Just our little group. The youngsters love social media and tweet all over the
place, get into wide ranging twitter fights, and have hundreds of followers.
Me? I just talk to a few friends.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of R. E. Driscoll Sr
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 5:53 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The Daily and coverage of Julian Assenge
Miriam: A very interesting commentary. I hope you have given it wide
distribution.
Richard
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 15, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For those who don't know, The Daily is a New York Times podcast that
was started when Trump took office. Interestingly, Trump's presidency
was the impetus for the start of several podcasts, Intercepted, among
them. I discovered The Daily, perhaps a year ago. Sometimes, I find
the podcast informative. Often, I find it irritating, to say the least
and sometimes, filled with information which seems counter to
everything I think I know about a particular subject. The Daily has a
definite point of view and it leads the listener along a path with
facts laid out in such a way that you will be led to specific
conclusions. The manner of the host, who questions the journalist reporting
the story, is calculatedly naïve and questioning.
The journalist responds to questions and Michael then helps the
listener draw the appropriate conclusions from what the journalist
says. I've been waiting for several days for The Daily to get around
to Julian Assenge, wondering why this very important story for
journalism, has been ignored. I have heard a lot of knowledgeable
people talk about it and I've read a lot more about it than I've
posted. And I've been following WikkiLeaks and Assenge for years. So
finally, today, The Daily got around to the story. I have to admit
that I didn't listen through to the very end because I was becoming so
furious at what they chose to do with the story. And when I stopped
listening, I unsubscribed from the podcast. What they did was to
emphasize Assenge's idyocyncracies, of which he has many, and the
recent unproven allegations of cooperation with Russia to ensure
Trump's presidency, which aren't part of the US government's stated
case against him. Yes, they admitted that The New York Times
cooperated with WikkiLeaks and printed all those documents in 2010,
but they kept emphasizing how respectable and cautious and traditional
a journalistic enterprise the Times is and how nontraditional
WikkiLeaks is. Having just listened to Katie Halper interviewing Ryan
Grimm from The Intercept about Assenge during which he was extremely
informative and forthcoming about the charges against Assenge and the ways in
which WikkiLeaks functioned, the New York Times Daily version really made me
ill.
Miriam