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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 13h

Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But they’re a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Here’s how.

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A Librarian’s Guide to Fighting Book Bans

Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But they’re a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Here’s how.

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Pete Tucker @petetucker.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trump’s good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 14h

Today, a company's stations can't reach more than 39% of US households—a reasonable safeguard against, say, an authoritarian putsch.

But this sort of media consolidation is precisely what Trump is aiming for, so long as his friends are in charge, as they increasingly are.

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MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

Sinclair and Nexstar need to stay in Trump’s good graces to ensure FCC approvals. To survive, however, their ABC affiliates need national programming.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 4d

“Free speech is a right that only belongs 2 the right people…If you’re the wrong sort of person, using your speech to ‘silence’ the good kind of speech—which is to say, to criticize it…then we have to kill free speech in order to save it” @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/under-t...

Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

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Santita Jackson @santitajackson.bsky.social · 21h

Hmmm:On CNN,Stephen Miller slips&says the Prez has "plenary authority"-COMPLETE AUTHORITY -over the military.He freezes, acts as if he can't hear the feed: Then CNN removed this from the broadcast. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social @am950radio.bsky.social @thegreenebj.bsky.social

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And CNN removed it from the broadcast‼️ VERY DECEPTIVE JOURNALISM on their part‼️ https://t.co/eKuTTm4ek9

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 1d

"I think about telling the stories of a different kind of tribe here in America, a tribe of rebels, a tribe of people who struggle, a tribe of the poor and the oppressed, because those are the stories that rarely get heard and get reported in much of the world."

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‘There’s No Space in the American Landscape Where the Shadow of the Prison Doesn’t Fall’: CounterSpin interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on media and power

"You can't talk about media without talking about power, because you know and I know that much media is about sucking up to power."

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's statement was a declaration that the idea of free speech is over. Where once you had the right to criticize those who “bring order,” now such reckless rhetoric is punishable as direct support for “terrorism.”

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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 5d

It was and continues to be clear that for the powers that be, including in the elite press, it is important not only to keep Mumia Abu-Jamal behind bars, but to keep him quiet.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power

Mumia Abu-Jamal's 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 6d

NPR's Planet Money spent the summer School convincing its audience that the most good a state can do is to protect the accumulation of private property—and that any alternative is tantamount to theft and a barrier to our collective prosperity.

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NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin

Summer School sidelines critical perspectives to teach its audience that privatization, austerity and deregulation are pivotal to freedom and prosperity.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 6d

"We're really being put in a position to compete with corporations around water. Farmland is being rezoned for these data centers. So you can't eat AI, you can't drink AI. This is the future that is being built before our eyes."

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‘Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers’: CounterSpin interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on data center opposition

"This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose."

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 6d

The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.

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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 7d

According to the Gun Violence Archive, 0.11% of the known suspects in mass shootings over the past decade were transgender—far less than the trans share of the general public.

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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 7d

Eliminating CPB could be both loss & gain for public media. There’s no sugarcoating the lost journalism jobs, station closures & programming cuts. And yet public media will also be freed from the ideological leash that always kept it from serving as a true public watchdog.

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CPB Is Dead, But We Need Public Media More Than Ever

Federal funding for public broadcasting officially ends today, the beginning of the new federal fiscal year. With the Republican-directed rescission of already-allocated funds to the Corporation for P...

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 7d

How the hell is Trump’s fascistic “We’re under invasion from within” or talk of “enemies foreign & domestic” not the blaring headline in every newspaper? That content-free WaPo headline is particularly reprehensible in failing to convey to readers any sense of what happened yesterday.

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Blue&Gold🌳🇺🇦 @blue-and-gold.bsky.social · 8d

Support @tomtomorrow.bsky.social ‘s kickstarter!

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 8d

When you see stories like this—only (my word) 40% of Americans believe Israel is deliberately killing civilians—remember that 95% of what Israel is doing is never reported in the Israel-friendly media, & the 5% that is is accompanied by an Israeli “justification”. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 8d

In the second Trump era, we need political cartoonists more than ever--but publishers are making them an endangered species.

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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year

In the era of Trump, publishers are, for a variety of reasons, encouraging cartoonists to approach the president on bended knee.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 8d

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 9d

"They’re interested in crafting a legal argument that states that it’s actually 'doxxing' to videotape DHS officers, or to find out who they are... This is just so wildly against basic understandings of what our Constitution means."

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‘Kristi Noem Is Actually Claiming Videotaping DHS Officers Is Violent’: CounterSpin interview with Matthew Cunningham-Cook on criminalizing witness

"It's an extremely dangerous time for the free press, and it's critically important that journalists not be kowtowing to this administration."

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 9d

“Unitary executive” sounds so much better than “dictator”, doesn’t it? Guess what word you won’t find in this NYT article? Yeah, you guessed, it’s “dictator”. And guess what phrase you won’t find when the NYT writes about, eg, Kim Jung-Un? Yeah, it’s “unitary executive.”

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11d

Media should be reporting on Israeli captives. It only serves the interests of the Israeli government, however, for US corporate media to foreground the plight of Israelis held by Hamas while failing to do so for Palestinians in Israeli captivity.

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When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note

The different treatment accorded to the plights of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners by US corporate media illustrates a persistent double standard that treats some people as more human than others.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 12d

As the world’s preeminent governing body has officially labeled what is happening in Gaza genocide, prominent US news outlets failed to cover the largest-ever delegation of US state legislators meeting in Jerusalem at a conference sponsored by the Israeli government.

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UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel

It is surely in the interest of the public to know if their local representatives were in Israel networking with parties to what the UN has labeled a genocide.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 12d

The fact that such terrorism against Lebanon by the state of Israel transpires “almost every day” is perhaps part of the reason the media have largely relegated it to the realm of non-news.

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‘Near Daily’ Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media

Western corporate media have increasingly lost interest in reporting on Israel’s unceasing war on its northern neighbor.

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Pete Tucker @petetucker.bsky.social · 15d

My latest looks at the attempt to silence @karenattiah.bsky.social and Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing
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Charlie Kirk Purges Show the Need to Stand Up to Government Bullying

In the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s shooting on September 10, getting rid of troublesome voices has become easier.

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