Fascinating conversation between @MuellerSheWrote@counter.social & @nicolesandler about how the media & social media is controlling the people & the news (show stared at 3pmET)
https://www.youtube.com/live/ox_wbJSCmEM?si=Bjh0IAgkSGRhu3bE
@emptywheel discussed this same topic last Friday, & what will happen next.

Watch @MuellerSheWrote NOW or later at
nicolesandler.com
@lolgop @GottaLaff
#SocialMedia#Media

Fascinating conversation between @MuellerSheWrote@counter.social & @nicolesandler about how the media & social media is controlling the people & the news (show stared at 3pmET)
https://www.youtube.com/live/ox_wbJSCmEM?si=Bjh0IAgkSGRhu3bE
@emptywheel discussed this same topic last Friday, & what will happen next.

Watch @MuellerSheWrote NOW or later at
nicolesandler.com
@lolgop @GottaLaff
#SocialMedia#Media

Generative AI assistants are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the ad revenue they desperately need, in a blow to an industry already fighting for survival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/tech/ai-search-media-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chatgpt #ai #fakenews #misinformation #media #journalism #pressfreedom #censorship #newspapers #magazines #internet #publishers

"The Media Capitulation Index is a tracker that rates media conglomerates 'on a scale from "independent" to "vulnerable" to "compromising" to "capitulating" to "obeying" to "propaganda."' Free Press has also released a companion report: A More Perfect Media, with deeper analysis."

~ Melissa Ryan

#media #authoritarianism #democracy#Trump
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https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/media-capitulation-index

"The Media Capitulation Index is a tracker that rates media conglomerates 'on a scale from "independent" to "vulnerable" to "compromising" to "capitulating" to "obeying" to "propaganda."' Free Press has also released a companion report: A More Perfect Media, with deeper analysis."

~ Melissa Ryan

#media #authoritarianism #democracy#Trump
/2

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/media-capitulation-index

"A small cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates the U.S. media landscape. Through a history of mergers and acquisitions, they’ve concentrated their control over much of what Americans see, read and hear. Free Press rates the independence of each of these giants and analyzes their ability to defend democracy at a time of domestic and international authoritarianism."

~ Free Press

#media #authoritarianism #democracy#Trump
/1

https://www.freepress.net/who-owns-media

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio
https://adoptastation.org/

#radio#PublicRadio #media#PublicMedia

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio
https://adoptastation.org/

#radio#PublicRadio #media#PublicMedia

‼️🇬🇧Activists picket Iranian embassy in London over three years of Shahed terror on Ukrainian cities (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/4021610-activists-picket-iranian-embassy-in-london-over-three-years-of-shahed-terror-on-ukrainian-cities.html#Ukraine#London#NukesForUkraine #Germany#France #Italy#OSCE#PACE#CoE#SouthKorea#Press#News#Taiwan#Media#Japan #USA#US#UK#EU#NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion#russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

‼️🇬🇧Activists picket Iranian embassy in London over three years of Shahed terror on Ukrainian cities (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/4021610-activists-picket-iranian-embassy-in-london-over-three-years-of-shahed-terror-on-ukrainian-cities.html#Ukraine#London#NukesForUkraine #Germany#France #Italy#OSCE#PACE#CoE#SouthKorea#Press#News#Taiwan#Media#Japan #USA#US#UK#EU#NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion#russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.” #Mediahttps://werd.io/did-craigslist-decimate-newspapers/

"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder." #Mediahttps://werd.io/curate-your-own-newspaper-with-rss/

Graydon2 on the durability and superiority of text over other communication technologies and media.

Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else.

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

#text #media

Fuji Media Holdings expects to incur a consolidated operating loss of ¥12 billion for fiscal 2025, which would be its first full-year operating loss since becoming a holding company in 2008. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/01/companies/fuji-media-annual-loss/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #fujimedia #media #fujitv #masahironakai

How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”

https://flip.it/_8EBIJ
https://flip.it/nTlbD-

#Journalism#Media#Democracy#NewYorkTimes#Bloomberg#FoxNews#TrumpAdministration