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Google Search: "Be clear about your source's biases and agendas"
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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RTAmerica: American in Tripoli: First Hand Account

'Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, who spent some time in Libya, shares his views on what's really going on in the country and why the mainstream media deliberately misinforms the public about real goals of NATO.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RTAmerica: War on RT

'The New York Times, NPR and broadcasters across the country are attacking RT for embracing a not-so-mainstream approach to broadcasting the news. Lauren Lyster fires back at allegations about the legitimacy of RT and their guests.' -- YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MISS LYSTER! AND YOU WILL ATONE! http://youtu.be/Kb26LaVuOBk

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Struggle to Control the Internet

'...the single, significant problem that the mainstream Western media is facing ... is that mainstream publications are seen increasingly as providing unreliable information tailored to the promotion of one-world dominant social themes. The main difference between the blogosphere and the mainstream media is that the blogosphere directly confronts the phenomenon of the Anglo-American power elite and its attempts to create one-world government without ever admitting that it is doing so. The emphasis on Western and even world control by a small monetary elite differentiates the alternative media from the mainstream, which is under control of money power itself. In essence, money power and the media elites are one in the same. Mainstream reporting is thus not in a position to report honestly; that's not what they are about. They are similar in nature to the Federal Reserve, which states one of their pirmary objectives to be controlling inflation when in fact THEY CREATE IT.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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A World Beyond Borders -- Character Assassination of Julian Assange

'Much of what passes for valid knowledge becomes simply the individual’s unconscious acceptance of the dominant view. Knowledge generated and indoctrinated into each individual now becomes the moral compass that guides their actions. In the age prior to the time of ubiquitous internet communication, the gate was tightly governed. It was like the eye of a needle that very few could get through to participate in unfolding perception. What those in power absolutely fear is a collapse of the projections that guard the system of expert knowledge, which has replaced individual capacity to listen to ones own conscience. They are afraid of people marching side by side with those individuals who refuse to carry the given script and instead create their own and walk through the gate of the future on their own terms. What WikiLeaks has done is lifted up the perception of the masses that up to now has been governed by illegitimate authority of ‘expert’ knowledge.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Stanford -- Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee

'Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Al Jazeera Transparency Unit

'From human rights to poverty to official corruption, AJTU will fairly evaluate and pursue all leads and content submitted, without geographical, political, cultural, or religious bias. -- Al Jazeera has gone to great lengths to ensure your submissions are kept safe. All materials are encrypted while they are transmitted to us, and they remain encrypted on our servers. Submissions can only be accessed by Al Jazeera Transparency Unit journalists using a secure terminal. Additionally, we highly recommend that you encrypt your files using PGP encryption software with our Public Key. This will guarantee Al Jazeera Transparency Unit will be the only party allowed to view the submitted files. We also recommend that you use the Tor network to add an extra layer of security.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Balkan Leaks

'Dear friends, Following the example of the whistleblowers site Wikileaks we opened this site to promote transparency and fight the nexus of organized crime and political corruption in the Balkan states. We are deeply convinced that we're not alone in this battle. There are plenty of people out there that want to change the Balkans for good and are ready to take on the challenge. We're offering them a hand. If you have any confidential documents related to political, criminal or financial topics and you want to share them with the press in a secure, anonymous way, you can use our secured and encrypted upload server. We will review the documents and publish them after checking the information.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Operation Leakspin

'To improve the quality of the reports, we have chosen to introduce a concept of 'crowd-journalism' as a subform of crowdsourcing. -- This is Operation Leakspin. We believe that all the information provided by the leaked cables should be out in the open for the public to read, discuss, and most of all, understand. We will use as much manpower as possible to make the information found in the cables available to the public. We will speed up the process of uncovering, we will release facts that the media didn’t speak about, and we will summarize the diplomatic leaks into chunks that everybody can understand. The war against censorship should be fought, not only by attacking businesses facilitating it but by actively releasing all the information that can be released, to all the people it can be released to. We are against censorship, and this is how we prove it. This is what Operation Leakspin is about.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Farmann Magazine -- Transcript of interview with Julian Assange (April 26. 2010)

JA: 'If you control the present, you control history and then you control all the decisions that are made based on history. What I said before is that political parties, philosophies, all limited by what is our intellectual heritage. What is the historical record. If you control the historical record, you are in control, you control what decisions can be made. If you do not know about something, you can not make an accurate decision. So that is extremely worrying, that in fact the Internet is the easiest thing in the world to control. -- ...people have been censored, and they do not reveal that they are censored. The reason that they do not reveal that they are censored is because it reveals to the readership that it has been been betrayed. So the censorship is being self censored. -- We are going to get harmonization. Question is; is it going to be the walls of China, is it going to be the Swedish press freedom act? Is it going to be an Internet full of black lists?'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Inflation Doesn't Exist?

'Reuters is a media arm of the power elite and the stories that this mighty corporation disseminates tend to reinforce the power elite's various dominant and sub dominant social themes. The article reinforces [the] meme that "society" may exist extant of human beings. In other words, that there is some mysterious unseen force called "society" that regulates people's behavior and that people are beholden too. ...human action shows us quite clearly that individuals make the decisions in this world and pursue their enlightened self interest as best they can. (Is it a fiercely debated point? It ought not to be.) If there is a society that people relate to, it is not more than perhaps 150 people at most.. Certainly there is no such thing as a "nation" (though people may identify with larger groups with similar tribal characteristics.) Even less is there a global government that people will "belong" too. These are elite fictions, fear-based promotions.' -- There is no such *thing* as society

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Salvaging of Mainstream Media

'It is interesting to watch loss-making publications in fact because one can soon guess which are the really critical ones and which are not. ...the three methodologies [assimilation, app-ification/obsfucation, censorship] will over time grant the elite-dominated mainstream media increasing penetration of the Internet. But in the case of the Gutenberg press, elite publishing dominance took about 400 years from what we can see. Now the Internet, from our point of view, has had a significant impact in 25 years; whereas it took the Gutenberg press about 100 years to generate the same. This means, if one can argue parallel timelines, that it will take at least a century for the elite to dominate and control the Internet. And in the meantime, we would look for considerable societal changes to take place. The Gutenberg press, after all, spawned both the Renaissance and the Reformation from what we can tell. These large communication revolutions can make existing society extremely unstable.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Why Government Is Necessary for Prosperity

