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..."The Mill is our attempt to find a new business model for #local #news. Local #journalism has been devastated in recent years, with thousands of #reporters laid off and newsrooms badly depleted. We hope this project can be part of the fightback. (Read Joshi’s piece about what’s gone wrong in local news).
The Mill is funded by its readers via a paid #membership program. For the price of a couple of pints per month, paying members receive original reporting from us daily rather than weekly. They also join our community, including being part of our members’ discussion group and being invited to our meetups (once that is allowed again). The Mill’s members are supporting the growth of a new type of journalism in Greater Manchester, allowing us to take on more reporting and hire local journalists.
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The Mill has a network of brilliant freelance contributors. We are constantly on the lookout for great journalists, whether they are in the first year of their career or the 50th year. Our best pieces have been written both by people who have bylines in the New York Times and The Guardian, and writers who are still studying.
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We do take on a couple of trainee interns per year, who generally come into the office one day a week alongside their journalism course. Several of our staff started off by doing these placements. However, if you are interested in interning with us, please pitch us great freelance stories first. We almost always give our placements to people who have written one or two freelance stories for us and shown a really good understanding of what we publish and how we write, rather than people we have never heard from before. You can send your pitches to editor@manchestermill.co.uk.
If you have other ideas or skills you would like to contribute to help us grow, please email editor@manchestermill.co.uk. And we are always looking for people who have email lists in Greater Manchester and who are willing to tell their lists about us to spread the word. If that’s you, please get in touch."...
2023 George Washington Symposium: Role of #Journalism in #Democracy
"CBS News, New York Times, and Politico journalists discussed the role of journalism in democracy during the 2023 George Washington Symposium at Mount Vernon in Virginia. Several topics were addressed, including the role of journalists in protecting democratic values, combating #misinformation and disinformation, the perceived lack of trust in journalism, and the impact on democracy of the of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. " https://www.c-span.org/video/?531619-1/2023-george-washington-symposium-role-journalism-democracy
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies.
--- John Pilger, source
John Pilger, one of the greatest investigative reporters of our time died yesterday.
He exposed the horror and crimes of US and Australia in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. He wrote about subjects most people wouldn't dare or care writing about.
He was like a shining light in the dark world of journalism with raser sharp pen to poke into the bubble of power controlling the information released to the media and amplified by the paid propagandists who called themselves reporters.
He sure will be missed.
#JohnPilger #Journalism #Media #Reporters #Cambodia #Australia #US #Vietnam #Politics #FilmMaker #RIP
When the #NewYorkTimes lost its way
America’s media should do more to equip readers to #think for themselves
source: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
Whether or not American democracy endures, a central question historians are sure to ask about this era is why America came to elect Donald Trump, promoting him from a symptom of the country’s institutional, political and social degradation to its agent-in-chief
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It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse a common ground of shared fact
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A #journalism that starts out assuming it knows the answers can be far less valuable to the reader than a journalism that starts out with a humbling #awareness that it knows nothing
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Even columnists with impeccable leftist bona fides recoiled from tackling subjects when their point of view might depart from progressive orthodoxy
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Illiberal journalists are not out to achieve social justice as the knock-on effect of pursuing truth; they want to pursue it head-on. The term “objectivity” to them is code for ignoring the poor and weak and cosying up to power
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#press #freedom #America #USA #politics #election #opinion #future #reality #clickbait #internet #scandal #online #media #criticism #society
“The Assange Prosecution Boggles My Mind!” – Tucker Carlson - Jimmy Dore
This is what 24 hours of our lives in Gaza look like | Close Up
There have been 70 days since the Israeli military launched an all-out assault on Gaza, following an attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7. In those 70 days...#documentary #freegaza #freepalestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #journalism #palestinelivesmatter #shortdocs #shortfilms #solidarity #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
This is what 24 hours of our lives in Gaza look like | Close Up
How content creators risk their lives to document war | Witness Documentary
At a time when only local journalists and social media influencers are reporting from inside Gaza, Ahmed Hijazi moves from content creator to war reporter. “...#AhmedHijazi #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeeraLive #AlShifa #ContentCreators #Documentary #Gaza #GazaDocumentary #Israel #Israel2023 #IsraelDocumentary #IsraelPalestine #Israel-HamasWar #Journalism #News #Palestine #Palestine2023 #PalestineDocumentary #SocialMedia #WarDocumentary #WaronGaza #Witness #alJazeera #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
How content creators risk their lives to document war | Witness Documentary
Mariam Barghouti: The media is complicit in Israel’s war on Gaza | The Listening Post
As the world is focused on the events unfolding in Gaza, Israel has also escalatedits attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, where Hamas has no authority ...#aljazeeralive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeralatest #latestnews #newsheadlines #aljazeeravideo #gaza #westbank #surveillance #interview #journalist #warongaza #apartheid #israel #journalists #journalism #documentary #explainer #explained
Mariam Barghouti: The media is complicit in Israel’s war on Gaza | The Listening Post
Genocide – The Gaze From The Abyss
Media Lens
(...) Imagine our surprise, then, when we saw this report from BBC Verify on the front-page of the BBC website:
‘Satellite images commissioned by the BBC reveal the extent of destruction across Gaza… While northern Gaza has been the focus of the Israeli offensive and has borne the brunt of the destruction, widespread damage extends across the entire strip.’ (...)
