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
Finian Cunningham RT 18 Oct, 2017
Facebook, the world’s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses.
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