What if the answer was as simple as actually bringing back print-based newspapers in small towns? Weeklies. Actual paper. Cool advertising. Classifieds. Paper of record. Local sports. City Council. School Board. Human interest. Cartoons.
No digital version.
In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
602 were active today.
Some accounts, that were active today are
@DailyHive
@Motor1Brasil
@TheStreet
@watson_de
@ConversationCA
Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
Built by @mho
#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon
In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
602 were active today.
Some accounts, that were active today are
@DailyHive
@Motor1Brasil
@TheStreet
@watson_de
@ConversationCA
Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
Built by @mho
#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon
15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing.
#Technology #Tech #Media #Journalism #Publishing #Flipboard #Apps #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial
Last week's cuts at The Washington Post were even worse than initially reported. An accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, says nearly half the paper's newsroom was eliminated. Here's more from Washingtonian.
Last week's cuts at The Washington Post were even worse than initially reported. An accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, says nearly half the paper's newsroom was eliminated. Here's more from Washingtonian.
What if the answer was as simple as actually bringing back print-based newspapers in small towns? Weeklies. Actual paper. Cool advertising. Classifieds. Paper of record. Local sports. City Council. School Board. Human interest. Cartoons.
No digital version.
The print copes of Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal arrived today:
https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal
The #book is published by mediastudies.press, and is available #openaccess under the CC4r (Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment), so you don’t need to pay to download and read a copy.
It's also feels particularly timely in light of recent discussions around #class and #representation including the Class Ceiling report that came out the other week:
https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf
And the #BBC review by Anne Morrison and Chris Banatvala, which highlight how it remains London-centric and skewed towards #middleclass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/thematic-review-of-portrayal-and-representation.pdf
#culturewar #classwar #ClassCeiling #DefundCulture
#ArtsAndCulture #WorkingClass
#media #london #universities
#he #academic #academia
In my opinion there is no legitimate 'monopoly on violence'— each person/group and action needs to be evaluated on its own merits. But if media organizations are going to give official representatives of government an implicit aura of legitimacy, that has to be reserved for agents of the state that put some minimal effort into looking and acting the part. Secret police in rented or stolen cars wearing full face masks and off-rack camouflage, vests, or sweatshirts cannot be allowed to claim the supposed legitimacy of "law and order" while violating Constitutional rights, basic traffic laws, and any sense of human decency. (And yeah, police do all those things, but at least they look the part of government agents!)
“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…
cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/
#Democracy #Media #Journalism #Environment #Climate #Green #Oligarchy #WashingtonPost #USPol #Bezos
"When Republicans are criticizing the president, when the media calls him a racist, when his polls are dropping and then dropping again, it’s a lot easier to see that fighting Trump on everything, all the time, is the best strategy politically and for the country."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#JimmyLai, the #HongKong pro- #democracy #media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, the harshest penalty ever handed down for a “national security” offense in the semiautonomous territory.
The landmark ruling completes a yearslong effort by Beijing to dismantle the influence of a man it blamed for masterminding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
#law #journalism #authoritarianism #China
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/08/world/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
"Trump might be president, but the time for mincing words and normalizing his ethnic cleansing campaign (disguised as 'immigration policy') has long passed. All decent citizens should ostracize him when he prioritizes frivolous social functions at Mar-A-Lago rather than attending to the needs of the nation" (continued in /3)
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #media /2
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/theyve-always-known-he-is-a-racist
(continued from /2)
"(see: snoozing through the Melania premiere while the country grappled with Alex Pretti’s devastating, baseless murder).
Let’s say it: Trump is a racist. The Republican Party tolerates — if it does not actively endorse — his racism. Those who normalize him enable racism. His agenda is grounded in racism."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #media
/3
"When Republicans are criticizing the president, when the media calls him a racist, when his polls are dropping and then dropping again, it’s a lot easier to see that fighting Trump on everything, all the time, is the best strategy politically and for the country."
~ Noah Berlatsky
"Trump might be president, but the time for mincing words and normalizing his ethnic cleansing campaign (disguised as 'immigration policy') has long passed. All decent citizens should ostracize him when he prioritizes frivolous social functions at Mar-A-Lago rather than attending to the needs of the nation" (continued in /3)
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #media /2
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/theyve-always-known-he-is-a-racist
"When Republicans are criticizing the president, when the media calls him a racist, when his polls are dropping and then dropping again, it’s a lot easier to see that fighting Trump on everything, all the time, is the best strategy politically and for the country."
~ Noah Berlatsky
“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…
cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/
#Democracy #Media #Journalism #Environment #Climate #Green #Oligarchy #WashingtonPost #USPol #Bezos
