In news headlines, some civilian casualties are more valuable than others | Nieman Journalism Lab
A study of New York Times headlines about wars in Yemen and Ukraine reveals a bias in recording civilian harm.
We can’t afford to be climate doomers | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win
Malaysian police ramp up persecution of Al Jazeera, journalists and activists to stifle criticism - Civicus Monitor
Since April 2020, there has been a systematic campaign of judicial harassment by the Perikatan Nasional government targeting the media and journalists for their reporting, including independent news outlet Malaysiakini and Al Jazeera. The authorities are pursuing activists and government critics, as well as opposition parliamentarians, using an array of restrictive laws to stifle criticism. Individuals calling for or holding peaceful protests have also been questioned or arrested.
Russia and the US Press: The Article the CJR Didn’t Publish – Byline Times
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
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Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections | Cybercrime | The Guardian
Unit led by Tal Hanan that boasts vast army of bots exposed by undercover reporters and leaked emails
Women journalists harassed, abused by global scourge of online attacks - The Washington Post
Female reporters covering powerful people are often pushed out of their jobs as news organizations struggle to respond to smear campaigns meant to silence them
Feckless WaPo Prints Disinfo About “Russian Trolls”
This is classic propaganda
What is woke: How a Black movement watchword got co-opted in a culture war - Vox
Stay woke: How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.
This endless fanfare of grievance, innuendo, and motivated misprioritization colors most of the content you’ll find on the most popular conservative news and opinion outlets: vast edifices of bullshit constructed atop small kernels of verifiable information. But this ongoing victim narrative is undermined by the plain fact that, far from being marginalized and undervalued, by most available metrics, right-wing news and opinion is very popular and profitable. Fox News consistently tops the cable news ratings. Conservative radio shows and podcasts top the leaderboards in their respective disciplines. Right-wing Facebook pages are consistently among the most popular issues-based Facebook pages. Substacks dedicated to the proposition that divergent political opinion has no home in the American media earn their proprietors better livings than they ever would have made at the publications they once called home. We are literally living in the Golden Age of Getting Rich and Wielding Influence by Pretending That Your Voice Has Been Silenced—which brings us back to the Twitter Files, and the people to whom they were handed by the wealthiest man in the world.
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
How the West projected Hitler’s ‘hooked cross’ as the Swastika with the help of New York Times
The New York Times has distorted the image of Hindu holy symbol Swastika. The publication compared Hindu symbol with the Nazi Symbol.
It is imperative to note that the Nazi Party adopted the hooked cross (Hakenkreuz in German) as its emblem in 1920. There is no evidence that Hitler ever heard of the word “Swastika”. Hooked Cross had been a sacred symbol of Christianity since its inception in ancient days and it is very natural to find Hooked Cross symbols in old churches and chapels. The Christian symbol had nothing to do either with Hinduism or Swastika. It existed as an important symbol of Christendom since its very existence. It was found in early Christian Graves of Rome in the second century CE.
Data & Society — The Oxygen of Amplification
New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas
Offering extremely candid comments from mainstream journalists, the report provides a snapshot of an industry caught between the pressure to deliver page views, the impulse to cover manipulators and “trolls,” and the disgust (expressed in interviewees’ own words) of accidentally propagating extremist ideology.