Journalism
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- careers:
- television: Rough Draft: A Memoir by Katy Tur
- Media For All
- computer science & entrepreneurship: Hacker News
- deepfake:
- Hoax by Brian Stelter
- how to spot: True or False by Cindy L. Otis
- Deepfake Technology & the 2020 U.S. Elections by M. Adams
- enough is enough: Network
- fact checking:
- forums: Frontline Club
- information economy: Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
- investigative & commentary:
- documentary: Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
- open source intelligence: Bellingcat
- Spotlight
- ProPublica
- On the Media
- Reveal
- local news: Ghosting the News by Margaret Sullivan
- photo-journalism: The Way I See It by Pete Souza
- risk: Lyra McKee murder: Journalist shot dead during Derry rioting
- self-determination: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Lanier
- slow journalism: Out of Eden Walk
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
True or False by Cindy L Otis
Big Questions
The Trump-ruled mob demands its daily misinformation fix from Fox News.
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How much damage has the Trump (former) administration’s rhetoric done to the public’s trust in the Fourth Estate?
- Have Americans lost trust in the news?
- What will it take to regain it?
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan
Can you believe what you read, see, and hear?
- How do we really know the difference between opinion, advertising, and accurate news?
- How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda (deep fakes) in the future?
- If Facebook’s content policies don’t require a post to be true, how do we protect ourselves from ourselves?
- Is Facebook breaking our democracy?

How does a journalist report lies in a straightforward manner that doesn’t mislead and do a disservice to the readers/listeners of the news?
Is the world suffering from a bad case of Trust Deficit Disorder? Are we becoming less honest?
Fact-based, trustworthy journalism is a cornerstone of our democracy.
Buyer Beware of Fake News
The cybersecurity profession learned early on that there is no way to protect every single computer and mobile device in the world against cyber attack by simply using policies and computer algorithms. Usually the weakest link is the individual that knowingly or not, clicks on a bogus phishing email or advertisement.
The same is true for protecting oneself against against fake news. We should not lay this off on the federal and state governments to solve this problem alone. Protection against cyber meddling starts with each individual being fully aware and educated about the role and responsibilities of citizenship, and having good common sense and judgment about the news they read and the sources they follow. At a minimum, we need to concentrate on education of the news consumer as much as we need to concentrate on the technology to identify, filter and block fake news.
In a time of uncertainty, facts provide clarity. In a time of anxiety, facts comfort. In a time of misinformation, facts correct. In a time of division, facts unite. In a time of crisis, facts matter most. CNN
Besides, who should be the decider of what the truth is? I don’t think we want the government and/or the internet giants to unilaterally decide for us, but ultimately it must be up to each individual. We need to protect the media’s ability to collect and serve up factual news as best they can, but each individual should have an informed suspicion of what is fake or not.
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Authentic Photographs
Authentic photographs tell a thousand words. Would Trump play with a child, much less let them touch his hair? Of course not! There is more that we don’t see about Trump than what we do see. We don’t see the authentic photographs of Trump’s lack of character, honesty, humility, empathy, sincerity, leadership, and quite simply being a man that can relate to a little boy as a father who once was a little boy himself.
Trump’s Whitehouse was a dark enclave of dysfunctional, self-serving, mean-spirited, racist white privileged operators for which there are no photographs.
If the American people only knew the half of it.
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