News about the media.
From The Guardian article by Sakhidad Hatif on 5/1/24
Headline: “The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile”
“In the two decades before the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan had vibrant media sector. There were newspapers, television channels, periodicals, magazines and more, invigorating the public discourse by allowing citizens to express their views on national and local issues. That is completely gone”
Headline: “Missouri AG sues Media Matters over its X research, demands donor names – Media watchdog clams ‘meritless, expensive, and harassing investigations.'”
From Ars Technca, Article by Jon Brodkin 4/26/24
“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey yesterday in an attempt to protect Elon Musk and X from the nonprofit watchdog group’s investigations into hate speech on the social network. Bailey’s claims that “Media Matters has used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to trick advertisers into removing their advertisements from X, formerly Twitter, one of the last platforms
dedicated to free speech in America.”
An image obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. – from NPR.
Headline: “Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court”
Article by Alice Speri in The Guardian 4/14/24.
//www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/apr/14/abu-ghraib-iraq-torture-abuse
This week marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. This book describes what happened when it was stopped and a new government took over. Another casualty was a free and vibrant
Torch-bearers were upset about her reporting!
From The Guardian article 4/7/24
Headline: “Journalist removed from Colorado Republican event for ‘unfair’ reporting”
Picture from the 1973 Paramount movie “Paper Moon”.
Update Headline: “Trump Made $300,000 for Endorsing Bible, Financial Disclosure Shows”
Article in the New York Times by Shane Goldmacher, Russ Buettner, and Maggie Haberman, 8/15/24
“The Bible is on sale online for $60 with a copy signed by Mr. Trump selling for $1,000. ‘Yes, this is the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!’ the site advertises.”
Headline 3/29/24: “Right-wing media are split over Trump selling $60 “God Bless the USA” Bible”
From a Media Matters article by Justin Horowitz 3/29/24:
Headline: “Net Neutrality rules restored by US agency reversing Trump”
From Reuters article by David Shepardson 4/2/24:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-vote-restore-net-neutrality-rules-2024-04-25/
Headline: “Will the media learn the right lesson from the Ronna McDaniel debacle?”
From the Washington Post article by Jennifer Rubin, 3/29/24
Headline: “Is the US media layoffs phenomenon the next housing crisis?”
Article from Al Jezerra By Andy Hirschfeld3/27/24
From Semafor, ‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve” by Max Taii, 3/17/24