Peter Bale - curated media, journalism, and related technology news - Issue #13
I am grateful to have had a small role in some of this in the past year: a remarkable takeover for $1; a rejuvenation, and some great journalism. Now, below, a staff trust will be given a 10% stake in the business -- an elegant, simple device, and an example to other media companies.
Rarely do I find a sports story that adds value to an event or describes it in an imaginative way. F1 is essentially press release reporting. This, however, is an excellent look at why the Naomi Osaka stand matters and why those hating on her -- such as ghastly Piers Morgan -- have it a bit wrong.
This seems a tad unfair. It will always need to grow and secure the future of one of the great free assets on the Internet -- a rare public good. Jimmy Wales never made money out of it other than a living as a speaker.
I read this thinking of a story I was certain I had read but may have imagined involving Mike Pence and homosexuality reversal therapy. Don't ask but I was absolutely certain I had read it.
VoA has been run by morons under Trump but may have a chance to rebuild itself as a genuine anti-propaganda outfit -- more like a public interest broadcaster which Radio Free Europe seems to manage.
The undercounting of Covid-19 deaths in one Indian city was just the tip of the iceberg.
There seems no real reckoning for Modi but this is a great example of reporters doing their jobs in the most impossible of circumstances.
There will be reports that show the other view probably but I suspect there is a lot in this, especially the tendency to frame the conflict as some how balanced when it is the essence of an asymmetric war: especially when Iron Dome destroyed 90% of Hamas missiles targeted at civilian areas (which is not to excuse the firing of missiles in the first place).
This saga still troubles me. I have a slightly old-fashioned view that reporters working for places by AP and Reuters should not tweet their personal views about controversial subjects. However, I see no evidence she did that while an employee of the AP and if the troublesome material was from when she was a student then that should be defensible. They appear to have been gutless and to have wronged her employment rights.