(Text continues underneath the map.)
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The BBC report included a shocking photo montage showing how ‘a skyline of multi-storey buildings and a mosque was gradually reduced to rubble between 14 October and 22 November’. Note, this was not in reference to a single apartment block, but ‘a skyline of multi-storey buildings’. (...)
Josh Paul, former director of congressional and public affairs, who spent 11 years in the US State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, the US government entity most responsible for the transfer and provision of arms to foreign countries. (...)
On 18 October, Paul sent a powerful letter of resignation to protest the massacre of civilians in Gaza. He wrote:
‘I believe to the core of my soul that the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response, and for the status quo of the occupation, will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people – and is not in the long term American interest. (...)
In an interview with Democracy Now!, Paul added:
‘I decided to resign for three reasons, the first and most pressing of which is the very, I believe, uncontroversial fact that U.S.-provided arms should not be used to massacre civilians, should not be used to result in massive civilian casualties. And that is what we are seeing in Gaza and what we were seeing, you know, very soon after the October 7th horrific attack by Hamas. I do not believe arms should be — U.S.-provided arms should be used to kill civilians. It is that simple.
‘Secondly, I also believe that… there is no military solution here. And we are providing arms to Israel on a path that has not led to peace, has not led to security, neither for Palestinians nor for Israelis. It is a moribund process and a dead-end policy.
‘And yet, when I tried to raise both of these concerns with State Department leadership, there was no appetite for discussion, no opportunity to look at any of the potential arms sales and raise concerns about them, simply a directive to move forward as quickly as possible. And so I felt I had to resign.’
Apart from a single substantive mention and a couple of smaller mentions in the Guardian, Paul’s resignation has been buried by all other UK national newspapers, with a single mention on the BBC website. (...)
On 24 October, BBC correspondent Rami Ruhayem – a former journalist for the Associated Press, who has worked as a journalist and producer for BBC Arabic and the BBC World Service since 2005 – sent a letter to the BBC’s Director-General, Tim Davie:
‘Dear Tim,
‘I am writing to raise the gravest possible concerns about the coverage of the BBC, especially on English outlets, of the current fighting between Israel and Palestinian factions.‘It appears to me that information that is highly significant and relevant is either entirely missing or not being given due prominence in coverage.’
Ruhayem continued:
‘The nature of the Israeli response to the attack by Hamas on October 7 has prompted “over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies” to warn of ‘the possibility of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
‘They said:\r\n ‘“As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, recognizing the weight of this crime, but the gravity of the current situation demands it.”
‘I invite you to sift through our coverage, past and present, for any trace of the above; whether in explainers, or interviews, or features, or news analysis. Is it there at all, and if so, is it given the prominence it deserves?’
Ruhayem didn’t stop there:
‘Words like “massacre”, “slaughter”, and “atrocities” are being used—prominently—in reference to actions by Hamas, but hardly, if at all, in reference to actions by Israel.
‘Does this not raise the question of the possible complicity of the BBC in incitement, dehumanization, and war propaganda? How would the BBC respond to this?’
