Article by By Don Jacobson on UPI 9/28/24
Headline: “Trump Media co-founder, investor dumps shares following lockup period”
Is the end near?
“A co-founder of former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social messaging platform has dumped his shares following the expiration of a mandatory -lockup’ period, a public filing shows.”
Article by by Dominick Mastrangelo in The Hill, 9/27/24
Headline: “Amanpour: Melania Trump’s ‘mainstream media’ remark is ‘dangerous”
“CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour is chastising former first lady Melania Trump over comments she made attacking the mainstream media in a recent interview.
“ ‘Mrs Trump is mistaken, political violence is not the fault of the ‘mainstream media and I wish she would take back this false and dangerous accusation,’ Amanpour wrote in asocial media post Friday morning.
“The CNN anchor was referencing an interview Trump gave on Fox News a day earlier.
. . . “Former President Trump and his allies regularly attack the mainstream media, singling out CNN in many cases as ‘fake news’ and ‘the enemy of the people.’ ”
Article in The Guardian by Anna Bawden and Mark Sweney
Wed 25 Sep 2024 12.35 EDT
Headline: “Pressure mounts on publisher of Economist over ties to tobacco”
Subhead: “Exclusive: Experts pull out of health conferences run by Economist Impact after revelations of commercial links”
“Pressure is mounting on the publisher of the Economist over its commercial ties with the world’s three biggest tobacco companies, after numerous senior NHS and international health experts pulled out of two more Economist Impact health conferences after the Guardian’s investigation into its links with big tobacco.
. . . “Prof Sir Michael Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity at University College London and a global authority on health inequalities, said: “I was not aware Economist Impact were supported by big tobacco companies when I accepted the invitation to speak at this event. Now I am aware, I will no longer be appearing at the conference. I have never and would never work with the tobacco industry, and I am disappointed these details were not disclosed in advance”
Article by By Josephine Harvey in the Huffington Post 9/25/24
Headline: “Mary Trump Slams Media’s Dangerous Interpretations of Her Uncle’s Gibberish”
Subhead: ” ‘The push to normalize Donald is Breathtaking’ said Donald Trup’s Niece”
“Mary Trump has accused legacy media organizations of normalizing former President Donald Trump and injecting meaning into his increasingly incoherent statements, and warned of its “dangerous” effects.”
. . . ““It’s as if the legacy media has decided that its job is not to report what he’s saying, but to translate it for us,” she added. “The problem is twofold. One, they’re not telling us that’s what they’re doing. They’re reporting it as if these are the things Donald is saying coherently.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mary-trump-donald-trump-media_n_66f41197e4b01c2b5008ec52
Article on NPR by Maddy Lauria & David Folkenflik, 9/26/24
Headline: “Voting-tech company settles with right-wing network over false election claims”
“Once more, a voting tech company has settled its defamation lawsuit over false allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election before the start of trial — in this instance, Smartmatic USA’s suit against the conservative network Newsmax.”
“. . . ‘Lying to the American people has consequences,’ the company’s statement said. ‘Smartmatic will not stop until the perpetrators are held accountable.’ ”
Rollerball Image from TMBD
Article by feris Hero, Daily Kos, 9/24/24
Headline: Dear Legacy Media, Election Coverage Is Not (And Never Should Be) A Sporting Event
“The legacy media coverage of elections is too often treated by them and others as some kind of sporting event. I’m not even really discussing the elections themselves, but rather the coverage itself is the sporting event. A bad week of media coverage gets stories about ‘How Can the Campaign Turn This Around?’, which is often a cover to run negative points about the opposing campaign. Media complains that campaign isn’t providing enough details on some policy point, ignoring the fact that no politician has provided actual details on policies since at least before any of us were born.”
Article in Huffington Post by Ron Dicer, 9/24/24
Headline: “JD Vance Rips Media for Debunking Haiti Story, says Let People Speak their ‘Truth’ “
Subhead: “The GOP veep nominee also danced around questions about controversial governor candidate Mark Robinson.”
“The Ohio senator, who is Republican Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, attacked the media for actually investigating to disprove the claims and later complained that too few in the media investigate the truth.
. . . “Vance, of course, conveniently failed to mention the townsperson who spoke her ‘truth’ in a police report that apparently fueled many of the racist lies but admitted later that she found her cat in the basement.”
Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 9/18/24
Headline: “JD Vance, Springfield, and how MAGA media spun a racist lie out of control”
Subhead: “Vance’s office was told it was “baseless” from the beginning”
“Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance told reporters on Tuesday that it was their job — not his — to fact-check his claim that Haitians were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The Wall Street Journal did just that, revealing on Wednesday morning that Springfield’s city manager told Vance’s office that the story was baseless, soon after the Republican vice presidential nominee started publicly making the racist claim.”
“Earlier this month, a Springfield resident published a since-deleted post to a private local Facebook group spreading “vague, third hand gossip” about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in the area.
The internet rumor spread to X on September 5 and spiraled through the right-wing media apparatus for days. Then on the morning of September 9, Vance, who is extremely online, promoted the claims on X, triggering a slew of supportive coverage from right-wing media.
Article by Annique Mossou from Bellingcat.com, 11/1/21 (over a year old, but still good)
Headline: A Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Verification
“How can we tell whether the posts, articles and claims we see on the internet and social media sites are true? Online conspiracies and deliberately misleading, partisan content are serious issues, after all.”
. . . “Verification doesn’t need to be difficult. It also doesn’t require any complicated algorithms or access to advanced tools or programs that automatically detect whether an image may be fake or manipulated.
“A critical mindset and a close look at the context of an image or post, allied with simple tools such as a Google search or reverse image platforms, are often all it takes to discover whether a piece of content is genuine.”
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2021/11/01/a-beginners-guide-to-social-media-verification/
Article in Freepress.net by Craig Aaron, 9/20/24
Headline: “Public-Interest Groups Defend FCC’s Broadcast-Ownership Rules Promoting Competition, Diversity and Localism on Air”
“On Friday, six public-interest, media-reform, media-justice and labor organizations joined to file an amicus curiae brief defending the Federal Communications Commission’s broadcast-ownership rules against an industry challenge in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“The six groups are Common Cause, the Communications Workers of America-National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Free Press, the Future of Music Coalition, the musicFIRST Coalition and the United Church of Christ Office of Communication, Inc. (“UCC Media Justice”). All of these entities have long participated in FCC proceedings and court cases on this issue. Attorneys Cheryl Leanza and Rachel Stillwell authored and filed the brief on the groups’ behalf.
“The FCC’s media-ownership rules are designed to promote competition, viewpoint diversity, ownership diversity and the delivery of local content by broadcast stations licensed to serve communities all across the United States.”
FCC broadcast ownership rules:
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fccs-review-broadcast-ownership-rules
Article on the kkfistory website from community radio pioneers Lorenzo Milam and Jeremy Lansman who protested to the FCC against duopoly and bland, monolithic radio of 1974.
https://www.kkfistory.org/lorenzo-jeremys-petition-against-god/