Events in the Middle East, Local News, News Deserts

For a week from today (no reflection emails next week):

• Jon Allsop, "The Everything Virus, " Columbia Journalism Review, Summer 2022.

Husam Zomlot Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom

 

"My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas."

Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, lost 6 family members amongst the almost 700 killed in Israeli strikes into Gaza.#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/Oih0hpWhxt

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 9, 2023

 Fake images from Gaza

Fake photos in history

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Local Stations belong to national corporations.  The case of Sinclair:

Partisan local news sites (pink slime)

News Deserts:  Data

VOA on News Deserts

Solutions?

Howard Husock, "Could News Bloom in News Deserts?" American Enterprise Institute, July 2023.

• What are these entities?
• Revenue sources?
• What do they cover?

Patch Media

Even in a place that is technically not a news desert: Voice of San Diego

Report for America

On the drawing board:  LAReported