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#RIP to a great man and a fearless journalist. He was the best boss I ever had by a mile. I’d bet that he was the best boss any of us had ever had,

#media
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/media/bill-moyers-pbs-dead-obituary

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Conservatives Get the #PBS & #NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades

The cuts speak to #Trump’s grip on his party but also to the sweeping changes in #media.

They tried under Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush & George W. Bush. Newt Gingrich gave it a go when he controlled the #House, & Bob Dole did, too, when he held power in the #Senate.

But for 5 decades, #Republicans failed time & again to choke off #federal #funding for #PublicBroadcasting.

#censorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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250d

http://www.rferl.org/a/33451450.html
⛔️🇺🇸Kremlin points out how hypocritical Trump and America just violated international law, the UN Charter, and UN Security Council resolutions, which previously unequivocally classified attacks on nuclear energy as absolutely “unacceptable.” (More) #Ukraine #mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#America #EuropeanUnion
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

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244d

⛔️🇩🇪Russia just attacked a group of German Military trucks on German soil, Rutte and Trump attempting a cover-up as Putin see’s NATO’s impotence and fear (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/4009134-german-police-investigating-arson-attack-targeting-bundeswehr-trucks.html #Ukraine #Berlin #SHAPE #NukesForUkraine #Germany #Mastodon #Brussels #Journalism #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

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👋 🤔 In today's world there's a war on truth and now with AI it's often more difficult to differentiate a real news story from one that is fake.
🧵 1/2
When I read a headline from a 'new to me', unfamiliar source, I try to remember to check it's credibility before I trust and share the article.
Here are steps I take to fact check a source and perhaps you might find this helpful:

1: Is this story reported elsewhere? (run a search)
2: If it is, and the additional sources are credible : more than likely it's true so, share✅ , if not then I proceed as follows:

If the story is Not reported elsewhere, I *combine* the following steps:
a) ask trustworthy friends if they've heard of the source
b) run a media bias check
c) check that source's previously published articles for credibility (see step #1)
d) Analyze the text/writing style and structure of the article--often AI generated print/writing appears "off", 'sterile'.
And a new step I just now discovered, thanks to @oliver_schafeld , is check the source to view information about the website using this link :

e) https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

f) trust my "gut feeling" (often our subconscious picks up clues something is amiss. )

🧵 continued 👇

#media #FactCheck #FakeNews

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We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/

#ReproductiveRights #abortion #healthcare #ClimateChange #news #fascism #journalism #nonprofit #media #environment

A composite image of two headshots of Candice Bernd and Mary Tuma. Candice has blonde hair with brown highlights and is posed in front of a full bookcase. Mary Tuma is wearing black plastic glasses and bright pink lipstick.

ALT

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"More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel.

It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly"
Owen Jones

#BBC #Israel #Propaganda #Media

The
BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel

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217d

Hey relax guy. LOL
I wish I could see his face seeing this episode.

The creators of South Park have more integrity than every fucking news media corporation in this fucking country.

#southpark #epstein #Scotland #UK #media #press

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I made this site because there's a lot of information warfare going on and I wasn't aware of any place to find content from *only* FCC-licensed television stations.

Local News TV - browse 660 US television stations by state and metro area and view recent broadcast content via YouTube.

Free, no ads. Local news is important and it should be easy to find!

https://searchtweaks.com/lnt/

#US #media #LocalNews #journalism #TV

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U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was, at the time, seen as an uncontroversial, non-newsworthy conversation. Yet a few days later, the press was full of stories about their slip-ups and lack of knowledge. Emily Horne, a former National Security Council and State Department spokesperson, did a deep dive into what had happened. What she found? Stories from "pink slime" sites — local news publications that are largely funded by right-wing dark money groups — picked up and "laundered" into real news by POLITICO, The New York Times and more.

https://flip.it/usYHQu

#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime