#Media Coverage

[deadpresidents]

The media keeps saying things like "this is unheard of". NO, IT'S NOT.

JFK. RFK. George Wallace. Gerald Ford (twice). Ronald Reagan. Steve Scalise. Gabby Giffords. Not to mention Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and MLK. And that's all since 1960. This happens pretty often in the United States.

And is anyone surprised that there's been an act of political violence in 2024? Every conversation I hear is dancing on the edge of "political violence."

[alwaysbewoke]

the fix is in!!

[restless-soulz]

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i don't usually post videos, but i thought this was pretty relevant because I haven't seen anything on tumblr about it.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[a-person-on-earth]

Edward Snowden on X: "If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It's a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it." / X

[vox-anglosphere]

It was a death that shook the world - and resonates to this day.

[jangillman]

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[kick-a-long]

Great video that really spoke to my experience of living in 2024. Of the fear and anxiety that comes with every new person I meet and talking to friends who support killing me and people like me. It’s a long video but it’s great. It’s got a lot to say about social conformity.

[littleraccooncarl]

The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article about Carl the Collector's Pennsylvania influence!

A new character is making his big debut — and children’s television history — this week on PBS Kids.

Carl happens to be the Collector, a bighearted little raccoon on the autism spectrum, who along with one of his animated furry friends, will be the network’s first neurodiverse central characters in a series created for children ages 4 to 8. The creators behind the show hope real children will see themselves in Carl and his friends.

For local viewers, Fuzzytown — the home of Carl and his crew — may look familiar.

That’s because it’s Narberth.

“Narberth is a big part of it,” said Zachariah OHora, creator of Carl the Collector and an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books.

OHora, who’s lived in the Montgomery County borough for the past 16 years, basically mapped out Narberth for the show’s animators, from its houses to its downtown, the regional rail station, the library, even the iconic old clock. “Anybody who’s been here, if they see the show, they’ll recognize right away that’s where it is.”

OHora is well-known to some parents for his beloved kids’ books, like My Cousin Momo. Originally from New Hampshire, he lives in Narberth with his wife , their two teen sons, and a dog named Waffles.

Some of the seeds for Carl the Collector were sown about a decade ago when OHora’s sons attended Belmont Hills Elementary, a Lower Merion school where children with special needs get additional services and help but attend class with their general education peers as much as possible.

“It was just a lightbulb moment for me,” said OHora. “My kids were just friends with everybody right out of the gate. It took away any kind of stigma or mystery and normalized that people are different, operate differently, and think differently.”

It was very different from the schools he grew up with.

“I was like, ‘This is the way it should be.’”

Around that time, Carl the character had begun stirring in OHora’s imagination. And then a contact he had made at PBS approached the children’s author to see if he might have any interesting program ideas.

The series, premiering Thursday, breaks new ground for the children’s network. While other shows have had neurodivergent characters, PBS Kids officials say this is the first time they are the stars.

“Representation is critical to our mission, and we’re proud to debut the PBS Kids series to feature central characters on the autism spectrum,” said Sara DeWitt, senior vice president and general manager of PBS Kids. “We always say we want our content to be both a mirror and a window: showcasing characters who reflect their lived experiences and introducing audiences to kids who are different from them.

“Carl the Collector builds on this commitment by portraying a close group of neurodivergent and neurotypical friends, modeling how all of us can be helpful, supportive, and appreciative of each other’s ways of thinking, and importantly, how we can all sow seeds of empathy and understanding for one another.”

The show puts that into practice both on and off the screen. In addition to Carl the raccoon and Lotta the fox, both on the autism spectrum like an estimated one in 36 children, according to the CDC, the series has a character with ADHD and others with their own unique challenges.

Meanwhile, the show’s production team includes neurodiverse writers, animators, advisers, and others. The voices for Carl and Lotta are provided by two children on the autism spectrum. Some of the staff have contributed their own experiences in the making of the show.

For Lisa Whittick, the series director and mother of a son on the spectrum, working on Carl the Collector has brought her professional and personal lives together in a meaningful way. She said it would have been helpful if a show like this was around when her son was younger.

“If a show like this had been out back then when he was growing up, I think he would have been diagnosed a lot earlier because we would have seen some of the traits that we are reflecting in Carl and Lotta,” Whittick said. “It also would have alleviated a lot of the stress and unknown around what the diagnosis meant and not be scared of it.”

She thinks the show will help children both on the spectrum and those who are not.

“I think this series is going to go a long way in teaching kids who are neurotypical empathy and learning what autism looks like,” she said. “I absolutely think my son would have benefited greatly from a show like this, and he would have loved it because it’s actually very funny and fun as well.”

And, of course, there is the Philadelphia-area angle in all of this. And what’s Philly without a cool, weird mascot?

“There’s a pizza place that the kids always eat in, and it’s called Pyramid Pizza,” OHora said. “An arm comes out and it’s a pizza yeti, who is one of my favorite characters in there that fans of Gritty and the Phanatic will love.”

Philadelphia gets its props, too.

Carl lives with his mom in Fuzzytown, but he also spends part of his time with his dad, who lives in an apartment in a nearby city that will seem a whole lot like Philly, with perhaps a whiff of Brooklyn, another city where OHora has lived.

