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Readers reign supreme, and other takeaways from The New York Times end-of-year earnings report

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On the earnings call, CEO Mark Thompson said “the single biggest reason” behind the paper’s success was the decision to give more autonomy to teams working on the publication’s various digital products. Having multiple cross-d…

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How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate – Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.

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The idea that “greenies” or environmentalists would oppose measures to prevent fires from ravaging homes and lives is simply false. But the comment reflec…

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#mediaForcesJoin

Six months in, here’s how the Florida news outlets’ climate change partnership is going

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What started out last summer as a partnership among six Florida news organizations to cover climate change in the state has now tripled in size, with 18 organizations — usually competitors with one another — now working togethe…

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#factChecking

Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies

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The network of fake pages included 89 pages, 156 groups and 72 Instagram accounts. Epoch Media Group, which runs The Epoch Times, is run by practitioners of Falun Gong, who believe the world is soon…

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#paywalledNews

Full story: Newsonomics: CEO Mark Thompson on offering more and more New York Times (and charging more for it)

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4.9 million. That’s the total number of New York Times subscribers overall, between print and digital. That’s already three times its peak in the good old days of print.

4.1 million. That’s roughly how many pay…

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Davis wrote:

Guardian: Boris HUMILIATED! BBC, Independent, Sky, FT, London Times: Boris is a no show Telegraph, Sun, Star: Boris AMBUSHED!

Are you sure that any real meat in the stories themselves is as biased as their headlines indicate? I’m inclined to believe that headlines in mainstream American papers are relatively less “sensational” to the…[Read more]

To give you an idea how biased the british newspapers can be take a look at these headlines after the Lux. PM got fed up and pissed off with Boris.

Guardian: Boris HUMILIATED!

BBC, Independent, Sky, FT, London Times: Boris is a no show

Telegraph, Sun, Star: Boris AMBUSHED!

There is absolutely nothing similar to this level of bias in…[Read more]

AllSides.com publishes a list of news orgs, with bias assessments. Here’s a chart for “2019” [I put in quotes because strangely, when downloaded, the filedate attribute is actually July 2018, which btw, probably explains why Epoch Times is not mentioned]:

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After reading this Scientific American article, I see I shouldn’t be promoting the phrase “fake news” as if it describes the whole problem.

Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder

IN BRIEF

• Many types of information disorder exist online, from fabricated videos to impersonated accounts to memes designed to manipulate genuine content.

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As for Epoch Times, I forgot I was in a trial period until today when they bumped up the cost to about $20/month for one paper a week. They seem flush with money and their regular subscribers seem happy to pay.

_Robert_ wrote:

Then there is Fakebook…where so many still get their daily “news”.

I quit facebook (albeit because of “friends” spreading bad news and karma), mainstream news, and talk radio long ago. I’m about to post an article about how social media’s business model in general (but especially fb) helps make bad news go viral and then feste…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:

All news orgs these days are heavily slanted.

Not really. I intend to suggest some that don’t twist and spin nearly as badly as Epoch Times, and I expect we will be able to suggest a few relatively trustworthy news orgs.

Girl power. Woot!

It took someone like Trump to hire someone like her. But back to the topic, in the case (for…[Read more]

Then there is Fakebook…where so many still get their daily “news”.

She really is a good liar. It takes a certain finesse to smooth over Trump’s bullshit. She will be paid handsomely for her efforts. Girl power. Woot! Making money from scraping the scum off the ceiling and turning it into something palatable. Only a very smart person could make shit look that good.

But like I said – Karma is a bitch

and I’m pre…[Read more]

Sarah to join Faux News….

All news orgs these days are heavily slanted. I don’t think we could be any more divided!