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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Category: Media and Advertising

  • The Year in Blog – 2016 Edition

    Although 2016 was by most accounts the worst year in living memory, for me it was also a lot of fun. There were yuge cultural and political upsets – right (or should I say “alt-right”?) – but there were also a couple of inspiring victories for the good guys. Across the pond, my Atlanta, GA blogging buddy, independent investigative…

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  • Preaching to the Press

    Is the British press unintentionally aiding efforts to implement state-backed press regulation? Last October, IMPRESS became the first Royal Charter-backed press regulator in Britain after its application was approved by the Press Recognition Panel (PRP), the government-funded body set up in the wake of the 2012 Leveson Report to oversee press regulation. The decision to approve IMPRESS has…

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  • WikiLeaks Goes “Full Trump”

    WikiLeaks claims it invented popular whistle-blower program SecureDrop and that Julian Assange co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) – claims denied by FPF co-founder Micah Lee in heated exchange with the WikiLeaks Task Force Last week, WikiLeaks tweeted that the Associated Press and other press organisations had adopted “WikiLeaks technology” in adopting SecureDrop, a whistle-blower…

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  • Info-Warring

    Leading U.S. conspiracy news website InfoWars accused of stealing content According to multiple DMCA complaints that were sent to Google, InfoWars didn’t seek permission before republishing articles that originally featured on pro-gun news website AmmoLand and Danish-run news website nsnbc international. AmmoLand editor Fredy Riehl claims that InfoWars duplicated, in full, his July 11, 2015 interview with Donald…

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  • State-Backed Regulation: A Pressing Issue

    British journalism magazine the Press Gazette publishes article based on my blog post re: Magazine publisher’s claim the Daily Telegraph falsely reported about his criminal past in order to undermine state-approved press regulator The Press Gazette’s January 27, 2016 article (source) Earlier this week, I blogged about Steve McNought, co-director of Bristol-based magazine publisher Arkbound, who suggested he was…

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  • Crime and Regulation

    IMPRESS-approved magazine publisher issues legal challenge against the Daily Telegraph after it published article about his criminal past Last week, the Daily Telegraph published an article about Steve McNought, whose Bristol-based publishing company Arkbound was recently approved by official UK press regulator, IMPRESS. The January 21, 2017 article, “Armed robber turned publisher wins approval from state-approved Press…

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  • Anonymous

    Guardian Readers’ Editor Paul Chadwick denies my request for more info about his paper’s vetting procedures for anonymous contributors Last month, I blogged about a purported hoax on British daily newspaper the Guardian by serial media prankster Godfrey Elfwick. In November, the paper had published an anonymous opinion piece about how its left-wing author was nearly turned into a…

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  • Free Speech: No Lines Drawn

    The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund runs article based on my blog post re: WordPress censorship of Turkish political blog featuring satirical cartoons following court order by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Last month, I blogged about WordPress, the San Francisco-based blogging platform which earlier this year said that, without a U.S. court order, it refuses to honour…

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  • Hoax-ception

    Busted: Purported Guardian hoax by prankster Godfrey Elfwick was itself a hoax [Updated: Guardian editor has denied my request for more info about the paper’s vetting procedures for anonymous contributors – more after the jump] Last month, the Guardian published an anonymous article about how its author was nearly turned into a racist after being exposed to…

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  • Unblurred Lines II

    The Daily Telegraph publishes Page 2 clarification based on my corrections request re: Crown Prosecution Service’s skewed statistics on rape Last month, I blogged about how the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) exaggerated the 2015-16 rape conviction rate. Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise…

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