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52 votes
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Vice, decayed digital colossus, files for bankruptcy
21 votes -
Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding US trial
15 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump charged: How the world reacted to his arrest
7 votes -
Alternative facts - How the media failed Julian Assange
10 votes -
The system that fuels media negativity
12 votes -
US local news outlets need tax breaks to help save democracy, says advocate
3 votes -
New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
15 votes -
Top Down News
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How "Unser Mitteleuropa" is building a network of right-wing media in Europe
5 votes -
The irresistible force vs the ironized object
2 votes -
Chris Wallace announces he is leaving Fox News, joining CNN+
11 votes -
CNN, spilled milk, and why any of this matters
8 votes -
How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack – many international media outlets picked up on speculative tweets
11 votes -
High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
12 votes -
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
6 votes -
A remarkable silence: Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
20 votes -
Five things the media does to manufacture outrage
14 votes -
Larry Flynt, porn mogul and 'Hustler' founder, dies at 78
14 votes -
'This used to be your favourite show': Polish media falls silent to protest tax
6 votes -
Is Substack the media future we want?
8 votes -
Matt Taibbi: Hate Inc., Why today's media makes us despise one another (Hosted by PennState)
6 votes -
BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media
10 votes -
A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
7 votes -
Australian Associated Press sells the AAP Newswire
6 votes -
Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and Australia's democracy
11 votes -
The American press is destroying itself
6 votes -
America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability."
12 votes -
At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband
7 votes -
Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut
11 votes -
China bans journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in retaliation for state media restrictions by the Trump administration
16 votes -
US to treat Chinese state media like an arm of Beijing's government
15 votes -
Given up sugar? Great, now it’s time to cut the news from your diet
26 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
Deadspin revolt escalates, with mass resignations by staff
10 votes -
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
18 votes -
'Everything you're seeing is deception.' How right-wing media talks about impeachment
18 votes -
Andrew Yang gets media cold shoulder
19 votes -
Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
11 votes -
Denmark broadcaster uses meme-based journalism to reach younger audience
7 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
6 votes -
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.
14 votes -
How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020
9 votes -
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 -
Media frame: A ‘war on cops’ narrative without evidence
8 votes -
It's time to change the way the media covers crime
9 votes