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Cambodia Reporter Exposed Scams, Jailed

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Article in The Guardian by Rebecca Ratcliffe, 10/24/24

Headline: “Journalist who exposed Cambodia’s scam industry released by authorities”

Subhead:  “Mech Dara, charged with incitement, freed on bail after video of him apologising to country’s leaders appears”

“Mech Dara, one of Cambodia’s most prominent journalists, known for exposing the country’s billion-dollar scam industry, has been released on bail after a video of him apologizing to the country’s leaders appeared in pro-government media.

“Dara was arrested last month while traveling with his family, and charged with incitement over social media posts.”

“. . . Dara investigated scam compounds doggedly for the outlet Voice of Democracy (VOD) until it was shuttered last year by authorities in a move widely seen as an attack on independent media. He continued reporting for other outlets, doing so at far greater risk and with fewer rewards than many international reporters, Southern said.”

His reports documented the Telegram channels where trafficked workers are bought and sold, and the desperate pleas of those trapped inside compounds; he wrote about workers who jumped from balconies in attempts to escape, and the role and response of Cambodian officials.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/24/cambodian-journalist-mech-dara-exposing-scam-industry-released

 

Media Coming to Take Him Away Ha Ha?

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Article in The Nation by John Walsh, 10/21/24

Headline: “Finally, Trump’s Derangement Is Breaking Through in the Media”

Subhead: “It took a reference to Arnold Palmer’s penis to get more mainstream reporters to tell it like it is. That’s progress.”

“Mainstream news organizations suddenly became more blunt about Trump’s decline—and derangement. Trump’s age finally catches up with him,” The Washington Post wrote Saturday. “Trump kicks off Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia,” AP headlined its coverage of the Latrobe debacle. “Donald Trump’s vulgar rally ramble fuels questions about his state of mind,” the Financial Times wrote.”

“. . . As always, The New York Times immediately “sane-washed” the story. On its breaking-news politics page, a short report said Trump told “golf stories” about Palmer without mentioning his lewd remark. But shockingly, after wide social-media outcry, reporter Michael Gold told a critic to direct his questions to senioreditor@nytimes.com, because “I filed something that included the thing you mention as omitted, but I’m not given the power to publish what I say.”

“. . . But overall, the major media seems more ready to tell the truth about Trump. All of the Sunday shows covered his Palmer remarks and the other evidence of not just vulgarity but potential mental decline.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-cognitive-decline-media/

Future of Journalism – Who to Ask?

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Article in The Nation by Chris Lehmann, 10/24/24

Headline:  “Media Elites Are the Last People to Ask About the Future of Journalism”

Subhead:  “And New York magazine’s latest cover package does just that.”

“It’s an admittedly minor wrinkle in the mass derangement building up to the 2024 election, but future historians will be at a loss to explain why New York magazine chose this moment to roll out a cover package that ballyhoos the deep thoughts of media industry executives. The quote-extravaganza  . . .is a bit like canvassing the designer of the Hindenburg on the future of air travel.”

Then there’s the question of timing: the lords of the press are holding forth on how their prestige outlets will survive t the precise moment they’re fucking up coverage of the 2024 election on an epic scale. Any intelligible understanding of the press’s role has to start with the mandate the country’s founders formalized in the First Amendment—the pivotal need to cultivate and sustain an informed citizenry.”

“. . .  battery of 57 pop-up news managers have [not] word one to say about this function of the press. That’s likely because a significant number of them are deeply enmeshed in normalizing the demented, fascistic candidacy of Donald Trump, and generally treating a critical election cycle as a glorified reality TV spectacle. Indeed, in an awkward karmic coincidence, New York unleashed its future-of-the-media package just as it officially severed ties with its star politics reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, for carrying out digital intimacies with Robert F. Kennedy. . . ”

“. . . Reporters and commentators should seek a higher calling, or our ailing democracy is at risk of going the way of the pivot to video. If the bosses won’t stand for it, it’s the bosses who need to go.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-media-elites/

Fighting Unfavorable Press – Just Like Fighting Nazis!

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Article in Media Matters by Eric Hananoki, 10/22/24

Headline: “At Team Trump-backed event, Mark Robinson compares himself fighting the news media to Allied soldiers fighting Nazis”

“North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson recently spoke on the Trump-backed “ReAwaken America” tour, where he compared fighting the news media to battling Nazis at Normandy Beach. His speech was well-received by Trump ally and ReAwaken America co-organizer Mike Flynn, who asked the audience to donate to Robinson’s campaign.

