Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts

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Dear journalists,

It is never sufficient to report the Trump admin’s justifications for its actions without fact-checking.

For example, when they say a foreign student is pro-Hamas (& therefore supports terrorists) and antisemitic, look into the evidence. Because generally there is no evidence supporting those claims.

Protesting the Netanyahu regime’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza does not make one a terrorism supporter or antisemite.

#journo #journalism #NewsBias #npr #nytimes

"American journalism has long operated under the presumption that the stories it produces should be “neutral”. Now, at the LA Times, CEO Patrick Soon-Shiong thinks he can enforce this neutrality by running an AI-based “bias meter” over the paper’s stories. If you remember, in the late stages of the US presidential election, Soon-Shiong blocked the paper from endorsing Kamala Harris. Reports say that the bias meter, due out next month, is meant to identify any bias the story’s source has and then deliver “both sides” of that story.

This is absurd. Few news stories have just two competing sides. A biased source can’t be countered by rewriting the story unless you include more sources and points of view, which means additional research. Most important, AI can’t think.

But readers can. And so what this story says is that Soon-Shiung doesn’t trust either the journalists who work for him or the paper’s readers to draw the conclusions he wants. If he knew more about journalism, he’d know that readers generally don’t adopt opinions just because someone tells them to. The far greater power, I recall reading years ago, lies in determining what readers *think about* by deciding what topics are important enough to cover. There’s bias there, too, but Soon-Shiong’s meter won’t show it."

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/13/loose-ends/

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“Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives” 📺 📰 🗣️ 🌍 #news #WorldNews #USNewsMedia #CNN #IsraelPalestineWar #GazaConflict #NewsBias #MediaBias

CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’ | CNN | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias

[thread] Net neutrality

Bloomberg Treats Telecom Industry-Funded Analysis as News
Op-ed about net neutrality, reported as news, based on white paper funded by 2 industry lobbying groups
https://prospect.org/economy/09-21-2023-verrilli-gershengorn-bloomberg-net-neutrality-fcc

* Donald Verrilli, Ian Gershengorn, Bloomberg Law op-ed
* called on FCC to not restore net neutrality protections
* referred/summarized their white paper: https://aboutblaw.com/bazq

Net neutrality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

#Bloomberg #FCC #disinformation #NetNeutrality #bias #NewsBias

In the new Republican worldview, almost all news is fake

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republican-news-media-poll-trump-rcna83397

#MSNBCOpinion #RepublicanWorldview #FakeNews #TrumpPoll #RepublicanMedia #NewsBias #Politics #News