"Black Entertainment Television, more commonly known as BET, has removed all digital articles from its website in a push to prioritize video content."

"The move to erase the written content came without warning, leaving many writers with no trace of their work."

Huff Post: BET Removes Articles From Its Site, Obliterating Much Of Its Black Journalism Record https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bet-removes-articles-from-its-site-obliterating-much-of-its-record-of-black-culture-and-history_n_6a9b3a16e4b0d14101e9d547 @huffingtonpost #journalism

The journalists at Fern educational youtube channel checked out AI slop content gurus, joined their discords, and talked to people who teach other people (for money of course), how to rip off their content using AI.

…. So you don’t have to.

Fucking horrible.. 🥶 .. anti-human slop capitalism is here.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Gnrp_caPvo

#aislop #documentary #fern #educationalvideos #journalism

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The Conversation: Stars and Stripes shows how government‑funded journalism can work – if it’s free to report the truth https://theconversation.com/stars-and-stripes-shows-how-government-funded-journalism-can-work-if-its-free-to-report-the-truth-290477 @TheConversationUS #Journalism

A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. - Hugo Black

River dolphins and trading cards and brain organoids, oh my! In this week's Top 5:
• Bad medicine | The New Yorker
• Imperfect sound forever | Bitter Southerner
• Know when to fold 'em | Business Insider
• Brainiacs | WIRED
• Call of the wild | Aeon
https://longreads.com/2026/08/28/top-5-623/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #longreads #reading #curation #magazines #journalism

RE: https://wandering.shop/@tansy/117155009147964760

Please support Tansy's new book "Charity Shop World," so she can continue bringing to light all these dark corners of the world that we'd never know about otherwise.✊🏾
#Books #Journalism

A journalist wanted to go to a Flock Safety convention.

Flock cancelled their registration AND got the hotel to cancel their room.

Enter Benn Jordan and *some equipment*, 😉.

I haven't had that much fun with a YouTube short in a while.

https://youtube.com/shorts/GQoQkeMdvQM

#surveillance #flock #police #journalism

NEW BOOK | 'The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912' edited by Andrew Hobbs

The second volume of Anthony Hewitson's diaries, edited by Andrew Hobbs, offers rare insight into the career and life of a nineteenth-century journalist

Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0270

#OpenAccess #journalism #19thCentury

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An image of the book in hardback on a colourful background, alongside text that says: The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912 edited by Andrew Hobbs Journalist Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) worked in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press: provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1865 and 1912, reveal the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. They also tell us about fatherhood, old age, antiquarianism and local history, and the culture of Victorian towns and villages. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about local newspaper writing and sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers. The Diaries of a Provincial Journalist are an indispensable research tool for local and regional historians, as well as social and political historians with an interest in Victorian studies and the media, and anyone interested in turn-of-the-century social and cultural history.

The #WhiteHouse yesterday posted a personal attack against CNN’s #KristenHolmes, invoking her #children, after she asked #Trump a pointed question [doing her job].

The White House on Monday leveled a sharply personal attack against #CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after she asked Trump a pointed question during a news conference, crossing a barrier rarely breached by politicians to invoke her children.

#unfit #journalism #media #FourthEstate #misogyny #sexism #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/17/white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-after-trump-clash-targets-her-children/

"If you’re doing something complicated, you have to think about how the reader is taking it in. Is this clear to the reader? Is the reader going to want to read the next paragraph? Where is the momentum?"

—Rachel Hartigan in conversation with Brendan O'Meara for the Creative Nonfiction Podcast

https://longreads.com/2026/08/18/bucking-expectations-rachel-hartigan/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#craft #journalism #writing #reporting

Our Top 5:

ㆍTriplets, unclaimed (New York)
ㆍDeath, unreported (Science/Retraction Watch)
ㆍDe-extinction, disputed (MIT Technology Review)
ㆍChildren, ferried (Fernando Pinho)
ㆍButterflies, tracked (The Atlantic)

https://longreads.com/2026/08/14/top-5-621/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2026-08-14

#Longreads #Reading #Journalism #Nonfiction #Science #Medicine #Technology

Once again, all indicators point to Fuck Amazon.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mamdani-backs-protections-for-workers-delivering-amazon-packages-in-nyc-2026-8

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

#lispyGopherClimate every week since 2022 Sunday-morning-in-Europe #ARCHIVED (now!) 8am UTC Sundays.

https://toobnix.org/w/cLe5ytKW5vuhYFc9eVExWj !

[Monty] #python [1.0's flagship lisp lambda/mapreduce/filter makes it or] is a #lisp: bite me.

Sharpsign hardhitting #tech #journalism
#peertube #podcast
Miscellaneous notes

Lake Mead just hit a new all-time record low — 1,040.5 ft, lower than any point since before Lake Powell even filled in 1957.

Behind that number: marina crews dragging docks hundreds of feet across the desert floor, Boulder City fighting the federal government over a data center threatening its water and power, and Hoover Dam bracing for a 40% hydropower cut.
#AureFreePress #Journalism #climatechange

This is what the water crisis costs real people.

