Postmedia

¶* new representation systems, beyond texts

→ 🔗representation.systems !

¶* fixing "news values": non-whimsical curation/editorial

:
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Media_Equation
    * #criticality
    _______
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadability
    * http://www.owenspencer-thomas.com/journalism/newsvalues
    * http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/participation/promoting-interest/news-feature-stories/main
    * http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-six-things-that-make-stories-go-viral-will-amaze-and-maybe-infuriate-you

_________________

"[19:49, 4/18/2017] Do you have an actual predictable, scoring mechanism for what is news and what is not?  "

Contra:
    * Why is "Immigrant kills 3 in Western town" top worldwide news?
    * ... Why does "School boy shot by policeman in Iran" become world news?
    * How is Trump fetishism in "left-liberal" media constructive?
    * [...]

Parts:
    * (<m) "yeah obv everything is published gauging impact plus that's how we have categies ie when to move the article from local to national to world news"
    * to measure 'virality', 'popularity', 'leg change'
    * [...]

¶* #media → #antimedia → #indymedia → #postmedia

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Media_Center
"""
In the early 2000s, the Indymedia network extended rapidly across the globe. Volunteer-run centers were set up all using the same software (which had been developed in Sydney), so the websites all shared a format which included an open publishing newswire and use of columns
"""

* [...] ###

¶* beyond singular "stories" about "events"

#antistory
Beyond "hic et nunc" journalism.

(From a chat, a manifestative sketch):
    The contemporary media of linear narratives and "contributions" ("pieces"), both in dailies and magazines, are a remnant of a pre-encyclopedic turn ... Knowledge is supposed to drip together whimsically from all sides, and then within a reader, somehow merge into a sensible and actionable totality. A real, general political turn, will only follow a shift in the structure of knowledge/thinking, which will, in turn, materialize in a new media form. An era of "breaking" details, voluntarily weaving them into "stories", "asking questions", etc, must find its end.
    (SLO)
    """
    mediji linearnega narativa in "prispevkov", tako dailies kot magazini, so ostanek pred-enciklopedijskega obrata
    znanje nekako kaplja in se potem v posamezniku staplja skupi v nekakšne celote skozi prispevke
    celovit preobrat v kulturni-naravi bo preobrat strukture razmišljanja oz znanja, to pa medijske oblike
    ne bi smelo bit možno "spraševat" detajlov in na njih odgovarjat
    """

¶* ... towards representing complex, durational and embedded topics
also #kompakt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values#Conditions_for_News
"""

• Frequency: Events that occur suddenly and fit well with the news organization's schedule are more likely to be reported than those that occur gradually or at inconvenient times of day or night. Long-term trends are not likely to receive much coverage.

"""

Trends > News
Actionable & long-term transitions > News
Prescriptive > Descriptive

Implement protocolized clarity about:
    * prioretizing and opening topics
    * maintaining and following
    * prescribing & closing topics

¶* engaged media work; media as organizing
#prescriptive

per nieman "more than just fact checking" article
interviews & reporting, to accomplish PURPOSES

In addition to just "reporting", have clear (ofc collaborative) strategies, and pursue them

¶* rethink current journalism practices & participation
:
    * photography?
    * daily news?
    * editors?
    * comment sections?
    * citizen media
    * collaborative curation
    * [...]

¶* accounting for finite attention

Attention / capacity to process information, is finite.

(aka):
    "PROBLEM OF FINITE ATTENTION" !!!
    (SLO: "PROBLEM KONČNEGA FOKUSA")

:
    * Certain things must be known

    * But so due to finite attention:
        If you know/follow others, you will not know these

    * The question is therefore not "what is important"
        (***THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES IN #TOTALIST #EPISTEMOLOGY, ONLY RELATIVES (TO OTHER COUNTS)***)

    * ... but:
        "What is LESS IMPORTANT THAT OTHER STUFF, so, needs to be not-known"

    * ... combined with some advanced mitigation strategies, like:
        
            * SPREADING MATERIAL BETWEEN PEOPLE (WHO DUE TO SOME FORM OF PROXIMITY CAN STUDY AND ACT TOGETHER)"
                herein ties to 🔗sylabbi
                also to "liquid democracy", or even the justification for representation of any kind

            * [...]

