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"Journalists often get caught up in telling 'both sides,' but the creation of sides is a political project." That's from a brilliant talk by @zephoria that I highly recommend. points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and… hat tip, @pomeranian99.
The final line of my PhD dissertation (The Impossible Press, NYU 1986) is: "Making things public does not a public make." @zephoria's closing lines: "You will not achieve an informed public simply by making sure that high quality content is publicly available." So true.
"What if ignorance is strategically manufactured? What if the tools of knowledge production are perverted to enable ignorance? ...Robert Proctor and Iain Boal coined the term 'agnotology' to describe the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance." points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and…
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"Forgive me if I do not join in the celebration of Andrew Neil vanquishing the American conservative personality Ben Shapiro... No matter how much those with regressive, prejudiced or simply dishonest views are challenged, it is pointless if they are constantly provided a venue."
"Shapiro’s currency isn’t his ability to debate or his intellectual credentials, it is merely to be around so much that his very ubiquity becomes ersatz success." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "Interviews in which they are challenged, successfully or not, are part of their roadshow."
"The belief that somehow giving more airtime to people will expose and vanquish them makes no sense. The whole 'sunlight is the best disinfectant' argument no longer works. Sunlight simply provides exposure and nourishment." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Jay Rosen
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Little story for you guys from my own experience about this charming feature of Facebook's culture. Thread. 1/
In December 2016, Facebook was about to roll out its collaboration with third party fact checkers: ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and AP, all of them participants in Poynter.org's International Fact Checking Network. niemanlab.org/2016/12/clampi… 2/
Before the announcement was made, I got a call from the communications team at Facebook, asking me what I thought of this agreement, which was of course a response to intense criticism that the company was not doing enough to combat misinformation on its platform. 3/
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Jay Rosen
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"How Rupert Murdoch's Empire of Influence Remade the World." This is uncommonly good. I recommend that you read it. nytimes.com/interactive/20… Particularly on how leveraging press power into political muscle led to the enlargement of Murdoch's empire, which then led to more power.
This is a good sentence re: how Murdoch did it. "He quickly expanded the business into a national and then an international force, in part by ruthlessly using his platform to help elect his preferred candidates and then ruthlessly using those candidates to help extend his reach."
One small complaint. About the launch of Fox News, the authors call it "a round-the-clock network with a virtual monopoly on conservative TV news." Here, you have to add that it was conservative news that did not describe itself as such. Instead, it trolled. "Fair and balanced."
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American Media.....Soviet Tactics

1. The communist government of the former Soviet Union thought that by controlling access to information, they could keep their citizens in line.
rbth.com/arts/history/2…
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“Pravda” is the Russian word for “truth.”
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Almost no one in the Soviet Union was fooled.
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