Evolving Media & News Sources

Virginia Pastor Who Said COVID-19 Was Anti-Trump “Mass Hysteria” Dies of Virus

Wow, Louisiana already has the third highest rate of covid per capita in USA. Sounds like a Darwin Award may be in order, some time around mid-April I’d guess.

Pastor defies coronavirus order, draws over 1K people to services

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pastor-defies-coronavirus-order-draws-over-1k-people-to-services/ar-BB11HwQ3?ocid=spartanntp

@Davis,

Yes…

These companies would look at the human body and conclude that having 2 lungs and 2 kidneys was financially inefficient, and probably engage in the organ trade business.

“Just catch me up, quick”: How The Wall Street Journal is trying to reach non-news junkies – News products that the Journal built to highlight its election coverage to occasional readers are being repurposed for coronavirus coverage.

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The Wall Street Journal spent months designing, testing, and perfecting a sl…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Ready for all the tax payer funded corporate bailouts orchestrated by the very folks who despise socialism?

I just wish it could have come earlier, in the form of promoting health care. Obama-hate (and Hillary-hate?) helped set the country back on those counts, and (imo) now the worm must turn to repair the economy, more than it…[Read more]

No their plan always goes like this:

• Expand network and buy planes
• Gudgingly raise staff salary though never in step with inflation
• Dish out dividends and give big bonuses to management
• Put all your loose money into expansion
• Find a crisis
• Lay off a lot of staff, lower their wages and collectively bargain shitty working terms (while…

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Ready for all the tax payer funded corporate bailouts orchestrated by the very folks who despise socialism? I guess it would be impossible to expect an airline or a bank to have three months of emergency cash on hand.

Local News Outlets Dealt a Crippling Blow by This Biggest of Stories – Layoffs. Canceled print editions. Weekly papers and small dailies across the country face peril as the coronavirus cuts off ads and live events.

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“One of the big problems with all of this is you don’t know when this is going to end,”…

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Top editors leave HuffPost and BuzzFeed News amid growing doubts about the future of digital news

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Digital publishers face the same issues that have beset, and decimated, whole swaths of the traditional media, particularly local newspapers. Digital ad rates have fallen steadily for years amid an unending supply of competitors and…

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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]

2020/09/21 edit: Updated 2020 chart is posted, below. (They finally added Epoch Times!)

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…[Read more]

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

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

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