Tag: local journalism
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White House Bouncers & Manhattan Boardrooms: How Trump & Carney Stifle Press Access
Jon Liedtke discusses politicians bypassing local Canadian media to control their narratives through hand-picked global outlets. By granting exclusive national security interviews to publications like the New York Times, leaders evade unscripted domestic scrutiny and accountability. This strategy prioritizes polished international exposure over informing Canadian citizens, leaving local journalism frozen out and weakening democracy.
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AI Whiplash: Pre-Crime, Fake Reporters, & Immortality or Human Extinction
Gene Valaitis and Jon Liedtke discuss AI’s threats, from fake journalist identities scraping local Canadian news to Anthropic’s predictive surveillance tools. Liedtke argues that tech companies use apocalyptic warnings as PR spin for regulatory capture, seeking to create high barriers to entry to secure monopolies rather than protect public safety.