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Journalism and Media

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Germamy
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At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive acquisition in the history of Germany’s right-wing Springer Group. Until the...

The Origins of Murdochracy

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Democracy
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Perhaps one of the first times Murdochracy appeared was in a 2012 article by one of the world’s most eminent journalist – John Pilger. Pilger wrote about the $22.5bn-man and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch controls most of...

The chance of truth surviving the onslaught of power is very slim

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Analysis
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Even before the timely political demise of Donald Trump and the unfortunate persistence of British prime minister Boris Johnson (BoJo), the issue of lying and liars has been hotly debated. Our time may well be...

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

Alan Macleod
Analysis
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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news...

Rant and rave about Belarus and the West’s monumental fiasco

Boyan Stanislavski
Belarus
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Of course, any rational person who follows international news even casually and understands that history does not start anew every day recognizes that the outrage over Belarus' grounding of a Ryanair plane is selective, to...

The Freedom of the Press – A Value Worth Fighting for or a Geopolitical Tool?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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The Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index has released its annual report on the freedom of the press. Its findings prompted Philip Burov, a member of the editorial board of the Barricade, to write a...

Even if Fox ever went down along with Murdoch, the law of media capitalism would ensure the right-..

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Journalism and Media
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A recent three-part BBC documentary explores Rupert Murdoch’s role in the rise of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson (BOJO) and others. It traces the life of Trump supporter Murdoch in answering the question: how could the...

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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I could explain endlessly how desperate and hopeless the situation with the media in Bulgaria is, and how more and more often I regret that I took up the profession of journalism at all. That...

Capitalism Profits From the Promulgation of Disinformation

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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We do not just live in a time of too much information. We live in a period of intense but often somewhat accidental misinformation as well as deliberate disinformation. Misinformation is false information. But it...

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

The Origins of Murdochracy

The chance of truth surviving the onslaught of power is very slim

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

Rant and rave about Belarus and the West’s monumental fiasco

The Freedom of the Press – A Value Worth Fighting for or a Geopolitical Tool?

Even if Fox ever went down along with Murdoch, the law of media capitalism would ensure the right-..

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

Capitalism Profits From the Promulgation of Disinformation

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