Corporate Media Usurpation ..
X Twitter ..
Intellectual Dark Web ..
PISA Report ..
Subversion ..
X Twitter ..
Internet Dysfunction
Cyberbully Personality Disorder ..Friday, 31 July 2020
Sunday, 26 July 2020
Common Sense - Honestly
22-3-15 Bari Weiss: Post-Mainstream Media, Culture War Battles - Hoover > .
24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .
23-3-25 Collective Stupidity -- How To Avoid It - Sabine Hossenfelder > .
22-12-17 Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: Social Media - SH > .
22-5-5 Ukrainian Journalists Fighting Rascist 'Fake News’ > .
Weiss is the publisher of "Common Sense", her wildly popular Substack newsletter, and the host of the "Honestly with Bari Weiss" podcast. Her ambition is nothing short of becoming a 21st-century one-woman media company.
22-5-5 Ukrainian Journalists Fighting Rascist 'Fake News’ > .
Corporate Media Usurpation
As Covid-19 ran rampant across the United States in 2020, local newsrooms across the country cut back—even as they covered the biggest story in decades.
“As far as readers, we saw that skyrocket during the pandemic,” Emma Way, editor at Axios Charlotte, told CNBC. “So at the same time that revenue was falling, readers were spiking. It was kind of this dilemma that I’m sure a lot of news organizations faced.”
Reporters were laid off and furloughed. Some who stayed were offered buyouts.
It was a catastrophic and uncertain time for American newsrooms.
During the pandemic, more than 70 local newsrooms closed across the country. This includes newspapers that have served their communities for decades. Often, these papers are shut with little notice.
But the problem existed long before the pandemic.
Since 2004, about 1,800 U.S. newspapers have closed. Newspapers have struggled to make money with the collapse of print advertising as readership moved online. Then, the digital advertising market quickly became dominated by tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Today, some of the largest newspaper groups in the country —such as Tribune, McClatchy and Media News Group — are owned, controlled by or in debt to hedge funds or private equity groups. In fact, hedge funds and other financial firms control half of the daily newspapers in the United States, according to a recent analysis by the Financial Times.
"As far as readers, we saw that skyrocket during the pandemic," Emma Way, editor at Axios Charlotte, told CNBC. "So at the same time that revenue was falling, readers were spiking. It was kind of this dilemma that I'm sure a lot of news organizations faced."
Reporters were laid off and furloughed. Some who stayed were offered buyouts.
It was a catastrophic and uncertain time for American newsrooms.
During the pandemic, more than 70 local newsrooms closed across the country. This includes newspapers that have served their communities for decades. Often, these papers are shut with little notice.
But the problem existed long before the pandemic.
Since 2004, about 1,800 U.S. newspapers have closed. Newspapers have struggled to make money with the collapse of print advertising as readership moved online. Then, the digital advertising market quickly became dominated by tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Today, some of the largest newspaper groups in the country —such as Tribune, McClatchy and Media News Group — are owned, controlled by or in debt to hedge funds or private equity groups. In fact, hedge funds and other financial firms control half of the daily newspapers in the United States, according to a recent analysis by the Financial Times.
Saturday, 25 July 2020
Cyberbullying Protection
22-4-10 World-1st government agency dedicated to online safety | 60 Min Aus > .
24-12-10 Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election - PBS > .
24-3-31 Dark Nature of Online Trolls - Magee > .
Cyberbullying Protection ..
Friday, 24 July 2020
Dystopian Anti-Social Media
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24-3-31 Dark Nature of Online Trolls - Magee > .
Dystopian Anti-Social Media ..
Essence of Liberal Education ..Thursday, 23 July 2020
False-Balance Media Bias
2021 The Media Bias Nobody is Talking About | Robert Reich > .
Robert Reich breaks down how the mainstream media draws a false equivalence between the right wrong and the left and misleads the public about what's really at stake. The mainstream media has historically tried to balance left and right wrong in its political coverage, and present what it views as a reasonable center. That may sound good in theory. But the old politics no longer exists and the former labels “left” versus “right” are outdated. Today it’s democracy versus authoritarianism, voting rights versus white supremacy. There’s no reasonable center between these positions, no justifiable compromise. Equating them is misleading and dangerous. Don't fall for it.
