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Associated Press: Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview. “A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.”

Associated Press: Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview. “A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.”

Associated Press: Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview. “A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.”

Associated Press: Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview. “A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.”

Associated Press: Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview. “A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.”

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/ #opensource

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/ #opensource

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/ #opensource

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/ #opensource

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/ #opensource

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» institutional.org/posts/instit... #opensource

Making 1.47 Million Historical...

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» institutional.org/posts/instit... #opensource

Making 1.47 Million Historical...

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» institutional.org/posts/instit... #opensource

Making 1.47 Million Historical...

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» institutional.org/posts/instit... #opensource

Making 1.47 Million Historical...

« The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open #dataset and processing pipeline that make historical #newspapers more accessible for #research, discovery, and responsible #AI development.» institutional.org/posts/instit... #opensource

Making 1.47 Million Historical...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/117212158434664828

Truly sad. Killing off #printed #newspapers is not something I ever expected to see.

#Journalism is dying in more ways than one, and I have to wonder what the ripple effect will be when suddenly #news is unavailable to anyone who can't afford the entry fee to get it online.

The so-called #PublicRecord becomes a luxury to some and invisible to others at the same time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/117212158434664828

Truly sad. Killing off #printed #newspapers is not something I ever expected to see.

#Journalism is dying in more ways than one, and I have to wonder what the ripple effect will be when suddenly #news is unavailable to anyone who can't afford the entry fee to get it online.

The so-called #PublicRecord becomes a luxury to some and invisible to others at the same time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/117212158434664828

Truly sad. Killing off #printed #newspapers is not something I ever expected to see.

#Journalism is dying in more ways than one, and I have to wonder what the ripple effect will be when suddenly #news is unavailable to anyone who can't afford the entry fee to get it online.

The so-called #PublicRecord becomes a luxury to some and invisible to others at the same time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/117212158434664828

Truly sad. Killing off #printed #newspapers is not something I ever expected to see.

#Journalism is dying in more ways than one, and I have to wonder what the ripple effect will be when suddenly #news is unavailable to anyone who can't afford the entry fee to get it online.

The so-called #PublicRecord becomes a luxury to some and invisible to others at the same time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/117212158434664828

Truly sad. Killing off #printed #newspapers is not something I ever expected to see.

#Journalism is dying in more ways than one, and I have to wonder what the ripple effect will be when suddenly #news is unavailable to anyone who can't afford the entry fee to get it online.

The so-called #PublicRecord becomes a luxury to some and invisible to others at the same time.

For Gloria Steinem, fashion was about much more than aesthetics
By Morwenna Ferrier

In an era when feminists were stereotyped as unattractive, the pioneering writer’s style created a Trojan horse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/gloria-steinem-fashion-feminism-aesthetics

#Feminism #Women #Worldnews #Lifeandstyle #Fashion #Newspapers #Magazines #Media #Newspapersmagazines #TheGuardian #MorwennaFerrier

For Gloria Steinem, fashion was about much more than aesthetics
By Morwenna Ferrier

In an era when feminists were stereotyped as unattractive, the pioneering writer’s style created a Trojan horse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/gloria-steinem-fashion-feminism-aesthetics

#Feminism #Women #Worldnews #Lifeandstyle #Fashion #Newspapers #Magazines #Media #Newspapersmagazines #TheGuardian #MorwennaFerrier

For Gloria Steinem, fashion was about much more than aesthetics
By Morwenna Ferrier

In an era when feminists were stereotyped as unattractive, the pioneering writer’s style created a Trojan horse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/gloria-steinem-fashion-feminism-aesthetics

#Feminism #Women #Worldnews #Lifeandstyle #Fashion #Newspapers #Magazines #Media #Newspapersmagazines #TheGuardian #MorwennaFerrier

Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers. “BPL holds tens of millions of pages of historical newspapers on microfilm, roughly three million of which have been digitized and made searchable online through DigitalCommonwealth.org. Now, BPL and the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) at the Harvard Law School Library […]

Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers. “BPL holds tens of millions of pages of historical newspapers on microfilm, roughly three million of which have been digitized and made searchable online through DigitalCommonwealth.org. Now, BPL and the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) at the Harvard Law School Library […]

Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers. “BPL holds tens of millions of pages of historical newspapers on microfilm, roughly three million of which have been digitized and made searchable online through DigitalCommonwealth.org. Now, BPL and the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) at the Harvard Law School Library […]

Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers. “BPL holds tens of millions of pages of historical newspapers on microfilm, roughly three million of which have been digitized and made searchable online through DigitalCommonwealth.org. Now, BPL and the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) at the Harvard Law School Library […]

Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers. “BPL holds tens of millions of pages of historical newspapers on microfilm, roughly three million of which have been digitized and made searchable online through DigitalCommonwealth.org. Now, BPL and the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) at the Harvard Law School Library […]

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/02/ink-review-danny-boyle-jack-oconnell #VeniceFilmFestival #Film #Biopics #DannyBoyle #GuyPearce #JackOconnell #JamesGraham #TheSun #RupertMurdoch #ClaireFoy #Culture #Media #NationalNewspapers #Newspapers #NewspapersMagazines #Stage

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalJack O’Connell is terrific as editor Larry Lamb in James Graham’s tale of Rupert Murdoch, Page 3 and the newspaper that transformed Fleet Street

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/02/ink-review-danny-boyle-jack-oconnell

#Venicefilmfestival #Film #Biopics #DannyBoyle #GuyPearce #JackOConnell #JamesGraham #TheSun #RupertMurdoch #ClaireFoy #Culture #Media #Nationalnewspapers #Newspapers #Newspapersmagazines #Stage #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Courthouse News Service: Fifth Circuit sides with news aggregator in copyright battle. “News aggregator NewsBreak prevailed Thursday in a copyright dispute with a publisher who took issue with embedded news articles displayed on NewBreak’s app. Emmerich Newspapers, which publishes local newspapers across Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, had challenged a lower court’s decision that […]

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

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NiemanLab: Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes. “Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at India Today, that might include addressing an AI-generated archival photograph of a politician, a clip of deadly flooding […]

St. Louis Public Radio: Online database of Riverfront Times articles gets more stories and redesign. “Hundreds of Riverfront Times articles that had disappeared after the alternatively weekly newspaper shut down are being added to a database started by St. Louis archivists. Riverfront Times Database includes articles from 2014 to 2024. The database now includes cover stories, cover galleries […]

NiemanLab: We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. “Data journalists have sometimes wondered whether loading a story with data can be overwhelming rather than clarifying. We found that giving readers more information changes who comments, and how.”

NM.news: We’re working to save the Roswell Daily Record, an American journalism institution. Here’s how.. “The newspaper that told the world about a ‘flying saucer’ crash near Roswell in 1947 nearly became history itself this week — but just two days after announcing it would shut down, it has found a new owner and will keep publishing. The Roswell Daily Record’s ownership announced […]

The #CruiseShip delivers a daily newspaper to every cabin.
This is a concise 8 A4 page printed edition produced by KVH media for cruise lines.
There's just enough news in all areas (UK, global, sport, finance, celebrities) to keep up to date. There's no editorial, and no apparent bias (there will be but it's not blatant). And no adverts!

I think I'd pay to have this type of daily digest at home. (No, it's not available to individuals)

#news #Newspapers #UKNews #BoatTripNorth #Cruise

Recently added titles (June 2026)

Building upon the titles listed for July/August, September, October,  November, and December 2021, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2022, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of 2023, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,  October, November, and December of 2024, and January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December of this year, and January, February, March, April, and May of this year, this post notes recent titles with libraries or librarians in popular culture which I’ve come across in the past month. Each of these has been watched or read during the past month. No films, animated series, or other entries with libraries (or librarians) to add for this past month, but I did come across some in webcomics. There may be spoilers for these series, so be aware.