_________________________________

This seems like an uncommon approach to procurring information.
It is not replaced by:
    neither "newsfeeds" or "walls"
    nor "syndication"/aggregation (a la mastodon)
they do not recognize the finity of attention.

Also:
    * for this to really work, information procurring has to be centralized:
        it wouldn't work, and doesn't make sense (as happens so often now especially to left-readers), to pick the same news from 10 different sources
        (another #totalist point)
    * [...]

¶* news pulse

like...

* "breaking news" on TV, etc

* "pulsating dot" on guardian
live news + "seconds ago"

* "current event"
like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Current_event_templates

no left media was found to offer this kind of indicator.

_______

this could be implemented quite easily as an in-house indicator saying, for example:
    A) yes, we have somebody on the subject that will change this in the next few hours
    B) somebody is currently writing an update to this
    C) this is a topic that resonates with our viwers (automatic via social media indicators)
    D) [...] ###

_______

anti:
    * do news *really* need to do this, or is it just commerical TV / cable news that pushed for "constant news" psychodrama?
    * ... yes, maybe for some key events
    * "now everything become breaking" ... (but that's also not true, again, "editor call")

so...:
    develop new pulse-taking and pulse-making for news
    like:
        a) "push live news as they develop"
        b) community-pulse (auto via secondary responses on soc media etc)
        c) [...]


<-------------------------- (new) TOPICS ↑↑↑

¶2017-07 | Facebook comment by @dcht00

Regarding:
    http://www.facebook.com/dmytri.kleiner/posts/10155605934396340
...which in turn is about:
    http://mronline.org/2017/07/28/new-google-algorithm-restricts-access-to-left-wing-progressive-web-sites/

"""
I think the problem with this story is that it's a STORY.
We need post-story media, new "representation systems".
As long as media will amount to "people writing about stuff, making claims they're then backing up with whatever, [like screenshots], then that stuff gets shared and commented upon and agreed/disagreed" this will all be a shitshow.
This is a "data story" but it should really just be something like a speedometer:
    no mediums/platform,
    and no "style" -
    a new post-media auto-narration,
    pure sensing of a pattern, pointing it out, and showing it
    based on a impact evaluation that's derived from a set of axioms.
The media world needs to stop being random conversations
and become a different plain with completely new irrigation system.
It won't take just an "opensource Facebook".
For me:
    I'd like to start working on this,
    and I would start at "editorial politics" (what makes front news)
    via open/transparent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values .

The "news story" should be a transclusion of a high-impact pattern on top a "datasphere".
"""

___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  

EVERY TIME I SEE A STORY LIKE THIS, I AM ASKING MYSELF:
    
    IS IT GOING TO GET PICKED UP?

    IS IT FAKE? IS IT IN THE GUARDIAN YET? WILL IT BE THERE?

Some sort of generalised "impact" or "importance" metric might preve this!

¶[!!!] find alike projects
:
    * "meta news values" project?
    * collaborative media?
    * media around topics, not "news"?
    * [...]

¶[!!**] 101— Beyond just "fact checking"! (NiemanLab quote)

<NiemanLab
https://twitter.com/NiemanLab/status/1142136100460400640
leads to https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/first-generation-fact-checking-is-no-longer-good-enough-heres-what-comes-next/
"""
First, we move from just publishing to “publish and act.” We seek corrections on the record, pressure people not to make the same mistake again, complain where possible to a standards body. In other words, we use whatever forms of moral, public, or where appropriate regulatory pressure are available to stop the spread of specific bits of misinformation.
Secondly, we recognize that our fact checking provides a unique evidence base that gives us important insight into where misleading claims come from in public life and how they are spread…
Thirdly, we work for system change. Using the evidence from our fact checks we identify patterns and common causes, points where we can intervene to significantly reduce particular kinds or sources of information. The pattern might be who’s publishing something, where it’s published, a particular subject that there’s a lot of false information about, or something else.  The interventions can range from educating children or adults to advocating for policy changes.
"""

¶CG/PROPAGANDA— Western media propaganda ... and "MANUFACTURING CONSENT" 

<dmytri
"In any case, Chomsky and Herman"s classic Manufacturing Consent is required reading on the media, in terms of politics."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Example:
    * mugabe thread
    * [...]

_______________________

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
Nice 5-minute #cg illustration !!