Deep dive:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

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Lake Mead water drop

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Lake Mead water drop

LOL on the photographer and their blurring to get this photo.

(no idea on the article, paywalled... )

#photography #journalism

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NY Times: A Naked Bicycle Protest Is Also a Party. Is that Bad? showing a photo of a lot of naked people, but remarkably, all the naughty bits are blurred or obscured by bicycles

"Perhaps the most curious question, though, was whether the company had cloned red wolves at all." Boyce Upholt for MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1135222/red-wolves-colossal-biosciences-clones/?src=longreads #wolves #coyotes #conservation #cloning #journalism #longreads

New Deep Dive:

Iranian-linked hackers hit water systems in 7+ states this summer — no ransom, just disruption.

At the core: a known, unpatched Rockwell PLC vulnerability sitting in thousands of exposed U.S. systems since 2021.

Federal agencies call it an urgent Iran-affiliated threat. Trump blamed Minnesota instead.

We dig into the tech, the timeline, and the disconnect.

Read it:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Cybersecurity

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Plymouth MN water tower

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Water treatment plant

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Inside a water treatment plant

"He had searched her car hundreds of times over a span of about 13 months, sometimes dozens of times a week, the audit records showed. Many of his searches were made between midnight and 4 a.m." Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and @AaronJSchaffer for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/?src=longreads #surveillance #technology #investigation #journalism #longreads

🆕 blog! “Are political journalists always wrong?”

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss.

There has recently been a change in UK Prime Minister. I neither know nor care whether that's a good thing. What I do know is that Senior Political…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/are-political-journalists-always-wrong/
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#AI #journalism #LLM #newspapers #politics

The insider’s guide to experiential beauty

https://lucire.com/insider/20260730/the-insiders-guide-to-experiential-beauty/ #beauty #beauté #trend #tendances #ExperientialMarketing #marketing #journalism

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Dime Beauty launch event, photographed by Marc Patrick/BFA.com. Full story in Lucire issue 52.

Judge rebuffs #Trump admin demand for phone records from #NYT reporters

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-rebuffs-trump-admin-demand-for-phone-records-from-nyt-reporters/

#journalism #privacy

BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎

AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.

It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.

AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.

Then there is the fear of losing #control

Most people understand a hammer.

AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.

That uncertainty invites #projection

But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.

Much of human #activity was already formulaic.

#writing

#administration

#advertising

#opinion

Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .

When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.

The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.

AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.

It can help.

It can deceive.

It can save time.

It can waste resources.

It can widen access.

It can concentrate power.

It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.

The question is not whether it is pure.

Nothing in this world is.

The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.

A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.

It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.

#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

"Once everyone was back at school on Tuesday, the high schoolers lawyered up during their lunch hour." Ara Rosenthal for @WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-redwood-bark-school-newspaper/?src=longreads #journalism #reporting #epstein #longreads

That girl who asked the question wasn't expecting an answer like this from Jeff Daniels

#thenewsroom #jeffdaniels #willmcavoy #america #debate #tv #interview #drama #aaronsorkin #politics #newsroom #journalist #journalism #usa #oliviamunn #dumbanddumber #USA

This Sunday-morning-in-europe I am just going to briefly opine on Minsky and Papert's #Perceptrons ( #bookstodon ) and leak disspiriting nz government secrets about how nz's #AI #strategy is going by way of illustration (and #original #news #journalism I guess), from a multifarious handful of senior employees from different regions and departments / crown corporations.

https://toobnix.org/w/ayXvcND3PWuHVqB3gx9Ngm

#commonLisp on #irc #live #liveNOW

#lispyGopherClimate ! Every week since 2022 #technology #podcast .

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The lispy gopher climate banner featuring a post with Erik Sandewall's face on it and "MAKE AI THINK". Amoung things, gophers, lisp aliens.

Time: Australia’s Age Verification a Success Because Vibes

By all metrics, Australia's age verification law was a failure. So, Time said it's a success because it has good vibes.

https://www.freezenet.ca/time-australias-age-verification-a-success-because-vibes/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #journalism #Time

How #Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent #Police to Arrest Him

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/11/0556236/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-a-journalist-for-days-then-sent-police-to-arrest-him

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR #journalism

Our Top 5 this week:

ㆍConcrete memories, Places Journal
ㆍGrief science, The New Yorker
ㆍCaptive cats, The Narwhal
ㆍRelentless pain, The Common
ㆍMyth meets reality, The Atlantic

https://longreads.com/2026/07/10/top-5-616/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=email

#Longreads #Reading #Storytelling #Essay #Journalism

I remember when we used to have these things called REPORTERS who would sneak into a hospital to CONFIRM if a turtle-bitch was DEAD.

WHERE ARE THE BALLS? WHERE?
AROUND WHOSE NECK DO THEY HANG?

Gotdamn.

#USPolRealTalk
#Journalism

"In recent years, the Signal messaging app has become a newsroom staple, enabling journalists, colleagues, sources, and others to speak to one another securely with end-to-end encryption. This means no one except those in conversation — not even the service provider — can read your messages or listen in on your calls. Journalists use it individually, and we also see a trend toward using organizational Signal tiplines.

