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@carolecadwalla
Jun 20, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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NEW: GB News isn't crap. It's dangerous. I have form with Andrew Neil. Which is why I dread & fear what this new venture means.
keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/andrew-neil-…
Not that it isn't crap. It is. It's just also going to be a massively distorted influence in our already massively distorted news & information system.
The BBC & our strict Ofcom rules have been a bulwark against worst excesses of online mis- & disinfo. But for how much longer? The hounding of Newsnight's Nick Watt this week was a horrifying example of where this leads. And GB News has thrown a powerful new grenade into the mix.
I rang up @martinjemoore on Friday who's one of the smartest interpreters of all things media & he thinks it's inevitably going to impact BBC. Arguably, the whole channel is a troll on the BBC, a knowing provocation. UK news & info system just lurched a little bit further right
This has a personal element for me. How could it not? I deal with the aftermath of Neil's abuse of me every day. But it's also why I have an early warning system encoded into my cells. I wish I could laugh at GB News but I don't. I dread it.
I have strict policy of ignoring GB News's political correspondent. I make an exception only to point out that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. This is who got to ask 2nd question at the PM's news presser on Monday. GB News already key part of govt's spin operation
This is why I'm writing this newsletter with @allthecitizens. It's part of our Keeping The Receipts project. The plan to destroy the Electoral Commission announced this week is exactly why we're doing what we're doing. Subscribing will help us keep track & hold to account.

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Nov 17
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @TimothyDSnyder.
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 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Lesson 1: When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

This week, Trump told us who he is. Believe him. If his adminstration picks look like a plan to destroy America from within, it likely is.
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2. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

How do we know this? Because it always is. It's the authoritarian playbook.

Lawsuits are first. Prosecutions are next. America needs to learn these moves fast. It's already later than you think.
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Nov 10
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It's exactly 8 years since I published this on Nov 6, 2016. My first step down the rabbit hole that became Facebook/Cambridge Analytica. And if you still think that's a 'conspiracy', I have a social media platform to sell you.
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 theguardian.com/technology/201…
Oh no, that's right. The world's richest man already bought it. Remember Marshall McLuhan, 'the medium is the message'? Well the medium now is Musk. And he's the shadow head of state of the world's greatest superpower. That’s the message. Have you got it yet?
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Nov 1
Many people have asked me what is going on at @guardian & @observer. The answer is a lot. To be clear, this isn’t an ‘internal dispute’ between 700+ journalists & their management it’s a struggle for the soul & future of UK journalism.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…
An archived version here. (Also pls support @waybackmachine which is another vital journalistic institution under mortal threat)

archive.is/2024.11.01-082…
And this just in: an overwhelming display of support from UK's authors, writers, poets & illustrators who understand the threat to UK journalism.

thebookseller.com/news/authors-i…
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Oct 27
Democracy *will* die in darkness. If a journalist isn’t telling you what’s happening...who will?

Crisis has hit @washingtonpost. Its journalists are in revolt. But here's what you don't know: it directly links to another journo crisis...at @guardian
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 theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o…
The @washingtonpost has refused to endorse a presidential candidate. Legendary ex-editor @PostBaron calls it an act of profound 'cowardice'. The paper, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos & led by ex-Murdoch man, Will Lewis, is now, in effect, a Trump collaborator.
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WaPo journalists are appalled. It’s a moment of profound shock. Meanwhile @guardian journalists in same WTF shock after discovering management is seeking to sell off a chunk of org…..to Will Lewis’s old friend & Murdoch stablemate, James Harding

3/theguardian.com/media/2024/sep…
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Oct 6
Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?

This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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Since 1993, @ObserverUK has been owned by @guardian. Which is owned in turn by the Scott Trust set up in 1936 to preserve the financial & editorial independence of @guardian "in perpetuity"

But perpetuity ain't what it used to be. And 2 weeks ago, a bombshell lands: Tortoise Media is in talks to buy @ObserverUK.
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 news.sky.com/story/guardian…
If you don't know, @tortoise is a plucky media start-up founded in 2019 by James Harding, an ex-ed of @thetimes & a big beast of UK news.

But the thing is...it's like @guardian says, 'Thanks to reader funding, we're not for sale'.

So…what gives?!?
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Sep 7
So here’s a tale…

I noticed Charlotte Owen, the junior aide Boris Johnson controversially ennobled, has a new gig with - shock! - Boris Johnson. But that’s only the start. There’s also uranium, Iran, Steve Bannon..& a LOT of qs

My piece for @ObserverUK
theguardian.com/politics/artic…
Boris Johnson has gone into business with this chap - Amir Adnani. He’s a uranium entrepreneur. And the photo he’s shared is the VP of his company meeting Johnson in parliament when he was still prime minister. 🧐 Image
At some point - 4 days before he left office to put a number on it - Boris Johnson got *very* bullish on nuclear energy & committed £700m to the endlessly controversial Sizewell C reactor

You’ll remember from your science lessons that nuclear reactors run on…uranium Image
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