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Tag: Mass media

  • From News Deserts to Revitalization

    In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on  the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples’ need to identify the day’s most important and relevant news […]

  • Government Targeting Journalists in Canada

    The Trudeau government in Canada is doing the bidding of the World Economic Forum in creating its very own online news registry aimed at “disinformation”. This is code for censorship and control. Canada is also rolling out the Online Safety Act which will protect you from nefarious truth-tellers that speak out against government propaganda.

  • The Angertainer Steps Down: Rupert Murdoch’s Non-Retirement

    One particularly bad habit the news is afflicted by is a tendency to fall into discussions about itself.  Its members, some of them at least, used to call it the “Fourth Estate,” an unelected chamber of scribblers supposedly meant to keep an eye on the other three, yet finding itself at times distracted, gossip-driven, and […]

  • Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook’s Information Scrub

    Australia experienced this in February 2021.  Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government.  To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news platforms of content and making any posted links through the platform inaccessible.  It mattered not that the content involved the […]

  • Calf Days and Rationed Broadcasting: The Women’s World Cup

    FIFA is a funny organisation.  Mafia-run, obscenely corrupt, it governs the most popular game on the planet with a shameless, muscular vigour that must make other criminal enterprises green with envy.  But even its members must find the curious limitations to viewing matches of the 2023 Women’s World Cup being held in Australia and New […]

  • The Censors Down Under: The ACMA Gambit on Misinformation and Disinformation

    In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum.  “Information freedom,” she declared, “supports the peace and security that provide a foundation for global progress.” The same figure has encouraged the […]

  • Free Press, Propaganda and Censorship

    In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) How many of us learn about Russia from a Russian point of view? Or about Syria from a loyal Syrian? Or Cuba from a Cuban supporter? Or Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, China or many others on our current […]

  • The BBC Falls for Murdoch’s Bait

    It should be called for what it is.  The recent apoplectic, lurid coverage of what was, at best, a matter for a corporation’s human resources department dominating several news cycles even as drownings continued in the Mediterranean, war continued being waged in Ukraine and climate change continued issuing ominous reminders of its existence. The issue […]

  • Evidence Does Not Change (Most) Minds

    For decades, I’ve been writing articles, essays, blog posts, books, and more. Two of my books are annotated history texts. I’ve given public talks and run a podcast. I’ve been interviewed more times (TV, radio, online, print, etc) than I can remember. You’d think by now, I’d be aware that most folks are unmoved by […]

  • “Journalism is Not a Crime”

    “Journalism is Not a Crime”

    May 3 marks the 30th anniversary of Press Freedom Day, inaugurated in 1993 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from the United Nations (UNESCO). RSF’s original 1991 report provided a “round-up of journalists killed throughout the world” and laid the groundwork for what eventually became the Press Freedom Index, which now ranks freedom of […]

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