'Societies need narratives. As free-market Austrian arguments increasingly take center-stage, as arguments against the horrible destructiveness of central banking become increasingly convincing, we watch the elite grope for effective countermeasures. This is indeed a testament to how the Anglo-American elite functions, using a variety of idea-intensive narratives to justify its authoritarian structures. This is also why elite promotions are having so much trouble in the 21st century. The Internet has allowed people to examine the promotions in detail and to do so within the context of manifold viewpoints. We would anticipate additional attempts to reintegrate government oversight with free-markets if we are correct about this developing promotion. If the elite cannot discover a convincing narrative to justify, say, central banking, then it is inevitable that modern systems of finance will come under serious attack.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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WSJ -- JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater: The Animated Version

'“Soon, for TV, animation will be as standard as a color picture on a newspaper’s front page,” Mark Simon, commercial director at NextMedia, said. “It does drive the ‘ivory tower old-school journalism professors nuts that the one Asian news medium now penetrating the West is animation.” Simon said that the animated clips run on Apple Daily’s site, which is now averaging four million video views per day. “But in Hong Kong, every single TV station is now undertaking some form of animation. No secret, a response to us,” Simon said. NMA’s site boasts of its “lightning-fast” turnarounds or less than three hours for animated news features, meaning that its animators can get a story out in the time it takes to watch the entire “Toy Story” series. “Our production methods are unique. ‘Make deadline, not art,’ as one of our executives says,” Simon said. “It is also extremely important that we are part of a news group, our folks know how to make deadline and stay to a schedule.”'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Next Media

'Next Media publications are also known for highly academic articles which attract a wide range of readers, including critics. Next Media has often taken a clear and sometimes proactive support for democratic groups in Hong Kong. Some companies with ties to the government of China never advertise in any papers or magazines owned by Next Media. The bold style of journalism seems to trigger constant troubles with the triads with incidents of criminal damages at the offices of Next Media. Apple Daily and its parent company Next Media are thought to be pioneer of paparazzi and yellow Journalism in Hong Kong.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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CNN -- The blurry lines of animated 'news'

'Welcome to billionaire Jimmy Lai's newest gamble: Animated news. When news agencies didn't have footage of scenes from the car crash involving Tiger Woods, Lai's team raced to put together animation dramatizing the incident, garnering hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. The end product drew derision, with critics saying there's a credibility gap because the animated features mix real news footage with dramatizations of often unverified versions of events. Every day they churn out about 20 reports, often a combination of animation and real video, for the Web sites of Lai's Apple Daily newspapers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. "You have a lot of missing images, in the TV, in the news reporting," Lai said. "If this is an image generation or image era that we are in, that is a big gap we are filling."'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition's Channel

'Animation and Animated News, Made in Taiwan.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Philosophy, Politics and Economics

'Philosophy, Politics and Economics (abbreviated to PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate degree. The design of the programme emanates from the view that to understand social phenomena one must approach them from several complementary disciplinary directions and analytical frameworks. In this regard, the study of Philosophy is considered important because it both equips students with meta-tools such as the ability to reason rigorously and logically, and facilitates ethical reflection. The study of Politics is considered necessary because it acquaints students with the authoritative structures that govern society and help solve collective action problems. Finally, studying Economics is seen as vital in the modern world because political decisions often concern economic matters, and government decisions are often influenced by economic events. -- PPE at Oxford has traditionally been a degree read by those seeking a career in politics, public life and journalism.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Last Psychiatrist -- If I've Won Cronkite, I've Won America

'There's a lot written about the causes of the failings of the Froth Estate: beholden to ratings, a dumbed down America, having to compete with other media, but I submit a slightly different cause: there's too many of them. ...there are news outlets everywhere, all competing with each other-- hence the focus isn't truth but survival, and survival means more boob pictures and a willingness to play by the government's rules because if they cut you off, you're done. There's an even worse factor in play: the multitude of news outlets makes you think they're all checking on each other, that even if one gets it wrong the other 19 won't. But most are getting their story from the same single source, the AP. "So where do we go for objective news?" I don't think that's the question, because the market requests it, and the way to get the market to request it is for all of us to be aware of the tricks and manipulations of media.' -- Level up to meta.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tyndall Report -- American TV Networks Grapple with Stateless WikiLeaks.org

'...this was the problem the network nightly newscasts had with Assange and his scoop-—not the quality of his information but his indifference to the security of this nation. The domestic debate between supporters and opponents of the war in Afghanistan can always be framed as a debate over what is in the best interest of the United States. Assange's intervention cannot be covered that way—nor can it be covered as an intervention on behalf of an ally nor of an adversary nor of Afghanistan itself. WikiLeaks.org exists outside of the category of making nations secure or insecure. ...what really rattles the American news media about the independence of WikiLeaks.org ... is not its opposition to the US war effort in Afghanistan—but the site's baffled indifference to the entire notion of national security as a category.' -- Let's get Mikey! Mikey will read it; he'll read anything. Mikey likes it—he likes it!

