Media Bits and Bytes – March 5, 2024
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Michael Klare on AI
Michael Klare on AI
Michael Klare on AI
Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape
Stop Manipulating Sexual Assault
All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. ...accusations have also been wielded as a tool of war
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NY Times Lawyers Accidentally Send Private Strategy Memo to Staff Union OOPS!
Daily Beast
While locked in a contentious battle over tech staffers unionizing, Times management’s counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the union.
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New York Times Tech Staff to Walk Out in Growing Union Fight
Bloomberg
New York Times Co. technology employees plan to walk off the job Wednesday over what they say are the newspaper publisher’s illegal efforts to stymie their unionization campaign.
Tidbits - June 17, 2021 - Reader Comments: Infrastructure Plan, Filibuster, Manchin, GOP; Nuclear Weapons; Backroom Attack on Single Payer; Israeli Apartheid; China; Korea; Guns, Racism; Stop NYT Union Busting; announcements; more....
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Reader Comments: Infrastructure Plan, Filibuster, Manchin, GOP; Nuclear Weapons; Backroom Attack on Single Payer; Israeli Apartheid; China; Korea; Guns, Racism and Slavery; Take Action - Stop NYT Union Busting; lots of announcements; more....
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
The New York Times, by portraying Africa as a place of failure and no leadership, participates in the White Savior Industrial complex and the NGO pyramid scheme in keeping the Global North in position of dominance over their “former colonies."
Media Bits and Bytes - March 23, 2021
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The media are a culture war battlefield. Domestic and foreign policy too
NYT’s China Syndrome
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Why make a relatively tiny outbreak of the coronavirus on the other side of the world front-page news at the New York Times? Like Donald Trump, the paper is certainly aware of the propaganda value of pointing to China as a scary danger.
Media Bits and Bytes - July 28, 2020
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Tech war, trust busting, NYTimes turmoil, Hungary crackdown, and more media history in the making
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New York Times features Worker Rights
The New York Times
The New York Times has put together three useful articles with graphics over the past week, highlighting worker rights and worker safety. Two pieces focus on COVID-19 and worker safety. The third is about the dangers of construction work.
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