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An American Peculiarity
“Since political communication research is predominantly US-centric, there is a tendency to apply American findings directly to the Asian context,” Kobayashi added. “Our study challenges this tendency and demonstrates the importance of research tailored to the Asian context.” By examining news consumption in Japan and Hong Kong alongside the US, the researchers aimed to understand if selective exposure is a universal behavior or if specific national and cultural factors shape it. from Americans Are More Likely to Choose News That Supports Their Beliefs. This New Study Reveals Why. [The Debrief]
🧅The Savala Vada🧅
According to whom...?
The Media Bias Chart (interactive, static, and app versions), from Ad Fontes Media, graphs the political bias vs reliability of media articles. [more inside]
Autistic Relationship Begins With More Complex Negotiations Than Brexit
Produced by Sara Gibbs and Elsa Williams, The Daily Tism is an Onion-like parody news site produced by autistic people, poking fun at themselves, for themselves and people who want to laugh with them. Some headlines: "Autistic Woman Who Always Guesses Plot Twist Carefully Selects Which Movie To Ruin," "Pasta Dish Murdered By Sauce and Cheese Being Mixed In," and "Autistic Man Concentrating So Hard On Listening He Can't Hear A Single Fucking Word You're Saying." [more inside]
It's not just Lies about Immigrants... But Historical Nazi Lies...
Science communicator Rebecca Watson pointed out that what J D Vance and Donald Trump repeated and amplified about supposed Haitain Immigrants eating people's pets are not just lies... but historical Nazi "blood libel"... started by ACTUAL current Neo-Nazis in Springfield (at Anti-Haitian Rallies)... they've dragged grieving parents into the hate campaign as well.
You can find the transcript of that Youtube episode here, but I'll summarize the points below... [more inside]
If Bill Gates spent $1 million every day
According to Forbes, his current net worth is $130 billion. If Bill Gates spent $1 million every day, it would take him over 355 years to spend his fortune.
Well, it was 2016 all over again today.
Lawrence O'Donnell delivers a scathing rebuke of the media's failure to hold Trump accountable for his lies and non-answers given throughout his recent hour-long press conference at Mar-A-Lago. [more inside]
A new unity like a bundle of sticks
Horny for fascism - on the medias quest to put the best possible spin on Trump and MAGA.
Green Conscience
The EU has passed a nature restoration law which, despite its reduced scope appeared to be headed for the policy graveyard. The law was saved by Austria's climate minister, Leonore Gewessler, whose vote of conscience hit the bar of support of 55% of EU member states representing 65% of EU population. Her government attempted to have her vote disregarded, and she now looks likely to face criminal prosecution. (Via fixthenews)
Just the facts, ma'am/man
There are a variety of "low-carbon" or "bandwidth-friendly" variants of news sites out there that load headlines with little styling and no images, such as CBC Lite, and much, much more. [more inside]
Nothing to see here.
Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor. In mid-May, the newsroom editor, Sally Buzbee, clashed over whether to publish an article about a British hacking scandal with some ties to the chief executive, Will Lewis. Buzbee informed Lewis that the newsroom planned to cover a judge’s scheduled ruling in a long-running British legal case brought by Prince Harry and others against some of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids. Lewis stated that the case involving him did not merit coverage.
When Buzbee said The Post would publish an article anyway, he said her decision represented a lapse in judgment and abruptly ended the conversation. [more inside]
Is the Ottawa Food Bank really a must-visit vacation destination?
Keep truth human - take this short quiz from the Canadian Journalism Foundation to find out if you recognize AI generated, false news content.
Landmark building in Copenhagen on fire
Old Stock Exchange Building from 17th Century burns Yet another building renovation gone wrong.
the wombles could not be reached for comment
Woman mistakes bobble for baby hedgehog and rushes it to Cheshire animal hospital. "Volunteer Danielle Peberdy, 36, said the kind-hearted woman had done the right thing in not ignoring a hedgehog out in the day. She said: "Hedgehogs shouldn't be out in the day so she did the right thing; the only problem was that it was a bobble.""