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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PressThink -- The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

'Glenn Thrush, Politico.com: "The [MSM] editors couldn’t verify the source of the reports ... so they were basically left with proving veracity through official sources and picking through the pile for the bits that seemed to be the most truthful." Notice how effective this combination is. The information is released in two forms: vetted and narrated to gain old media cred, and released online in full text, Internet-style, which corrects for any timidity or blind spot the editors may show. -- From an editor’s note: “At the request of the White House, The Times also urged WikiLeaks to withhold any harmful material from its Web site.” There’s the new balance of power, right there. In the revised picture we find the state, which holds the secrets but is powerless to prevent their release; the stateless news organization, deciding how to release them; and the national newspaper in the middle, negotiating the terms of legitimacy between these two actors.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Observer -- Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle

'When Julian Assange burst on to the world stage last week, people grappled to make sense of him, of WikiLeaks, of the new hybrid formed by old media – the Guardian, the New York Times, Der Spiegel – co-operating with a radical, activist, very new media, what the New Yorker described as less an organisation, more "a media insurgency".' -- (I read a commenter elsewhere describe this as the MSM doing free marketing for WikiLeaks. That that's their 'role' now. Ideological salesmen, selected to propagate appropriate leaks.) -- 'David Leigh describes Assange as "a mendicant friar of the electronic age". Like his organisation, he is global and rootless. Assange might be an arresting figure and WikiLeaks an extraordinary organisation, but they are manifestations of a phenomenon not its root cause. "He's a function of technological change. It's because the technology exists to create these enormous databases, and because it exists it can be leaked. And if it can be leaked, it will be leaked."'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Rap News: INTERNET: Leaks and Kill Switches

That last verse. Dude is the new KRS-ONE: http://youtu.be/iepqptjVwD4 -- You got dropped off the net cause the news you wrote was WACK!

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Computerworld -- Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place

'The embargo period is a key part of the plan, Assange said. When Wikileaks releases material without writing its own story or finding people who will, it gains little attention. "It's counterintuitive," he said. "You'd think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on but that's absolutely not true. It's about supply and demand. Zero supply equals high demand, it has value. As soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero."'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Alex Jones TV: John Young [Cryptome]: Wikileaks War Logs Show Global Intelligence Facade Of 'War On Terror' 1/2

Young: "[Wikileaks] needed the cover of these major newspapers for this data because they didn't have the confidence to go out on their own as they usually do. Once you get this kind of coverage in major newspapers, it's very hard to get people to go back and look at the original documents, which were tedious and hard to read, so the newspaper version starts to prevail and it gets a life of its own."

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Nieman Journalism Lab -- Ushahidi in 3G: How media outlets could extend the mapping platform beyond crisis communications

'“Unbounded crowdsourcing” is what we are familiar with: the idea of opening up a platform to the world, and letting the world contribute. “Bounded crowdsourcing” is when you have a specific network of individuals who are doing the reporting. So it’s a known, trusted network of individuals. So what they did is they had their own journalists on the ground, who were texting and tweeting live to the map, but they also opened it up to other residents — people in Gaza — to also submit information. ...you don’t necessarily know whether the crowd is trustworthy, or individuals in the crowd are trustworthy ...if some of these individuals start also reporting the same event that the journalists are reporting, then you know they might actually be more trustworthy. And so it creates this kind of digital trace, or like a shadow of history that allows you to start identifying which individuals in the crowd may actually be trustworthy. And you can sort of assign them a higher credibility score.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- TED: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

'The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- Can Robots Run the News?

'...to compile articles that follow one of the system’s pre-defined narrative arcs.' -- Efficiency savings at the Ministry of Truth

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Ushahidi

'Ushahidi [software] uses the concept of crowdsourcing for social activism and public accountability, serving as an initial model for what has been coined as 'activist mapping' - the combination of social activism, citizen journalism and geospatial information. Ushahidi provides a mechanism for local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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The New Yorker -- No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency

'“I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.” Assange, despite his claims to scientific journalism, emphasized to me that his mission is to expose injustice, not to provide an even-handed record of events. In an invitation to potential collaborators in 2006, he wrote, “Our primary targets are those highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia and Central Eurasia, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the West who wish to reveal illegal or immoral behavior in their own governments and corporations.”'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mother Jones -- Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory

'Assange says WikiLeaks balances its obligation to publish as much as possible with a sense of responsibility. While anyone can submit a document to WikiLeaks, leakers cannot publish or comment on their submissions. Before being posted, submissions are vetted by Assange and four other reviewers whose identities he will not reveal. Each has an area of expertise, such as programming or language skills. If the submission's source is known, the group investigates the leaker as best they can. Who gets the final call in a dispute? "Me, actually," Assange says. "I'm the final decision if the document is legit."'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Cryptome -- BBC Interviews Cryptome

BBC: What do you think is wrong with Wikileaks? Cryptome: It needs to be supplemented with many more outlets for prohibited information to reduce the likelihood Wikileaks and other outlets will be targeted for takedown, co-opted by the authorities or become distrusted by orchestrated leaks to it by its opponents of contaminated information—a common means and methods of authorities. A single outlet cannot endure and provides an easy target for the opposition. BBC: What do you think about the future of whistleblowing like that of Wikileaks? Cryptome: It is a very valuable step in the right direction but more outlets are needed that do not require secrecy and confidentiality of their operation—these practices mirror those of authorities. Attention should be paid to the multitude of transparent sources of information to diminish the misleading allure of confidential leaks. Leaks need capacious context from open sources to understand and judge their significance. Alone they are treacherous.

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Wikileaks on the BBC Culture Show (January 2010)

'Jacques Peretti looks into Wikileaks, the anonymous whistle-blowing internet site. Features an interview with John Young of Cryptome and Julian Assange of Wikileaks' -- Young: "We need multiple wikileaks. It's dangerous to have only one or two."

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: Wikileaks co-founder speaks to Alyona

'They promised to unveil damning video of U.S. forces killing innocent people in Iraq. Today, Wikileaks made good on that promise at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. The video includes footage of an American military helicopter engaging and killing a number of people in an Iraqi Square, including two Reuters journalists. Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks joins Alyona in this exclusive interview.' -- "This is an attack on one of our own. This is an attack on journalists trying to get the truth out. For the other people, these are the nameless dead. They all have stories, we don't know what they are."

