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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MAY 27, 2025
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_ Public and private media under fire _
, Drew Sheneman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency
* Programming a Time of Monsters
* Running Afoul of the FTC
* Columbia U vs Student Journalists
* Disney/ABC vs _The View_
* Google’s 2025 Developer Conference
* Shame, CBS
* Shame, PBS
* Netflix Saves _Sesame Street_
* Saving Public Media
* A Comic Art Statement on Gaza
PROGRAMMING A TIME OF MONSTERS
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By Ron Salaj
Verso
In AI-driven labor management, algorithmic oversight tracks workers in
warehouses with biometric precision, predictive policing systems
disproportionately target marginalized communities, and automated
hiring platforms reinforce historical patterns of exclusion.
RUNNING AFOUL OF THE FTC
• PUTTING THE SCREWS TO MEDIA MATTERS
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By Liam Reilly, CNN
• META MONOPOLY
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By Noor Bazmi, Cryptopolitan
COLUMBIA U VS STUDENT JOURNALISTS
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By Meghnad Bose and Anna Oakes
Columbia Journalism Review
For the student journalists, the suspensions, even if temporary, are
the latest administrative attack on the freedom of the student press
as it reports on an embattled university witnessing protests for
Palestine and facing a $400 million cut in federal funding from the
Trump administration.
DISNEY/ABC VS _THE VIEW_
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By Edith Olmsted
The New Republic
Disney and ABC News are attempting to alter the scope of _The
View_ to decenter politics, following increased scrutiny from
President Donald Trump. According to multiple sources, ABC News
President Almin Karamehmedovic had met with the executive producer of
the daytime talk show, as well as the panel of hosts, to ask them to
tone down their discussion of politics.
GOOGLE’S 2025 DEVELOPER CONFERENCE
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By Kyle Wiggers and Karyne Levy
TechCrunch
Google I/O 2025, Google’s biggest developer conference of the
year, showcases product announcements from across Google’s
portfolio. We’ve got plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome,
Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered
chatbot, Gemini.
SHAME, CBS
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By Margaret Sullivan
American Crisis
Donald Trump sued the network for defamation — a whopping $20
billion worth — over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris
during last year’s presidential campaign. But rather than standing
firm on its principles and defending its practices, CBS’s parent
company, Paramount, has been busy negotiating with Trump’s people.
SHAME, PBS
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By Anthony Kaufman
Documentary
Twelve days before _Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse_ (2024) was
set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of
its strand _American Masters_, the filmmakers were told that a
90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an
anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March
newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.
NETFLIX SAVES _SESAME STREET_
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By_ _Alex Weprin
The Hollywood Reporter
The streaming giant has inked a deal with Sesame Workshop for new
episodes of the long-running children’s show, just months after
Warner Bros. Discovery opted not to renew. [From 1994, HERE’S JOE
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SAVING PUBLIC MEDIA
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By Victor Pickard
The Nation
The US public media system is under a multi-pronged attack from a
hostile government. Now is an opportune moment to reflect on why we
created public media in the first place—and why it’s still needed
today.
A COMIC ART STATEMENT ON GAZA
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By Tom Sandborn
The Tyee
Esteemed cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco have created a
masterpiece of nightmare colour and imagery. Appearing in the Guardian
and then in the New York Review of Books, the two place their comic
book avatars in the ruins and carnage of Gaza, and explore a
conversation they had previously conducted about the tragedy.
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