From the UPI:
Month: April 2023
This Saturday, Fun Fundraiser
At a place sure to upset conservative legislators!

Printing Plant Fire Beats One of the Last Local Newspapers Out of its Last Edition
New York Times 4/24/23
FCM Website Attacked by Bots.
The Friends of Community Media website (ourfcm.org) was recently under an attack seemingly by DoS bots (dedicated denial of service), designed to overload the system.
This was done with fake bot email addresses. Many of these were fake email addresses with an address that had the domain name appended to the email address as .ru – an extension representing Russia. The FCM website originally used to require a registration before viewing it. Each of these fake emails became registered and started to fill up the FCM WordPress database.
This was a mistake and made the site vulnerable.
With this attack up to10 new registrations a day started occurring starting in January, 2023. These eventually mounted up to over 5,000 fake addresses which had to be manually deleted.
To respond, the admin of ourfcm.com stopped people requiring to be registered on the site. Also, a message was sent back to some of the phony emails that said, “Mumakhala ngati nyani akuphanguka” – an appropriate phrase in another language. Responses to the FCM message were kicked back as not being real email addresses.
Unfortunately many sites like this one, are subject to attack by the deniers of free information-flow that can challenge authoritarians and dictators.
Journalists Who Report the Actual News Are Threatened With Death by Dictators and Even Here in the US.
From the Washington Post 4/18/23
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/18/mccurtain-county-sheriff-recording/
Be careful about reporting on corruption in parts of Oklahoma – and in other places!
Is Twitter a News Medium or Just a Propaganda Outlet as Public Media Leave it in Droves?
From the Guardian 4/14/23
PBS and NPR which are overwhelmingly funded by subscribers say goodbye to the questionable medium.