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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True/Slant -- Barrett Brown: Wikileaks Press Conference; Mankind Decides His Future, One Eye Open

'Certain matters that end up in the history books by virtue of their significant effect on human society also tend not to receive adequate public attention at such time as the history in question is being made. There are legitimate reasons for this to be so: it is easier to look back upon the truth than to figure it out as it happens, there being a lag between each day’s collected occurrences and one’s chance to learn of and evaluate them. But of course one may easily look back upon the months and years and identify some developing trend or other formless and dateless but nonetheless crucial matter; the extent to which man proceeds unthinkingly through an age of unprecedented potential for both good and ill is due in large part to the structural problems that exist within the media...'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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New Media Days -- Wikileaks: The Subtle Roar of Online Whistle-Blowing (Video)

'Speaker: JULIAN ASSANGE -- When governments and businesses cannot handle the truth, Wikileaks helps you blow the whistle and takes the heat. An open platform for the anonymous publishing of compromising documents; according to Time Magazine, Wikileaks could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act. Honorable analogy for sure, but one earned at the expense of powerful players like Sarah Palin, Kaupthing Bank and lately, with the controversial book Jaeger, the Danish Ministry of Defense. Praised for its democratic devotion and threatened by the shadier powers that be, each day is a victory for Wikileaks.' -- Assange, dry joke(?): "People have suggested that we should set up fronts: a wikileaks for America and a wikileaks for China – then they can cross-subsidize."

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Alex Jones Inside CNN Attack Piece 1/2

'In this important interview attempting to link the Patriot movement and the Tea Parties with "violence", Alex Jones shows us what goes on behind the scenes of the CNN attack piece apparently set on demonizing tea parties and pro-Constitutional movements as "violent". Alex instantly recognizes the attempt to demonize him personally, as well as to discredit other grassroots political movements by the tone of the producers questions. The interview, filmed on Friday, was set-up by Anderson Cooper's producers, but so far hasn't aired. Was Alex too controversial, or will excerpts of the footage be used in a future segment?' -- Part 2. Woah! That'll never air. But then again, it just did – kinda.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Nobel Winner Stiglitz Calls Fed Corrupt

'Given the Fed's problems, Stiglitz's comments might look to some as "piling on." Perhaps they are. They also fit a pattern whereby various power elite insiders reconfigure the public conversation based on public sentiment and the nature of the rhetoric. Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV network may be the most obvious example of (what we consider) this sort of manipulation. Through the auspices of various commentators, the network has dramatically shifted toward conservative and even libertarian rhetoric as the free-market sentiment in the United States has become more evident and popular. This is not necessarily extraordinarily clever or subtle, but in a pre-Internet era it was not especially obvious. In a post-Internet era it is far more obvious because there are more discussions about it and because the shifts have been so rapid and pronounced. This is in fact how savvy observers of the marketplace can determine the sentiment of the culture and the level of power-elite paranoia.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Nieman Journalism Lab -- Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers

'Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an “offshore publishing center” for free speech, analogous to the offshore financial havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities. Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets? Daniel Schmitt of Wikileaks termed the idea “a Switzerland of bits.” -- “The main purpose is to prevent something like our financial crisis from taking place again,” said member of parliament Lilja Mósesdóttir, noting that Iceland’s financiers had great influence over the Icelandic media. “They were manipulating the news.”' -- (Talk about unintended consequences.)

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Adam Curtis: Richard Nixon

"This is a film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon. Just like him, we've all become paranoid weirdos. It's the story of how television and newspapers did this to us and how it has paralyzed the ability of politics to transform the world for the better."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Fed Threatens Congress Again?

'There are certain areas that the mainstream press simply cannot go. The largest mainstream editorial entities simply cannot report with any great negativity on central banking, given that central banking money manipulation funds many of the power elite's promotional campaigns. -- The power elite may see a series of crises to overcome, but in fact the crises will not end because they are part of a communicative process that is attacking the fundamental structures of societies. This is a perception that even the alternative press finds hard to absorb. But history seems to show us that this is the case. Bernanke may be reappointed, but his problems in our estimation will only increase. The push back will only grow stronger. From our perspective it is truly aimed at the meme of central banking itself.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- WSJ Again Confused About Freedom

'It is articles such as this one that make our case for how difficult it is for the mainstream press to retain credibility in an Internet era. America was founded as a republic not a democracy. There are very few countries that would be considered even minimally free by the American Constitutional forefathers. Certainly the countries that this survey doubtless classifies as free - European countries as well as America - are places where citizens pay up to half of their income in taxes and see the rest eroded by central banking monetary mismanagement. America especially with its overlay of civil rights violations as a result of the war on terror - warrantless wiretapping and no-fly lists, etc. - is losing freedoms at a rapid rate. None of this is discussed in this little squib of an article, nor even alluded to. But nonetheless, it appeared online prominently as a WSJ opinion-piece and thus has contributed a little more to the erosion of WSJ credibility.' -- Hehe

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: CrossTalk on Media: Brainwash, Bias, Agenda

What flavour your propaganda? State flavour? Soros flavour? Iliberal Liberal with a dash of Hipster flavour? Environmentalism flavour *SPECIAL OFFER HALF PRICE*? Godless Heathens! flavour? Irrational Nationalism flavour? Anti-Russia flavour with bitter Anti-China aftertaste? How about Neo-Con flavour with *FREE Soldier Toy (Made In China)*? You can't go wrong with Classic Fear flavour. BBC (Big Brother Cock-snot) flavour, perhaps?

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- Russia Today launches first UK ad blitz

'They are appearing in newspapers and on posters alongside major roads in Britain. There is Barack Obama's head, on it superimposed the image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's leader. The slogan reads: "Who poses the greatest nuclear threat?" For many people the answer is clear – after all, Obama hasn't so far called for Israel to "vanish from the page of time". But for the Kremlin the Obama image is the latest step in an ambitious attempt to create a new post-Soviet global propaganda empire. Two decades after the demise of Pravda, the Kremlin's 24-hour English language TV channel, Russia Today (RT), is launching its first major advertising blitz across the UK. Dubbed North Korean TV by its detractors, the channel, available on satellite and cable TV, gives an unashamedly pro-Vladimir Putin view of the world, and says it seeks to correct the "biased" western view offered by the BBC and CNN. -- But is anyone actually going to watch it?' -- Yup. I'll even read the Guardian occasionally.