__________

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Korea

https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-for-negative-news-coverage-of-china/
wow!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655#Critique_of_U.S._media_coverage
classic case

¶UK media bias against corbyn, etc

"""
it's these bizarre "perfect" echo-chamber media machines - use biased media to echo-chamber disarray, then point to it being discussed etc
"""

this is called a "coup"? even though it's only symbolic power, etc?
yes, only on sky and daily express.
but then "guardian reading" blairites will throw it in your face.
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-deputy-leader-tom-watson-to-try-to-draw-line-under-bid-to-oust-him-11818106

¶Wtf is "metamedia" ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamedia

i used the term to refer to a "multi-media" analysis that also goes beyond multi, to do a synthesis.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2016/07/29/damning-evidence-just-came-light-exposes-bbcs-role-labour-coup/
2016 anti-corbyn coup attempt media analyis:
    anti-guardian, anti-bbc

this one gives a different figure (? didn't really check all):
    https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/general-election/media-coverage-of-the-2017-general-election-campaign-report-4/

__________

Actually, it's not even the Guardian, it's just faux rightwingers reading it this way:
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/21/labour-resurgent-liberal-democrat-headache

¶BASIC ARTICLE !!!

#reread
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/27/revolution-isnt-being-televised

(mentions MANUFACTURING CONSENT !)

¶ALIKE— Indymedia !!! + post-Indymedia

https://2020.transmediale.de/content/citizen-kino-84-asymmetric-media-and-the-simulacrumbs-for-the-20th-anniversary-of-indymedia
+pod

¶historycommons - not NEWS but TOPICS !

was looking for something like this ....
http://historycommons.org/timelines.jsp
... but how to use this site ?

* where is the "now happening"?
* how can i subscribe?
* how can i signal i'm up to date (or not)?
* ... how can i get challenged to do that?

¶ALIKE— Openworld/OMN & "Indymedia reboot"

https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indymedia-reboot/wiki/ether-pad-archive
aka http://pad.openworlds.info/mypads/?/mypads/group/omn-enz5xff/pad/view/indymedia-m633xi7

Well ............. zzzzzzz

¶What (other) types of NEWS are there

Especially in left-media, we have:
    * political news (=mostly bickering and hysteria)
    * disasters ( + "agit commentary")

What is missing is:
    * presenting and following up with alternatives
    * systematics
    * things where you have agency (local + global)
    * [...]

¶... DEVELOP MARKS FOR LEFT-MEDIA CONTENT

Often it's difficult to see what's up...

MARKS:
    * USA // NON-USA
    * WORLDWIDE PRIORITY // WORLDWIDE "FEATURE" (These are all too common...)
    * BREAKING STORY // NEWS STORY // ANALYSIS/COMMENT // [...]
    * [...]

Good:
    * wsws has stuff by topics
    * guardian always has "red" topic mark

¶METHOD— How to monetize [non-fringe] journalism?

"it's never been a better time to tell a good story ... never been a harder time to get paid for it!"
-- laura flanders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Flanders

¶METHOD— Evaluate "left" media based on how they were/are under (establishment) "left" governments

check:
    * alternet, NYT, ... under obama
    * guardian under blair
    * [...]

I think this can be made as the main distinction !

¶ALIKE— Alter Platforms (& Ideas thereof)

:
    * historic: indymedia
    * https://unite.openworlds.info/indymedia/indymedia-reboot/
    * https://substack.com/ ?
    * [...]

¶News by topics !

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/t/coronavirus/

¶IDEA - Instagram comentor >d

Like:
    * De Krantencommentaren - national radio, BE
    Comenting newspaper articles on the radio
    * The daily show - John Stewart, USA
    * Twitter
    * [...]

¶Slovenia: Fact checking, etc

https://www.ostro.si/si/razkrinkavanje/objave/vrednost-projektov-ki-cakajo-odlocitev-agencije-za-okolje-ni-znana
interesting symbols scheme

https://www.ostro.si/si/razkrinkavanje/objave
all posts ...

https://www.ostro.si/si/veter
they are onboarding openly (want a community!)

¶POSTMEDIA FOCUS !!!!!!

1) How to get breaking news?

2) Beyond just informing:
    * news must facilitate democratic coordination
    * mus not just "inform", but inspire & coordinate action !

3) Postmedia must embrace all the potentials of postpaper:
    * No more "daily editions" - redefine news weights per subject
    * ... also R&D new subjectivities (not just individuals, but totally new types of groupations) ... like #sylabbi
    * [...]

