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I've just read former Australian PM @MrKRudd's barn-burning book, "The Case for Courage," a grand polemic against Rupert Murdoch, "the cancer on our democracy that is the Murdoch media monopoly."

I far prefer blogs to email newsletters & podcasts, which are about creator control, walled gardens of a sort. Blogs are open & thrive on links & conversation. Newsletters &

Ad executive I used to respect just blocked me after I criticized him for wanting to block the voices on social media. These are the people who decide what media

The virus (and fights against masks and vaccines) are merely McGuffins, props in the crazy right's anti-intellectual effort to own the libs, the experts, institutions, authority: anger for its own

: An unfortunately terrible example of COVID reporting in The New York Times, in which they give practically unhindered voice to a preprint paper by a controversial scientist who's being

.@AliVelshi The Google/Apple application does not trade on privacy. It exchanges anonymized tokens. A thoughtful piece on the larger topic: https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/google-cdc-data-privacy-covid19.html@AliVelshi

Super thread from @JeremyLittau. He comes at the fall of newspapers from the circulation side: appealing to the big middle to gain scale. Let me add to this from the