#WashingtonPost's #Opinion #Editor #DavidShipley #Blames #Billionaire #JeffBezos for #Endorsement #Drama, Tells #Staff They Can #Quit as Distraught #Journalists #Slam #Bezos for '#ConflictofInterest' and for 'Putting His Thumb on the Scale'

“Jeff Bezos was destroying the #newspaper’s #reputation as an "#independent #journalistic #organization"”

https://freebeacon.com/media/exclusive-wapo-opinion-editor-david-shipley-blames-bezos-for-endorsement-drama-tells-staff-they-can-quit-as-distraught-journalists-slam-bezos-for-conflict-of-interest-and-thumb-on-the-scale/

This Is Not Propaganda

#Book about digital #propaganda & how it affects viewer’s normality

How manipulation of reality characterizing #Russian politics was used in 2016 US #election & #Brexit #vote

Shows destroying idea of objective truth is a goal of internet propaganda, as is destroying trust in #democracy & information overload to persuade people to trust in #dictator

Suggestions to build #journalistic, online actions to focus on facts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Not_Propaganda

The #NewYorkTimes devotion to the horse race is at least consistent, if a waste of #journalistic resources many of us bemoan regularly. Sadly, so is the paper's willingness to be manipulated. Instead of weighing news value and vetting for accuracy and context, the NYT can be counted on to simply regurgitate what candidates say each day in headlines that get a lot more attention than fact-checks after. Better #journalism would keep the daily trail in context and look harder at substance #USPol

#DeclassifiedUK | Defence correspondents: the #journalistic wing of the #military?

https://www.declassifieduk.org/defence-correspondents-the-journalistic-wing-of-the-military/

There's no reason for the #NewYorkTimes' CEO to be insightful about #localnews, and he isn't, though this interview is worth reading. But Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab knows this territory well, and I agree with his assessment that if the Times "believes in its “core #journalistic mission... it should be using its position of relative financial security to work harder on the biggest and most intractable part of the problem. And that’s local news." https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/weve-really-worked-hard-not-to-ever-have-a-pivot-at-the-new-york-times-a-g-sulzberger-on-ai-local-news-and-that-trump-bump/ #journalism

Once Again, #Journalistic “#Objectivity” Is #FailingUs — Especially #Queer and Other #Marginalized #Writers

#Objectivity assumes a lack of #power #differentials. #Objectivity #flattens and #erases #identity.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Media

https://www.autostraddle.com/once-again-journalistic-objectivity-is-failing-us-especially-queer-and-other-marginalized-writers/

#Australia to introduce #national #ban on #Nazi #symbols. But, new #laws will not cover the #Nazi #salute (left to the individual states), public displays of the Nazi #swastika and #SS #symbols for #academic, #educational, #artistic, #literary, #journalistic or #scientific purposes will be allowed.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #transphobia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65840812
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65840812

"The fact that political and economic powers can decide professional careers and who runs which media has perverted the [#journalistic] profession"
Thank you #LuisMartin for our excellent conversation on #disinformation and #journalism (Spanish):
https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/sociedad/noticias-falsas-desinformacion-claves-fenomeno-social-debemos-combatir_130_10096218.html

@kim_harding Loss of #journalistic integrity at the #BBC is evident in #Canada's public broadcaster too. Political interference and #Pravda-type echos of the state propaganda need to be reined in if #democracy is to survive.

Oh, FFS. Stop this line of BS thinking right now:

“It's becoming clear that more than just a random process is going on under the hood, and what we're witnessing is somewhere on a fuzzy gradient between a lookup database and a reasoning intelligence. “

Translation: the authors have an #Eliza fetish and are willingly fooled by a #chatbot script. #fraud #ai #journalistic #malpractice

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article/

Super grateful to historian Timothy Snyder for taking a sharp look at that #NYTimes article from Oct 2016 that announced the FBI found "no clear link" between Trump & Russia. In misleading readers the way it did, "it is suggestive of something malignant."

As Snyder says, only looking closely at those events gives us a chance to heal. So he analyzes some faulty #journalistic practices.

#journalism #TrumpRussia #SpyScandal #McGonigal #truth #bothsidesism #balanced

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-trauma-of-2016-spy-scandal-part?r=evwj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email