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Media Distort New Movements?

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Article in FAIR by Raina Lipsitz

Headline:  “Corporate Media Portray DSA’s Grassroots Organizing as a Sinister Conspiracy”

“. . .The ‘takeover’ language is telling: The corporate press sees any assertion of agency on the part of everyday people as a threat to establishment interests. The Free Press (7/21/26) sounded the alarm in an article headlined ‘What the Movement Taking Over the Democratic Party Wants.’ And Fox News (7/27/26) went further with a story headlined ‘[US Rep. Steve] Scalise Warns ‘Bolshevik Revolution’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-portray-dsas-grassroots-organizing-as-a-sinister-conspiracy/

Should AI Pay Journalists?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Issie Lapowski, 8/13/26

Headline:  “Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI”

Subhead:  “At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say yes.”

“. . .Every media company faces existential questions about the rise of AI, especially this one: How should newsrooms get paid for the information AI spits out and the models that were trained on journalists’ work? The New York Times has sought to answer this question in court. Some (including the Times) have struck licensing deals. . .”Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/feature/axios-wants-to-save-local-news-with-ai-jim-vandehei-tech-newsletters.php

Rt. Media Snake Oil

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Article in Media Matters by Helena Hind, 8/14/26

Headline: “MAHA and right-wing media revive debunked claim about the COVID vaccine and miscarriages to attack Dr. Fauci”

Subhead:  “Media figures spread a false claim that the COVID-19 vaccine caused an 82% miscarriage rate, calling the vaccine an ‘abortion shot’ and saying, ‘Fauci belongs in prison’”

“A press release from two Republican senators containing texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci has revived a bogus claim — based on a flawed interpretation of a 2021 study — that the COVID-19 vaccine caused an 82% miscarriage rate among pregnant people who took it before 20 weeks of gestation. Right-wing media figures, MAHA organizations, and online wellness influencers have latched onto the debunked claim. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/maha-and-right-wing-media-revive-debunked-claim-about-covid-vaccine-and

In Sheep’s Clothing?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy 8/12/26

Headline:  “Ellison’s CNN Board Game”

Subhead: “Paramount is floating an oversight board to safeguard CNN’s independence under Ellison ownership—but inside the network, staffers tell Status that they aren’t buying it.”

On Wednesday, by way of The Wall Street Journal, Paramount floated creating an editorial board to oversee CNN. In theory, the board would safeguard the news organization’s independence, should David Ellison be successful in his odyssey to acquire the outlet’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/cnn-board-david-ellison-paramount

Can’t Pay to Play in Media Now

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Headline: ” Top Forbes editor reportedly fired after receiving $6m from business associate”

Subhead: “Randall Lane left his job last month after accepting money from founder of firm that does business with magazine”

“The top editor of Forbes left his job last month and was reportedly dismissed for accepting $6m from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.

“The New York Times reported this week that Randall Lane was paid by RJ Shook, whose company, Shook Research, worked with Forbes since 2016 to publish rankings of wealth advisers. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/13/forbes-editor-fired

Catered Media Dinner

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Article in Reuters By Emily Giles, Elwely Elwelly and Melory Ghazi, 8/13/26

Headline:  “Iran’s state media mock Trump over airplane switch, meme shows him hiding in a catering truck”

“. . .Trump and a ​small group of aides used a catering truck to switch from the big blue-and-white presidential aircraft to a smaller, nondescript C-32A jet for the flight out of ​Turkey on July 8, while Air Force One departed separately carrying senior administration officials, White House staff and the [press], according to the first source. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/irans-state-media-mock-trump-over-airplane-switch-meme-shows-him-hiding-catering-2026-08-13/

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Article in The Borowitz Report by Andy Borowitz, 8/13/26

Headline: “Trump Regularly Hides in Catering Truck to Avoid JD Vance”

“. . .Donald J. Trump routinely hides in a catering truck parked outside the White House to avoid talking to JD Vance, Secret Service sources revealed on Thursday.

“According to the sources, when agents see the vice president approaching the Oval Office they immediately activate a silent alarm and hustle Trump out the back door. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.borowitzreport.com/

Press Sec. Leaves Final AI One for Media

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Article in AlterNet by Sarah K. Burris, 8/12/26

Headline: “Karoline Leavitt torn apart after her exit note is flagged for being AI:

“. . .Status News reporter Natalie Korach caught a brief note at the end of Leavitt’s post: ‘Interesting flag at the bottom of this post: “Made with AI.” ‘

“Latika M. Bourke, of the Australian daily digital newspaper ‘The Nightly,’ also spotted the note, highlighting it with the large eyes emoji.

“CBS News night assignment editor Ryan Sprouse also noticed the AI note.

” ‘Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House to lie elsewhere,’ cracked Mrs. Betty Bowers. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/karoline-leavitt-ai-2677695246/

Pay Money Get Info?

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Article in Al Jazeera by Staff and AP, 8/12/26

Headline:  “Media groups sue Trump over paid access to public social media posts”

Subhead:  “Lawsuit claims Trump profits unfairly by charging up to $100,000 monthly for exclusive access to presidential posts.”

“The publication The Intercept and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation have filed a federal lawsuit against United States President Donald Trump to block his social media service from selling advance access to his posts.

“Court filings on Wednesday argue that the subscription-based service would restrict access to matters of public interest. . .”

“Critics have pointed out that Trump uses his Truth Social account to announce policy changes that could have effects on the economy. Trump’s comments, for instance, about the US-Israel war on Iran have sent ripples through global oil markets.”

Read the full article at:

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/12/media-groups-sue-trump-over-paid-access-to-public-social-media-posts

Don’t Worry, They’re Only Journalists

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 8/12/26

Headline:  “Opinion | Trump left Air Force One because of a threat. Journalists stayed aboard.

Subhead:  “Presidents have used decoys before. What’s different this time is that the press didn’t know.”

“. . .while journalists and some White House staff thought they were riding on the same plane as Trump, they were not.

“The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt and Zolan Kanno-Youngs wrote, ‘Reporters on the older plane were not told that Mr. Trump had not flown with them from Turkey to an air base in Britain, making them unwitting participants in the ruse and leaving them, along with some White House staff members, to serve as unknowing decoys.’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/trump-air-force-one-decoy-reporters-threat/

Kansas Newspaper Restitution

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Article and photo in AP by John Hanna, 8/12/26

Headline: “A Kansas town will pay $850K to end a reporter’s lawsuit over a 2023 raid on her paper’s offices”

“A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom.

“Now-retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said in her lawsuit that the raid violated press freedoms and protections from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. She also said it almost immediately led to health problems, causing the return of potentially life-threatening seizures that had been controlled for years with medication. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://apnews.com/article/kansas-newspaper-raid-press-freedom-c94e93cb264256678194d891a36108c9