- Good Night: A TV Event About a TV Event
- FCC Commish Makes First Amendment Tour
- Bluesky Aims Big
- New Surveillance Dangers
- Video: Ann Telnaes on Editorial Cartooning
- How Syria Reporting Did a 180
- Google vs DoJ
- Teach-in Livestreamed By Scientists
- Android Security Risks on Chrome
- Lessons from The Handmaid’s Tale
Good Night: A TV Event About a TV Event
By Kimberly Roots
TVLine
CNN broadcast the penultimate performance of the Broadway production of Good Night, and Good Luck — live — as a commercial-free TV event. ER alum George Clooney starred as CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow. Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War.
FCC Commish Makes First Amendment Tour
By Brian Lowry
The Wrap
FCC commissioner Anna M. Gomez cited “an administration-wide effort” involving multiple agencies intended “to chill speech” and stifle dissenting voices. Gomez, who will soon be the only Democrat on the commission, is on a “First Amendment tour” designed to shine a light on the issue and discuss means and methods to combat those policies.
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
• Abortion Rights By Rindala Alajaji, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Union Organizing By Caleb Brennan, The American Prospect
Video: Ann Telnaes on Editorial Cartooning
Media and Democracy Project
Ann’s editorial cartoons, acts of courage, and patriotic statement on compromised press freedom at the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post are important to celebrate and amplify. Editorial cartoonists are powerful communicators of complex issues and essential critics of authoritarians and of the rich and powerful.
By Gregory Shupak
FAIR
When Bashar al-Assad was in power in Syria and the US was seeking his overthrow, corporate media treated killings that his government and its allies carried out as nefarious bloodbaths. In the months since Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa came to power, US media have switched from treating bloodbaths in Syria as nefarious to treating them as benign.
The Department of Justice has urged the court to slap Google with aggressive remedies including forcing the sale of its incredibly popular Chrome browser and making the company license some of its core search technology.
Teach-in Livestreamed By Scientists
By Andrew Freedman
CNN
For Trump’s second term, in the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have a new way of engaging the public: livestreamed presentations. For 100 straight hours, climate and weather specialists spent 15 minutes each talking about their work and why it is so valuable for the American people.
Android Security Risks on Chrome
Smartphone users have had a rough old time of it lately as far as security issues are concerned. Now there’s another Android update that Google has just dropped, and this one needs to be implemented as soon as possible. Don’t wait, update your Chrome app today.
Lessons from The Handmaid’s Tale
By Eileen Flanagan
Waging Nonviolence
Based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, the Hulu series (which includes a trigger warning) is set in a totalitarian country named Gilead, where powerful men are legally allowed to rape “handmaids,” fertile women enslaved for the purpose of bearing children. Now, some eight years later, the show approaches its finale just months into Trump’s second term.
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