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  1. Y'all, you know I have thoughts about the current state of American news. I have not been shy about what I think about the sanewashing and the clear and present danger of billionaires being in charge of information dissemination.

    But, whereas I'm a opinionated avatar on the internet, Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) is an actual author, journalist and professor of journalism. He has written: "Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?", and it is a master class in how to write cogent, clear, clean explanatory text.

    You should go read this article, it's genius. Whilst one is clicking about, one should follow him too.

    (As an aside, we need to find a way to get this article in front of every editor. I'd include publisher in that sentence, but I'm beginning to doubt this crop of billionaires can read long form.)

    cjr.org/analysis/liberals-infu

    #media #news #journalism #wapo #latimes #Gannett #Jarvis

  2. Today's print New York Times Opinion. Unlike #LATimes & #WashingtonPost who now lost long vaunted #trust #respect 4 #facts #politics #society #journalism NYT plays #truth in full #light #trump will destroy all #americans and #allies #greed of #billionaires be damned - either this is our country or we are their #serfs #choose #democracy #constitution #freedom #civilliberties #justice #elections #economy #facts #truth now or there will be no #future for any of us and future generations. #peaceout

  3. Fascinating article on a collaboration between #AmazonRing cameras and police and fire departments across the U.S. This is a grant-funded collaborative research piece between #TheMarkup, #AfroLA, and #LATimes.

    themarkup.org/neighborhood-wat

    My personal takeaway is it really highlights the complexity of digital #privacy, #security, and #infosec. As an amateur #infosec hobbiest the negative impacts from Ring to communities and society are glaringly obvious: such as growing the divide between more privileged and less privileged classes in local communities, promoting fear, further skewing the role of police as only protecting privileged classes. This is also very intertwined with #cambridgeanalytica and related current scandals, the roll of #bigdata in #uspol, and so much more. Plus throw in all the challenges with #AI.

    We can't bury our heads in the sand on this, but its such a complicated, insidious, and nefarious topic ... its really hard to communicate this to people. Just like climate change.