dangillmor

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

If you use Adobe, you really should stop. https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

D-Day anniversaries, now more than ever, are solemn reminders that resisting fascism is every generation's duty.

Voting is vital in preserving democracy. It is not nearly enough.

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

The Wall Street Journal's absurdly biased hit piece on Biden this week didn't appear in the usual spot -- the rancid editorial pages where ideology consistently pounds integrity into the sand.

It appeared in the news pages, which until now had (mostly) withstood the Murdoch family's consistent practice across its media empire: relentlessly injecting poison into our civic bloodstream, boosting corporate and right-wing extremism, for power and money.

The WSJ is, sadly, becoming Fox "News".

dangillmor, 3 days ago (edited 3 hours ago) to random

Headline: "Washington Post C.E.O. Promised Interview for Ignoring Scandal, NPR Reporter Says"

'David Folkenflik of NPR wrote that the offer, in exchange for agreeing to stop his coverage of a phone hacking scandal, was made “repeatedly — and heatedly.”'

Here's the NPR reporter's account of the Post's journalistic malpractice: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4995105/washington-post-will-lewis-tries-to-kill-story-buzbee

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

Stanford University police arrested a journalist covering a protest there. This is illegal. California law bars police from doing this.

Will there be accountability?

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/

ernie, 3 days ago to random

I am going to make stupid small websites that people use.

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

The Nation magazine devotes its current issue to how Trump and his army of extremist apparatchiks would turn the U.S. into a sicker, more violent version of Orban's Hungary -- or worse.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

This is journalism that does what we need right now.

It is journalism aimed at saving our democracy -- and, by extension, freedom expression, which is one of the most threatened rights should the right wing take full control.

It is the kind of reporting we need from all journalists.

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

Republicans' voter suppression is a host of schemes designed to deter, or prevent, people who tend to vote for Democrats from being able to vote. In Florida, as the @newrepublic shows, it's working as intended.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180930/florida-voter-registration-suppression-desantis

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal does what can only be described as a hit piece on Biden. Lots of journalistic hand-waving about how the news org worked hard to be fair, but this is just blatant. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246?mod=hp_lista_pos1

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

1. Washington Post CEO came from the Murdoch empire.

2. He has been implicated in the (still not fully unraveled) UK "phone hacking" scandal that exemplified the sleaziness of the Murdoch empire.

3. He told Post editor not to publish a story containing references to his alleged involvement.

4. She published the story.

5. She's gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

Corporate landlords routinely rip off tenants, with the help of sleazy software and market concentration. Finally, the feds are going after one of worst offenders, it seems:

https://popular.info/p/feds-raid-corporate-landlord-escalating

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

"Rather than visiting red-state diners," writes Rick Perlstein with his standard brilliance, "reporters ought to journey to the venerable conservative message board where the talk after the Trump verdict was nihilistic and bloody."

https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=e0688d13958a19e087e123148555e4b4.2748&s=cdaeb39801506c81595dd2c142301827

The extreme right -- increasingly endorsed by the Republican Party -- is already violent, and it's planning a massive escalation.

But Big Journalism refuses to see it.

Wake the hell up, media.

dangillmor, 7 days ago to random

Well, the Washington Post's Kathleen Parker has surpassed the NY Times' Maureen Dowd in the vapid commentary competition. See for yourself: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/02/alito-flag-marriage-jan-6-recusal/

They'll have to work hard to catch up to some of George Will's recent stuff, however.

(All three are capable of excellent work, but rarely demonstrate that.)

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

SF Chronicle online subscription is now close to $240 a year -- while the news content is shrinking amid weaker and weaker reporting.

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

A classic in arrogant web design: NY Times constantly puts a popup over articles in my mobile browser, telling me why I should install the app. The "negative" choice is to say "Not right now" when what I really want is a "Never" option.

dangillmor, 7 days ago to random

The Washington Post is about to lurch sharply to the right politically as former Murdoch apparatchik solidifies his grip on the organization. Current editor Buzbee is out, and he's bringing in people from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph (right-wing UK news org).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/02/sally-buzbee-washington-post-steps-down/

dangillmor, 5 days ago to random

Private equity / hedge fund financial engineers are systematically taking over and wrecking industry after industry -- making everything worse except for the people at the top who rake in vast fortunes they've looted from their prey.

Now they've come for bowling alleys, and the results are completely predictable -- and infuriating.

https://www.levernews.com/meet-the-new-kingpin/

If Democrats truly cared about winning back blue collar voters, they would take loud note of this. But they'd have to wake up first.

dangillmor, 9 days ago to random

An insider at NBC's Trump "Apprentice" TV program explains, in detail, what a con game it all was -- and, almost parenthetically, notes one of Trump's more blatantly racist acts.

If the people involved in this had not been accomplices in the scam for so long, the public might have known a lot more about Trump's vile character when it mattered.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

dangillmor, 7 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

You would imagine that Big Journalism would consider it a huge story that a right-wing campaign is under way -- and escalating -- to deny voting rights to a MILLION people of color.

You would be, sadly, wrong.

It's happening, and our news organizations don't give a damn.

https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/trump-plan-for-2024-taken-from-kkk-plan

dangillmor, 7 days ago to random

“Old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting has been replaced by fake people who’ve never set foot in any of the neighborhoods they write about — because they don’t have feet,” says a former employee of a site that purports to do local journalism. Hoodline is a contemptible operation.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ai-journalism-news-job-19449571.php

dangillmor, 6 days ago to random

A must-read from @ProPublica: New investigation details "significant financial benefits" that have gone from Trump world to witnesses in his court cases -- is not surprising, in a way.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

Only the latest, and perhaps starkest yet, reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.

I hear that Trump apparatchiks were trying to get this article suppressed, so please read it and pass along the link to everyone you know.