Carl’s mom and dad, who aren’t married, are great co-parents, OHora said. Having two rooms in different homes can be a challenge for a youngster on the spectrum like Carl, he added, as it can also require adjustment for neurotypical kids. It’s just another way children may see themselves or kids they know in the series.

That’s one of OHora’s hopes for the show.

“I hope people love it and they love Carl,” he said. “I hope it spreads empathy for neurodiversity, and I hope that neurodiverse kids and caretakers see themselves in it, and that neurotypical people can understand a little bit more.”

(Looks like I was wrong, Carl's parents ARE divorced, not just separated)

[yamimichi]

The Greek boat disaster. 700-800 people on board. Many of them women and children. Hundreds missing. Potentially victims of human trafficking.

But hey! Let's have the media focus on 5 billionaires who paid upwards of $200k to get bolted into a death trap just so they could go sightseeing.

I'm not being insensitive to the plight of those 5. I'm saying that the media is being insensitive to the Greek boat victims. Apparently billionaire lives are more newsworthy.

[shantidasi]

#झूठीमीडिया_शर्म_करो

सत्य को जांचे बिना पत्रकारिता की धज्जियां उड़ाते हुए भारतीय मीडिया संत रामपाल जी महाराज के ख़िलाफ़ गलत खबर दिखा रही है। जिसे स्वीकार नहीं किया जा ��कता।

कुछ तो शर्म करो मीडिया, सत्य दिखाओ।

Media Apologize To Sant RampalJi

[deadpresidents]

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, on the cynical media coverage that he believed he and his Administration often received, particularly when compared to the coverage of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.

[nothingelsetobe]

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Please watch this!!

[readingsquotes]

-Oct 18, 2023

"Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel seize 78 percent of historic Palestine. The lie that Israel faced annihilation in 1967, forcing it to invade and occupy the remaining 22 percent of Palestine, as well as land belonging to Egypt and Syria. 

Israel is sustained by lies. The lie that Israel wants a just and equitable peace and will support a Palestinian state. The lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The lie that Israel is an “outpost of Western civilization in a sea of barbarism.” The lie that Israel respects the rule of law and human rights. 

Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians are always greeted with lies.

...

Israel has invented an Orwellian lexicon. Children killed by Israelis become children caught in crossfire. The bombing of residential districts, with dozens of dead and wounded, becomes a surgical strike on a bomb-making factory. The destruction of Palestinian homes becomes the demolition of the homes of terrorists. 

The Big Lie — Große Lüge — feeds the two reactions Israel seeks to elicit — racism among its supporters and terror among its victims. The Big Lies fosters the myth of a clash of civilizations, a war between democracy, decency and honor on one side and Islamic terrorism, barbarism and medievalism on the other. 

George Orwell in his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” called the Big Lie “doublethink”. Doublethink uses “logic against logic” and “repudiate[s] morality while laying claim to it.” The Big Lie abolishes nuances, ambiguities and contradictions that can plague conscience. It is designed to create cognitive dissonance. It permits no gray zones. The world is black and white, good and evil, righteous and unrighteous. The Big Lie allows believers to take comfort — a comfort they are desperately seeking — in their own moral superiority even as they abrogate all morality. It feeds, what Edward Bernays called, the “logic-proof compartment of dogmatic adherence.” All effective propaganda, Bernays writes, targets and builds upon these irrational “psychological habits.”

Israeli supporters thirst for these lies. They do not want to know the truth. The truth would force them to examine their racism, self-delusion and complicity in oppression, murder and genocide. "

[faramirsonofgondor]

Y’all is it just me or has there been a disturbing amount of media coverage on celebrities that have allegedly assaulted people in the past month??

Mia Goth accused of kicking an extra in the head repeatedly and taunting them (a month ago)

Killer Mike arrested for an altercation right after winning some Grammy awards (4 weeks ago)

Jacob Elordi reportedly assaulted a radio show host in Australia (4 weeks ago)

Austin North arrested for assaulting hospital staff (2 weeks ago)

Ezra Miller again (1 week ago)

P Diddy hit with sexual assault lawsuit (4 days ago)

Taylor Swift’s father involved in an alleged assault with Australian paparazzi (4 days ago)

Toney Lanez arrested for concealed weapon (4 days ago - not technically assault)

Hailey Bieber’s sister reportedly assaulting someone at a bar and throwing a used tampon on them (1 day ago)

I now this sounds like some crazy conspiracy but I feel like usually celebrities arrests are swept under the rug and not really talked about that often. And now they’re just kinda being shoved in our faces?? I feel like they’re just trying to use this stuff as a distraction against what’s going on with Palestine. Not that celebrities shouldn’t be held accountable but the timing of it all is suspicious. There have been celebrities who have gained a lot of media attention for assaulting people (like Ezra Miller) in the past but I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many instances of it happening back to back, especially with mostly A list or popular celebrities?? Like the timeline of it all is actually insane because the first 3 happen within relatively close time to each other, then the next one doesn’t happen for another 2 weeks, then the next one doesn’t happen for another week after that, but then the rest happen on the same day, or within a week of each other?? Idk tho I’m also extremely sleep deprived so I might just be reaching.

[a-person-on-earth]

Film The Police LA on X: "Shutting down the news is NOT something you do if you believe your cause is righteous. It’s something you do when you have something to hide." / X