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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 10h
The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. www.trumpactiontrack...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 12h
NewsGuard is becoming a serious problem in the way it rates websites. Example:
Reporting Reality? That’s Partisan Now
For reporting on Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and the master plan to sell our democracy, NewsGuard’s media rating system has deemed us misleadingly liberal.
www.levernews.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 16h
National Car Rental's terms & conditions are 200 pages long. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

The length tells you all you need to know.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 20h
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Bari Weiss. As part of the deal, Weiss will ascend to the role of editor-in-chief of CBS News, a Paramount property and one of…
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 1d
An Australian media observer caught one of the Murdoch family's right-wing propaganda arms being its regular shitty self, and the outlet's "excuse" would have to improve to be pathetic.
Ep 26 - Europe has fallen - Media Watch
A Sky News report falsely sounds the alarm on migration anarchy in Europe. 
www.abc.net.au
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 1d
This is remarkable, if the title is a bit misleading. It's about way, way more than venture capital fascists and their projects.

Not sure who's behind it, but it's worth at least a look. Valuable resource...
Venture Capital Status
Verified information detailing the global impacts of Silcon Valley, United States venture capital and their global tech fascist projects: The Network State and American Dynamism.
www.vcinfodocs.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 1d
So CBS "News" staffers are "holding their breath" waiting to see what their right-wing owner and top editor are going to do? GMAFB.

Journalists delude themselves into thinking everything will be fine even in the face of conclusive evidence that it won't.
Weiss and Shine
The Bari Weiss era has begun at CBS News, and David Ellison’s push to reshape the storied network has staffers holding their breath about the future of the outlet—especially as the mogul's talking points show fractures under scrutiny.
www.status.news
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 1d
Trump, the Ellison family and their cynical -- but rich -- acolyte, Weiss, are spitting on the graves of Murrow and Cronkite. They're neutering the remaining honorable journalists.

CBS was never perfect. But it once stood for integrity. That's done.

It's CBS "News" now.
Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News under Free Press-Paramount deal
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, the news division of U.S. broadcaster CBS, as part of a deal to acquire the online news site she founded, The Free Press.
www.reuters.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 2d
One of the New York Times people who most exemplifies the organization's arrogance -- often based in shallowness -- is Kevin Roose, and this Defector piece explains it.
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in strict terms, this is true: You can’t be a serious critic of anything if you are in denial about any part of it,…
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 2d
This screenshot Ars Technica's homepage headlines the other day demonstrates how completely the tech and media giants are enshittifying what they've created.

(Text of headlines in the alt of the image)
Ars Technica headlines on Oct. 4: A biological 0-day? Threat screening tool may miss AI-designed proteins Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Apple removes ICEBlock, won't allow apps that report locations of ICE agents HBO Max subscribers lose access to CNN livestream on November 17
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 3d
Google joins Apple in caving in to Trump regime re ICE-spotting app.

Looks like Android side-loading will the only way forward.

Big Tech's cowardice is disgusting, though no surprise.
Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects
Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.
apnews.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 4d
The word "democracy" has been poisoned by people who love dictatorship. BIg Journalism poisoned its own well. We need to talk up "local/community news and information" if we want people to care about saving both.
Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news
"Here’s the paradox: 93% of people believe reliable local news is necessary for democracy, yet many of these same people react negatively to explicit 'democracy' messaging."
www.niemanlab.org
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 4d
"With five congressional seats at stake, virtually all of our national legacy media made the choice not to send anyone" to cover a hearing on whether what Texas did was illegal.

Democracy Docket is there, however. More evidence that we now have to rely on small outlets.

newsletters.democrac...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 5d
The once-sterling CBS News has been sucked into the right-wing vortex, and its fascist-supporting owners are making no pretense about what their plans are.

So, for me, henceforth, it is CBS "News" -- and I say that with deep sadness for journalism, and our nation.
Bari Weiss, Who Thinks Everything Is Woke, Will Be CBS Editor-in-Chief
Anti-woke, anti-trans, pro-Israel Bari Weiss will soon lead one of the biggest media companies in the U.S.
newrepublic.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 6d
So Big Journalism is definitely in the tank for the Republican spin on the shutdown.
AP headline: "Democrats voted for a shutdown. Now they have to find a way out"
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 6d
Trump is "exactly what George Washington feared could happen with an unscrupulous commander in chief," writes Tom Nichols in the Atlantic:

archive.ph/Tsfv3

Meanwhile, Big Journalism mostly treats paranoid menace as just another political story.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 6d
"Who goes Nazi?" -- everyone should read this classic from the great Dorothy Thompson.

harpers.org/archive/...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
Trump regime didn't bring back a racist word despite the racism.

They did it BECAUSE it is racist.
In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.
The name was not only offensive, it was also inaccurate.
arstechnica.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
Doesn't even begin to capture the malicious, anti-American nature of this thing.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
Story lede: "In the end, it was just another campaign-style presentation. President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited a familiar litany of partisan culture war talking points in their highly anticipated call-up of several hundred military officers on Tuesday."
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
This is how the New York Times pretends to do journalism -- treating the Trump/Hegseth fascist military event as just routine partisan politics.

The Times will go down in history as a quisling operation, and its bosses will be remembered for their cowardice.
NYT headline: "Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders"
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
Our "mainstream" media are consistently botching their jobs, directly -- and IMO willfully -- assisting the fascists who are destroying our nation.

Occasional pieces of real journalism do not begin to fix Big Journalism's malpractice. Mike Masnick has more:
The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…
www.techdirt.com
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 7d
If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program...to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal."
Orders Project
The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may...
www.nimj.org
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 8d
"Misleading talking points" -- GMAFB.

As usual, the New York Times refuses to call blatant lies what they are -- apparently because they come from Republicans, who lie about almost everything but always, always get the Paper of Record's benefit of the doubt.
NYTimes headline: "Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown"
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 8d
Can local/state law enforcement do anything about criminal feds? At least one blue state is going to try, it seems.
Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter's truck
CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei said she was turning away from the facility's fence when a masked agent shot a pepper ball at her truck.
www.cbsnews.com
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