Rabbit Hole Central
Hi! I’m Noel – an archaeologist from Singapore living and working in Bangkok. I’ve been involved with Southeast Asian archaeology for over a decade now, and have been interested in it for a lot longer. Growing up in Singapore, there was not much opportunity to learn about archaeology in a formal setting – there are no archaeology degrees offered in the country, and the closest was in high school history. So I began this website in 2006 to collect news about the archaeology of the region, mainly as a way for me to learn what was going on in the region, and since then the site has grown to become an educational resource for the public
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet
"An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge." More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication on 24 January, indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output. [more inside]
Google Minus Google News
"The featured filters — Images, Videos, Maps, Flights, Shopping, Perspectives, etc. — change and reorder depending on the search term, but this was different. I wasn’t seeing the News tab as an option for search after search, even if I went looking in the 'All filters' drop-down menu. I tried with 'Julian Assange,' 'public subsidies for sports stadiums,' and 'Reckon layoffs.' None showed the News filter as an option. The next day, on a different computer, my News filter was (blessedly) back. But a few other users confirmed I was not alone." Last year Google cut jobs in its news division. Where is Google putting its resources these days? Exactly where you'd expect.
Bad News
It would be far too dramatic to extrapolate from the disastrous week that journalism itself is dying. The New York Times is healthy. Thanks to good management and demographically vigorous readerships, the Boston Globe and Minneapolis Star Tribune carry on. Cable, network and local TV news still toss off profits. But no matter how many heroic nonprofit newsrooms like the Baltimore Banner and Daily Memphian take root, no matter how many Substack-like newsletters blossom or creators emerge to drop their videos on YouTube, you can’t deny the journalism business’ decline. from The News Business Really Is Cratering [Politico] [more inside]
Keeping things published online is an ongoing choice
The upshot: Readers in America, where prior restraint is forbidden and where courts won’t enforce foreign rulings that violate the First Amendment, are blocked from reading a story based on a legal complaint that would be tossed out of most American courts. That’s not the only way the case is resonating in the U.S. from How a Judge in India Prevented Americans From Seeing a Blockbuster Report
Happy 50th birthday, more or less, to Dungeons & Dragons!
Tom Van Winkle (01/10/2024), "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons": "Fifty years ago this month, the first 1000 copies of the original Dungeons & Dragons were printed and then boxed up at Gary Gygax's house. It's supposed to have been late in January of 1974, but we don't have a specific date. January 1974 is good enough for me. And what counts as the specific origin date, anyway? The final draft? The actual printing? The availability for sale? We're close enough. I'm saying it's been fifty years right now." [more inside]
The Fourth Estate's Future
At the end of every year, NiemanLab asks for predictions about the coming year of journalism from experts in the field. Here's the latest batch predicting 2024. (previously) [more inside]
Sometimes a finger is just a finger
Guardian: “As a BBC licence payer I demand more of this type of behaviour.” Huffington Post: “Undeterred by the faux pas, the newscaster simply composed herself and began reading from the autocue about the latest updates in the Boris Johnson Covid inquiry. Fortunately for Maryam, the moment took place when the UK feed was showing Prime Minister’s Questions, so only international viewers saw the moment play out live.” CBS News: “Maryam Moshiri, the chief presenter at the British network, said she was "joking around a bit with the team" when she stuck up her middle finger just as the broadcast went to air.” In the Metro, further BBC news mishaps.
Claw and Order
So Thieves Nabbed Your Catalytic Converter. Here’s Where It Ended Up. The NYTimes takes a look at the underground platinum group metals market, from thieves who steal catalytic converters or "cats", to refiners that buy up stolen cats and retrieve the rare metals, to the banks that financially underwrite the illicit trade.
UFO? UAP? WTF?
"...The deeper I got into this particular subject, the more I came to realize that the government’s UFO cover-up has primarily been a cover-up motivated not by knowledge but of ignorance. It’s not that the government knows something it doesn’t want to tell us; it’s that the government is uncomfortable telling us it doesn’t know anything at all."UFOs and the U.S. government: The push towards greater transparency
Transcript included [more inside]
Avoiding the News - ethical?