¶Daily: 2020/04/14

* News can be surprising, or not:
    "Bernie endorsing Biden" is not.

* ... But there are stuff we "did not know details of":
    How did he do it?:
        Did Biden signal to make concessions?
        Is there anything new to fact-check in the future?
        #coordination - What do we do, if he fails?
        #clarity - What is the ambiguity, that needs to be cleared up? (with further journalism, enquiry)
        

* "News" should be more like chess:
    OK, so "Trump retweeted a call to fire FaucI" (passive agressive).
    What are the options now, for all involved?:
        A) Fauci quits. How would this play out?
        B) Fauci signals xyz.
        C) "It's all a soap-opera facade to keep liberals busy"
        D) [...]

* [...]

¶ALIKE/UX— "The new possible"
Update 20230911: Down?

https://thenewpossible.space/

also representation systems etc.

¶Nailing "Distance of perspective"

Too close, and you are "reporting" on what is going on.
Too far, and it is a speculative magazine.

In the middle lies "just right".
Close to this is:
    * wsws.org often
    * [...]

¶Getting news from real territories, which might be interesting for re-coalescence #coordination

!!!

OK, so you have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states

There, you have Algeria, Nepal, etc.

OK:
    * What is really going on there?:
        What are they working on? What are they struggling with? What are the news there?
    * Can I go there? Should I go there?
    * [....]

______________________

A) have comrades there. ask them, have them regulary check back. but - according to a commonly developed semaphore, or style. have guidelines - what we expect to hear from everywhere, have a protocol
........ like an self-built "CIA factbook"

¶101— Basic reading for news media studies

What to put forward?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_studies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(communication)

¶Why do I keep coming back to NYT, guardian, etc?
#habit

The value of the news there is more than just the news itself.
It is the realization that this is what everyone else is reading.
It has two variants of value in this way:
    1) If you miss this, you might not be able to get it
    2) You see what they are getting or missing

Thus a #postmedia neccesarily needs a news overview, complete with:
    1) what everybody is seeing (and in what way)
    2) what only some are seeing (and why, or why others are not)
    3) what nobody or only very few are seeing
(just by review of the more or less mainstream media)

¶PROPAGANDA/PATTERNS— "Left wing media bias" - when did this begin ?
#patterns

https://monthlyreview.org/2003/06/01/the-left-wingmedia/

"""
If we learn nothing else from the war on Iraq and its subsequent occupation, it is that the U.S. ruling class has learned to make ideological warfare as important to its operations as military and economic warfare. A crucial component of this ideological war has been the campaign against “left-wing media bias,” with the objective of reducing or eliminating the prospect that mainstream U.S. journalism might be at all critical toward elite interests or the system set up to serve those interests
"""

#TOREAD

"""
But this is absurd. Not only do newsrooms not project such sensibilities for the most part, the real divide in U.S. politics is not about issues such as affirmative action and thus between the liberal and conservative sides of elite opinion, but between elite opinion and those outside the elite, especially the left (using the term to refer mainly to those who challenge the system itself).
"""

So, seems like a good article.
But: What to do now? What can I do? Where can I get involved? What is the "pattern" to talk to somebody? To explain this to somebody, without them investing 1 hour to your writing?

--------------

>right
* Do you recognize that what you are doing is a pattern? Is there space for such patterns?
* Where did you learn this? Was there an orgsanised push? Were there workshops, and tours (such as Bannon EU tour, etc)
* [...]

¶Against "controlling the conversation" and framing

(idea when asked to do interview 20200917, and previous experiences ... reflecting on general logic of it)


toread in directions:
    * history of interviews? (wiki has nothing)
    * https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-celebrity-interview-history-aesthetics-method
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview_(magazine)
    * [...]

¶LOL— "This is powerful fake news because it is also true"

"""
They have gained office and influence through election and appointment of powerful officials, like social-nationalist founder/speaker of parliament Andriy Parubiy and skinhead leader/deputy interior minister Vadym Troyan. This is powerful fake news because it is also true
"""
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/ukraines-neo-nazi-revolutionaries-might-be-part-of-a-russian-plot-572704

¶Lenin in What is to be done: "Iskra" newspaper

###

¶[!!] "Reverse sharing" (known event→news, not news→new event)
aka you know the event, you want to share, you just want to present it

Example:
    What, from where to share for 50 years of Chilean coup?