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The Daily Bell -- Murdoch on Journalism and Freedom

'Murdoch's mainstream publications simply cannot tell the truth about the world the way the Internet can and does. The result is that he is bleeding readers. It is very simple, but a terrible conundrum for Murdoch.) Listen to Murdoch and we believe you can get a clear sense of how the power elite (which seems to respect Murdoch and funds him) is going to try to reposition their critical media properties to take back the share of mind that they have lost to the ‘Net. He's going to out-di stribute, out-litigate and out-lobby the blogosphere. But he's not going to out-write it because he can't.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Big 3 TV Ignores Climategate

'Dominant Social Theme: Don't look now! ... We have pointed out in the past that a major way of killing true reporting is to ignore it. This is much different than heavy-handed USSR tactics of "making up" news. The Western way has always been more subtle, at least in the 20th century. Not so sure about the 21st because of the Internet. -- Conclusion: And what do we have today, after more than a century of news "improvement?" After 100 years of turning news gathering into a profession, of setting the "highest standards," of ensuring as much as humanly possible that all forms of bias were excommunicated from the news rooms? ... Why we have America's major networks NOT COVERING THE SCIENTIFIC STORY OF THE DECADE FOR A FULL TWO WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST REPORTS. Kind of makes you wonder where all the improvement's gone, huh? Unless it's on purpose ... Ya think?'

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The Daily Bell -- Fed: From Blowing Bubbles to Popping Them?

'How is Rupert Murdoch going to build serious media companies in the age of the Internet when his flagship publication continues to promote these sorts of dishonest dominant social themes? The Federal Reserve is the producer of the money that creates these bubbles. Many people in America and throughout the West now understand at least partially the mechanism behind central banking. When a long article about the basics of modern economics is produced in the most serious and powerful mainstream financial journal in the world, and when the article itself leaves out so much and explains the rest in a wrong-headed way, well how long does it take before that journal begins to bleed credibility?' -- Please somebody start an internet newspaper called 'The Cognitive Surplus'.

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BMI -- Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

'In all, the print news media have warned of four separate climate changes in slightly more than 100 years – global cooling, warming, cooling again, and, perhaps not so finally, warming. What can one conclude from 110 years of conflicting climate coverage except that the weather changes and the media are just as capricious? Certainly, their record speaks for itself. Four separate and distinct climate theories targeted at a public taught to believe the news. Only all four versions of the truth can’t possibly be accurate. For ordinary Americans to judge the media’s version of current events about global warming, it is necessary to admit that journalists have misrepresented the story three other times. Yet no one in the media is owning up to that fact. Newspapers .. now find themselves facing a historical record that is enormous and unforgiving. It is time for the news media to admit a consistent failure to report this issue fairly or accurately, with due skepticism of scientific claims.'

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Mediactive -- Toward a Slow-News Movement

'Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of what journalists call “breaking news” into the categories of gossip or, in the words of a scientist friend, “interesting if true.” That is, even though I gobble up “the latest” from a variety of sources, the closer the information is in time to the actual event, the more I assume it’s unreliable if not false. It’s my own version of “slow news”. ...the advent of 1,440 minute news cycle (should we call it the 86,400 second news cycle?), which brings with it an insatiable appetite for something new to talk about, should literally give us pause. Again and again, we’ve seen that initial assumptions can be grossly untrustworthy. ...Clay Shirky (also a friend) observed recently — in a Tweet, no less — that “fact-checking is way down, and after-the-fact checking is way WAY up.”'

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TechCrunch -- NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

Rubbernecking 2.0 -- 'Moore’s [tweeted] coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires. There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too. -- ... the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – “look at me looking at this.” I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference. And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something...' -- On Neda Agha Soltan's death: '...the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”'

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The Daily Star -- The future of facts: laboring to ensure our intellectual integrity

'...fact-checking is the single best training not just for journalism, but for life in general. It teaches you to think skeptically. It is easy to believe something when someone who appears knowledgeable asserts it. But if you have a responsibility for checking facts, you listen more carefully. Of course, spin, propaganda and censorship persist in journalism, but with one big difference: almost anyone can now operate as a reporter. How can we ensure that these self-nominated reporters respect the truth? ...in the end, everyone has to become a better reader – more skeptical and more curious. ...in this increasingly confusing world, we need to spend a little more time laboring to ensure our own intellectual integrity – a task that we cannot outsource to governments or even to media. Facts are holy, but not all media that claim to report them, “new” or old, can be trusted.'

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naked capitalism -- MSM Reporting as Propaganda (No One Minds Our New Financial Masters Edition)

'[The] “you are in a minority, you are wrong” message DOES dissuade a lot of people. It is remarkably poisonous. And it discourages people from taking concrete action.' -- Comment: craazyman: "The issues of central banking, credit, regulation and capital ratios are so esoteric and so remote that few Americans can really build a world view around them. Not out of lack of intelligence but simply because it’s a completely foreign language. There is nothing in this crisis to grab on to — intellectually and ideologically — for most people. Just a stewing frustrated rage that something isn’t right with the big picture. There’s no center, no point of communal traction that could be sloganeered into a reference point to rally around. And so people acquiesce to a state of affairs that they know is messed up, but they don’t know quite why or what to do about it – other than tune out the morons on TV and try to survive the night in the jungle." -- Blurtman: "The Depression Will Not Be Televised."

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Wired.com -- Newsy: The News Is Broken, But We Can Fix It

Newsy [creates] short video clips with their own reporters highlighting how various sources reported the same news item. The sources comprise a gamut of news organizations and blogs around the world, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ABC, The New York Times and Fox News. The service’s core demographic is presumably adventurous news junkies who think they can gain a better understanding of what they may already think they know well by seeing it though a different prism. -- “The media is losing credibility in peoples’ minds, and one of the reasons [for that] is this myth that people are only interested in hearing their version of the story. We are interested in hitting what I consider to be the larger percentage of the population, who understand that we live in a global marketplace…. The person who is paying attention to [the news] on a global basis and is paying attention to multiple sources and multiple perspectives will probably have a competitive advantage over the person who isn’t.”'

