@Geri
#cpj numbers are lower than #wikipedia's because they don't count "Hamas-affiliated" media outlets (whose employees can be called "combatants" by #hasbara shills with impunity).
As part of my #EoB installation, I've hung 279 #MemorialNameTags for #reporters killed in #Gaza (since they were printed at the beginning of the #CeaseFire we're allegedly in now, the last dozen tags were hand written).

5 more have been killed since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_Gaza_war

https://photos.nandn.org.il/piwigo/index.php?/category/29

#RexPatrick seems to be the only one asking the right questions, persistently. Australian #Reporters and #Journalists would do well to learn from him.

“Of course, there is a small possibility that we are wrong and there is no estimate. Maybe the Minister has told the ASA he won’t ask for one and they shouldn’t generate one.” (Rex Patrick)

Read more
https://michaelwest.com.au/where-are-the-aukus-nuclear-waste-costings-let-alone-the-dump-sites/

#AUKUS #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #ASA

In the past, I’ve had some exposure to big Defence projects and I am reminded that no project is too big to fail and the reality that all projects also have a ‘political life’ use-by-date to take into account.

Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste costings (let alone the dump sites)? - Michael West

Defence has to provide costings for before procurement is approved. Where are the AUKUS nuclear waste disposal costs?

Michael West
Ford speaks to reporters — says he should have given 'why' on jet purchase
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is speaking to reporters on Tuesday about a range of topics, including the recent purchase and planned sale of a plane.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7171666?cmp=rss

It is very clear to me that the news in #Australia (and possibly elsewhere) is compiled and presented by #Reporters only. That is to say, there is no #Journalism involved. No analysis, no critical thinking skills isinvolved and certainly very little, if any, informative reports on which an audiance might rely to form a considered opinion.

E.g. On #ABCNews24, the ‘reporter’ correctly parrotted the words of those opposed to any #GasProfitTax because ‘it would impact adversely Australian relations with its trading partners who rely on the exported gas’. Coming after a torrent of words describing what occured during the Parliamentary Estimate Committee on the matter, the viewer might be forgiven for not taking the time to weight the words and apply some logic: towit, a tax on gas profit does nothing to alter the amount of gas exported, hence no effect on trading partner relationships. Therefore, the #GasLobby is deliberatly misdirecting by spreading disinformation. And the same is true with that lobby group’s tired dire warning that the tax will deincentivise future investors. BS of course, because if there is a dollar to be made and despite a very high tax on profit, as in Denmark, there is still a buck to be made which investor will of course put up capital funds in order to collect.
#AusPol #TaxReform #FreeGas #JapaneseOnSellers

WATCH: Artemis II crew takes questions from reporters postflight
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=watch-artemis-ii-crew-takes-questions-from-reporters-postflight
Breaking: <p>In a press conference on Thursday
#postflight #questions #reporters #artemis
WATCH: Artemis II crew takes questions from reporters postflight

In a press conference on Thursday, Reid Wiseman expressed his appreciation for his fellow Artemis II astronauts.

Watch: Artemis II crew speaks to reporters 6 days after return from moon mission
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=watch-artemis-ii-crew-speaks-to-reporters-6-days-after-return-from-moon-mission
<p>The four members of the Artemis II held a news conference Thursday
#reporters #artemis #mission #speaks
Watch: Artemis II crew speaks to reporters 6 days after return from moon mission

The four members of the Artemis II held a news conference Thursday, nearly a week after they returned to Earth from their historic mission around the moon. Following the remarks from the astronauts, C...

It’s been more than a decade since I’ve worked in #journalism, but I believe I still have a pretty good eye for story ideas that originated with insulated #editors rather than #reporters actually working a beat …

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3fhjvvkbmirhyu4aeihhrnv/post/3mjatnt76r52l

#Reporters have previously been allowed to #access parts of the #Pentagon without escorts, & had offices in the building.

A #DOJ attorney argued at a March court hearing that the administration “fully complied” with the judge’s order, & that if the NYT wanted to challenge the latest policy, it needed to update its lawsuit.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #press #journalism #FourthEstate #Trump #Hegseth #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda

…The #Defense Dept’s revived #press policy, issued March 23, moved #media offices to a separate building & required credentialed #reporters be escorted by dept personnel while in the #Pentagon.
It also prohibited “intentional inducement of unauthorized disclosure,” & says if a #journalist offers a person anonymity to disclose #information, it would create a “rebuttable presumption” that the reporter knew the employee wasn’t allowed to share it.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Trump #Hegseth

Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the US District Court for the DC said Thursday that the #Trump admin’s decision to remove credentialed #reporters from the #Pentagon in response to his ruling striking down a prior #press policy “flouts the Court’s explicit directives & disregards the constitutional principles at the heart” of his March order.

#Hegseth #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate