Constitutionally, the media should play a certain role within a democracy.
Not so here and now, unbeknownst in general.
(And there, too... )

 Proclivities wrote:

Minitrue

Not from The Onion:
After others departed, Pentagon announces ‘new’ press corps filled with conservative news outlets
fta: The new Pentagon press corps will include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human Events, podcaster Tim Pool, the Just the News website founded by journalist John Solomon, Frontlines by Turning Point USA and LindellTV, run by “MyPillow” CEO Mike Lindell.

 Steely_D wrote:

Yeah, but it's proof they were guilty as charged.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Dust in their budget. 

Newsmax agreed to pay $40 million to settle Smartmatic’s 2020 election defamation lawsuit

The Death of Journalism

The Medium Is The Message by Marshall McLuhan, way ahead of the time, 1967:
"Media are extensions of man."

Smartmatic’s suit against Newsmax over 2020 election reporting appears headed for trial

 kurtster wrote:

Screw them.  May they suffer the same fate as Gawker.  They obviously didn't pay attention to that lesson.

 thisbody wrote:

I don’t even need to click on the link to agree that those two are a display of stupidity.

Media Matters hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Elon Musk, federal probes

The US of A banning TikTok (which is NOT owned by China) while embracing M E T A   (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram), plus Microsoft & Google as private data-enrichment cartels!

A hard-to-believe display of stupidity:

Or is it just political faintness?

Smartmatic accuses pro-Trump OAN of engaging in "criminal activities" while pushing election lies

The content mafia wins in court against the Internet Archive.

The story is that the Internet Archive bought books, scanned them, and then made them available to people digitally. However, they only allowed as many borrowings as they had physical copies of the book.

Then, when Covid went into hot mode, they lifted the restriction. So the publishers were keen to turn the Internet Archive into a parking lot, but they’d rather not have Covid and little kids on lockdown as a context, so now they’ve challenged the whole practice of digital lending of physical books in court.

The court has agreed with them.

Now unfortunately this was not just some district court of Hintertupfingen but a circuit court of New York, but there is still legal recourse and the Internet Archive wants to fight that.

It is remarkable, however, that they not only want to destroy the Internet Archive, but also all the regular bibliophiles who have done the same. So there is the threat of an immense cultural clear-cut.

This is not necessarily something that people can march along with, but the Internet Archive also accepts donations. They are not tax deductible. But publishing the problem is the least that all archive.org users can do.

Interesting, how each top program was a unique live event, dominated by the NFL. 

2022 TV RECAP: IT’S THE NFL’S WORLD; THE REST OF US JUST LIVE IN IT

Sportico is out with its annual list of the "Top 100 Most-Watched TV Broadcasts" of the previous year, reporting that - by far - National Football League games dominate the list with 82 of the top 100 programs. There were just five college football games on the list, four political programs, three World Cup games, and two college basketball games.

https://www.sportico.com/busin...