@lovelylovely the #news media is owned by eight white horny billionaires… so there’s that #fourthestate #popthepatriarchy #theGoodKings … explains how women uphold the elite that down holds…

The manslaughter murder of the vibrant elder, 98 year old Kansas woman #journalist #JoanMeyer who’s Newspaper was RAIDED (perhaps bc, restaurant owner Kari Newel didn’t want the sordid truth out) has historical context in the 1836 murder of #antislavery journalist, the young #ElijahPLovejoy

Read #heatherCoxRichardson https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-12-2023?r=1j96e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

for the historical perspective of attempts to silence the #fourthestate #freepress #democracy #journalism

@WarnerCrocker @barney @dangillmor

IMHO: Deconstruction / burndown of the #FourthEstate has been underway since *at least* when #FoxNews aligned in 2008 with #Christian #Nationalism (Mike Huckabee.)

Programming then followed the Far Right into the 2016 election...

#45 and minions will only go where their public will permit. The echo chamber of distrust and deceit is central.

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

Taking the Polls of the Nation.

What can polls actually tell us? And does it have anything to do with Public Opinion (in the Habermassian sense)?

#POL204 #FourthEstate #Podcast #Habermas #Poll #PublicOpinion #PublicSphere

https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=959495

The Stanford Freshman Who Brought Down the President of Stanford - Theo Baker is the son of the New York Times’ chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, and New Yorker columnist Susan B. Glasser. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/07/21/the-stanford-freshmsn-who-brought-down-the-president-of-stanford/ via @dianeravitch #FourthEstate

The shrinking #FourthEstate. Now they're getting rid of the satire and humor that make opinion sections bearable. I guess we should be grateful that newspapers still exist at all.

Three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists fired by McClatchy newspapers - The Washington Post
#cartoons #journalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/07/12/mcclatchy-cartoonists-layoffs/

"There is no meeting liars halfway, because the truth then becomes one-half lie. We must simply be louder, and clearer, with the truth."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/06/ben-collins-its-time-for-journalists-to-draw-the-sword-and-throw-away-the-scabbard/ #journalism #democracy #fourthestate

“Totalitarian regimes destroy independent media in order to establish control over society through propaganda.”

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/06/08/russian-journalists-address-tech-companies-worldwide-ask-not-to-let-telegram-youtube-to-be-blocked-in-russia-en-news

#Russia #censorship #MediaLit #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #NewColdWar

"Media freedom in dire state in record number of countries, report finds"

https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2023/05/03/media-freedom-in-dire-state-in-record-number-of-countries-report-finds/ #journalism #FourthEstate

"Ireland is ranked second in World Press Freedom Index amid warning over disinformation and artificial intelligence threat to media"

In a democracy, good journalism is not optional, because the people as a whole are called upon to make important decisions about governance. They need high-quality information in order to make those decisions. Alas, in many cases, the truth is paywalled but the lies are free.

#democracy #journalism #fourthestate #politics #publicmedia

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/04/the-collapse-of-buzzfeed-news-shows-why-for-profit-journalism-is-a-disaster/

In another case of consequences for overt lies, #MikeLindell, aka #PillowGuy, is ordered to pay $5 million.

Maybe the #TruthIsBack? Is this a new era for #journalism? It’s been a good week for those that believe in a responsible #FourthEstate

#News #NewsMedia #Fox #FoxDominion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/20/mike-lindell-prove-wrong-contest

American Public Media, #NPR and #PBS leaving #birdsite saying

"#Twitter is now actively aiming to undermine the integrity of public media organizations like ours.”

Feels like the beginning of a strategic retreat by the #FourthEstate ahead of actual cultural civil war.

Raises the question: Where are the battle lines? #Mastodon is a safe haven, glad to be here.

Other agencies are leaving too. I hope they arrive here soon.

@emilyhopkins I don't know how to do it, but given our current state of affairs, the chaos ... thinking people need a place to organize around factual, realtime #news.

The #FourthEstate needs to be free of the economic feudalism that is corporate social media. We need you on #mastodon and it's going to take lot's of voices. Thanks for asking, I hope I'm helping.

@protecttruth @MAD_democracy American consumers are responsible for the state of our #FourthEstate.

Can Journalists Be Objective?
Readers discuss a column by Bret Stephens about restoring trust in the media.

We journalists are human beings before we’re reporters and editors. We’re not recording machines, detached and disinterested. We have values, instilled by the culture and shared by our audience. Our reports are grounded in these values.

Mass shootings are bad, for instance; relief for earthquake survivors is good.

#fourthestate #Journalism #media #objectivity

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/opinion/letters/journalists-objectivity.html

DOZENS OF NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS HIT STAFF UNION FOR ITS DEFENSE OF TRANS COVERAGE CRITICISM

“Every day, partisan actors seek to influence, attack, or discredit our work. We accept that,” the letter continues. “A workplace in which any opinion or disagreement about Times coverage can be recast as a matter of ‘workplace conditions.’… We are journalists, not activists. That line should be clear.”

#fourthestate #journalists #NYT #censorship #politicallycorrect

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-journalists-letter-guild

Opinion More and more, trolls and haters attack female journalists

…..as report published Feb. 14 by the International Center for Journalists shows in graphic terms that the internet also created dark alleys of hate, misogyny and violence aimed at female journalists.

Twitter “is the main vector” for the attacks, and the platform “has utterly failed to protect the journalist,”

#misogny #WomensRights #HumanRights #fourthestate #journalist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/20/women-journalists-online-attacks-report/

@froomkin They have a pay wall, and I'm not giving the #NYT my email address.
If the #NewYorkTimes can't be a competent enough of a member of the #FourthEstate to even protect our democracy, then I there is no way they can be competent enough to protect my email.

A quotation from Malcolm X:

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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/malcolm-x/58414/

#quote #quotes #quotation #disinformation #distortion #fourthestate #media #oppression #publicimage

A quotation from Black, Hugo:

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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/black-hugo/5793/

#quote #quotes #quotation #fourthestate #freedomofthepress #media #watchdog