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JuneSim63

A small light in Trump's darkness. Interview with neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon, who founded #ScienceHomecoming, which helps scientists to submit articles to their local news media, putting the case for funding science.
There are around 6000 local papers in the US still with a strong local readership.

#Trump #Science #Funding #NewsMedia #USPolitics

How we’re battling Trump’s science cuts across small-town America
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comHow we’re battling Trump’s science cuts across small-town AmericaNeuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.
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DB 🌱💦

Protesters with BDS Belfast occupied the headquarters of the BBC in their city to call them out for their complicity and their untruthfulness in reporting what’s happening in Gaza.

C: @bdsbelfast on IG

#BBC#BDS#NewsMedia
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Be_Outside

ALL newsmedia seems to have waay too much contextualizing problems in terms of economic fears and tariff distresses and not nearly enough context about the totally fascist gov, threats to sovereignty, and innocent people in concentration camps.

The Canadians whom are going to avoid the US for the foreseeable future care about tariffs but they honestly care much more about fascistic governments and concentration camps.

MOST #Canadian #newsmedia is failing to grasp this.

#cbc#canada#canpoli
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Matthew Cullis

The Daily Aus has launched a campaign targeting Peter Dutton after his campaign has continued to ignore the media outlet for an interview.

Billie from TDA was originally pitching for a youth leaders debate, but it was even a no to Zara (co-founder) for an interview request.

TDA's target audience is young people, with a majority of its content appearing on Instagram.

TDA is asking followers to tag Dutton in comments on their post.

#auspol#election25#newsmedia
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Jonathan Kamens

Most of the #newsMedia people I've interacted with since I started making a stink about being fired by #DOGE have been extremely competent and on the ball.
And then there's the #MSNBC producer who (a) messaged my daughter instead of me, (b) did not provide my daughter with her email address, and (c) is not on Signal at the phone number she texted my daughter from, and (d) sent me a connection request on LinkedIn instead of an InMail. *sigh*
#smdh

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Strypey

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"The best way I can illustrate that is with this chart based on those ASA statistics ... It speaks for itself, and I hope you will share it far and wide."

@gavinellis, 2025

knightlyviews.com/but-waitther

I would, but this is a terrible graph. For a start, axes are not labeled. So while I can guess that the numbers along the bottom are years, showing change over time, the numbers up the side are a mystery. Are they $ or %? Are there implied 0s after them? How many?

Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis · BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) - Knightly Views with Gavin EllisFirst there was Dracula, followed by Nosferatu. Buffy the Vampire Slayer despatched a few, but then we were shown What We Do in the Shadows. However, for the cold-hearted realities of vampirism, nothing beats that on-going series The Advertising Standards Authority’s Advertising Turnover Report. In a chillingly sangfroid fashion, its latest episode indicates that yet … Continue reading BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) →
#NewsMedia#advertising
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Strypey

The NZ Advertising Standards Authority has released its annual report on advertising revenue. I'm hearing about it on RNZ MediaWatch, who referenced this column by Gavin Ellis;

knightlyviews.com/but-waitther

Once again, the stats show that the bulk of ad money spent in NZ is going to the DataFarms. The handful of giant, multinational platforms owned by Silicon Valley oligarchs. Once again, I recommend @pluralistic's piece on this;

pluralistic.net/2022/04/10/big

Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis · BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) - Knightly Views with Gavin EllisFirst there was Dracula, followed by Nosferatu. Buffy the Vampire Slayer despatched a few, but then we were shown What We Do in the Shadows. However, for the cold-hearted realities of vampirism, nothing beats that on-going series The Advertising Standards Authority’s Advertising Turnover Report. In a chillingly sangfroid fashion, its latest episode indicates that yet … Continue reading BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) →
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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DB 🌱💦

News media really has to stop asking entertainers what they think about world affairs. If they hadn't maybe we wouldn't now be in the mess we're in.

Good on Bill Burr for calling this out as weak and cowardly journalism.

"You need to get your balls back and it's not my job, I'm a dancing clown"

#Journalism#Reporters#NewsMedia
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“In my view it is no exaggeration to say that at this juncture, information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.”

canadiandimension.com/articles

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canadiandimension.comHere’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our mediaPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda, an irony perhaps not lost on Justice Hogue.
#CDNPoli#Canada#Politics
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Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda

canadiandimension.com/articles

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canadiandimension.comHere’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our mediaPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda, an irony perhaps not lost on Justice Hogue.
#CDNPoli#Canada#Politics
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the worst traitors of all may actually be in our own news media. “While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated public and media discourse, the reality is that misinformation and disinformation pose an even greater threat to democracy,” wrote Justice Marie-Josée Hogue in her long-awaited report on the subject that was released this past week in no fewer than seven volumes. “Some spread disinformation about candidates and elected officials who express views that diverge from their own interests. Their goal is to try and prevent these candidates from getting elected, and to affect policy choices and positions.”

canadiandimension.com/articles

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canadiandimension.comHere’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our mediaPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda, an irony perhaps not lost on Justice Hogue.
#CDNPoli#Canada#Politics
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Peterson [...] received funding from Russian broadcaster RT. “Enough idiot green moralizing,” Peterson’s rant continued. “Enough carbon tax. Enough bloody net zero. And how about this? Enough multiculturalism and destruction of the Canadian identity.”

canadiandimension.com/articles

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canadiandimension.comHere’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our mediaPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda, an irony perhaps not lost on Justice Hogue.
#CDNPoli#Canada#Politics
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some MPs had been “semi-witting or witting” dupes of foreign powers attempting to interfere in Canadian politics. While heavily redacted, the NSICOP report pointed a finger directly at foreign-funded Canadian news media

canadiandimension.com/articles

h/t @Npars01

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canadiandimension.comHere’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our mediaPostmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda, an irony perhaps not lost on Justice Hogue.
#CDNPoli#Canada#Politics
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