Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: journalism

ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying...

This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.

Trump escalates dangerous rhetoric, suggests media violence as his campaign tightens...

Trump’s escalation of violent rhetoric against the press raises grave concerns for the safety of journalists and the future of press freedom in the U.S.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid

His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.

Journalists and press freedom groups demand Blinken stop US arms sales...

A coalition of over 100 journalists, news outlets, and press freedom organizations has called on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to halt weapons sales to Israel, condemning the U.S.’s role in supporting a military campaign that has killed over 100 journalists in Gaza.
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‘A sea of misery’: Gaza is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,...

Damon describes the overwhelming need for aid under Israel’s siege of the territory.

Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told

In the absence of independent local news sources, Richmond residents say they rely on each other for accurate information.

Is there a journalism that doesn’t love a war?

It makes me wonder whether the media requires at least one war to cheer lead for or fret about at any given time.

House passes PRESS Act advancing press freedoms

If passed, the federal law would prohibit the government from compelling journalists and telecommunication providers to disclose sources and work product.

Former BP scientist Steve Koonin claims climate journalists are spreading ‘hysteria’

Koonin argued that mainstream climate reporters shouldn’t be linking unprecedented wildfires and hurricanes to climate change.

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.