“Robinson’s rhetoric echoes that of former President Donald Trump, who has referred to the news media as the “enemy of the American people.” Trump has also explicitly threatened to use government resources to target news organizations.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/team-trump-backed-event-mark-robinson-compares-himself-fighting-news-media-allied

How to get Votes or Favorable Media – Pay for Them!

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 10/23/24

Headline: “Nicole Shanahan offered $500K to Washington Post reporter to share sources, be a ‘whistleblower’ “

“Nicole Shanahan, former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, offered half a million dollars to a Washington Post journalist to be a “whistleblower” against her political enemies.

“The Post, in a wide-ranging profile of Shanahan published Wednesday, revealed the offer was made this summer, when the outlet was reporting on her during the time Kennedy’s campaign was still active.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4948979-nicole-shanahan-offered-money-washington-post-whistleblower/

No Media, No News?

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Video Article in Al JAzeera by Hashem Ahelbarra, 10/23/24

Headline:  “Will the US pressure Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza?”

“Dozens of US House Democrats urge US President Joe Biden to push Israel for independent media access to Gaza.

“Israel has severely restricted international journalists from entering Gaza as its military has carried out its assault on the Palestinian territory for more than a year.

“Politicians in the United States are questioning the decision to block access to foreign media outlets

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/10/22/will-the-us-pressure-israel-to-allow-foreign-journalists-into-gaza

Tax on Tech Media for News Posts?

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Article by Rod Sims on TechXplore, 10/23/24

Headline: Should a big tech tax fund news? A new report reopens debate on platforms and media

What will Australia do?

“Meta’s announcement nearly eight months ago that it would no longer do commercial deals under the News Media Bargaining Code has led to much speculation as to how the government would respond.

“The code became law in 2021. Facing the threat of designation under it—which would involve further legal obligations platforms may wish to avoid—both Google and Facebook (now Meta) did deals with news media businesses worth up to A$250 million per year.”

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-big-tech-tax-fund-news.html

Media Are Missing Something?

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Article in The Guardian by Moustafa Bayoumi, 10/23/2410.19

Headline: ” ‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine”

““The Palestine I saw bore so little likeness to the stories I read, and so much resemblance to the systems I’ve known,” he writes. The intensity of his critique extends almost as much to American journalism as it does to Israel’s system of control.”

“. . . The thing that I’ve thought a lot more about is the fact that you have a class of low-information journalists, certainly when it comes to Palestine and Israel, and perhaps the world. And I say that as somebody who was among them. These people are not low-information because they’re bad people or even necessarily incurious people. But there is tremendous pressure not to have this conversation”

“. . .I think there’s appropriate sensitivity around the Holocaust. I think there is appropriate sensitivity around the lethal force and weight of antisemitism in western history. But that doesn’t give journalists a pass to not know [what is happening to the Palestinians].”

“. . .There are very few, if any, major media organizations where Palestinians, Palestinian Americans or maybe even Arab Americans have much power in terms of determining what the coverage looks like.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2024/oct/23/ta-nehisi-coates-interview-palestine-kamala-harris

 

Medicare Proposal Ignored by Broadcasters

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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 10/23/24

Headline:  “Broadcast news mostly ignored Kamala Harris’ proposal expanding Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors”

Subhead:  “Harris’ Medicare proposal was given just 35 seconds of combined airtime on ABC, CBS, and NBC news shows after two weeks”

“he major corporate broadcast news networks — ABC, CBS, NBC — largely ignored Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposal to expand Medicare to pay for long-term, in-home care services for seniors in the two weeks since she announced it.

“ABC, where Harris broke the news on an episode of The View, otherwise made only passing mention of the proposal, as did NBC, while CBS ignored it entirely. All told, this transformative expansion of Medicare garnered just 35 seconds of combined airtime across the three broadcast networks in the last two weeks.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/broadcast-news-mostly-ignored-kamala-harris-proposal-expanding-medicare-cover

No Media in Gaza?

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Article in Common Dreams by Jessica Corbett, 10/21/24

Headline: “House Dems Push Biden to Fight for Global Media Access to Gaza”

Subhead: “It is imperative that the United States urge Israel to allow independent access for U.S. and international journalists, in the interest of transparency, accountability, and the fundamental principle of press freedom.”

“Over five dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday urged the Biden administration to “take immediate action to advocate for unrestricted, independent media access” to the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have killed at least 42,603 people and injured another 99,795 since last October.

“It is imperative that the United States urge Israel to allow independent access for U.S. and international journalists, in the interest of transparency, accountability, and the fundamental principle of press freedom,” the lawmakers—led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)— wrote to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-media