Media Bits and Bytes - August 7, 2018
Climate of Hate Toward the Press at Trump Rallies - Pete Vernon (Columbia Journalism Review)
'Game of Thrones', Politics and Television: Podemos and Beyond - Concepción Cascajosa Virino and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega (euronews)
Apple Banned Alex Jones’s Infowars. Then the Dominoes Started to Fall.
By Aja Romano
August 6, 2018
Vox
Apple’s Infowars ban altered an industry overnight — and dealt a significant blow to fake news.
The Trillion-Dollar Question: Can the Tech Giants Keep Growing?
By Nick Fletcher, Rob Davies and Alex Hern
August 4, 2018
The Guardian
A startling stock-market landmark for Apple has been offset by big falls for Facebook and Twitter. Is this tumultuous period just a blip, or the first sign of trouble?
By Alex Shephard
July 25, 2018
The New Republic
How the media conglomerate is gouging its own newspapers to pay off investors and executives.