Conservatives’ mistrust of media is rooted in the feeling journalists want to ostracize them
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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Conservatives’ mistrust of media is rooted in the feeling journalists want to ostracize them“Our interviewees view mainstream news outlets as part of a group of liberal institutions dedicated to making conservatives into pariahs. The misinformation often at the heart of conservative responses to Covid-19 is a symptom, rather than a cause, of this distrust.” By Anthony Nadler Doron Taussig. |
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What We’re Reading
Washington Post / Jennifer Rubin
Multiple news outlets have dedicated themselves to covering democracy, yet coverage has not changed much →
“The GOP is not consistently identified as the party seeking to impair voting or thwart the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection. Days can go by without national newspapers or cable TV programming mentioning the coup attempt or voting suppression.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
CNN+ looks doomed →
“Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN’s longtime chief financial officer as it weighs what to do with the subscription streaming service moving forward, five sources tell Axios.”
Ohio Local News Initiative
The Ohio Local News Initiative, a new nonprofit newsroom that has raised $6 million, gets closer to launch by hiring a founding editor-in-chief →
Lila Mills, who has “a deep connection to Cleveland neighborhoods,” will lead the new newsroom. “Along with Mills's appointment as Editor in Chief, Cleveland Documenters, currently based at Neighborhood Connections and part of City Bureau's Documenters Network, will become part of the Cleveland newsroom.”
LSM / Marina Kovaļova
Novaya Gazeta, suspended in Russia, has found a new home base →
“Q: You have chosen Latvia as your location. Why? A: We have a very good relationship with the local authorities … Latvia is geographically close and a very well-known country for many Russian journalists. I am not sure that we will remain here all the time, because we are looking at other options, but I am sure that we will always remember all the things that Latvia does for us.”
Substack / Climateer
“Everyone gets numbers wrong, even The New York Times” →
“Never allow a number to fool you into thinking you understand something. There is no shortcut to understanding.”
New York Times / Elisabetta Povoledo
Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist known for chronicling Mafia brutality, has died at 87 →
“One of her best-known images, taken on Jan. 6, 1980, depicted the corpse of Piersanti Mattarella, the governor of Sicily, being held by his brother Sergio, who today is the president of Italy.”
New York Times / Nick Haramis
Are influencers paying book stylists to make them look like readers? →
“A book suggests interiority, which feels increasingly precious in an age of thirst traps, hot takes and humblebrags.”
Washington Post / Taylor Lorenz
Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, an account that functions as “a wire service for the broader right-wing media ecosystem” →
“By March, Libs of TikTok was directly impacting legislation. DeSantis's press secretary Christina Pushaw credited the account with "opening her eyes" and informing her views on the state's restrictive legislation that bans discussion of sexuality or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, referred to by critics as the ‘don't say gay’ bill.”
Washington Post
The Washington Post picks Griff Witte to lead the paper’s new Democracy Team →
“We are excited to announce that Griff Witte will be our democracy editor, leading a new team that will chronicle challenges to America's voting systems and the erosion of trust in the democratic process.”
TechCrunch / Zack Whittaker
Web scraping is legal, a U.S. appeals court has reaffirmed →
“The Ninth Circuit's decision is a major win for archivists, academics, researchers, and journalists who use tools to mass collect, or scrape, information that is publicly accessible on the internet. Without a ruling in place, long-running projects to archive websites no longer online and using publicly accessible data for academic and research studies have been left in legal limbo.”
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