The Real Political Battle in America ►► https://youtu.be/hkM_NG6HkqY .
Friday, 17 July 2020
LeftTube & Algorithmic Hijacking
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Social Media "Economics" - Weighs 'n Means >> . BreadTube, or LeftTube, is a term used to refer to a loose and informal group of online content creators [who] create video essays from socialist, communist, anarchist, and other left-wing perspectives.
The term BreadTube comes from Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, a book explaining how to achieve anarcho-communism and how an anarcho-communist society would function.
The term is informal and often disputed, as there are no agreed-upon criteria for inclusion. According to The New Republic, in 2019, the five people most commonly mentioned as examples are ContraPoints, Lindsay Ellis, Hbomberguy, Philosophy Tube, and Shaun, while Kat Blaque and Anita Sarkeesian are cited as significant influences. Ian Danskin (aka Innuendo Studios), Hasan Piker, and Steven Bonnell have also been described as part of BreadTube. Several of these people have rejected the label.
The BreadTube movement itself does not have a clear origin, although many BreadTube channels started in an effort to combat anti-social justice warrior content that gained traction in the mid 2010s. Two prominent early BreadTubers were Lindsay Ellis, who left Channel Awesome in 2015 to start her channel in response to the Gamergate controversy, and Natalie Wynn, who started her channel ContraPoints in 2016 in response to the online dominance of thealt-right Ultra-Wrong at the time. According to Wynn, the origins of BreadTube as well as the alt-right can be traced back to New Atheism.
The BreadTube movement itself does not have a clear origin, although many BreadTube channels started in an effort to combat anti-social justice warrior content that gained traction in the mid 2010s. Two prominent early BreadTubers were Lindsay Ellis, who left Channel Awesome in 2015 to start her channel in response to the Gamergate controversy, and Natalie Wynn, who started her channel ContraPoints in 2016 in response to the online dominance of the
BreadTube creators generally post videos on YouTube, and are known to participate in a form of "algorithmic hijacking". They will choose to focus on the same topics discussed by content creators with right wrong-wing politics. This enables their videos to be recommended to the same audiences consuming far-right far-wrong videos, and thereby expose a wider audience to their perspectives. The channels often serve as introductions to left-wing politics for young viewers.
Monday, 13 July 2020
Pulitzer vs. Hearst
Pulitzer vs. Hearst: The Birth of Yellow Journalism - xplrd > .
1:25 - Pulitzer
4:05 - Hearst
5:45 - Their rivalry
7:40 - Yellow journalism
1:25 - Pulitzer
4:05 - Hearst
5:45 - Their rivalry
7:40 - Yellow journalism
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Rural Corn to Urban Corn
Sunday, 5 July 2020
X Twitter
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24-11-16 Twitter and responsible social media - Anders > .In contrast to a user interface, which connects a computer to a person, an application programming interface connects computers or pieces of software to each other. It is not intended to be used directly by a person (the end user) other than a computer programmer who is incorporating it into software. An API is often made up of different parts which act as tools or services that are available to the programmer. A program or a programmer that uses one of these parts is said to call that portion of the API. The calls that make up the API are also known as subroutines, methods, requests, or endpoints. An API specification defines these calls, meaning that it explains how to use or implement them.
One purpose of APIs is to hide the internal details of how a system works, exposing only those parts a programmer will find useful and keeping them consistent even if the internal details later change. An API may be custom-built for a particular pair of systems, or it may be a shared standard allowing interoperability among many systems.
The term API is often used to refer to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware. APIs originated in the 1940s, though the term did not emerge until the 1960s and 70s.
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