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16 votes
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Deadspin revolt escalates, with mass resignations by staff
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Vox Media acquires New York Magazine
15 votes -
Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
11 votes -
German Lopez was skeptical of unions. Then he joined one.
9 votes -
NY Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead
11 votes -
Pacific Standard is shutting down, effective next Friday
10 votes -
What Actual Resistance Looks Like: Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda, and Brazilian journalists are standing up to a hateful fascistic government
10 votes -
USA Today's Virginia HQ was evacuated amid a heavy police response due to a mistaken report of a person with a weapon
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Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
10 votes -
Do you live in a media bubble? Do you use Google News? I recommend using it signed-out at least 50% of the time
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers....
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers. This has been an eye-opening experience for me.
Many years ago I had blocked Fox, RT, and other crap out of my GNews feed. I was living in a bubble of my own making. I actually prefer that bubble, as there is more factual information in it, but it comes at a cost. I had lost a lot of my situational awareness of the political and media climate.
I am not trying to be centrist here, I just think that one should know the entire battlefield, not just the news given from their comfortable sources. For one thing, I had no idea of the dominance which Fox News had in Google News, also that RT was so prevalent, also that there was so many other sources of utter right-wing propaganda that had been normalized. How can I fight disinformation if I am unaware of its origins?
What do you think about this? Would you take me up on my challenge of reading the uncustomised news? Do you ever try to get out of your comfort zone in the news? Does it help inform you?
edit: Just FYI, to easily use Google News, or any other news site signed-out, first open a "private window" in your browser.
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How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020
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Losing the News: Can the Charleston Gazette-Mail survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been investigating?
6 votes -
Fox News Didn't "Steal" Your Parents
19 votes -
Severe weather pits meteorologists against some viewers
5 votes -
What international coverage of Tiananmen got wrong
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The euthanasia that wasn’t
26 votes -
How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years
4 votes -
It's Time to Change the Way the Media Covers Crime
9 votes -
Shame On You’: New York Times Antisemitic Cartoon Controversy Escalates
8 votes -
“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff
11 votes -
Steve Bannon caught on video admitting Breitbart lost 90% of advertising revenue due to boycott
21 votes -
In Brazil 30 million people live in a 'quasi desert' of news
5 votes -
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
10 votes -
ABC and SBS cleared by review into claims they compete unfairly with commercial rivals
6 votes -
Former Macedonian strongman's escape to Hungary triggers a flood of disinformation
8 votes -
Should the Press Boycott Trump? Political Strategists Weigh In
8 votes -
The National Enquirer’s Plot To Assassinate Ted Cruz’s Candidacy
11 votes -
Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Working
14 votes -
As Comcast takes control of Sky, Murdoch could yet bounce back. Mogul’s influence on worldwide news is unlikely to be weakened by latest defeat
5 votes -
Internet taxes are sweeping sub-Saharan Africa — and silencing citizens
9 votes -
Russia’s brazen lies mock the world. How best to fight for the truth?
10 votes -
Amid nationwide strike, media access to prisons is limited
10 votes -
BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’
18 votes -
Calif. man charged with making threatening calls to Globe
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Reality Winner, Former N.S.A. Translator, Gets More Than 5 Years in Leak of Russian Hacking Report
12 votes -
Hundreds of U.S. newspapers run editorials rebuking Trump for attacks on media
16 votes -
Terrorist attacks are quietly declining around the world
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A Boston newspaper is proposing a coordinated editorial response from publications across the U.S. to President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on the news media.
8 votes -
Tronc Slashes 'New York Daily News' Staff By Half
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YouTube aims to crack down on fake news, support journalism
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Elon Musk will launch a website called Pravada - used to rank credibility in the media.
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A look inside Radio Sputnik, the Russian funded media outlet operating in 34 countries in more than 30 languages, including an AM/FM station in Washington, D.C.
4 votes