Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress. By Matthew Jordan.

What We’re ReadingNew York Times Insider / Josh OcampoLayoffs, mergers,and ego clashes, oh my! How NYT media reporter Benjamin Mullin covers it all. →“The media beat tends to be porous, unlike covering national security, for example. Information is less likely to stay concealed for a long period of time, so finding information and making it public as quickly as you can is one challenge.”Columbia Journalism Review / Fevin MeridIn Springfield and beyond, the Haitian Times translates American racism →“‘I think when you’re a new immigrant and Black, you really don’t understand all the ways racism works [in America],’ Garry Pierre-Pierre, the publisher and founder of the Haitian Times, told me—especially in the small, predominantly white towns that have become a more economically feasible landing place for Haitian immigrants than big cities.”Better News / Emily RistowHow WITF is using democracy reporting to build trust and tamp down political rhetoric →“Shift the majority of your coverage away from what issues a candidate says are important to a model that allows voters to detail what issues matter to them. You will be reminding voters about civics lessons they learned in school. You will chip away at the trend where national issues become local issues, simply because there is no local media to highlight what matters to different communities.”Press GazetteIn the U.K., police tracked journalists’ license plates to warn sex offenders they were approaching →“Home Office files released to the National Archives show the reaction to the campaign by the News of the World to create Sarah’s Law in the wake of the 2000 murder of Sarah Payne. Under then-editor Rebekah Wade, now Brooks, the Sunday tabloid began a weekly ‘name and shame’ section, identifying dozens of sex offenders living in the community across the country.”Futurism / Maggie Harrison DupréFacebook is being flooded with gross AI-generated images of Hurricane Helene devastation →“Instead of spreading vital information to those affected by the natural disaster, or at the very least sharing real photos of the destruction, the account is seemingly trying to use AI to cash in on all the attention the hurricane has been getting.”TechCrunch / Carly PageNews agency AFP has notified French authorities of a potential data breach →“The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an ‘attack on its systems’ that affected part of its news delivery service to clients…The AFP hasn’t posted any further details about the incident, nor has it confirmed whether any customer data has been compromised as a result of the attack.”The Atlantic / Lila ShroffYour chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies →“Chatbot conversations are commonly retained by the companies that develop them and are then used to train AI models. Something you reveal to an AI tool in confidence could theoretically later be regurgitated to future users.”Variety / Brian SteinbergDisney layoffs will affect 75 staffers at ABC News and local stations →“Employees were notified Wednesday of the staff reductions, according to a person familiar with the matter, and the number of jobs affected is believed to be split evenly between the national newsgathering arm and the local-media business.”Depth Perception / Mark YarmNot The Onion: Journalist-turned-CEO Ben Collins calls the satire site Gen Z’s “paper of record” →“Collins is an unexpected CEO. He’s a veteran journalist who, until earlier this year, covered disinformation (‘the worst shit in the world’) as a reporter at NBC News. Before he departed, he, Lawson, and others got together to take over The Onion. The move, he says, has been a rewarding one. ‘Sometimes the fake journalism is a better window into reality than some of the real stuff,’ he says.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon AllsopJ.D. Vance’s kangaroo court →“After Vance alluded to ‘illegal immigrants’ overwhelming the city of Springfield, Ohio (where he has previously claimed, falsely, that Haitians are eating people’s pets), Brennan chimed in to clarify that many of the Haitians in Springfield have legal status. This upset Vance: ‘The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check,’ he said, then kept talking. After a while, CBS exercised its right to turn off his mic so that the debate could move on.”

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