📽️ How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations
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How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations. “TRIUMPH OF THE WILL”, a Nazi propaganda film, proved how cinematographic innovation could spread evil. Yet long before Leni Riefenstahl filmed Hitler's troops, an American motion picture tested the toxic power of the new medium. (The Economist)
Media Startups Axios and the Athletic Discuss Merger, Eyeing SPAC Deal. Sports-media outlet the Athletic is in merger talks with news startup Axios, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a plan to build a larger online-publishing company that could include going public through a blank-check firm. (Benjamin Mullin via Wall Street Journal)
The Suez Mishap Is a Foretaste of the New Cold War Stakes. Ships so big they get stuck in the Canal literally define “chokepoint” but other waterways will play much more serious roles as the rivalry between China and the U.S. heats up. (David Fickling via Bloomberg)
Dominion Voting sues Fox News for $1.6 billion over 2020 election claims. Dominion Voting Systems Corp filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the cable news network of falsely claiming the voting company rigged the 2020 presidential election in order to boost its ratings, Dominion said on Friday. (CNBC)
'I'm Afraid to Open Twitter': Next-Level Harassment of Female Journalists Is Putting News Outlets to the Test. “It started late one day, and you could see it kind of building on social media,” Washington Post national editor Steven Ginsberg recalled of the torrent of online abuse directed last month at Seung Min Kim. (Charlotte Klein via Vanity Fair)
Reporters hype-then waste-Biden's first press conference. Last week, when the White House announced that Joe Biden would hold his first formal press conference as president on March 25, the pre-game hype began. ( Columbia Journalism Review)
My Asian Parents Still Won't Talk About the Racism They've Faced. When the group of teenagers surrounded my father, he might have been standing by a crate of watermelons, one hand palming a fruit, the other knocking at it for hollowness. (Karen Yuan via The Atlantic)
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