Heidi Legg of Harvard University’s Future of Media project examines who owns the news in the US.
Once, we knew who owned our news sources. For many big newspapers, we still do: the Sulzbergers at The New York Times, Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post, the Murdochs at The Wall Street Journal, and so on.
But “news” comes from many sources these days, and the ownership of many of those sources is far too obscure – even unknowable. That needs to end. I have created a set of indices at Harvard to bring light to the chaos.
A deluge of information is pounding us daily from a mind-boggling number of sources, many freewheeling and unfiltered and not journalism.
ON APRIL 13, 1919, a detachment of fifty British soldiers opened fire on protesters in Amritsar, India, killing hundreds. The soldiers were Indians, in British uniforms. Their commander was an Englishman. When Colonel Reginald Dyer gave the order, fifty Indians fired on their own countrymen, without hesitation, and kept on firing for ten minutes. That’s called soft power. The British Empire was built on it. Soft power is the ability to seduce and coopt others into doing your bidding. Some would call it mind control. Through the use of soft power, a small country like England can dominate larger, more populous … Continue reading →
The truth behind supermodel Ashley Graham s unedited naked selfies
5 May, 2021 12:09 AM
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Ashley Graham said she wanted to share posts of her post-partum body because people just don t see those types of pictures enough . Photo / Ashley Graham, Instagram
Ashley Graham said she wanted to share posts of her post-partum body because people just don t see those types of pictures enough . Photo / Ashley Graham, Instagram
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By: Hannah Paine
In a sea of Facetune and Photoshop, supermodel Ashley Graham s Instagram feed is refreshingly real.
A quick glance at her profile – which has 12.6 million followers and counting – and you ll see everything from mirror selfies of the star in her underwear, sweet snaps of her breastfeeding son Isaac and gym workout videos.
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