Whispering In His Ear
Running With One Leg While You’re Telling Me All The Things I Want To Hear ~ Is This The Love Story That’s Ruining America? Ginni interviews Clarence in 2018: GINNI THOMAS:…
Media Malpractice
Biden gaffe – 10 minutes. Mrs Ginni Thomas' treason – 45 seconds. Media sleepwalks past Ginni Thomas’ treason Burying a blockbuster via Pressrun The Sunday morning talk shows sprinted into “gaffe”…
Murderous Camapigns
Vladimir Putin is not happy with the way his unprovoked war on Ukraine is going; not happy in terms of how Ukrainians are not surrendering even as the Russian dictator expands his…
Ukraine President Zelenskyy Makes His Case to Congress
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of the United States Congress on Wednesday morning; he pressed his case for increased backing by western powers to intervene further against Russian…
This Vote That I Have…
"We must come together as a coalition powerful enough to end and overcome the suppression and organize the resurrection of fusion politics in the South". The following are the prepared remarks from…
Leadership: An Everyday Reminder
True leaders are: givers, not takers; lovers, not haters; builders, not destroyers; warriors, not worriers; doers, not talkers; forgivers, not shamers; encouragers, not flatterers; performers, not complainers; achievers, not quitters; winners, not…
The Lives of Refugees. A Media Bias?
Ukraine's refugee crisis exposes a stark media bias The western media might have you convinced that war only happens in other countries — ones that are not white. For more than a…
Russian Forces Shell TV Tower in Kyiv
Russian shelling of TV tower ‘threatens to deprive Ukrainians of information’ Russian forces shell a TV broadcast tower in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, March 1, in an attack that killed five people…
Trayvon Benjamin Martin: American
10 Years On, You Are Not Forgotten ~ The killing of the baby-faced, hoodie-wearing, unarmed Martin at the hands of a stranger still reverberates after a decade. (via The Grio)
Only Sane Course of Action
Veterans for Peace Press Release Thursday February 24, 2022, 10:46pm EST Veterans For Peace Encourages Diplomacy Not War WASHINGTON - Veterans For Peace condemns the invasion of Ukraine. Our mission remains the…
Is History Our Future
History As Teacher; We Learn or We Perish ~ Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what…
Protecting Press Freedom
Landmark order protecting press freedom from Minnesota police should be a model around the country For journalists covering the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020, there was no more dangerous…
The Big “if” Question Answered
Our Future Selves 10 Years Out: We Will Be Different And Look Like Ourselves New Yorker Q & A with U.S. House of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) You’ve used a…
Undead Threat to Press Freedom
Undead EARN IT Act poses newly urgent threat to press freedom Via Freedom of the Press Foundation After public backlash led to a major defeat in 2020, lawmakers [led by Sen. Richard…
Words and Meaning: Truth
Lewis. Chisholm. Cooper. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and…
Trust in Media Dying. CNN Latest Example
Media outlets are supposed to report the news not become it. On Wednesday CNN found itself coming afoul of that rule when Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned as network president amid lurid circumstances.…
Win for Open Internet. Court Upholds Cal-Net
A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld California's net neutrality law, rejecting an industry-funded challenge that sought to prevent the state from implementing protections enacted in the wake of the Trump…
When Worlds Collide
He is famously among the most ornery, uncompromising and capricious of blue-chip legends ~ Neil Young’s battle is principled – and comfortable In pulling his music from Spotify in protest over Covid…
Journalism’s Future
News Voices Via FreePress.net Local journalism plays a critical role in our communities. Communities deserve a critical role in local journalism. Our communities rely on local news to learn about local issues,…
GAP Slams US Senate
Government Accountability Project Denounces Senate Rejection of the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act ~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 20, 2022 WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Senate blocked the Freedom to Vote:…
Dr. King, America Needs You Now More Than Ever
"Give Us The Ballot" The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition. And so our most urgent request to the president…
American Experiment, Crushed By Minority Rule
We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or…
Prez Gave A Speech. It Was A Nice Speech. We Like Nice Speeches
President Joe Biden on Tuesday gave a speech in Atlanta endorsing eliminating the filibuster for the passage of voting rights bills. The speech had its moments. But speeches alone will not save…
McConnell’s Big Fear: If You Let It, Democracy Works
McConnell Thinks Fighting For Voting Rights Is ‘Radicalism’ – And Not The Good Kind U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday laid bare his reasoning for vehemently defending the use of…