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zero hedge -- An Open Letter To The Financial Media

#1. Anonymous speech is not a crime. #3. The era of personality-centric media needs to end- quickly, and (hopefully) painfully. Your shrill cries of "coward" in the face of anonymous or pseudonymous authors somehow implies that narcissism is equivalent to bravery. #4. You can't fight a dead model. It is not our fault or our problem that your business model is dead. We didn't kill it. You did. You killed it when you hired an audio producer to dub in dramatic music in times of financial crisis. You killed it when you started paying someone six-figures to create eye-catching graphics. Every dollar you spent on this nonsense was a dollar you took away from the newsroom. Is it any wonder that reporters at the Wall Street Journal are paid shameful trifles while "the talent" (for the unwashed, we mean the TV anchors) rival investment banking paychecks? -- ...you have hauled your audience down with you into the blackness of personality-dependence addiction.'

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Matt Taibbi -- In Defense of Zero Hedge

'I’m always suspicious when I see articles about the motivations of journalists. I think they often reflect a misunderstanding of what journalism is all about. Journalists are supposed to be assholes. The system does not work, in fact, if society’s journalists are all nice, kind, friendly, rational people. You want a good percentage of them to be inconsolably crazy. You want them to be jealous of everything and everyone and to have heaps of personal hangups and flaws. That way they will always be motivated to punch holes in things. -- The only thing that matters with a guy like Zero Hedge is, is he right or not? -- I know at most commercial news organizations reporters are told that the public has no appetite for complex issues, and that material has to be dumbed down for presentation to the public. Zero Hedge went 10,000% in the opposite direction and became a huge hit. Readers, it turns out, are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.'

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YouTube -- How The World Works: National Journalism is Dead

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

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The Last Psychiatrist -- This Onion Clip Is Hilarious; Now Let Me Tell You Why It's Scary

'The news doesn't just influence our values. It changes the way we think so that certain values become inevitable.' -- Comment: Joseph Bergevin: "I agree that our reality is one of convenience more than comprehension, but I don't see a way around this. People don't care about truth, they care about other people. If an effort or cost doesn't advance their esteem with others, most people don't see its value. You just can't make them care about things they don't - only sell it in terms of what they do."

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Wikipedia -- Pack journalism

'Pack journalism is an often derogatory term used to describe the tendency of news reporting to become homogeneous. Pack journalism occurs because the reporters often rely on one another for news tips or are all similarly dependent on a single source for access (which is often the very person they are covering). A type of groupthink occurs, as the journalists are constantly aware of what the others are reporting and an informal consensus emerges on what is newsworthy.'

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The Atlantic Online -- The Story Behind the Story by Mark Bowden

'With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition ... [the] goal is not to educate the public but to win. -- ...speaking wholly for himself, without fear or favor. This is what gives reporters the power to stir up trouble wherever they go. They can shake preconceptions and poke holes in presumption. They can celebrate the unnoticed and puncture the hyped. They can, as the old saying goes, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. The honest, disinterested voice of a true journalist carries an authority that no self-branded liberal or conservative can have. Journalism, done right, is enormously powerful precisely because it does not seek power. It seeks truth. Those who forsake it to shill for a product or a candidate or a party or an ideology diminish their own power.'

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The Wall Street Examiner -- Forbes Polls the Wackosphere and Gets An Earful

'The media is fond of saying that no one in the mainstream saw this coming except Roubini. How stupid is this? The media is the sole decision maker about who we get to pay attention to. If they feature only liars and fools, then of course it will seem that no one saw this coming. And they feature almost entirely liars, fools, and criminal manipulators. Let’s consider who got this right in addition to Roubini. [A long list of truthers] Why did we almost never see these guys on the tube or in print. And why, when we did see them, was the usual purpose to ridicule and harass them? Because the media was and is a co-conspirator, witting or unwitting, with the Wall Street criminal distribution machine. The media is populated by conformist morons, too fat and lazy, too coddled by their Wall Street sponsors to be bothered by anything so mundane as to search for the truth. Only the mainstream infomercial media didn’t get it, because they are, after all, on the payroll of the Wall Street Mob.'

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Newsless -- The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get

'As long as the news is structured solely around what just happened, journalists are going to be fighting a rough battle. With a latest-news-only approach, we stoke demand for journalism by trying to snag people’s attention with each new development. There’s another way, one that leads to a more informed and more loyal public, and allows us to do better work. It involves: #Enlarging the market for journalism by making it easier for more people to understand the longstanding facts behind each story. #Increasing the appeal of journalism by letting folks in on the details of our quest to uncover the truth. #Expanding the appetite for journalism by explaining what we don’t know, and what we’re working to find out. -- As news consumers, we should be demanding these things as well. After all, right now we’re only getting the lamest part of the story.' -- What? Who? When? Where? How? and Why?

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Salon -- The media can't handle the truth

Never trust the political opinion of someone in debt or with a stock market gambling problem -- '...here's the big thing about "mainstream" journalism... Upton Sinclair said it best: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." ...the safest place during a stampede is the middle of the herd. Establishment journalists with mortgages, car payments and children in private schools saw what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Why couldn't it happen to them? The United States had been attacked. Feelings ran high, especially in New York and Washington. -- Long under siege for "liberal bias," media careerists now find themselves confronted with people they see as passionate amateurs. But what's really driving these jokers up the wall is economic and intellectual competition from the Internet: people with first-class minds and a passion for truth that some of them can barely remember.'

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Wikipedia -- Corrupted Blood incident

'The Corrupted Blood incident was a widely reported virtual plague outbreak and video game glitch found in World of Warcraft. The plague began when an area was introduced in a new update. One boss could cast a spell called Corrupted Blood, which would deal a certain amount of damage over a period of time and which could be transferred from character to character. It was intended to be exclusive to this area, but players discovered ways to take it out, causing an epidemic across several servers. During the epidemic, some players would help combat the disease by volunteering healing services, while select others would maliciously spread the disease. - One aspect of the epidemic that was not considered by epidemiologists in their models was curiosity, describing how players would rush into infected areas to witness the infection and then rush out. This was paralleled to real-world behavior, specifically with how journalists would rush toward a problem to cover it, and then rush back out.'

