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Last week, Christopher Baxter, the editor of @SpotlightPA, a nonprofit local newsroom in Pennsylvania, made a post on LinkedIn that started: “I recently had lunch with a staunch, pro-Trump Republican and highly successful business leader, and his views on local news changed my own.” In the post, Baxter went on to explain that nonprofit newsrooms' focus on pro-democracy language might not be serving them well. Intrigued, NiemanLab's Sophie Culpepper gave Baxter a call to find out more.

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#News#Media#Journalism
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Farhad

People acting like Goldbergt is some kind of hero posting the "war plans" of Trump regime to media, forgetting that he was, is and always be an apologist for IDF crimes and didn't think IDF is commiting war crime and the reports about their crimes are antisemitic.

"Goldberg was an ardent apologist for the Israeli Defense Forces and attacking accounts of Israeli atrocities in Gaza. He suggested such accounts were overblown or that Hamas was responsible because it was using civilians as human shields or that anti-Semitic Westerners were exaggerating the situation. In one post, he linked to this “very funny” satirical interview about an “NGO that uses an ostensible human-rights agenda as camouflage for an anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic program.”

And he wrote, “I don’t think Israel is committing war crimes. Israel is fighting an enemy that intentionally seeks to kill civilians; in the course of fighting Hamas, Israel does some stupid and brutal things, but, by Andrew’s standard, every act of self-defense by a Western nation against Islamist insurgents is a war crime.”

Even now Goldberg is busy apologizing for Israeli actions. The Haaretz revelations show Israeli soldiers behaving “like Cossacks,” but his item makes sure to note that the “world media, generally speaking, doesn’t like Israel very much, and stacks the deck against it,” while the “goal of Hamas is to murder innocent people; the goal of the IDF is to avoid murdering innocent people.”

Even after Haaretz reported CLEAR proof of Israeli war crime and their INTENTION to commit war crime, he responded with

"Based on the Haaretz stories, the IDF didn’t work too hard to avoid killing civilians."

#TheAtlantic #JeffyGoldberg #SignalGate #Israel #WarCrime #Politics #FakeHero #PEFP #IDF #Genocide #Gaza #NeverForget #NeverForgive

@palestine @israel #USPol #Media #Propaganda #Yemen #Trump #Dumbfuckistan

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Harper's Magazine · Jeffrey Goldberg and Israeli War Crimes , by Ken SilversteinJeffrey Goldberg is upset. "When the IDF fails to achieve its goal, and ends up inflicting needless destruction and suffering, it sullies not only its own
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“Is legacy media dead?” asks @parkermolloy for @damemagazine. She looks at how, with newspaper owners interfering in the work of their reporters, independent media sources are the ones holding power to account. “What independent journalism offers that legacy media increasingly doesn’t is transparency about where it’s coming from. There’s no pretense of objectivity that masks institutional biases and billionaire influence,” she writes. “Readers know what they’re getting, which paradoxically can build more trust than false neutrality.”

damemagazine.com/2025/03/19/is

Dame Magazine - · Is Legacy Media Dead? - Dame MagazineThere was a time when people collectively agreed on what constituted "the news." Walter Cronkite would sign off with "And that's the way it is," and most Americans nodded along. The New York Times was the "paper of record," and if something appeared in its pages, it existed as fact in our shared reality. That
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It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, and as always, we have a great selection of stories from independent newsrooms. This week’s highlights include @ProPublica’s story about a DJ turned white supremacist influencer, @parkermolloy writing for @damemagazine about the death of legacy media, and @bolts’s @taniel on —yikes — another round of U.S. elections. Please check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️

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🔴🇺🇸Trump and his Republican lackeys proves themselves impotent and incapable of forcing Russia to a real peace: Putin makes excuses to break ceasefire on energy infrastructure strikes (more) kyivindependent.com/kremlin-wa #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

The Kyiv Independent · Russia makes excuses to break ceasefire on energy infrastructure strikes"The Russian side reserves the right, in case the Kyiv regime does not comply with this moratorium, of course, not to comply with it either," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
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Karsten Schmidt

The map is not the terrain.

