#fourth-estate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fourth-estate, aggregated by home.social.
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Westminster Journos calling others out for 'not being in the real world?!'
#UKPol #UKpolitics #ZackPolanski #Journalism #FourthEstate #UKPress
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The carnival is coming to town...
#Labour #UKPress #FourthEstate #AndyBurnham #UKPol #UKPolitics #ReformUK
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How is this still a “whether” argument?
It is an undeniable #fact.A #LIVGolf event at a #Trump property is renewing scrutiny over whether the president & his family are benefiting financially from his time in office
#kleptocracy #law #emoluments #PresidentialEthics #corruption #USpol #media #journalism #FourthEstate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/politics/trump-golf-courses-conflict-of-interest?cid=ios_app -
It's not his mother, it's him, posting as his own mother.
He slipped up today, posted as himself from his Ma's account, he's done it before with other accounts.
Do some fucking Journalism people!!https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-mom-goes-dark-172456150.html
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RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116524813850538761
The sanewashing of the Mad King will kill off any respect the Public have for the Oligarch media.
They tell us a Genocide isn't a Genocide, and Mad King isn't Mad....
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@JEmphatically #CBCNews has become a corporate stenographers unit. They have trashed investigative #journalism. The role of the #fourthEstate has been killed in this publicly funded institution.
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It’s not defamation if it’s true…
#FBI Director Files #Defamation Suit Against #TheAtlantic
#KashPatel, the FBI director, filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic on Monday over an article that claimed excessive drinking & unexplained absences were jeopardizing his job. A spox for the publication said The Atlantic stood by its reporting & would defend itself & its #journalists against a suit it called “meritless.”
#law #Trump #journalism #FourthEstate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/us/politics/kash-patel-atlantic-article-alcohol-drinking-fbi-lawsuit.html?smid=url-share -
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
The rock-bottom foundation of a free press is the integrity of the people who run it. Our press may make a million mistakes of judgment without doing itself permanent harm so long as its proprietors are steadfast in their adherence to truth.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-08), “The One-Party Press,” Portland Journal Luncheon, Portland, OregonMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaisevenson #freepress #freedomofthepress #fourthestate #honesty #integrity #journalism #media #press #truth
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@eunews #Canada would be advised to shut down all the #American owned media in this country if we value #democracy.
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“The Court need not embrace such a narrow interpretation of its authority & permit such a blatant attempt to circumvent a lawful order of the Court to succeed,” he wrote.
The new version of the #press policy was issued 3 days after Friedman ruled that the Pentagon’s earlier #media policy violated the #FirstAmendment right to #FreeSpeech.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #access #Trump #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
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The judge reasoned that the Pentagon’s renewed #press policy amounts to a “clarification” of restrictions he already found were #unconstitutional.
And he was unpersuaded by the admin’s argument that the NYT needs to “start over while the Court stands idly by,” so long as the reinstated policy “does not reinstate the exact words” of the one he struck down.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #Trump #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
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#Reporters have previously been allowed to #access parts of the #Pentagon without escorts, & had offices in the building.
A #DOJ attorney argued at a March court hearing that the administration “fully complied” with the judge’s order, & that if the NYT wanted to challenge the latest policy, it needed to update its lawsuit.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #press #journalism #FourthEstate #Trump #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
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“The Court cannot conclude this Opinion without noting once again what this case is really about: the attempt by the Secretary of #Defense to #dictate the #information received by the American people, to control the message so that the public hears & sees only what the Secretary & the #Trump Administration want them to hear & see,” Friedman appointee wrote.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #press #journalism #FourthEstate #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
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In a 20-pg opinion, Friedman described a dangerous “curtailment of First Amendment rights,” made “even more so in a time of #war.” The judge said that he has received “dozens of letters & postcards from people across the country” over the past few weeks about what the #FirstAmendment means to them.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #FreeSpeech #press #journalism #FourthEstate #access #Trump #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
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Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the US District Court for the DC said Thursday that the #Trump admin’s decision to remove credentialed #reporters from the #Pentagon in response to his ruling striking down a prior #press policy “flouts the Court’s explicit directives & disregards the constitutional principles at the heart” of his March order.
