#thepress — Public Fediverse posts
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@tbh
You are correct, TBH!
"Satirical website the Onion plans to turn rightwing commentator Alex Jones’s misinformation site Infowars into a parody of itself under a leasing agreement provisionally approved by a Texas court."
The Onion will be paying over $80,000 per month for this lease if reporting is correct.
That seems to me like a lot of money to pay to rent a misinformation platform.
#TheOnion #InfoWars #ThePress #Media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars -
This Is How It Ends: New Zealand's water is turning toxic
https://youtu.be/5qZ8uo4heaU#newzealand #environment #pollution #thepress #stuff #aotearoa
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/146682/ Hard landing forces aircraft off runway at Wilson Airport; no injuries reported #activated #FlightFrom #Kenya #KenyaCivil #OffThe #ongoing #TheAircraft #ThePress #TheRunway #VeeredOff
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Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
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Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
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Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
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Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
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Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
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There's a standout article in #ThePress by Charlie Mitchell detailing how in the 1960s Christchurch city, NZ, came within a whisker of having a major motorway built through the middle of Hagley Park. That's the big park in the core of the city. The majority of local politicians were all for the motorway and it was only stopped by a coincidental administrative change in the way parks were managed that was backed by a national government decision.
Christchurch's mayor in the late 1960s, Ron Guthrey, was an ardent motorway supporter. The Press article notes how, in his inaugural speech as mayor, "he floated the idea of allowing cars to drive through the Botanic Gardens". At the next election he became the first sitting Christchurch mayor to be defeated in nearly half a century.
I see some parallels here with our current self-described "petrol head" mayor who wants to dig up a central city cycleway.
In the 1960s, opposition to the motorway was led by conservative councillor Peter Skellerup. “Surely the cult of the motor-car is not so strong that we carve through our oldest and most beloved reserve,” he said in 1963. “You can't land an aeroplane in the city… surely the car should be restricted from certain places.” "Skellerup, running to reclaim his seat, won more votes than any other council candidate in New Zealand’s history."
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It's local election year in Christchurch City, NZ, which means we have some politicians, including our self-confessed "petrol-head" mayor, making noise about the city's allegedly high spending on cycle ways. There's a good article today in #ThePress pushing back against that, showing that cycle way spending will be about 0.11% of rates increases. They compare that with the 4.6% rates increase for our new stadium.
What the article doesn't do is compare the city's cycle way and car way spending. I found numbers for the region on the ECan website for the next 10 years, for building and servicing our transport infrastructure. It's 74.3% car spend (mostly road maintenance and improvements), 21.9% public transport (including operating the bus fleets), and 3.3% cycling and walking.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360782234/what-cutting-cycleways-would-really-save-ratepayers
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#ThePress has an article out about several recent sightings of tūī across Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.
Tūī have become an icon for efforts across the city and Banks Peninsula to control introduced mammalian predators and regenerate and replant the lost native forest. These efforts are resulting in a gradual return of native birds.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360730774/return-tui-songbirds-spotted-christchurch
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WTF is wrong with the USA press? It's the billionaires, isn't it?
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WTF is wrong with the USA press? It's the billionaires, isn't it?
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WTF is wrong with the USA press? It's the billionaires, isn't it?
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WTF is wrong with the USA press? It's the billionaires, isn't it?
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WTF is wrong with the USA press? It's the billionaires, isn't it?
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MTP Today: Chuck Todd talks to Kristen Welker about Ronna McDaniel Hire
"“Let me deal with the elephant in the room. I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Chuck Todd told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker, who recently replaced Todd as host of the show.According to Politico, "Todd joine
https://newsviews.online/2024/03/24/mtp-today-chuck-todd-talks-to-kristen-welker-about-ronna-mcdaniel-hire/
#News #ThePress #ChuckTodd #KristenWelker #MSNBC #MTP -
"X is a politically controversial subject", says the people who keep framing straight-forward things as "politically controversial"...
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Once again: If actual #news #media did their jobs, videos like this one - a full hour's worth of just some of many things everybody could plainly see were completely insane, but which were still allowed to be things for years before they were accurately entered into the public record - wouldn't exist.
If #ThePress did the #journalism they're supposed to as #TheFourthEstate, we wouldn't have to turn to comedy shows for facts.
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An example of how sampling bias might disappear facts while putting data in to guide machine-generated text:
> That has been the official line in the #UnitedStates, and you.. cannot deviate from it in #ThePress or #scholarship.. it's even at the point where #journals.. will not permit letters referring to these proposals; the degree of control on this is startling..
http://www.ditext.com/chomsky/power.pdf
#NoamChomsky #UnderstandingPower #Scholarship #SamplingBias #Totalitarianism #USA #DiscilplinedMinds