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Inputs and OutputsJul 15, 2026

An NBC Instagram Reel and NYT Homepage test walk into a bowling alley ...

A story about venture capital destroying third spaces is a meta-commentary the first party data hunger games.

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Inputs and OutputsJul 13, 2026

You are what you read, watch, and listen to ..

Information diets matter. And there's no better time to construct yours than RIGHT NOW, in the ATMosphere -- and all around it.

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Grand River Watershed Regional UpdateJul 13, 2026

Week of July 6, 2026

Water Crisis Solved!?!, 570News Shutdown, Niska Lands Sell-Off, Official Plans, Government Antics, 1000 Days Of RCMP Greenbelt Investigations and more...

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The Emu Café SocialJun 19, 2026

Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman

I look forward to reading Pixy Misa's Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian server admin (I think) who, in addition to posting on tech and politics, also sometimes posts about anime (sadly not as much of...

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Cory DransfeldtMay 6, 2026

Manufacturing Consent

A Powerful Assessment of How the U.S. Mass Media Fail to Provide the Kind of Information That We Need to Understand the World In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of "worthy" versus "unworthy" victims, "legitimizing" and "meaningless" Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.

journalismpolitics

The Emu Café SocialMay 4, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-04-26

Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled links. 1. Indie developer lands in Steam approval limbo after being flagged for IP infringement over in-game references to...

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Cory DransfeldtApr 25, 2026

Murder the Truth

"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America." — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to silence dissent and protect the powerful. It was a quiet way to announce a In an obscure 2019 case that the Supreme Court refused to even hear, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the prospect of overturning the legendary New York Times v. Sullivan decision. Though hardly a household name, Sullivan is one of the most consequential free speech decisions, ever. Fundamental to the creation of the modern media as we know it, it has enabled journalists and writers all over the country—from top national publications to revered local newspapers to independent bloggers—to pursue the truth aggressively and hold the wealthy, powerful, and corrupt to account. Thomas’s words were a warning—the public awakening of an idea that had been fomenting on the conservative fringe for years. Now it is going mainstream. From the Florida statehouse to small town New Hampshire to Donald Trump's White House, this movement today consists of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people and companies, who believe they should be above scrutiny and want to silence or delegitimize voices that challenge their supremacy. Indeed, many of the same businessmen, politicians, lawyers, and activists are already weaponizing the legal system to intimidate and punish journalists and others who dare criticize them. In this masterwork of investigative reporting, David Enrich, New York Times Business Investigations Editor, traces the roots and reach of this growing threat to our modern democracy. With Trump’s emboldened right-wing coalition committed to demonizing and punishing those who attempt to hold them accountable, Murder the Truth sounds the alarm about the looming war over facts, laying bare the stakes of losing our most sacrosanct rights. The result is a story about power in the age of Trump—the way it’s used by those who have it and the lengths to which they will go to avoid it being questioned.

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brennan.dayApr 24, 2026

Being a Citizen Journalist

From Drudge to Salam Pax to Darnella Frazier and Zhang Zhan. The world needs citizen journalists. There has been a hollowing of Postmedia's local press, the radicalization pipelines mainstream coverage fails to trace, Andrew Callaghan's compromised platform, and what I owe under the SPJ Code of Ethics as an independent writer with a blog.

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The Emu Café SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Can’t “Lie”

Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitwam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the accuracy of Google's AI overviews. The framing in the headline matches the first paragraph: "...1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for...

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New Atlas - New Technology & Science NewsApr 13, 2026

2026 World Press Photo winners capture planet in a state of flux

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Cory DransfeldtApr 1, 2026

El Paso

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes. El Paso is an extraordinary, can't-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the myth of this place, where Mexico's Juarez and America's El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. From the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Repatriation, to the shifting immigration laws under Reagan and Trump and the violence and bloodshed brought on by the drug war, El Paso captures a place often misunderstood or forgotten by the rest of the country, and the world. El Paso is a brave new work of narrative nonfiction that gives new voice and perspective to history that has long been checked at the border, or told through the lens of white men alone. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Mar 8, 2026

r/Calgary Deleted the Top Post of the Day Because I Wrote It Myself

I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?

Digital CultureMedia Criticism

brennan.dayMar 8, 2026

r/Calgary Deleted the Top Post of the Day Because I Wrote It Myself

I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?

Digital CultureMedia Criticism

Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Feb 21, 2026

My Malware Story Gets Stolen; Yet Another Argument for the IndieWeb

A few days after writing about a weird malware campaign, I discovered that half a dozen cybersecurity news outlets had picked up the story. They now outrank me on Google. A metacommentary on the state of internet journalism, attribution, and what it says that a netsec industry has to rely on amateurs to break stories.

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brennan.dayFeb 21, 2026

My Malware Story Gets Stolen; Yet Another Argument for the IndieWeb

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 7, 2026

Postscript

Mass layoffs are a fact of life in journalism. Your favorite writers and editors have dealt with them. But they weren’t supposed to happen at The Post.

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John Kerrison goes longformJan 23, 2026

Starting again, 20 years after my first microblog post

I first posted to Twitter in 2008. I didn't know what I was doing in social media then. Nearly 20 years later, It feels like discovering social again.

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Cory DransfeldtJan 19, 2026

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for—while she stands trial for speaking the truth. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes. Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.

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Aaron Ross PowellDec 13, 2025

ReImagining Liberty 095: Adam Gurri on Opposition Meda versus Complicit Media

A podcast conversation.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 19, 2025

Big Opinion, Big Budget

The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea.

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Cory DransfeldtOct 12, 2025

Owned

A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape. Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi—once known as idealistic and left-leaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and fact-based fourth estate. Owned examines how this shift has allowed spectacularly wealthy reactionaries to pursue their ultimate goal of censoring critics so to further their own business interests—and personal vendettas—entirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology. A rich history of the decades-long rise of this new right-wing alternative media takeover, Owned follows the money, names names, and offers a chilling portrait of a future social media and news landscape. It is a biting exposé of journalistic greed, tech-billionaire ambition, and a lament for a disappearing free press.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 17, 2025

A Moment For Independent Media

At a time when large companies are capitulating their content presence at the drop of a hat, a quick note on why a more-flexible independent media still matters.

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Cory DransfeldtAug 20, 2025

Copaganda

From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters "Copaganda," as defined by Alec Karakatsanis, describes a special kind of propaganda that affects who and what we fear and what kinds of social investments we support to address our fears. At a time when the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than its own historical average and five to ten times more people per capita than other countries, its vast punishment bureaucracy spends huge amounts of time and money manipulating the rest of us to see the world from its point of view.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 3, 2025

Spanfelled

G/O Media, the company that tried to get Deadspin to stick to sports, bows out. They leave behind a scrappier media ecosystem with more business-savvy writers.

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