Matt Jordan
Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
- Can't wait to see how the @nytimes.com normal-washes today's bit of emolument clause violating corruption
- The only rationale for shutting down public access to this invaluable historical archive is if you don't want people to learn about the past. I couldn't have written my last book without it.
- Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- A free press that doesn't minimize the actions of a grooming abuser-in-chief also matters. We used to have a viable fourth estate. Now we have flying monkeys aiding and abetting bad faith.
- Dr Oz on Fox: "It's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can."
- We have a Volksgemeinshaft gap!
- For this episode, we had an all-too-timely conversation with @victorpickard.bsky.social about the past, present & future of public media. More than ever, a fourth estate freed from oligarch coercion & ownership is essential if liberal democracy is to survive. newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/def...
