N-gated Hacker NewsJun 20
🚨 The Financial Times, in a masterclass of irony, tries to discuss Big Tech's role in UK unrest while their own site locks readers out with a 403 error! 🚫 Apparently, the only thing more elusive than their content is finding out why Big Tech is being naughty. 🤷‍♂️
https://www.ft.com/content/0f3e33d2-0b9e-481d-a911-245d8cc01a9c #BigTechIrony #UKUnrest #403Error #MediaCritique #ContentAccess #HackerNews #ngated
Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

Elon Musk’s amplification of anti-immigrant sentiment in Belfast, Southampton and beyond cannot be explained by ideology alone

Financial Times
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 17
Oh, WSJ, you've truly outdone yourselves this time. 😅 Instead of enlightening us about Anthropic's hacker, you've gifted us a riveting game of "404 Page Not Found" with a side of endless menu options. 🤦‍♂️ Bravo on the insight! 🥳
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-mythos-safety-nicholas-carlini-20bceaa3 #WSJfail #AnthropicHacker #404Error #MediaCritique #OnlineJournalism #HackerNews #ngated
Show threadBiohacking PathwayMay 20
#conflictresolution #healing #adulting #mediacritique #onlinecritique #perspective #disagreements #communication #maturity #responsibility #conflictresolution #healing #adulting #mediacritique #onlinecritique #perspective #disagreements #NeuroScience #NeuroDivergent #communication #maturity #responsibility https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116604514834205810
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 16
🚬 "Breaking News: The New York Times discovers the art of truth-telling that isn't. 🧐 Dive into the thrilling world of how to dance around the truth like a seasoned politician, all while pointing fingers at nicotine vapes for problems they didn't cause. But hey, who needs facts when you've got a Pulitzer to chase? 🏆"
https://gwern.net/vaping #BreakingNews #TruthTelling #NicotineVapes #MediaCritique #PulitzerChase #PoliticianDance #HackerNews #ngated
NYT and Vaping: How to Lie By Saying Only True Things

An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 11
📺🎯 Oh, look! A #saga about a single TV shot that James Burke allegedly "nailed"—because if there's anything riveting, it's the precise art of pointing a camera and hitting "record." 🙄 Meanwhile, the article drones on more than the actual scene. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html #TVShot #JamesBurke #CameraArt #MediaCritique #Storytelling #HackerNews #ngated
The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we've all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it 'the greatest shot in television' still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one viewing to notice.

Open Culture
Show threadPepperberryMay 2

Most media debates feel open.
But they’re often structured long before they reach the screen.
This piece looks at how framing, expert selection, and incentives shape what gets discussed — and what doesn’t.
“Freedom of speech exists.
You just have to stay inside the question.”

Essay👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage

#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy

WE DON’T REPORT THE TRUTH: WE MANAGE THE DEBATE.

Media Framing, Expert Selection, and the Architecture of Managed Debate on Canadian Broadcast Media, A Case Study in Curated Consensus

Curmudgeonly Canadian
PepperberryMay 2

We often assume biased media means false information.
More often, it means something subtler:
a narrowing of the conversation itself.

This essay explores how “reasonable” expert panels can produce consensus by defining the problem in advance.
Not by conspiracy —
but by structure.
👇
https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/we-dont-report-the-truth-we-manage

#MediaFraming #ManufacturedConsent #PublicDiscourse #MediaCritique #AgendaSetting #PolicyDebate #LaborShortage #WageDebate #NarrativeControl #CriticalThinking #Journalism #PoliticalEconomy

Egberto WilliesApr 23

Hegseth’s Pulp Fiction Bible Blunder Exposes Deeper Crisis in U.S. Leadership

A Pentagon prayer turns surreal as Pete Hegseth quotes Pulp Fiction as scripture. This moment reveals deeper concerns about leadership, war rhetoric, and political theater.

#Ezekiel2517 #fakeBibleQuote #governmentAccountability #leadershipFailure #MediaCritique #Pentagon #PeteHegseth #politicalAnalysis #progressiveCommentary #PulpFiction #QuentinTarantino #SamuelLJackson #USMilitary #warRhetoric https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oRr
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 21
🚨Breaking: In a shocking twist of #journalism, The Guardian discovers war crimes happen in war zones! 💡 Meanwhile, their website navigation menu is longer than the article itself. But hey, at least they’re expanding their international editions! 🌍👏
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says #BreakingNews #WarCrimes #TheGuardian #MediaCritique #InternationalEditions #HackerNews #ngated
Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says

Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

The Guardian
AlexjanApr 8
«The 'journalistic scene' is a wasteland of misery and desolation. Journalism in general, and the Italian press in particular, is dead and buried.» Matteo Pagani sees a profession slaughtered by clickbait, social media, and fake news. He’s no victim; he’s one of the perpetrators. Read the brutal analysis in Offensive (Chapter 5, Page 25). 🔗 Catalog link in Bio. #Offensive #MediaCritique #ClickbaitCulture #JournalismIsDead #AlexjanCarraturo #NoirArt #books