DeSantis Has Storm Troops Arrest, Detain Citizen – ‘Cus He Felt Like It
Floridians, If You Don’t Bow Down Or If You Speak Out, He’s Coming For Ya ~ This is what fascist leaders do to their public to instill fear in them. A peaceful…
Under Seige
Attacks On Press Freedom Statement from SPJ Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is outraged by China's continued attacks on press freedom in Hong Kong under the guise of national security. The latest…
A Press Statement. Well, It’s Something…
Stand News Arrests and Closure ~ Press Statement Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State The Hong Kong government’s December 29 raid and arrest of seven senior staff at Stand News have forced…
Never Forget. The Massacre At Wounded Knee Creek
The ongoing federal, state, local and territories policy of genocide in the United States led to one of the most violent massacres of Native Peoples 131 years ago on 29 December 1890…
Emergency Call
Journalists in Ukraine Need Help
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Those who cover the frontlines need first aid kits, medical supplies, flak jackets, helmets. Those trapped in towns and cities under fire need safe passage, relocation and humanitarian assistance.
More at International Federation of Journalists.
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Journalists in Gaza need your help. Here’s how:
International Media Support (IMS), the Danish-based media development organisation, is collecting donations for:
- Food, clothes, blankets and other utilities for journalists and their families
- Safety equipment and gear for journalists, such as press vests, helmets, cell phones and cameras.
- Psychosocial support for journalists
- Ongoing support to keep as many media outlets as possible operating.
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THE TRACKER
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Court says First Amendment means less free speech
[WHAAAAT ?!?!?!?]
If it sounds backward to use the First Amendment to undermine a law meant to protect free speech, that’s because it is.
Yet that’s just what a federal court of appeals did in a recent decision on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the federal law that shields online services from legal liability for posts made by their users.
We explain on our website how the court’s nonsensical decision threatens online freedom of speech by journalists and everyone else.
Jobs & Events
Opportunity for Young Journalists
Rising D.C. reporters can apply for a yearlong reporting fellowship. The National Press Foundation is accepting applications for the 2025 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship.
Fellows will learn more about the White House, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, the Capitol and other key Washington institutions. They’ll review politics and policy with regulators, lawmakers, experts and the best reporters in the business.
To apply, submit two recent work samples, a letter of support from an editor or supervisor and a brief autobiography. Application Deadline is Dec. 2
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Color Of Change, in partnership with the National Education Association, invites you to watch “Educating for Equity: Brown v Board of Education 70 Years Later,” a short video featuring a range of young and older thought leaders talking about the groundbreaking case and the challenges facing our public education system today. Participants discuss what we need to do to protect education moving forward.
Issues
The Reading List
Lie Machines
How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
by Philip N. Howard
Lie Machines is full of behind-the-scenes stories from the world’s biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives.
Howard, not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and explains how to shut them down. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. Book Here:
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The ReMindEr
Speakables
The New Normal? ~ The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned media. In its early days, the Internet seemed to pose a challenge to authoritarian regimes, but with the advent of social media, we are watching the construction of architectures that fulfill the needs of every authoritarian regime: surveillance and information control. Authoritarian movements are possible only when the general public becomes habituated to—and numbed by—a new normal. Christopher Wylie.
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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. ‘What to a slave is the 4th of July’. 1852. Frederick Douglass.
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The First ~ Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942)
The first published female photo-journalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Her trademarks were her self-described “ability to hustle” and her tenacity in overcoming gender barriers in her profession.
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Repeat After Me
And it gets you elected
