Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #news_media, aggregated by home.social.
Did you even notice the enrichment of #billionaires, #stacking of #constitional_institutions, gutting of #RTI, take over of #press and #news_media, silencing of #political_speech & #censorship of internet? This is what #sabotage of #democracy looks like.
Here's your #ramrajya! But trust me, you won't have a place in it. And it will get much worse. But why are the rest of us being dragged along by a #majority who surrendered their #freedom to satisfy their #bigotry? #India
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12
#ycombinator #Pete_Hegseth #Donald_Trump #U_S_Department_of_Defense #Military_and_defense #News_media #General_news #Nancy_Youssef #Government_and_politics #Entertainment #Business #Washington_news #Gabrielle_Cuccia #Tom_Bowman #U_S_news #Heather_Mongilio #Jack_Keane #Politics #U_S_News
New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6
#ycombinator #Donald_Trump #Sean_Parnell #Pete_Hegseth #U_S_Department_of_Defense #Military_and_defense #Associated_Press #News_media #General_news #Richard_Stevenson #Government_and_politics #Government_policy #World_news #Entertainment #David_Bauder #U_S_news #Business #Politics #U_S_News #World_News
AFP journalists warn their 'last reporters will die' in current Gaza conditions
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hunger-journalists-food-afp-32c19db56ddf9f3e6a847c76a676c7c9
#ycombinator #Gaza #Associated_Press #General_news #Gaza_Strip #Middle_East #Lauren_Easton #World_news #Business #Water_shortages #David_Bauder #Israel_government #Health #News_media
Amazon is reviewing whether Perplexity AI improperly scraped online content
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-perplexity-online-content-scraping-investigation-eb1d6bc1caf3dfe0c97db6f4fc691bc9
#ycombinator #Jeff_Bezos #Artificial_intelligence #General_news #WA_State_Wire #CA_State_Wire #San_Francisco #News_media #Business #U_S_news #Technology #U_S_News
AP launches a sister organization seeking grants to support local, state news
https://apnews.com/article/reporters-local-ap-foundations-c2c3fced7b46e7f0a6e0ebe6773fde4a
#ycombinator #Associated_Press #News_media #Daisy_Veerasingham #General_news #Business #Journalism #U_S_news #Commodity_markets #U_S_News
The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support (Media Lens)
Did the Dark Ages ever really end?
‘Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support. They don’t have wealth, they don’t have power. So they don’t have rights. It’s the way the world works.’
https://www.medialens.org/2024/the-media-lens-chamber-of-propaganda-horrors-an-appeal-for-support/
#news #propaganda #censorship #corporate_media #gaza #israel #iran #palestine #palestinians #russia #ukraine #media #news_media #journalism #journalist
The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya (Media Lens)
A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power.
George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’
https://www.medialens.org/2023/the-mass-media-memory-hole-blair-ukraine-and-libya/
#media #news_media #bbc #propaganda #govrenment_propaganda #the_guardian #regime_change #red_line #nato #humanitarian_interventions #military_interventions #ukraine #libia #blair #starmer #us #united_states #iraq
The media needs to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid (The Guardian)
With the planet on fire, more and better news coverage is itself an essential climate solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/climate-crisis-media-coverage-covid
#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #fossil_fuels #co2 #air_pollution #global_warming #extreme_weather #forest_fires #flooding #health #propaganda #fake_news #disinformation #capitalism #industrial_capitalism #media #news #news_media #journalist #journalism #Covering_Climate_Now
Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. (...) worry about the future (The Guardian)
The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them.
news #press #newspaper #media #news_media #journalist #journalism #snowden #edward_snowden #censorship #surveillance #mass_surveillance #privacy #nsa #National_Security_Agency #secrecy #government #secret_service #state_spying
Batshit Bill Would Force Bloggers Who Write About DeSantis to ‘Register’ With the State
https://www.thedailybeast.com/batshit-florida-bill-would-force-bloggers-who-write-about-desantis-to-register-with-state?ref=home
Florida TV journalist killed covering earlier shooting in Orange County
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/florida-tv-journalist-killed-covering-orange-county-shooting
The Intercept spinning out as an independent nonprofit
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/09/the-intercept-spinoff-independent-nonprofit