#media-critique — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #media-critique, aggregated by home.social.
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🚬 "Breaking News: The New York Times discovers the art of truth-telling that isn't. 🧐 Dive into the thrilling world of how to dance around the truth like a seasoned politician, all while pointing fingers at nicotine vapes for problems they didn't cause. But hey, who needs facts when you've got a Pulitzer to chase? 🏆"
https://gwern.net/vaping #BreakingNews #TruthTelling #NicotineVapes #MediaCritique #PulitzerChase #PoliticianDance #HackerNews #ngated -
📺🎯 Oh, look! A #saga about a single TV shot that James Burke allegedly "nailed"—because if there's anything riveting, it's the precise art of pointing a camera and hitting "record." 🙄 Meanwhile, the article drones on more than the actual scene. 🤦♂️
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html #TVShot #JamesBurke #CameraArt #MediaCritique #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨Breaking: In a shocking twist of #journalism, The Guardian discovers war crimes happen in war zones! 💡 Meanwhile, their website navigation menu is longer than the article itself. But hey, at least they’re expanding their international editions! 🌍👏
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says #BreakingNews #WarCrimes #TheGuardian #MediaCritique #InternationalEditions #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh great, another riveting think-piece debating whether society's collective IQ has plummeted to reality TV levels 🎬🤦♂️. Spoiler alert: If you're reading this article and wondering, the answer is probably in the mirror! 🪞💡
https://idiocracy.wtf/ #societyIQ #realityTV #thinkpiece #selfreflection #mediacritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Adam Carolla: Why No One Under 30 Trusts Legacy Media - Reason.com
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President Trump criticizes David Sanger and The New York Times for questioning the success of U.S. objectives in the Iran War, asserting, "The United States has blown Iran off of the map." #IranWar #MediaCritique
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In today's installment of "Decisions Nobody Asked For," a judge waved their magic gavel and returned Voice of America to its former glory. 🎙️✨ Because what the world really needed is another government-run media outlet to tell us just how great everything is, right? 🙄 #ThanksButNoThanks
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6d1ef05272f842705da0ed38d3de24 #DecisionsNobodyAskedFor #GovernmentMedia #VoiceOfAmerica #MediaCritique #JudgeDecision #HackerNews #ngated -
I FINISHED THE ESSAY!!! ✊
Good AI, Bad AI: How to Distinguish Between a Good Idea That Challenges Real Problems and a Bad Idea That Only Virtue Signals
We are currently watching the internet tear itself apart over the metaphysical dread of artificial intelligence, resulting in marginalized groups cannibalizing each other for social credit. By tracing the historical blueprints of respectability politics and legal copyright infringement, this essay provides a functional, actionable framework to escape the doomism. It is a necessary structural guide to separating the human utility of AI from the exploitative nature of the tech industry.
From now on, anyone that comes at me over AI gets a facefull of Teddy Ruxpin. 👿
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #TechEthics #CorporateAccountability #TechRegulation #Sociology #LateralViolence #RespectabilityPolitics #VirtueSignaling #MediaCritique #Copyright #CopyrightInfringement #Accessibility #DisabilityRights #CognitiveProsthesis #LaborRights #Substack #AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon #LongForm #Essay
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How You Can Support Indie Creators—and You Need To | 🔗 https://brennan.day/how-you-can-support-indie-creators-and-you-need-to/
#IndieWeb #CreatorEconomy #DigitalCulture #CommunityBuilding #MediaCritique
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Microsoft’s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?
#Canada #Tech #AI #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft
#DataSovereignty #TechPolicy #Surveillance #CLOUDAct
#CanadianPolitics #MediaCritique #Sovereignty #CanadaUSA #The14
https://the-14.com/microsofts-ai-deal-promises-canada-digital-sovereignty-but-is-that-a-pledge-it-can-keep/ -
💥📰 BREAKING: Caracas goes boom, but don't worry, The Guardian is busy toggling captions and navigating their bloated menu. Who knew explosions were just another footnote in their print subscription hustle? 🚀📚
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-reported-venezuela-caracas #CaracasExplosion #TheGuardian #MediaCritique #NewsHumor #SubscriptionHustle #HackerNews #ngated -
😆 So, some "genius" with a camera caught a #skydiver impersonating #Icarus, thinking it's Pulitzer material. Meanwhile, readers are treated like toddlers, needing step-by-step guides just to access an article. 🌞✈️ #EpicFacepalm
https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570 #EpicFacepalm #PulitzerNews #MediaCritique #ReaderExperience #HackerNews #ngated -
“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components.” — Umberto Eco
2025 feels like an Eco novel: Normal persons everywhere.
