BBC HISTORY AND FUTURE

Guardian on day BBC hits 100.

PROOF THAT SOCIAL MEDIA CREATES DEPRESSION

Guardian. Surveys of US universities where Facebook was rolled out in its early days caused 7-22% spikes in reported mental health issues. Seeing how much fun others are (apparently) having creates pressure and a negative reflectiveness. Though it didn't seem to boost drinking (most pics of having fun centred on drinking).

VINYL 2ND BIGGEST PHYSICAL FORMAT IN UK 2022 BEHIND NINTENDO SWITCH

VINYL 2ND BIGGEST PHYSICAL FORMAT BY UK REVENUE 2022 BEHIND NINTENDO SWITCH AHEAD OF PLAYSTATION AND CD https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-outsells-playstation-but-not-nintendo-switch-games-in-the-uk-3309468

OIL AND REPUBLICANS FILL NEWS DESERTS WITH FAKE NEWS

Guardian.

US GOV ANTITRUST SUIT AS BOOKS BIG 5 SET FOR BIG 4

Penguin Random House, #1 in the US book market, is seeking to buy #4 Simon & Schuster, grabbing a near 50% share - but the Video regime is seeking to block this under antitrust law. Guardian.

WeMedia youth use Insta TikTok for news

Guardian on OfCom report.

2 newspapers closing every week in USA leaving democratic deficit

Guardian. 'The country had 6,377 newspapers at the end of May, down from 8,891 in 2005, the report said. While the pandemic did not quite cause the reckoning that some in the industry feared, 360 newspapers have shut down since the end of 2019, all but 24 of them weeklies serving small communities.

An estimated 75,000 journalists worked in newspapers in 2006, and now that is down to 31,000, Northwestern said. Annual newspaper revenue slipped from $50bn to $21bn in the same period.'

WeMedia the UK rail strike 2022

Detail later, sample resources first

MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

YT vid highlighting another union official. He's using BBC Newsnight footage, pausing, commenting. Note the Patreon icon.

NOVARA MEDIA: YT VID.

  This is their explanation of how they're funded and what makes them an important alternative to the mainstream media.

THE INTERESTING TIMES on how the RMT leader directly confronted government spokespersons as liars.

POLITICS JOE also on how Mick Lynch "made fools of" ministers and journalists. This channel has a successful click baity style, often repackaging similar content under catchy titles. In this case they've another video which specifically piggybacks BBC2s late night highbrow Newsnight, TV news for grown up ABC1s if you like.

M.J. NICHOLLS also highlights Lynch v the media.

ChunkyMark uses strong language frequently, and is explicitly anti-Tory. Here he highlights press bias and Lynch's analysis.

Some wider examples on other current stories.

BIG MAJ STUDIOS on Liz Truss & Protocol.

OPENDEMOCRACY on hidden spending by Conservatives.

YouTube pushes further content at you that your engagement history suggests you might watch, this earning them revenue from the ads you'll endure. I watched one right-wing channel's video on ex-footballer Matt Le Tissier who has become popular on the (far?) right for his rejection of political correctness and soon saw lots more being pushed on my feed. A simple insight on how many people disappear down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theorists and white supremacists, caught in an endless echo chamber constantly reinforcing such views.

If you're watching such videos as study/research remember you can easily control that feed by tapping the 3 dots and using those options 

I'll look up some of the "mainstream media" clips and coverage too, but here's one of the raw sources used by many alternative and mainstream media, the weekly PMQs in which the rail strike issue was prominent, as shown on the official UK Parliament channel but also live streamed by many others like The Guardian and then edited by the likes of themselves and we media like Politics Joe.

There are we media channels and categories way beyond politics of course. An example - this guy documents his tracking and trapping of local people who stole his stuff. An interesting example of 'reverse sponsorship ' in this - he trashes a popular item.

YouTube WeMedia channel bigger than press? Mhairi Black

I'll check but I doubt the UK national press reported on this speech by an SNP backbencher who represents a working class constituency in Scotland and speaks with a broad working class Scottish accent. She warned that the government was sliding into fascism.

Check the view count on the video, and consider that there will be other shares on different accounts and social media, including shorter clips and infographics.

Embed video later... https://youtu.be/nVZ3QwA5wy8

MUSIC INDUSTRY photo archives now make 3D clips

 Another analogue format converges with the digital era …

Guardian.

Murdoch News Corp fails to shape Australia election

 New media finally replacing his old media power?? His press and TV holdings utterly dominate the Australian public sphere so the defeat of the ultra right-wing climate sceptic conservatives to eco independents, Greens and Labor (US spelling there) suggest influence now comes from other directions.

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Women in Sports media

 Research backs up the outrage over sexist jokes at a sports event: Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/10/female-sports-reporters-rail-against-sexism-at-scottish-newspapers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cinema goes grey? 20% drop in 15-24s pre-pandemic

Guardian.

'In 2019, franchise movies took 83% of worldwide box office for Hollywood movies. If they fell back a little and made space for the kinds of movies that have been squeezed out, it might mean one less pay cheque for a few seasoned actors, but it could make all the difference for the future of cinema.'

Time Out ceases print publication Is paper dead?

Joining the Independent, NME and many local papers the London listings magazine Time Out has ceased print publishing, going online only.

The US has seen a swfiter, deeper collapse of print news media and online migration of these - can the UK really sustain 9 national print dailies (counting the Metro but not FT)?

GUARDIAN, APRIL 2022.

Tiny Twitter shapes perception of media political elites

Guardian  ‘ As of 2021, only 28% of the UK populationuses Twitter. But it has outsize influence. What matters is who is on there: which people are experiencing the white-hot anger of engaging daily with the timeline. “Political elites are on Twitter every day, and for all the warnings that Twitter isn’t real life, it feels like real life to them,” said Ezra Klein, the author of Why We’re Polarised, in a 2020 interview with the Verge. “They’re stuck in a hyper-polarised informational system and it influences the candidates they support, the messages they emphasise, the stories they focus on.”

Klein was speaking about US politics but his analysis applies to Britain too. It’s not just British politicians: it’s our media class – celebrities as well. If you have a public profile, the likelihood is that you’re on Twitter and active. It influences which topics are afforded importance: this week we saw Kay Burley ask Angela Rayner about whether women could have a penis, a question the Labour deputy leader quite rightly said was prominent on social media. These discussions then spill over into policy, as we saw this week when the government excluded trans people from a ban on conversion practices.’ 

Guardian, April 2022