Five years ago we learned of one man's struggle to avoid the news, in a NY Times article, The Man Who Knew Too Little. (Archive link, and previously.) He called it The Blockade, or a DIY version of moving to Canada. Inside Hook has an update, an even more radical approach: Could "News Sobriety" Save Your Mental Health? [more inside]
Let's talk about the climate, what do you know?
Leaked documents from the FTC vs. Microsoft case spilled a lot of beans
It's been a terrible morning for Team Xbox, as a major leak related to the FTC investigation of the Activision Blizzard deal has revealed all kinds of information that Microsoft surely never intended anyone to see. And seriously, this is huge! We now know that Microsoft has been planning an Xbox Series X refresh (potentially arriving in late 2024), and an entire release schedule from Bethesda dated July 2020 (new Bethesda games including DOOM, Dishonored, Fallout & Oblivion) has also been doing the rounds. There's more coming out of this as well, such as a new Xbox controller that appears to be launching alongside the new Xbox Series X revision, and even the revelation that Phil Spencer was interested in acquiring Nintendo back in 2020! The leak also revealed Microsoft's plans to release a new next-generation console in 2028. Via:[Pure Xbox][Polygon][Eurogamer][The Verge]
Fall of X
🍁 Canadian Independent Media
Fake News
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles "The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news content."
Heather "dooce" Hamilton has died
According to her Instagram. Heather Brooke Hamilton aka Heather B. Armstrong aka dooce aka love of my life. July 19, 1975 - May 9, 2023. "It takes an ocean not to break." Hold your loved ones close and love everyone else.
"The writing was on the wall. It is now written in blood."
In Sudan, a Deadly Reckoning for Rival Forces: With civilians trapped, scores have been killed as the army and a paramilitary group battle for control of the country. [more inside]
“It’s the end of the marriage between social media and news.”
Buzzfeed Shuts Down its News Division (NYT gift, archive.is), laying off 15% of its staff. Buzzfeed News won a Pulitzer (and was nominated on three other occasions), published the Steele dossier, and broke the story of Blippi pooping on his friend, but it was never profitable. [more inside]
Trump in panic mode as he braces for likely charges
Manhattan district attorney expected to file criminal charges against ex-president for payment to adult film star in 2016. [Guardian] Donald Trump is bracing for his most legally perilous week since he left the White House, with the Manhattan district attorney likely to bring criminal charges against him over his role in paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels, as he huddled this weekend to strategize his legal and political responses.
The former US president has posted in all-caps on his Truth Social platform that he expected to be “ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK” and called for his supporters to engage in protests – an ominous echo of his tweets urging protests in the lead-up to the January 6 US Capitol attack. [more inside]
Dick Fosbury Changed the High Jump Forever
Dick Fosbury, Olympic Gold Medal Winner in 1968, Passed Away at 76 Fosbury was known for inventing the Fosbury Flop: a technique where the athlete goes over the bar facing up and head first. In 1968, he was the only high jumper doing it and cleared 2.24m. By 1972, most of the athletes were using it. In 2014, Fosbury was a guest at The E.G. Conference, where he was interviewed by Peter Sagal about his track and field career and how his technique came to be.
Violent Femmes on the local news
The Violent Femmes interviewed on Milwaukee local news by Howard Gurnette, 1983. An amazing juxtapostion of 80s local news guy and weird/peevish new wave dudes. They also played "Prove My Love."
Drug Decriminalization in Oregon
After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, which made it the first state in the union to broadly decriminalize drug possession, a response to an untenable status quo. In addition, the measure pledged to support the expansion of drug treatment and harm reduction programs in the state through funds from cannabis taxes. [more inside]
I Want Pictures, Pictures of Tomorrow
At the end of every year, NiemanLab asks for predictions about the coming year of journalism from those in the know. Here's the latest batch predicting 2023. And here's the previous efforts: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 (previously-ly-ly-ly)
it’s always worth pausing when we’re told “X University” “banned” Y
I don’t know if you heard, but Stanford University banned the word “Americans” (SL Substack from Stanford professor Adrian Daub).