With all the new updates this week, a reminder that LLMs are an excellent illustration of the attempted shifts to redefine what we usually call art (and knowledge/skill) to be almost entirely separate from its creation process and from its original meaning, context, environment and situation which lead to its creation. Being trained on digital reproductions of artworks and some select metadata, these models are fundamentally constrained to identify patterns for regenerating simulacra, their usage purely symbolic — a user-driven form of meme-style cultural sampling, pure semiotic “affiliation by association”, a kitschy clip-art-esque usage of looks, styles and aesthetics, entirely decoupled and devoid of history, meaning, context, incentives and other factors of (art) making/learning. A total lack of embodiment. Make this look like that. Baby portraits in Rembrandt's style, Ghibli used for PFPs or to create Neo-Nazi propaganda. Who cares?!

The great homogenizer.

Even for me as an artist primarily using non-LLM-based generative techniques for 25+ years, training a model on a corpus of my own works and then having it churn out new derivations, other than a case study, it would completely counter any of the creative & systemic investigations I'm after with most of my works. LLMs turn everything into a sampling and prompting workflow. Replicating a (non-existent) house style is the very thing I'm least interested in!

Triteness re-invented.

Removed from any original intentions of the consumed works enslaved in their training corpus, ignorant to the emotional states of their creators, free from the pains and joys and myriads of micro-decisions of art making, of the social context and the limitations (physical, material, skill) which led people to search for expressing their inner thoughts & feelings via artistic means... AI enthusiasts celebrate this new contextual freedom as creative breakthrough, but it’s always the same underlying sentiment behind: “The final original idea was that everything had already been done before.”

The Exascale mindset.

From the ravenous assembling of training datasets by ferociously crawling & harvesting absolutely anything which can be possibly found and accessed online, entirely disregarding author & privacy rights and social/technical contracts of acceptable use, the energy consumption for model training at a scale competing with developed nation states, to the abrasive social and political engineering and the artificial inflation of framing this tech as beneficial and inevitable to our societies. Most of the news & tech media, always hungry for clickbait, YouTubers able to create decades’ worth of new content — everyone happily lapping up any press-releases and amplifying the hype. Are there any responsible adults left where it currently matters most?

This ignorance-by-design isn’t about LLMs or their impact on art: The wider discussion is about how a tiny group of people with access to quasi-unlimited resources, capital and politicians is attempting to redefine what human culture is and to treat it (us) like just another large-scale mining operation, converting millennia of lived human experience, learning & suffering into monopolized resources for total extraction/monetization, filtered, curated, controlled and eventually sold back as de facto truth, with original provenance and meaning annihilated or vastly distorted to fit new purposes and shifting priorities/politics...

Don’t let the map become the terrain!

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Two quotes by Friedrich A. Kittler as related food for thought:

“What remains of people is what media can store and communicate.”

“Understanding media is an impossibility, because conversely, the prevailing communication techniques remote-control all understanding and create all of its illusions.”

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#resist - #France

the takeover of #media & publishing houses is one (early) move strategy of right-wing/ fascists strategy

From: @Free_Press
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Mastodon 🐘Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)Attached: 1 image The Far-right and Russia In France, employees of the Hachette publishing house protest against the publication of a book by Xenia Fedorova, who used to head Russia Today France and is often called the Kremlin's chief propagandist in France. The book is published by the far-right publishing house Fayard, which, along with several right-wing media outlets, is owned by the Bolloré family. In 2024, this family gained control of the publishing giant Hachette through the Vivendi group #AureFreePress
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via @w7voa

"The decision is a disturbing and self-defeating retreat for American influence abroad. It also portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism right here in the United States.

"To best appreciate what is at stake in a future without VOA, it is important to understand its past. "

chicago.suntimes.com/other-vie

Trump Voice of America
Chicago Sun-Times · Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next?The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.
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OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

"Regardless, the man on record with likely the strongest and bluntest disavowal of using AI tools for art, is now the same man whose notoriously painstakingly handcrafted art is being giddily automated by ChatGPT users for what amounts to a promotional campaign for a tech company that’s on the verge of being valued at $300 billion."

#AI #ChatGPT #tech #press #media #news #art #Capitalism #film #meme

bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai

Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itselfBy Brian Merchant
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