advertisers leaving #8kun, whoops I meant the dead bird site. Same thing anymore, and it is time to start questing the motives of colleagues and orgs who remain there. #academicmastodon#newsmedia#musk
Just when I think I've plumbed the depths of David Seymour's cluelessness, he responds to the NewsHub announcement by saying he'll save them by making TVNZ pay a dividend to Treasury again. This is the publicly-owned TV broadcaster that lost NZ$17 million in the first half of last year. Even Winston, who railed against the "mainstream" media through the election campaign, thinks that's dopey. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics/audio/2018928273/when-no-news-is-bad-news
<sarcasm> Yes, the last thing we want is democratic governments funding the public interest work of journalists, without fear or favour, even when they work for commercial publishers. What we want is news media companies financially dependent on funding from anti-democratic tech corporations. </sarcasm> 🤦♂️
Perhaps this is a rather #coldtake (not that hot takes are any good), but Meta banning Canadian news media is some solid authoritarian dystopia stuff. Social media companies have effectively concocted a back door around the Canadian charter by creating absolute market share through private platforms to impose a virtual dictatorship on media.
Canada really should ban Meta because of the threat it poses to what little democracy we have. If we must have a state, surely this is what it ought to be good for. Right? But Canadians are not really going to care, because we are all pretty accustomed to being dominated by monopolies. I mean, this country is like five or six value chain monopolies, on violently stolen land, wrapped in a flag. With the exception CBC, our major media companies are owned by private equity firms. This status quo simply cannot persist if we actually value democracy. #cdnpoli#meta#newsmedia
Read all about it. Washington Post report on a study, written by a "journalist" who has no idea how internet technology works if it isn't run by a corporation, and imposes culturally-specific judgements on internet use by people in other cultures, with different ethical frameworks. Honestly, this study could have been titled 'researchers shocked to find dodgy stuff on dodgy little websites':
What distinguished television from film as a medium, from its very early days, was live broadcasting. As time went on, and more and more TV shows were prerecorded, this was kind of forgotten. But until VHS came along and allowed audiences to timeshift both films and TV shows, television still retained that live event quality; be there or you missed it.
The Narwhal snags 3 National Newspaper Awards nominations
The National Newspaper Awards celebrate some of the best journalism in Canada. This year, our work is in the running in three categories https://thenarwhal.ca/national-newspaper-awards-nominations-2024/
As I've mentioned before, there was a time when traditional newspapers being outcompeted into oblivion by network media would have seemed like good news to me. But that was when most network media were community-controlled and non-commercial. Locally-based, commercial outlets being driven out of business by corporate-owned propaganda machines, masquerading as neutral 'social media' platforms, was not the outcome I was hoping for.
There is a perception that the news media is biased toward the left. I wonder if the left is contributing to that by linking to their articles more when we agree with them? Maybe it might be help if we link more to right-leaning articles [edit: I mean in mainstream news media] and criticize them?