SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Fact-based expression. That is what the once vaunted now openly vile Poynter Institute – a pivot point of the international censorship-industrial complex – wishes to “strengthen…around the globe.” Pointedly, not “free speech,” but “fact-based expression.” They’re not the same thing. This absurd term, floated through the invite to read the […]
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Poynter: Media Should End Local Crime Beat to Avoid Connecting ‘Black and Brown Communities’ to Crime
June 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy
By Chris Menahan Poynter, the head of the International Fact-Checking Network which operates Politifact, is calling on local news outlets to stop covering local crime stories to avoid connecting “Black and brown communities” to crime. “Local news reporters have amplified narratives that connect Black and brown communities to crime. As a result, we have fostered […]