Media Bits and Bytes - Sugar Mountain Edition

Media monopolization in a nutshell; Zuckerberg’s forked tongue; Fighting the strip mining of journalism; How old? That old; Privacy Badger; Righter than right                                

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Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies?

By Justin Anderson
April 10, 2018
FAIR 

Waves of consolidation in the technology, telecom and entertainment industries have concentrated power over media content and delivery into just a handful of companies.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearing Was an Utter Sham

By Zephyr Teachout
April 11, 2018
The Guardian

We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation.

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As a Secretive Hedge Fund Guts Its Newspapers, Journalists Are Fighting Back

By Paul Farhi
April 13, 2018
Washington Post

A little-known hedge fund called Alden Global Capital has been investing in American newspapers since 2009.

I’m “I Had a Xanga Blog” Social Media Years Old

By Luvvie Ajayi
April 12, 2018
Awesomely Luvvie

Young folks today don’t even know how much things have changed in such a short amount of time.

A New Welcome to Privacy Badger and How We Got Here

By Andrés Arrieta
April 10, 2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy Badger uses heuristics, meaning it observes and learns who is tracking you.

Editorial Pages in ‘Trump Country’ Respond to Demand for New Columnists

By Jackie Spinner
April 10, 2018
Columbia Journalism Review                                

There are conservative columnists, and then there are Trump-backing conservative writers.