Links to reports from National Public Radio and U.S. News & World Report, and to commentary from ScheerPost, CraigMurrary.org.uk, Substack, and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or addresses below. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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The latest chapter in a feud between Elon Musk and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. Reported by Julia Carneiro and Steve Inskeep | NPR Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, faces possible suspension in Brazil — in a showdown with a powerful Supreme Court justice there. Click HERE to listen and, later, read, and HERE for report from U.S. News & World Report.
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FROM AUG. 29 The sound of enforced silence, by Patrick Lawrence | Original to ScheerPost Of the many recent incidents of censorship, suppression and intimidation, the one that got me to the keyboard concerns Sharmine Narwani, who founded, three years ago this month, an online journal of news and comment called The Cradle, as in . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 27 Pavel Durov & the abuse of law, by Craig Murray | CraigMurrary.org.uk | Consortium News The detention of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is being portrayed as a result of the EU Digital Services Act. But having spent my day reading the EU Services Act, it does not appear to me to say what it is being portrayed as saying. READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 25 On the arrest of Richard Medhurst, by Chris Hedges | Substack The arrest of the reporter Richard Medhurst, who has been one of the most ardent critics of the genocide in Gaza and Israeli apartheid state, at Heathrow airport is part of the steady march towards the criminalization of journalism, something . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 26 NYT uncritically reported Israel’s version of Golan bombing, by Bryce Greene and Lara-Nour Walton | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting / ScheerPost As the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza continues, U.S. media assist in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to widen the war, parroting the words of the aggressor. A consequential example of U.S. press support for escalation was Western media’s coverage of the July 27 strike that killed 12 Druze children . . . READ MORE . . .