Would help:
    * proper search accross all / federation
    * ranking of media:
        (based on past/general, and current offer of other news there)
    * ###

¶[r!!*gg] 101/PIRACY— Jailbreaking sites for media

https://12ft.io/
https://www.removepaywall.com/
https://archive.vn/ or https://archive.ph/
https://archive.org/

¶[!!→] POLEMICS/STRUGGLING— Against "debating" politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/change-mind-evidence-arguing-social-relationships
"""
There are lots of reasons why debate (and indeed, information-giving and argumentation in general) tends to be ineffective at changing people’s political beliefs. Cognitive dissonance, a phenomenon I studied as part of my PhD research, is one. This is the often unconscious psychological discomfort we feel when faced with contradictions in our own beliefs or actions, and it has been well documented. We can see cognitive dissonance and its effects at work when people rapidly “reason” in ways that are really attempts to mitigate their discomfort with new information about strongly held beliefs.
[...]
A sea of evidence demonstrates that our friends have the power to change our beliefs and behaviour – not by arguing with us, but simply by being around us or showing us new ways of living
"""

¶"Narrative" within news cycle

why are fascists like Netanyahu, but just as well libs, allowed to "control the narrative"?
why can he talk about "Iranian nuclear weapon being 3 months away" for 30 years?
why isn't he asked about that, and until he responds clearly, he's MARKED OFF as a liar,
... RATHER THAN just "reporting" further?
---------
that's the problem, people (topics, ...) are presented without any context (YOU are supposed to keep it)



<--------------------------------- ((new)) 




https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research
has some sensible points
ignore the source


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/is-the-new-york-times-newsroom-just-a-bunch-of-ivy-leaguers-kinda-sorta/
(Elitist) academic makeup of NYT newsroom
"""
Fifteen years ago, it employed about 1% of all American newspaper employees, a number that had held steady for decades; today, that number is approaching 7%.
[...]
Who are the 1,700-or-so people
[...]

• The Ivy League is, in fact, a major feeder to the Times newsroom. Of the eight colleges most common among the staffers in my study, six are Ivy League schools. (In descending order, those are Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, and Princeton. The two non-Ivies are Northwestern and U.C. Berkeley.)
• Even outside the Ivy League, staffers’ alma maters are disproportionately highly selective private colleges — think Stanford, Duke, Georgetown — or top state flagship schools like UNC, Michigan, or Texas.
• When it comes to graduate school, Columbia is king, by a wide margin.

[...]
Beyond Columbia, second-place NYU illustrates the pull of New York City. You’ll also note sizable representation from U.K. universities — a roughly even mix of native Brits and Americans crossing the pond for grad school. (Note that several of these British universities — LSE, City, King’s, UCL, SOAS, and Birkbeck — are all constituent colleges of the federated University of London. If counted together, they’d represent 12 Timesian master’s programs — in third place, behind NYU.)
"""



https://ground.news/
"""
Ground News is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias and break free from algorithms.
[...]
The Ground News rating system adds context and transparency to every news story. Readers from all walks of life can conveniently identify media bias, check source credibility, and view ownership data for news outlets around the world.
The bias and factuality ratings are determined using three independent news monitoring organizations:
    All Sides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias Fact Check.
The ownership categories were researched and developed by Ground News.
"""
------------------
https://ground.news/rating-system
"""
Diagrams have been used since ancient times as a way to represent complex information in a simple way. At Ground News we use diagrams to give readers a visual breakdown of the entire media landscape so they can quickly understand what’s going on. We take a comprehensive, data-driven approach to news.
""

<bebsico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_News_Network


https://outsider.si/izdelek/med-vrsticami-pogovori-o-casopisih-2/
#toread
+miloš.kosec


#representation.systems <pod <XLT
http://xlterrestrials.org/about.html


http://decline.online/
nice #dataviz and "main stories"


guardian is financially sustainable
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/may/01/the-guardian-break-even-katharine-viner
--------------
#toread
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/16/a-mission-for-journalism-in-a-time-of-crisis


#alike
good media!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events


http://tracemap.info/
"TraceMap approaches fake news from a completely different angle. Instead of looking at content, we expose diffusion patterns of social media posts. To make news distribution transparent, we are developing an interactive webtool that will allow everyone to explore how posts spread within a social network."
<ed