Bokomtalen ble opprinnelig publisert på World Socialist Web Site; oversatt av Knut R. for WSWS den 3. september 2018. Av Andre Damon
Seymour Hersh, gravejournalisten som spilte en ledende rolle i avsløringen av My-Lai-massakren i 1968 og av Bush-administrasjonens tortur av fanger i Abu Ghraib, har utgitt en etterlengtet selvbiografi. Hersh er en av verdens…
in a syllabus from June 2017, The Supreme Court of the USA underlines the importance of the internet in relation to the first amendment to the US constitution. The internet's forums are decribed as "what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge."
Aug 2017,
"The court continued that although there may have been difficulty in the past identifying the most important places for the exchange of views, today the answer is “clear”—it is “cyberspace,” the “vast democratic forums of the Internet” in general and “social media in particular.”
Virallisen selityksen mukaan romahdus johtui tulipalojen aiheuttamasta kuumuudesta. Lähes puolet amerikkalaisista ei usko, että virallinen selitys pitää paikkansa.
Iltalehti 11.9.2016
The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been ‘propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government’. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a - presumably - pro-imperialist perspective, and at the…
Maa on litteä kuin pannukakku, ihminen ei ole koskaan käynyt Kuussa, ja World Trade Center purettiin räjähteiden avulla. Salaliittoteoreetikot esittävät mitä kummallisimpia väitteitä – mutta tiede kumoaa väitteet yhden toisensa jälkeen.
tiistai 19. kesäkuuta 2018 teksti Esben Schouboe
In his mordant novel Scoop, Evelyn Waugh has one of his characters explain what "The News" is: "News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
The ones who don't bother to watch "The News" don't care, and those who do watch "The News" don't care either. The only encouraging thing is that the people who watch "The News" will watch whatever is put in front of them.... Fake News. by Patrick Armstrong
Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses. I’m not talking about America’s tweet-from-the-hip preside
By Nadezhda Azhgikhina, The Nation, December 22, 2017
Hasty decisions made on both sides of the Atlantic are causing irreparable damage to journalism as a whole.
Papiravisene hiver etter pusten. Tradisjonelle medier er på vikende front, og nye medier til høyre og venstre presser seg på. Høyresidens alternative medier knuser venstresidens i antall lesere. Hvem er de og hvor mange når de egentlig ut til?
Yle Vega 8.10.2017: "SFP:s presidentkandidat Europaparlamentarikern Nils Torvalds anser att det säkerhetspolitiska läget och EU:s fördjupade utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik förutsätter att Finland går med i Nato. Den gamla diskussionen om ett ja eller nej till Nato är enligt Torvalds förlegad."
Twitter has announced it will ban advertising from the Russian-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik. We speak to journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal
M. Atzmueller. Solving Large Scale Learning Tasks: Challenges and Algorithms. Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik, volume 9580 of LNCS, Springer Verlag, (2016)