I want to ask my journalist colleagues in Australia: why the silence over Julian Assange? Is it because you don’t think he’s a journalist? Is … Dear media: if you won’t speak up for Assange, maybe stop using WikiLeaks’ stuffRead more
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The Wikimedia Foundation’s Trustees: Missionary Footsoldiers in the War on Truth
Over half a billion people visit Wikipedia every day. The site enjoys top billing in Google search results, and has all the trappings of a … The Wikimedia Foundation’s Trustees: Missionary Footsoldiers in the War on TruthRead more
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The BBC is on Murdoch’s side
Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi Moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the … The BBC is on Murdoch’s sideRead more
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You Don’t Have to Publish Both Sides When One Side Is Fascism
The Trump administration and its Republican enablers are fighting a series of wars directed at targets inside the United States. A partial list would include … You Don’t Have to Publish Both Sides When One Side Is FascismRead more
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War and Pandemic Journalism
The struggle against Covid-19 has often been compared to fighting a war. Much of this rhetoric is bombast, but the similarities between the struggle against … War and Pandemic JournalismRead more
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When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media
The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing … When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State MediaRead more
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How do you spot a conspiracy theory?
Here are the 7 tell-tale traits of conspiratorial thinking, summarized (& more easily remembered) with the acronym CONSPIR. More details in The Conspiracy Theory Handbook … How do you spot a conspiracy theory?Read more
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Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core
For some time, I’d heard rumors that Wikipedia was not the open-source knowledge utopia it claimed to be. Despite a comprehensive set of rules replete … Wikipedia: Rotten to the CoreRead more
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How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secret
The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by … How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secretRead more
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special … Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usualRead more