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But Barack Obama’s presidency comes at a time when key factors conducive to transactional journalism converge in an explosive way. Obama is the first Democrat elected to the nation’s highest office since the invention of Facebook and Twitter, the first since the Internet became firmly established as a means for journalists and their interests to fr
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New fund Hyper debuts with $300k checks and promise of distribution by Product Hunt
Matthew Panzarinotechcrunch.com
Days after Brock and Clinton announce they’re going after fake news, Facebook cracks. The social media site announces new steps to curb the spread of fake news. CBS News reports it’s the result of “months of public pressure.” As far as I can tell, the “months of public pressure” came not from the public at large, but from special interests executin
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The Pop Craveification of Breaking News
Snopes steps up with a questionable “fact-check” to defend Haberman’s alleged collusion with the Clinton camp.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Jason Kilar • Jason Kilar on Hulu and content
I have a good friend who’s one of the seven or eight main editors of a major American newspaper, and he happens to be very much opposed to U.S. policies towards Central America, and towards the arms race, as well as several other things. He tries to craft editorials which will just barely sneak through under the ideological barrier, but will sort o
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