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Psychology Today -- Why Most Journalists Are Democrats: A View from the Soviet Socialist Trenches

'"Journalism, like social work, tends to attract individuals with a keen interest in bettering the world.” In other words, journalists self-select based on a desire to help others. Socialism, with its “spread the wealth” mentality intended to help society’s underdogs, sounds ideal. Most journalists take a number of psychology, sociology, political science, and humanities courses during their early years in college. Unfortunately, these courses have long served as ideological training programs—ignoring biological sources of self-serving, corrupt, and criminal behavior for a number of reasons, including lack of scientific training; postmodern, antiscience bias; and well-intentioned, facts-be-damned desire to have their students view the world from an egalitarian perspective. Instead, these disciplines ram home the idea that troubled behavior can be fixed through expensive socialist programs that, coincidentally, provide employment opportunities for graduates of the social sciences.'

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Everything is Miscellaneous -- Transparency is the new objectivity

'Transparency gives the reader information by which she can undo some of the unintended effects of the ever-present biases. Transparency brings us to reliability the way objectivity used to. Transparency prospers in a linked medium, for you can literally see the connections between the final draft’s claims and the ideas that informed it. Paper, on the other hand, sucks at links. At the edges of knowledge — in the analysis and contextualization that journalists nowadays tell us is their real value — we want, need, can have, and expect transparency. Transparency puts within the report itself a way for us to see what assumptions and values may have shaped it, and lets us see the arguments that the report resolved one way and not another. Transparency — the embedded ability to see through the published draft — often gives us more reason to believe a report than the claim of objectivity did. Objectivity without transparency increasingly will look like arrogance. And then foolishness.'

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Mashable -- Is Crowdfunding the Future of Journalism?

'Spot.us has four types of reporting, with costs and deadlines for fundraising and reporting tied to each. For example, one investigative pitch currently active on the site seeks to raise $6,000 to send freelance writer Lindsey Hoshaw to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a mass of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that’s twice the size of Texas. -- Spot.us, pitches get funded before the reporting starts. Individual donors can contribute up to 20% of the cost. Only news organizations can donate more than 20% of a pitch. They can also fund up to 50% of the freelancer’s salary upfront, and Spot.us can work to raise the other 50%. If a news organization raises 50%, it can temporarily copyright the story until 51% is raised through community donations. If news organizations fund 100%, they get exclusive rights and donations are reimbursed, but all content is eventually available via a Creative Commons license.' -- Exploitable

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Cato Unbound -- Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval

'The logic of the Internet, a medium that is natively good at helping groups communicate at vanishingly low cost, is that the act of forming a public has become something the public is increasingly doing for itself, rather than needing to wait for a publication (note the root) to do it for them. More publics will form, they will be smaller, shorter-lived, and less geographically contiguous, and they will overlap more than the previous era’s larger, more rooted, more stable publics. -- ...automation, syndication, parallel effort, and decentralization will increasingly characterize successful new models of journalism.'

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Wired UK -- The unstoppable Google

'“The internet was not designed to be a disruption-free zone. The internet was designed to connect the world. In every industry it’s touched, it’s done that.” -- He is, however, optimistic that the traditional news business can be saved. “It will certainly be saved, but it will be in a somewhat different form. The fundamental problem is the news industry has this strange bargain where the traditional print ads and classifieds paid for investigative reporting, which was highly valuable and very expensive. But it’s very hard to advertise against ‘murderer’ or ‘war’.” He laughs. “So it’s a funny kind of packaging problem."'

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Little Atoms -- Adam Curtis Interview (cont.)

'Most journalists have run out of knowing what's going on in the world. And they have embraced this idea of media democracy as a way to disguise that fact. I'm deeply suspicious of it. The whole reason why journalism was invented in the first place is that we have the time, the money, and the power of the organisation to go places, push through doors, find things out, bring it back, and tell you it and allow you to make up your mind about it. ...those who are the promoters of the internet, the boosters, the people who put forward the utopian dream of the internet, and those who basically run silicon valley, are arch individualists, they portray the internet as a playground where every individual can invent their own identity, and it's a new form of democracy without hierarchies of power.' -- On the paradox of the booster dependence on datamining: -- 'it's a completely contradictory view of what human beings are, how they behave, to what these boosters actually portray the internet as.'

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Little Atoms -- Adam Curtis Interview

'What's happened is you had an idea – which in a way was quite an heroic idea – that each individual could be themselves, could express themselves and become better people. In fact, what happened in that process is that you shifted the idea of risk away from institutions and onto the person themselves, and in that process is what people began to do – far from expressing themselves – began to monitor themselves to see whether they are the correct definition of the individual, whether it's in psychology, how they feel and how they behave; and they begin to search for – and are given – ways of monitoring that as individuals, and that paradoxically leads them to trying to become what they think is the right individual, which actually leads to homogeneity... that idea of total expressiveness... it may be breaking up now as we enter an economic crisis and politicians discover they have power, institutions have power, and that's the way to change the world. The idea of the self may change.'

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YouTube -- Adam Curtis Interview: Das Internets 2/2

"What blogging lacks is an enthusiasm for finding out about the world, it has no curiousity, what it actually has is the desire to bully and to shape the world in the way you want it... but it gives people security, you've found your home, here is the part of the internet – and therefore of the world – in which there are people who believe that the Iraq war was all about about oil, over here there are those who believe that actually it was about stopping muslim hordes taking over our culture, and here is the neo-conservative lot who believe it's all about idealism... all these groups are working out how to hold each other up... everyone just establishes their position, the media [inaudible] up, and that's it. -- What marks out all these groups is they're fundamentally negative, they're looking for something to criticise, they don't actually have a political ideal, and what they do is retreat into a simplified – and often very dated – view of the world."