But it’s important to understand this is not a ”set it and forget it” decision. When talking to sensitive contacts, you do need to maintain your account to ensure it is safe and does not fall into the wrong hands.

Imagine if someone took over your Signal account. They could impersonate you, causing reputational damage, or worse, putting sources at risk. Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical. We have seen at least one public example (and some less public) where newsrooms have lost access to Signal identifiers, sometimes leading to abuse.

There are a few simple things journalists can do to maximize the safety of their Signal account."

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-account-safety/

#Messaging #Signal #Privacy #Surveillance #Encryption #PrressFreedom #Journalism #Media

We're hiring a new technical support specialist to join @ProPublica's enterprise technology team.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions - so you're helping support an incredible mission with some unique technical challenges. It's a meaningful place to work and make a difference.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4388907006

#getfedihired #amhiring #job #tech #journalism

"Walters tapes the reptile’s mouth shut and places the animal in a burlap sack. He twists the top tight. It will sit below the truck console for the rest of the day." —Luke Winkie for Slate https://slate.com/life/2026/06/florida-alligator-attack-hunting-nuisance-miami.html?src=longreads #alligators #florida #journalism #animals #wildlife #longreads

When a Journalist Took on Corruption, He Used a Tool That Hadn’t Been Used Much in American History: the Unvarnished Truth

Lincoln Steffens was a reporter so dogged that political party bosses called him a “born crook that’s gone straight.” He and his fellow muckrakers redefined modern journalism

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-journalist-took-corruption-used-tool-that-hadnt-been-used-much-american-history-unvarnished-truth-180988855/

"The Shame of the Cities" at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54710

#journalism #history #USHistory

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This 1894 photograph shows Lincoln Steffens in a head-and-shoulders portrait, turned a bit to his right. His thick, wavy dark hair is brushed back from his forehead. He has a handlebar mustache and a pointed goatee. He wears a dark formal suit with wide lapels, a white shirt with a wing-tipped collar, and a dark bowtie.

A Third Party Breached #TheIntercept’s #Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-signal-tip-line-breach-hack

#privacy #anonymity #cybersecurity #whistleblower #journalism

As #Trump rebrands DC festivities as a "spectacular Trump rally," broadcasters should look elsewhere to celebrate the #UnitedStates’ 250th.

As with so much in DC, Trump took over. His effort to rebrand the Washington, DC, events, provides #media & #news outlets an opportunity to instead look around the rest of the country — so do it.

Ignore the Trump rally.

As an example, PBS will turn to Williamsburg, Virginia, instead of DC.

#journalism #FourthEstate #propaganda
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/america-250-july-4-national-mall-trump-analysis

The New York Times is Doing Anti-LGBTQ Slop Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuInctjo2QU #Journalism

Always interesting to see what stories media runs with. Headline anthropomorphizing the truck that crashed into a man, which made him thrust his child to safety and lose his foot and part of his leg to eventual amputation.

You'd think they'd cover why a truck was driven into a family and who drove it, but no.

Instead it's another inspiration porn story about disability. Every comment talking about his "great attitude" and no one questioning why & how a truck was driven into him. No reference to whatever (if any) coverage there was on the crash.

#Ableism #CarCentrism #Media #Journalism #InspirationPorn

📰 Congressional Dems Shift to Overwhelmingly Oppose Involvement in Israel’s War on Lebanon

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/30/democrats-israel-lebanon-war-powers-congress/

#AntiWar #Journalism #Politics #TheIntercept

Nearly 400 local newspapers are named in a lawsuit against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright. The complaint describes the unlicensed use of news content to train AI models as a "death knell" for local journalism that is struggling on "thin budgets and shrinking newsrooms."

The Next Web has the details:
https://flip.it/-6DiNP

#AI #Journalism #News

Mainstream Media Tries Blaming Social Media for Exposing Youth to Violence

As the mainstream media scrambles to justify age verification laws, one outlet is arguing that young people are exposed to violence.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-tries-blaming-social-media-for-exposing-youth-to-violence/

#Censorship #News #broadcasting #CTV #journalism #research #SocialMedia #study

This is a great article by Lise Hand for @TheJournal - in tribute to the late Veronica Guerin, and on the importance of journalism, and the threats it faces today:

"Thirty years on: What Veronica Guerin can still teach us about dogged journalism"

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/life-in-dublin-7079593-Jun2026/

"When local journalism shrinks, communities lose the only institution that covers the people in power, which in turn helps to empower that community."

#journalism #MastoDaoine

A source wants to reach you safely. With most messengers that starts with a problem: they need your phone number, you get theirs, and a server in the middle logs that you two talked.

Zerion skips all of that. You share a QR code or link, the connection runs device to device over Tor, and no record of the contact exists outside your two phones.

Source code and protocol docs are public. Verify before you trust: https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion

#journalism #infosec #privacy #tor

Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-already-lying-about-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Canada #journalism #Media #NationalPost #SocialMedia