#Hegseth #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate
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Judge Rebukes #Hegseth, Says #Pentagon Violated #CourtOrder
A Washington federal judge found the Pentagon violated a court order by reinstating restrictions on #press #access in an opinion that sharply criticized #Defense Sec Pete Hegseth for curtailing #FreeSpeech rights with the nation at #war.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #Trump #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pentagons-revised-press-policy-violates-court-order-judge-says -
Do you think you know what journalism is?
Check out my video where I go through some of the journalism studies literature and discover "theoretical anarchy".
#journalism #journalist #media #research #PhD #FourthEstate #News #UTS
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At long last… have editorial boards no sense of civic duty? It is #FourthEstate dereliction of duty to fail to call for resignation / impeachment; & put pressure by naming Congressional reps duty to uphold oaths to Constitution? ONE outlet has called for impeachment. bsky.app/profile/medi...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3lyhioscvtv67u4dbm75h5sb/post/3m7fr4bmx5c2t -
A new low: Trump Nazi Regime says First Amendment doesn't apply to journalism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/13/2372904/-A-new-low-Trump-team-says-First-Amendment-doesn-t-apply-to-journalism. #ImpeachConvictRemove #FreeSpeech #FourthEstate #TrumpFascistRegime -
Meanwhile.... R.I.P. #CNN - and perhaps the entirety of " Legacy #media " :-(
A Fourth Estate - of #truth & #information
> The End of CNN: How the Ellison Takeover Confirms What We Already Knew — Legacy Media Is Done
https://open.substack.com/pub/saltypolitics/p/the-end-of-cnn-how-the-ellison-takeover
> "The only remaining question is how quickly viewers pull the plug on the deathbed vigil".
#TrumpVirus #disinformation #propaganda #LegacyMedia #FourthEstate #journalism
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While Australian politicians lack the skill to deflect or negotiate ’gotcha’ questions the Australian media will continue to field them.
It is a disservice to democracy, politics and journalism.
#auspol #difficultwomen #gracetame #Politics #Journalism #fourthestate #journalismfailure
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#FourthEstate failure: #TrumpIsUnfit and legacy media fails to communicate this with the urgency and frequency it requires.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mfcqup6e4d2v -
The Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos decided that one of his smaller properties, the Washington Post, has proved such a drag on his two-hundred-and-thirty-billion-dollar fortune that prudence required that he obliterate much of its newsroom.
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…The #WashingtonPost Guild, the #union representing staff members, called #WillLewis’ exit long overdue.
“His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American #journalism institution,” the Guild said in a statement. “But it’s not too late to save The Post. #JeffBezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.”
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#WillLewis’ tenure has been rocky from the start, marked by layoffs & a failed reorganization plan that led to the departure of former top #editor #SallyBuzbee.
His initial choice to take over for Buzbee, Robert Winnett, withdrew from the job after #ethical questions were raised about both he & Lewis’ actions while working in England. They include paying for info that produced major stories, actions that would be considered #unethical in US #journalism.
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Martin Baron, the Post’s first editor under #JeffBezos, condemned his former boss this week for attempting to curry favor with #Trump & called what has happened at the #newspaper “a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
The British-born #WillLewis was a former top executive at The Wall Street Journal before taking over at The #WashingtonPost in Jan 2024.
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They came on top of widespread talent defections in recent years at the newspaper, which lost tens of thousands of subscribers following #Bezos’ order late in the 2024 presidential campaign pulling a planned endorsement of #KamalaHarris, & a subsequent reorienting of its #opinion section in a more #conservative direction.
#journalism #FourthEstate #WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis #billionaire #JeffBezos
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Neither Lewis nor the newspaper’s #billionaire owner #JeffBezos participated in the meeting with staff members announcing the layoffs Wednesday. While anticipated, the cutbacks were deeper than expected, resulting in the shutdown of the Post’s renowned #sports section, the elimination of its #photography staff & sharp reductions in personnel responsible for coverage of metropolitan Washington & overseas.
#journalism #FourthEstate #WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis
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#WashingtonPost #publisher #WillLewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, ending a troubled tenure 3 days after the #newspaper said that it was laying off ⅓ of its staff.
Lewis announced his departure in a 2-paragraph email to the newspaper’s staff, saying that after 2 years of transformation, “now is the right time for me to step aside.” The Post’s CFO, Jeff D’Onofrio, was appointed temporary publisher.
#billionaire #JeffBezos #journalism #FourthEstate
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-will-lewis-stepping-down-layoffs-c8559f5e1d9f4d73f37163e4a708f9da?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-07-Breaking+News