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16/06/2025

26/04/2025

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Press freedom, civil liberties and news organizations collectively urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance a bill to protect journalists

10/03/2025

Dark times

BREAKING: The top editor at the Associated Press rings the alarm about Donald Trump banning the news agency from the White House — and makes a chilling revelation about what's really going on.
The signs are all there...
According to Julie Pace, the editor in question, Trump's move to ban the AP over their refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" is actually "about something so much bigger" than his absurd renaming efforts.
"This is about freedom of speech and that is a principle, a right that Americans across the political spectrum believe in deeply,” Julie Pace said on ABC.
"This is about whether the government can control the language that we use, that ordinary people can use, and it’s about whether the government can retaliate against you if you don’t use the language that they prefer," she continued.
Pace has experience in dealing with Trump. Before she took on her current role in 2021, she served as the AP's bureau chief in Washington D.C. and covered the president's first disastrous term.
"We are standing up for that right, not just for the AP, but for all independent news organizations and for the public because we believe, again, that this is a principle, freedom of speech that all Americans, regardless of their political party, should believe in,” Pace she stated.
The AP is currently challenging Trump's ban in court and Pace remains optimistic about the road ahead.
"We certainly hope that it results in us being allowed back into cover White House events because we’re there to be the eyes and ears for Americans and people around the world," Pace said.
Every American, regardless of political affiliation, should stand with the Associated Press in this moment. Republicans are constantly bellowing about how much they support free speech. It's time for them to prove it.

23/09/2023

Lack of media integrity starts here - by chipping away at authentic journalists of color.
Shame on Texas A&M!

14.5K likes, 648 comments. “Texas A&M pays a $1 million settlement for its botched hiring debacle with Dr. Kathleen McElroy…not nearly enough.”

13/09/2023

Media's role is to dig deeper. Find the root. Along the ways lies the truth, the systemic issue. And there's been loads of self-incriminatung exposure happening.
But let's start with this gem.
The truth comes out. In the end.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review?fbclid=PAAabs-xWjJ7VJcHlTpNrRsUS2WwlP8YUumzrjVJ_rloOlEdWWU98JtZNZ2PU

Walter Isaacson’s new biography depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.

29/08/2023

Media Literacy is a tool we all absolutely need. Follow the money.

31.8K likes, 1237 comments. “ creators usually have a financial interest in the divisive content they are creating.”