I am notorious for getting myself signed up for way too university mailing lists ...I also don’t delete emails. In those 29,000 emails [in Daub's inbox], the acronym “EHLI” or “elimination of harmful language” doesn’t appear once. If Stanford “announced” a policy “banning” use of the word “American”, surely it wouldn’t forget to tell its tenured faculty members.
Big oil preserving their power, subsidies, and social license
The House Oversight Committee's hearings on climate disinformation: Backtracking on promises to release subpoenaed industry documents. Industry bullying of reporters like Hiroko Tabuchi. "The [oil] industry wants to see so much government funding for carbon capture locked in that there’s no choice but to continue down that path." (recall the Juice Media's CCS episode) From Amy Westervelt of Drilled.
The State of Ketchup in 2022 🍅
Ketchup Is the Absolute Worst Condiment. When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct. Heinz Is Not America’s Best Ketchup. Oxford Scientists Crack Case of Why Ketchup Splatters From Near-empty Bottle. The Surprising Asianness of Ketchup. Climate Change Is Coming For Your Ketchup. A Skeptic Tries: Ketchup. Ketchup: Fridge or Cupboard? The Debate Is Settled. So, Can Dogs Eat Ketchup? We Have The Answer. Don't Even Think About Putting Ketchup On A Hot Dog. Queen Elizabeth Is Releasing Her Own Royal Condiments.
"Cancer vaccines are an idea whose time has come."
"Although 5 decades of research have yielded many failures, [cancer] vaccines are now positioned for success" While there are currently only a few vaccines being used to treat cancer (as opposed to preventing it), "knowledge gained from [COVID-19] trials and versatile therapeutic potential of the mRNA can be applied for the development of vaccine for the infectious diseases and cancer." There are many cancer vaccines currently in clinical trials (find one) and receiving research grants. [more inside]
Why make yourself uncomfortable when you can be in a comfortable place?
NPR is not our friend. Let’s take a closer look at why this is. “… like much other media, NPR has become a partisan news service with a sterile, professional tone that belies an underlying allegiance to a very narrow range of political viewpoints that are largely inoffensive to those in power. Today, NPR is a product stuffed with advertisements. It receives relatively little in government funding and is mostly paid for by corporations and a small percentage of its listeners who come from a very specific demographic: white, well-educated liberals.“
That ‘Deaf Child in Area’ Is Now a Deaf Adult — and He’s Hot!!!
Twitter gets whistleblown on security, bots
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko spills all to SEC. It's a tale as old as time in infosec, sadly. Organization hires infosec star. Star criticizes organization's infosec. Organization fires star. Star speaks out publicly and brings lawyers and receipts. What impact this will have on the Twitter takeover bid is as yet unclear, but Twitter users as well as shareholders certainly deserve answers about Twitter's security practices.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shot
A Story About Aussies Getting Outfoxed
Meet Rambo: a very crafty fox whose knack for evasion is driving Australian conservationists to wit's end while also gaining their grudging respect.(SLSydney Morning Herald) [more inside]
“Reports are sketchy at this point”
“The plan was to simulate a nuclear terrorist incident and explore how every agency would react and whether they would cooperate. To enhance the verisimilitude of the war games, the U.S. government went so far as to record a fake news broadcast about a nuclear bomb exploding in Indianapolis.“
A future from our past might appear in our present
Technovelgy lists inventions from science fiction novels. Previously on MeFi (in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, and a couple other times too), the site catalogues the fantastic doodads imagined by writers—right alongside nonfictional tech news that dovetails with the scifi.
She was an Ivy League student with an inspiring story. UPenn Disagreed.
Story about a UPenn student who wins a Rhodes Scholarship -- (archive link). She claimed she was a first-generation, low-income student who had suffered severe abuse at the hands of her mother that landed her in the hospital and then bouncing between foster homes. Penn received an anonymous email claiming that she had falsified her background (they claim that she may have been abused but exaggerated the extent of it and exaggerated her first-generation low-income bona fides) and then launched an investigation and recommended that Rhodes rescind the award. Student claims that this was retaliation for standing up for a classmate who had died. Ends up withdrawing from the program and files a lawsuit against Penn.
Definitely a crazy story and a wild ride. Curious to hear what others think of UPenn's response and the student's claims about her background.