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emily bell
@emilybell
Prof + Director - Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia J School. Director, Guardian Media Group . bylines -assorted . @emilybell@mastodon (+ Bluesky)
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    emily bell
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    Apr 25, 2022
    Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership with pretty much zero scrutiny
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    emily bell
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    May 3, 2022
    Alito’s draft heavily references English legal precedent, including that of famed jurist Sir Matthew Hale who, it should be noted, had at least two women executed for witchcraft and wrote a treatise supporting marital rape
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    emily bell
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    Apr 12, 2017
    podcast genres : 1. Men going on about things. 2. Whispery crime 3.Millennials talking over each other 4. Should be 20 minutes shorter
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    emily bell
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    Jan 4, 2018
    dilemma of the Wolff book for journalism commentators : those who said press should break the rules, not normalize Trump, call it what it is etc., did not anticipate the most effective route to that would be by pulling off the most audacious act of access journalism of all time
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    emily bell
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    Jul 31, 2019
    Radio 4 Today programme : ‘Later we are going to be hearing from Steve Bannon’ WHY ? Why would you give him airtime?
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    emily bell
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    Jan 6, 2021
    I wish CNN commentators would stop saying ‘something I thought I would never see’ instead of ‘this was an entirely foreseeable consequence of the past four years’
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    emily bell
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    Oct 25, 2024
    Imagine owning a news organisation where one of your journalists was hacked to death by a dictator, and then not doing *everything* in your power to defeat his fans and enablers…
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    emily bell
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    Jan 8, 2021
    Suspension of accounts is step one, step two is implementing a policy which reflects the fact that powerful individuals need more restrictions, and *more* scrutiny from platforms ...rather than less
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    emily bell
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    Jan 7, 2021
    ...for those saying the police did nothing yesterday. Not entirely true : they arrested Washington Post journalists for filming protests
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    Zoeann Murphy
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    Jan 7, 2021
    With @wleaming, still rolling the camera while we were being arrested for filming protests outside the Capitol.
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    emily bell
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    Mar 20, 2018
    Imagining the discussion among the FB comms team ‘Omg - how do we stop this story ?? It spread so quickly! and some of it isn’t even right! people are just sharing it regardless- saying it’s a breach and it’s not!..clicking those angry face emojis ..what can we do? ‘
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    emily bell
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    Apr 9, 2020
    The best cold open I have seen to a news show from @maitlis
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    emily bell
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    Dec 4, 2022
    The appointment of Tim Davie as Director General of the BBC is proving a catastrophic mistake. Crucially - he is unequipped to stand up for the independence of BBC journalists in the face of meddling from an inappropriately hands-on right wing chair.
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    emily bell
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    Feb 24, 2022
    A war in Europe, preceded by a years long propaganda and influence campaign that destabilized, captured and divided European and US populations. This does not seem a random path
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    emily bell
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    Nov 5, 2020
    The Murdoch pivot ...
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    New York Post
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    Nov 5, 2020
    Panic-stricken Donald Trump Jr. calls for 'total war' in clueless tweet trib.al/XLEuFdf