Animated series recently added to this page

None for this month.

Anime series recently added to this page

• Ascendance of a Bookworm, “The Gathering of Gutenberg[s]” (s4 ep 11)
• Black Lagoon, “The Succession” (s1 ep 20)
• Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku, “Zing!” (s1 ep 11)
• A Hundred Scenes of Awajima, “Akiho Kashiwabara & Wakana Tabata” (s1 ep 9)

In the 20th episode of Black Lagoon, Yukio is reading a book by Martin Heidegger, as she tells her friend Maki, in the school library, calling the book philosophical and “very powerful.” In contrast, Maki says she likes skincare guides and modern horror books, with Yukio saying she remembered Maki saying she liked Anne Rice. They talk a bit more with Yukio saying she sometimes feels like she is caught inside of book worlds, and viewers see some of the library bookshelves. She says she doesn’t like Stephen King and Maki says she thought Yukio would like Edgar Allan Poe. She says she doesn’t like the ones that imagine the night, and she does not like the world as it makes her scared, that it is not romantic at all.

There is a second scene in the episode in the reading room where Yukio is thinking about the gang war between the Russian mafia and Japanese yakuza, and does not listen as much to what Maki tells her and decides to not tell her troubles. The reading room is shown briefly in the next episode, but not enough to mention it here. It is worth noting that Heidegger was directly involved with the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, and even banned from teaching after the war until 1949 (when the ban was lifted). He also never expressed remorse for being involved with the Nazis, which is funny because Hannah Arendt, who became known for her political theory against authoritarianism, including Nazism and fascism. I’m not sure why Heidegger was mentioned (in the manga as well), except to possibly indicate that Yukio was intellectual, nihilistic, and his existential philosophy was appealing. At the same time, I seriously doubt she was a Nazi as there was an earlier plot line in the series where the protagonists stole loot from a submarine filled by wannabe Nazis/neo-Nazis and killed a bunch of them, but rather a bit of a mob boss, if I have to guess. At the same time, during his life, Heidegger had intellectual contact with Japanese scholars like racist Hajime Tanabe (who later regretted defending claimed Japanese state and racial superiority) and pro-militarist Shūzō Kuki over the years, influencing his work, according to Reinhard May.

Otherwise, in the ninth episode of A Hundred Scenes of Awajima, there is a brief library scene of the students studying on the library together, learning about people at the school and searching on the local computers, even reading newspaper articles.

Lastly there’s an episode of Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku, the 11th episode. Previously, in episode three (noted later), there was a library scene. In this episode, to relax from the festival and feeling he is taking up the time of Kotoko Ijichi and Amane, Takuya Seo (otherwise known as Otaku-kun) hangs out in the school library. While there he hears the rumor that the Mister and Misses from the contest begins dating, with mention of Amane and Ijichi, and some other kids dating them. After they find the book they want and leave, Takuya looks through his phone and sees images of him with Amane and Ijichi, and thinks they may have better matches than him, and he feels anxious about the idea of other people dating them. It seems he is starting to say that he would make the next move, somehow, although it isn’t clear what that would be.

Before this, there have been other episodes in this series with library scenes. In April, I noted that in the third episode of the series, saying that “Ijichi helps the two other protagonists…Takuya…and Amane) study in the school library for midterms but Takuya admires the two gyaru gals in front of him. Some of the books in the school library are shown. Despite Kotoko saying they should keep studying, instead Takuya and Amane have an art battle over their favorite characters of Glittermon in the library.”

Last but not least, Ascendance of a Bookworm FINALLY had an episode with a library, which has been an utter crime for a while, despite the focus of the series on books and the fact that the protagonist was a librarian in her former life. According to my records, the last episode with a library scene, “Re: Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 2”, a recap episode, was in late March 2022! There were no library scenes, at all, in season 3. Entitled “The Gathering of Gutenberg[s],” Myne finds a key to the rare books shelf of the cathedral library, which she happily checks out. She goes to the cabinet with rare books, unlocks it with a key (another barrier to entry). Her attendant, Fran, tells her that these “books” are not actually books. Instead, they are letters on parchment, inside of a box, which were addressed to the former High Bishop. She even agrees, after Fran says she can read the letters as she is now the High Bishop, and report the contents to the Head Priest (Ferdinand).

