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From the horse's mouth so to speak:
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media," the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.
The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.
Twitter then revised its label on NPR's account to "government-funded media." The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
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...NPR is instituting a "two-week grace period" so the staff who run the Twitter accounts can revise their social-media strategies...
If there's one thing that the short history of the interwebz has taught us, it's that digital things that you don't actually need to do digital things can disappear very quickly when folks find out that one of those digital things is no longer useful.
Now, I don't know about you but the main reason I still check in over at Twitter somewhat regularly is to get the early jump on what's happening news wise before that same said news is later published/broadcast in its final herded form by traditional news outlets.
And a whole lot of that early news wiseyness comes from the folks who work for those traditional news outlets.
So.
If traditional news outlets start to pull their people from the platform?
Well...
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And it's not just NPR that Mr. Musk has upset. The same issue has the BBC steaming. As for the New York Times?...Earlier this month Musk pulled the Gray Lady's checkmark and called it propaganda.
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11 comments:
I'm no billionaire business tycoon, but driving away your free content providers seems like a doomed strategy.
iT May drive away free content providers..... as you write.
My take on it is Musk doesn't care. What Musk is doing is a form of censorship and eventually he will remove any one who he doesn't "approve" of. I suspect that is why he bought it. To control the message and to protect his image and his future carry ons.
Elon's dark mask is showing.....
It's all coming to a head...Hang onto to your hats...This is going to get messy.
My latest.
https://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-usa-is-on-collision-course-with.html
Cheers Eyes Wide Open
I always thought Twitter was for twits.
Mike Lindell..
https://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2023/04/mike-lindell-swindler-liar-fake.html
Here is a question for you Ross K......Who did Kevin McCarthy give the 44,000 hours of J6 video to.....Was it Tucker Carlson? or Fox News?
Does Tucker take the 44,000 hours of video with him? Or does Fox the 44,000 hours..
@ Grant G
The question(s) could, should be raised at https://www.emptywheel.net/
However, over at yahoo!news, it appears that a third party has the goods:
Tucker Carlson says he has access to thousands of hours of Jan. 6 video footage
https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-says-access-thousands-210357461.html
Very interesting point to consider Grant and NVG...
And then there is the matter of what the good Mr. Carlson's producer has on her tapes.
(which, I presume, played a significant role in Mr. Carlson's firing, post discovery)
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Hey RossK is it time for an 'Open mic' musical teaser post-it-here-note that's puzzling?
For example:
I've spent the last three covid years, and many years before, working on jigsaw puzzles from the District of North Vancouver Library with only one problem, their online puzzle database stinks, which is puzzling to me.
In-house Patrons can see what's inside the box because of the cover, whereas searching their Library database online for more jigsaw puzzles is near impossible. I stand corrected: It is, 100% impossible. The Library has the same problem with DVDs and CDs database.
eg. Cobble Hill's 1000 pieces, random cut, 'Wine Alphabet', #895, and the size. There's no mention that the wine bottles are on three dark shelves, in a dark room.
And then I remembered a song ...
"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" a 1962 song by rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley. Written by Willie Dixon, the song was one of Diddley's last record chart hits.
You can't judge an apple by looking at a tree
You can't judge honey by looking at the bee
You can't judge a daughter by looking at the mother
You can't judge a BOOK by looking at the cover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Judge_a_Book_by_the_Cover
But, here's the thing about the DNV's library jigsaw puzzles, and contrary to Bo Diddley, a Jigsaw puzzle cover does, accurately, portray what IS exactly inside the 'book' box, so why do I have to go to each library to see what's on their shelves.
Tucker the MTFYKER..
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1653429913465094149
Hey RossK is it time for an 'Open mic' eg. musical teaser post-it-here-note that's puzzling?
For example:
I've spent the last three covid years, and many years before, working on jigsaw puzzles from the District of North Vancouver Library with only one problem, their online puzzle database is puzzling to me.
In-house Patrons can see what's inside the box because of the cover, whereas searching their Library database online for more jigsaw puzzles is near impossible. I stand corrected: It is, 100% impossible.
eg. Cobble Hill's 1000 pieces, random cut, 'Wine Alphabet', #895, and the size. There's no mention that the wine bottles are on three dark shelves, in a dark room.
And then I remembered a song ...
"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" a 1962 song by rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley. Written by Willie Dixon, the song was one of Diddley's last record chart hits.
You can't judge an apple by looking at a tree
You can't judge honey by looking at the bee
You can't judge a daughter by looking at the mother
You can't judge a BOOK by looking at the cover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Judge_a_Book_by_the_Cover
But, here's the thing about the DNV's library jigsaw puzzles, and contrary to Bo Diddley, a Jigsaw puzzle cover does, accurately, portray what IS exactly inside the 'book' box, so why do I have to go to each library to see what's on their shelves.
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