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True/Slant -- Matt Taibbi: On The ‘Everyone Was Doing It’ Excuse

'According to Steven Gandel of Time, the problem with my piece is that it is—get this—too specific. According to the above passage, focusing on Goldman in particular when attempting to explain (in general) the crimes of Wall Street to ordinary readers is somehow a distraction from the “real problem.” I’ve been shocked by how many grown adult people seem to have swallowed this argument, that the argument against Goldman’s behavior during the bubbles of recent decades is invalid because “everyone was doing it”—and other banks, like for instance Morgan Stanley, were “just as bad” as Goldman. Goldman now reigns supreme in the area of insider advantage. To pick any other bank to tell the story of the rapidly growing influence of Wall Street on politics and the blurring of public and private roles would be a glaring journalistic oversight, and surely even Goldman’s biggest supporters would admit this. ...what they didn’t say about this piece is that it was wrong. They didn’t deny any of it.'

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BBC -- Newsnight: Has internet journalism come of age?

"In light of the explosion of citizen journalism in Iran, Jeremy Paxman asks Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Anne McElvoy of the Evening Standard if internet journalism has come of age." -- Really good interview

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True/Slant -- Matt Taibbi: On giving Goldman a chance

'...I did contact Goldman and gave the bank every opportunity to respond to the factual issues in the article. I’m bringing this up because their decision not to comment on any of those questions was actually pretty interesting. ...here is the response that we got: “Your questions are couched in such a way that presupposes the conclusions and suggests the people you spoke with have an agenda or do not fully understand the issues.” That this is a non-denial denial is obvious, but what’s more notable here is that they didn’t stop with just a flat “no comment,” which they easily could have done. No, they had to go a little further than that and — and this is pure Goldman, just outstanding stuff — make it clear that both I and my sources are simply not as smart as they are and don’t understand what we’re talking about. So the rough translation here is, “No comment, but if you were as smart as us, you wouldn’t be asking these questions.”'

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Max Keiser -- If Iraq Was Main Stream Media's Failure, Will Iran Be Social Network Media's Failure?

'"Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual tweeters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Bloggers at several levels who should have been challenging twitterers and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops onto the homepage. Accounts of Iranian protesters were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ousted. Tweets based on dire claims about Iran tended to get prominent homepage display, while follow-up tweets (and on the ground articles) that called the original tweets into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all." -- ...a healthy democracy needs also to have a dispassionate journalism that is able to question the motives of sources....even when that leads to discovery of information that is terribly inconvenient to our own assumptions or to the geo-politcal outcomes we as individuals may desire.'

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The Independent -- Robert Fisk: In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows

"I have been spending at least a third of my working days in Tehran this past week not reporting what might prove to be true but disproving what is clearly untrue. Fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows, but once they are combined and spread with high-speed inaccuracy around the world, they are also lethal. Sham elections, the takeover of party offices, a massacre on a university campus, an imminent coup d'état, the possible overthrow of the whole 30-year old Islamic Republic, the isolation of an entire country as its communications are systematically shut down. We have, in fact, reported all the censorship... The footage of a brutal police force assaulting the political opposition on the streets of the capital has shocked the world. Rightly so, although no one has made comparison with police forces who batter demonstrators on the streets of Western Europe... There are special codes of morality to be applied to Middle East countries which definitely must not apply to us."

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BusinessWeek -- Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet

"Political organizers use these tools because they create a multiplier effect—not only do you get a story about the campaign but then you also get a story about the fact they are using social-networking tools. So you get two stories for the price of one. The international media loves [the] social-networking world. But in India or in Iran, their use is still somewhat limited." -- "There is this romantic notion that the people tweeting are the ones in the streets, but that is not what is happening. The hubs are generally not people on the ground, and many are not in the country." -- "Governments like Iran, Syria, and Egypt are really struggling with how to continue limiting information. No matter how hard these governments try to block communication, now there is always going to be a hole. This really is a case study in how technology can affect closed societies."

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NewsCred Blog -- Twitter Litter: The Benefits and Risks of Contemporary Citizen Journalism

'...we should also be conscious of the journalistic dangers of depending solely on the tweets and blog posts of inexperienced, and oftentimes politically biased, citizens on the ground. In the last 48 hours alone, the internet has been flooded with misinformation about the political turmoil in Iran. I have personally read widely differing accounts on the number of protesters and casualties at demonstrations, the percentage of fraudulent votes, the personal damage inflicted in university dorms etc… While major news sources are pressured into some degree of due diligence and fact checking before publishing information, citizen journalists are not held accountable for their contributions. -- If we cannot find a way to verify citizen reports for factual accuracy, or provide some independent assessments of the quality of news they are disseminating, then the risk is that all citizen reporting from the field will be discredited simply by virtue of it being written by ordinary citizens.'

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NYTimes.com -- Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election

'“...appealed to the media not to use Twitter names because, they say, doing so could put people’s lives in danger.” One of the difficulties of asking us to not identify our anonymous sources is that, given how easy it is to stage hoaxes on Twitter, we have tried to identify those feeds that seem most reliable and we have reason to believe are actually coming to us from inside Iran. In other words we have tried to point only to feeds that have established a reputation for accuracy in the past few days. That said, it is entirely likely that the authorities in Iran may well be monitoring these Twitter feeds themselves and we will refrain from identifying individual feeds from now on.' -- With no verifiable usernames and the spread of Tehran timezone spoofings, it is '...impossible for journalists to trust that any Twitter feeds are in fact coming from inside Iran.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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American Journalism Review -- The Twitter Explosion

#twitter 'Twitter "works best in situations where the story is changing so fast that the mainstream media can't assemble all the facts at once," says Craig Stoltz. "The plane crash, the riot, the political event—these are the kinds of stories where time is important and the facts are scattered." -- In fact, Twitter can be a serious aid in reporting. It can be a living, breathing tip sheet for facts, new sources and story ideas. It can provide instantaneous access to hard-to-reach newsmakers, given that there's no PR person standing between a reporter and a tweet to a government official or corporate executive. It can also be a blunt instrument for crowdsourcing. When a vacant building collapsed in late April, New York Times reporters put out the Twitter equivalent of an APB: "Seeking any eyewitnesses to Lower Manhattan building collapse." Imagine the torrent of data that would have been available to the Times had Twitter been around on the morning of September 11, 2001.' -- 'Twitteur'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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