He continued:
‘Our current coverage kicked off following the Hamas attack. Doubtless, it is major news. But that doesn’t mean history started on October 7. We should incorporate into our coverage an accurate, balanced, fair, and truthful representation of the reality leading up to that moment.
‘I won’t go into detail, but simply remind you of three terms: apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism.
‘These are terms used by many experts and highly respected organizations to which the BBC usually defers. They are used to describe the nature of Israeli rule over Palestinians as well as the methods used by Israel to oppress generation after generation of Palestinians. They are based on extensive evidence.
‘To what extent is this reflected in our coverage? Without such context, can we claim to have adequately informed the public? Or are we withholding highly relevant and significant information without which the basics of the conflict cannot possibly be understood?’ (...)
Ruhayem’s vital whistleblowing has been blanked by the entire UK national press and the BBC. The fact that Ruhayem has not tweeted since October 25, the day after he sent the letter, surely tells its own story. (...)
It is quite obvious that violence and hatred born of cruelty and injustice cannot be erased by yet greater cruelty and injustice. What results do we expect from Israel intensifying the strategy of ethnic cleansing that gave rise to Hamas in the first place?
We live in a terribly cruel and cynical time where our supposed leaders ignore clear public support for a ceasefire, just as they ignore the vital need for immediate action on climate change. (...)
Yes, the West can devastate its enemies, but it cannot avoid the price described by Nietzsche:
‘He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.’ (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Emmanuel, 1917, p.87) (...)
It turns out that one consequence of fighting with monsters – of building a global military-industrial machine dedicated to killing for profit – is that we lose the capacity to fight for life.
Tags: #journalist #journalism #media #news #bbc #censorship #israel #gaza #palestine #palestinians #occupied_territories #war #war_crimes #international_law #collateral_damage #weapons #victims #civilian_victims
Journalism Hits a New Low
Wow, I am amazed! I just read what could be the most badly written news article written to date, with a completely misleading title to boot! You have to read the first eight paragraphs of absolute off-topic trash to even find out what the heck the article is about. Then the writer then goes on to spout a bunch nonsense and a bunch stuff cribbed from the company press release.
The garbage article: Popular travel retailer files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Writer Daniel Kline gets the award for worst journalist of 2023!!
Here is the real story from #AVweb, in case you want to figure out what that was about: Van’s Files For Chapter 11 Protection
Europe’s reaction to Israel’s war on Gaza | The Listening Post
If the United States has aided and abetted Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the European Union’s role has been one of quiet complicity.In a spe...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #europe #europeanunion #france #gazawar #germany #ireland #israel #journalism #latestnews #listeningpost #media #newsheadlines #palestine
Europe’s reaction to Israel’s war on Gaza | The Listening Post
KanekoaTheGreat sur X : "Glenn Greenwald says corporate journalists are losing their minds over @elonmusk calling out major corporations for stifling free speech because they are in bed with the very corporations they claim to scrutinize. @ggreenwald explains that we are at a crossroads where… https://t.co/WbF0RKk5Gx" / X
#politics #journalism #oligarchy
As Orwell said: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations."
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1730100419253444898
#BBC staff 'barred from joining march against anti-Semitism' over impartiality rules
Source: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/bbc-staff-barred-from-joining-march-against-anti-semitism/
The BBC have already faced #criticism for their coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, after not referring to #Hamas as terrorists. It has also been criticised by #Palestine supporters for what they see as pro-Israel bias.
#neutrality #press #journalism #protest #war #terror #freedom #society #job #ethics #humanity #problem #politics #Israel #uk #racism
Making sense of Israel and Hamas’s information war | The Listening Post
Forty-eight days of bloodshed later, a truce lasting 96 hours - between Israel and Hamas - has come into effect, giving Palestinians in Gaza some temporary r...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #gazawar #israel #latestnews #media #newsheadlines #palestine #propaganda #thelisteningpost #gaza #hamas #explained #analysis #news #breakingnews #ceasefire #informationwar #politics #geopolitics #middleeast #how #explainer #documentary #journalism #journalist #genocide #terrorism #unitednations #apartheid
Making sense of Israel and Hamas’s information war | The Listening Post