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Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · Dec 12

The 2024 edition of "Canada's Network Media Economy: Growth, Concentration & Upheaval, 1984-2023" was released today. It's part of the 38 country, SSHRC-supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. gmicp.org/canadas-netw... 1/

Canada's network media economy: Growth, concentration and upheaval, 1984-2023

A report produced by the Canadian research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project Welcome to this year's report, which has been completely overhauled from previous versions and now co...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 7h

I've got 10 years revenue & market share data & estimates on Oracle and cloud computing industry internationally, in US, and Canada. Lemme know if you're interested.

Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a rundown of the Paramount Skydance bid for Warner Bros Discovery,& connections to Ellisons, Oracle, Andreasen Horowitz led consortium lined up to acquire TikTok's US assets. theconversation.com/a-paramount-...

A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream

The proposed Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger would concentrate oversight of two prominent newsrooms – CNN and CBS – under one owner with strong ties to Donald Trump.

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 8h

Great city, great school. I spent 2 months there back at the beginning of 2023. Enjoy.

Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that certainly adds to the potential impact of his music. Let's hope so.

Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

This guy's been hostile to public interests for as long as I can remember, and part of that was the role he played in spearheading opposition to meaningful net neutrality rules. Hard to believe that the organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit brought this clown to town a few years back.

Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 1d

Last week Trump lackey Brendan Carr, went into full damage control before a panel of disbelieving journalists.

But no amount of dodging and dishonesty could save Carr from the truth, or salvage his reputation as Trump's go-to censor at the FCC.

@mattfieldwood.bsky.social has the receipts:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

You visiting IViR at University of Amsterdam by chance?

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a preview of Zach Bryan's Bad News. It sounds great and lyrics go hard: Middle finger's rising, cops & ICE coming into town, cocky motherfuckters, ain't they. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE52...

Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased]

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

This display of Canada's Prime Minister Carney kissing Trump's ass is revolting. The number of quislings drawn from the upper ranks of finance, business & govt displaying such obsequious behavior is shameful now & will not go down well in history. Like a bunch of Churchills at Hitler's knee.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a preview of Zach Bryan's Bad News. It sounds great and lyrics go hard: Middle finger's rising, cops & ICE coming into town, cocky motherfuckters, ain't they. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE52...

Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased]

YouTube video by Zach Bryan Archive

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1d

I hadn't heard of Zach Bryan before but this preview of his new song is the bomb. The young ones (my daughter) tell me he has a deeper repertoire of good stuff. Could this be a turning point when pop culture rallies around denouncing the Trump regime's march to autocracy? variety.com/2025/music/n...

Zach Bryan’s Lyrics About ICE ‘Bashing Down Your Door’ Slammed by Homeland Security Official: ‘Stick to “Pink Skies”’

A Department of Homeland Security official slammed Zach Bryan's new, apparently anti-ICE song, saying the singer should 'stick to 'Pink Skies.''

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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · 3d

I have a new preprint manuscript on the attempt by crypto and VCs to embrace new urbanist aesthetics and tactics www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Crypto, Venture Capital and New Urbanism

PDF | This chapter will turn to the projects of exit that champion new and tactical urbanism. These projects make use of the political ambiguities of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d

this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.

reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.

read and share and, for your opeds, steal.

I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent. I always learn a lot reading and listening to @genevievelakier.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing.

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

“The fact that so many of its provisions infringe on the protected 1st A rights of the universities…makes the Compact almost certainly unconstitutional.”

Must read by @genevievelakier.bsky.social

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 3d

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

ICE attack on reporters: Press freedom and civil liberties groups condemn assault of amNewYork journalist, and others | amNewYork

Press freedom and civil liberties organizations sharply condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after journalists, including

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 4d

Insane. I remember when J6 types, far right extremists in the US & here in Canada, & that asswipe of a human being, Elon Musk, decried PM Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Measures Act to quell the insurrectionist core of the Convoy protests in Ottawa in 2022. globalnews.ca/news/8627659...

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 4d

Both things can be true.

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 4d

"I so often hear that young people are not willing to pay for news. That’s complete bullshit. Young people are so interested in the world"

How Danish publisher Zetland connected with young audiences even though it wasn't targeting them specifically pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

CEO of Danish publisher Zetland: 'It's bullshit to say young people aren't willing to pay for news'

Bonnier News has taken a majority stake in Danish publisher Zetland which reaches a strong base of young people with digital subscriptions.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 4d

Its not about govt efficiency.

Mass murder is the explicit goal. Soft eugenics. More guns. Less health care.

Read Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Vought.

Kill off the poor, disabled, young, old, federal workers, Africa - those that do not produce for the white, Nerd Reich and oil oligarchs.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

wtf is he even talking about? I mean AI can be wrong but approximately 7K law enforcement in Oregon vs. 14K (less with firings, but still not yet half that) in the FBI. This guy just pulls stuff out of his ass and as a result is not surprisingly full of 💩

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 4d

Power to the people!

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

Federal forces inexplicably tried to move all protestors out a city block using chemical irritants.

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 4d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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