Meet Schmalk’s patron saint — the man, the myth, the legend.
#Schmalk #UmbertoEco #Culture #Philosophy #MediaCritique #Postmodernism #InternetCulture #CulturalTheory
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The next #Bond shouldn’t just change his face or tone. It should change its ethics. Let women exist in these stories as full people, not casualties of desire. That’s the true modernisation the series still hasn’t dared to attempt. 🎬
#FeministFilm #RepresentationMatters #WomenInFilm #GenderInMedia #MediaCritique #Tropes -
I’ve always found it deeply disturbing how women are treated in the James Bond films. In almost every entry, a woman—or several—is brutally killed, often soon after sleeping with Bond. It’s one of modern cinema’s most normalised examples of misogyny, hiding in plain sight. 🧵
#JamesBond #FilmCriticism #Cinema #FilmAnalysis #MovieDiscussion #CulturalCritique #FilmHistory
#FeministFilm #RepresentationMatters #WomenInFilm #GenderInMedia #MediaCritique #Tropes -
People's Daily delivers a fearless explainer that refuses Washington euphemisms — this is not a 'funding lapse' or 'temporary pause' but a calculated austerity tactic. The piece names 'mass firings' and the White House's plan to 'use the shutdown to cut jobs' as intentional policy, not accident. Strong Anti-austerity / Systemic-critique framing. #MediaCritique #Healthcare https://en.people.cn/90777/n3/2025/1003/c90000-20373839.html
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Can a stopped escalator become headline news? John Amato exposes how MAGA media, especially Maria Bartiromo, blow minor Trump moments like Melania Trump’s calm on a halted escalator into dramatic “triple sabotage” theories. This distraction masks urgent matters like the economy and hidden Epstein files. Read the sharp critique here: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/09/melania-trump-walking-escalator-deemed #JohnAmato #EscalatorGate #MAGA #MariaBartiromo #MelaniaTrump #Trump #MediaCritique #PoliticalDistraction
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Vox bravely tackles the shocking revelation that kids can't read 📚🙄. But don't worry, they promise to cut through the noise with their ~depth~ and ~clarity~—just after you navigate their labyrinth of subscriptions and ads! 😂🔍
https://www.vox.com/culture/419070/childhood-literacy-college-students-reading-crisis-ai #Vox #KidsReading #SubscriptionLabyrinth #MediaCritique #EducationHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
💥 "The Guardian bravely explores the shockingly innovative idea that internet trolls are bad. Meanwhile, the rest of us were far too busy wondering which edition of The Guardian we accidentally ordered. 🙄🚀"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us #internetTrolls #TheGuardian #innovation #onlineSafety #mediaCritique #trollingIssues #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, another riveting "discovery" from Vox: heart attacks now come with a side of survival! 🎉 Who knew simply slapping on more ads could lead to fewer fatalities? Next up, they'll reveal how reading their articles cures the common cold! 🤡
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/418849/heart-attack-deaths-cardiovascular-disease-progress-medicine #VoxDiscovery #HeartAttacks #SurvivalAds #Satire #MediaCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
When #WSJ isn't busy teaching you how to navigate their maze of editions and paywalls, they serve up riveting exposés on ChatGPT's "dark side" like it's a 90s tabloid 🤨. Spoiler: The real monster is probably still trying to find the article 🕵️♂️.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-monster-inside-chatgpt-safety-training-ai-alignment-796ac9d3 #ChatGPT #Exposé #DarkSide #MediaCritique #90sTabloid #HackerNews #ngated -
Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/why-good-ideas-die-quietly-and-bad-ideas-go-viral
#HackerNews #GoodIdeasBadIdeas #ViralTrends #Innovation #ThoughtLeadership #MediaCritique
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Q: @briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian, when did it stop to be news when an underdog, who even looks and sounds like the international stereo type of a shopping bag filler, when such a Congressman challenges the entire Congress — Rep Shri Thanedar [D-MI-13] — with Rule IX and the 3rd impeachment invocation of Donald John Trump?
#Impeachment #BrianTylerCohen #ProgressiveJournalism #Underdogs #RepThandedar #USPolitics #MediaCritique #Congress #RuleIX
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🚪📚 So it seems the *Guardian* has discovered the hitherto unknown fact that Henry James had a family—who knew? Maybe next they'll uncover that books have pages. 🙄 #GroundbreakingJournalism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/colm-toibin-how-henry-james-family-tried-to-keep-him-in-the-closet #GroundbreakingJournalism #HenryJames #FamilyDiscovery #LiteraryHumor #MediaCritique #BookNews #HackerNews #ngated