The letters are filled with bitter grievances about their bad position in life, revealing bribery, and deep ties between the viscount (Gerlach) and the former High Bishop (Bezewanst). She later describes these letters, to Ferdinand as “filled with wicked schemes and evidence of…wrongdoings” by Gerlach. The letter end up being helpful to Ferdinand in his schemes. It is also revealed that one of those mentioned in the letters, Veronica, was the mother of Ferdinand and his brother Sylvester, and charged with forging official documents and acting as an accomplice to Bezewanst. Apart from Myne later looking at the existing printing press and bringing together different tradespeople (a carpenter and smither) to create an improved printing press in this episode, with Myne buying the blueprint, among other plot points, Fran says her conduct as a noble is fine, “as long as it doesn’t involve books.” Then there’s a short scene of her laughing while reading a book, with Ferdinand saying it is best to keep her away from books (not good!). In the post-credits scene, one of the priests says he told Myne a story, to get over her drowsiness: the size of the collection, the types of books, names and ages of the librarians, and sealed archives at the Royal Academy. While the priest thought this was boring, Myne comes onto the scene saying the information was entertaining and useful. The ending credit illustration by Somchira Katsu has Myne smiling happily as she grabs one of the books in the church library.

Comics recently added to this page

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Films recently added to this page

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I was reminded of Love Live! songs this month and came across, again, a song by Shioriko, entitled “Emotion” behind a library backdrop in  an episode of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, which I wrote about back in August 2024. In that post I said:

Let me start with Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, a series which ran from 2020 to 2022. In the episode “The Memory of Dreams,” of aforementioned idol music series, a library is featured. At the end of the episode, Shioriko sings a musical ballad which features her going through a library, touching the spines of books, and walking down stairs in the library. This might be indicating how academic she is, as a person. She also, during the song, changes outfits in the library and finds a key… within a book. The song isn’t about libraries at all as a translation of the lyrics makes abundantly clear.

Here’s the related video:

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Legislation proposed to stop ‘lawfare’ targeting journalists and whistleblowers https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/17/slapps-legislation-stop-lawfare-journalists-whistleblowers #MediaLaw #PressFreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #LibelReform #Law #Politics #UkNews #Business #HouseOfLords #HouseOfCommons #JohnWhittingdale #Censorship #Media #Newspapers #DigitalMedia #NewspapersMagazines

Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and most effective way to find things online (although its results may be getting worse.) More recently, it has been adding to its search engine more […]

Library of Congress Blog: New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” To me the highlight of the new […]

Fediverse, do you regularly read any print periodicals? What ones? I like having some around to have a but more print short form content to read, which helps avoid doom scrolling.

I get The Nation (USA progressive current events and politics, monthly) and New Scientist (UK based, available in USA, science and nature, weekly)

New Scientist also has good audio versions of their articles in their app, and good free podcasts.

#PrintMedia #Magazines #Newspapers #Reading

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Back to basics.

#newspapers #printmedia

Former British PM #LizTruss will set up her own #socialnetwork to overcome being #sensored by #woke #newspapers like @TheGuardian which reported her big news every time. But let's not laugh, there will be so many users that they will need a super big server. So I will donate them one of my old Raspberry PIs. It should have plenty enough capacity for the flood of users.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/15/liz-truss-to-launch-uncensored-social-network-to-counter-mainstream-media

#theguardianuk #deranged

Digital art: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #insideSpace #innerLife #introspection #stucco #bigEye #surveillance #observation #watchingyou #newspapers #wastePaper #drawings #silhouettes #aquarium #fishBowl #fatMan #adiposity #obesity #swimmies #bodyShaming