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Musk was in Romania? Not really

Fact-checking is waking up, drunk, and taking a shot of vodka Ever since the discussion about fact-checking started – it's been a few years now – I've been seriously questioning the viability of this model...

The Pro-War Attitude and Its Dangers, part 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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As the war continues in Ukraine, more and more people, intellectuals, journalists, and artists are drawn into the pro-war narrative. The slightest deviation from the official line is deemed to be “pro-Putinist Russian propaganda”. There...

Fallacies – the Perfect Tools to Fight the War, part 2

No war can be fought today without powerful narratives based on persuasive discourses. The war in Ukraine is no exception to this rule. In an era when we have the most formidable tools of communication,...

Fallacies – the Perfect Tools to Fight the War

On Russian and Ukrainian propaganda efforts, and how the media responds to them /w Pat Byrne

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Of course, this edition of the program is dedicated to the war in Ukraine, as have nearly all of our programs over the last three weeks. And this time, we'll focus on the media war,...

RU-UKR crisis — The law of unintended consequences and emotional upheaval /w Stanislav Byshok

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
On the Barricades (Podcast)
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This is the third installment of our interview with Stanislav Byshok, a Russian political scientist and Ukrainian affairs expert. Stanislav provides an interesting critical perspective from Russia, and the hosts of "On the Barricades" discuss...

As the Ukraine war rages on, the media call for more war. Horrific reactions!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
On the Barricades Special (Podcast)
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As the world enters the sixth day of the Ukraine war, the hosts of "On the barricades" sit down to discuss the reactions in the mainstream media as well as the public, particularly the commentariat...

A new PR stunt puts Poland on the front pages of mainstream press again

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Last week Poles took to the streets to protest a controversial media bill adopted by the Parliament. The bill regulates the foreign ownership of h in Poland stipulating that media channels have to be owned...

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...

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...