For now, links to a report from the Associated Press and to commentary from Consortium News, Substack, and Moon of Alabama; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM OCT. 29  Newspaper non-endorsements at Washington Post, LA Times fit a trend, but their readers aren’t happy, by David Bauder | AP  The number of newspapers endorsing a candidate for president has dwindled with the industry’s financial troubles the past two decades, in part because owners reason that it makes no sense to alienate some subscribers by . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM OCT. 23  Journalism and democracy in a time of genocide, by Mary Kostakidis | Pearls and Irritations / Consortium News  In our rapidly evolving digital world, experts with specialised knowledge of a particular area are no longer restricted to writing books or articles in academic journals, and to waiting to be called upon (if selected) by the media to comment. READ MORE . . .

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FROM OCT. 28  Lessons from Claud Cockburn, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack  I came to the world of journalism with many different role models. In the early years of the Vietnam War, it was those reporters who stood up to the powers that be in Saigon and Washington and reported early on about America’s failures in the war. Later it was . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM OCT. 29  How media continue to discredit themselves, by Moon of Alabama | moonofalabama.org  Do they not understand how boring this nonsense is? How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election (archived) – New York Times  Written by three ‘journalists’ and published at the top of the NYT‘s homepage the intro reads: “When Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, spreading . . . READ MORE . . .

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TO BE CONTINUED