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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – OCTOBER 17, 2023  
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The cartoon that led to the firing of Steve Bell, Earth's greatest
living political cartoonist, from the Guardian after 40 years. Credit,
Steve Bell

 

* MSNBC Suspends Three Muslim Anchors
* How US and Israeli Media Cover the Crisis
* AI Goes to War
* LA Times vs. Pro-Bibi Watchdog
* Chicago Drops a Racist PD Databank
* SCOTUS/GOP Social Media Mess
* Luring Gen Z Back to Print Media
* Feminist Approach to AI
* India: Videos Display Film Audience Reactions
* Guardian Cartoonist Steve Bell Fired

MSNBC CAVES IN TO ISLAMOPHOBIA
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By Jeet Heer
The Nation

MSNBC claimed that their three Muslim-American hosts were removed
only for logistical reasons and that their religion had nothing to do
with the decision. One complexity of the story is that the three
employees continued to appear on MSNBC as reporters and analysts even
as they were sidelined as hosts.

HOW US AND ISRAELI MEDIA COVER THE CRISIS
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By Ari Paul
FAIR

Israeli media have begun looking closely at the Israeli government’s
actions to understand how and why this happened—in sharp contrast to
US broadsheet opinion, which has largely rallied unquestioningly
behind Israeli “national unity.”

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By William Hartnung
TomDispatch

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the
“Replicator Initiative.” Among other things, it would involve
producing “swarms of drones” that could hit thousands of targets
in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of
techno-war.

LA TIMES VS. PRO-BIBI WATCHDOG
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By Natalie Karachi
The Wrap

The Los Angeles Times defended as “inaccurate, irresponsible and
reckless” an accusation that managing editor Sara Yasin was
sympathetic to Hamas because of posts on her social media feed
referring to Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide.” CAMERA, a
media watchdog group, publicly called out the Times for alleged bias
toward Hamas in its coverage of the conflict.

CHICAGO DROPS A RACIST PD DATABANK
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By Tynetta Hill-Muhammad
Truthout

The Erase the Database Coalition has worked tirelessly to end unjust
surveillance and criminalization of Chicago’s most marginalized
communities. Now the Chicago Community Commission on Public Safety and
Accountability voted unanimously to end the city’s gang
databaset. 

SCOTUS/GOP SOCIAL MEDIA MESS
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By Ian Millhiser
Vox

In two important cases, government officials (the Texas legislature
and three Fifth Circuit judges) were concerned about certain views
being suppressed on social media. And, in both cases, they came up
with a solution that is so poorly thought out that it is worse than
whatever perceived problem they were trying to solve.

LURING GEN Z BACK TO PRINT MEDIA
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By Paola de Varona
Slate

Kelsey Russell, a 23-year-old grad student at Columbia, has been
single-handedly resuscitating the lost art of newspaper reading, with
a particular emphasis on making it trendy for her Gen Z
peers. Recently, Russell created a TikTok series chronicling what she
learns each day from reading the New York Times’ physical newspaper.

FEMINIST APPROACH TO AI
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By Ruhi Khan
London School of Economics

Technology – like education and politics before it – is considered
a male bastion and history shows how long and difficult the journey
was for women to enter universities and parliament. Yet unlike the
right to vote, the exclusion and the conscious and unconscious bias
of technology has not yet led to a concerted campaign for change. 

INDIA: VIDEOS DISPLAY FILM AUDIENCE REACTIONS
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By S.V. Srinivas
Frontline

Videos of movie audiences indicate that practices hitherto associated
with south Indian film star fandom—such as dancing before the screen
during song sequences—are now travelling to the rest of India and to
other parts of the world along with Indian films. In fact, one of the
reasons people go to the theatres these days is to either participate
in or witness the off-screen action unfolding there.

GUARDIAN CARTOONIST STEVE BELL FIRED
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By Bron Maher and Dominic Ponsford
Press Gazette

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell’s 40-year run at the paper has
ended after he was sacked by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner over
email. Bell told Press Gazette his relationship with The Guardian’s
leadership had become “a bit strained” and the final straw was
their “difference of opinion” over a cartoon he drew depicting
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.

* MSNBC
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* Islamophobia
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* United States
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* Israel
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* Gaza
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* Media Bias
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* artificial intelligence
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* military drones
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* Los Angeles Times
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* CAMERA
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* Hamas
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* CPD gang database
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* gen z
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* feminist media
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* India
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* videos
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* Steve Bell
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* The Guardian
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* Bibi Netanyahu
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