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The Chompsky Weekly #59
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The Chompsky Weekly #59

In which I finally give in to TikTok.

Eliz Mizon
Apr 8
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The Chompsky Weekly #59
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Hello!

I’ve decided to stop apologising.

I’ve now taken several hiatuses (hiati?) from Chompsky when I’ve been super busy, and every time I’ve returned I’ve announced how SORRRRRYYYYY I am as though anyone actually cares, and it’s a Really Bad Thing.

In reality, I am lucky to have had much more work recently. It’s all stuff I’m deeply invested in, to do with making the media industry more sustainable, democratic, or equitable in some way, and so when I do have the time to come back and write a weekly newsletter I have plenty to talk about. Win, win.

This week I have been mainly navigating the Tories’ announcement that they’re planning to sell Channel 4. For a better understanding of why this is a terrible idea, I done a thread:

Twitter avatar for @ElizMizonEliz Mizon @ElizMizon
Here is a concrete, little-known example of how @Channel4 provides value to UK citizens **without costing us any money**, and why privatising the broadcaster will 🚨strip this value away🚨 The year was 2010... 🧵🪡 1/15

April 5th 2022

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The Media Democracy Festival just finished! We had some amazing talks and workshops, out of which came some very useful resources and slices of wisdom which you can read about here:

Chompsky: Power and Pop Culture
"Crucial for the future of UK democracy": The Media Democracy Festival 2022
The absence of a newsletter last week was due to my complete absorption by 2022’s Media Democracy Festival! This year I was asked by the Media Reform Coalition to co-ordinate, in recognition of my organising skills (and my being-a-loudmouth-about-the-media skills). It was a blast…
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2 months ago · Eliz Mizon

Oh and also, I finally admitted that TikTok is probably the future of online engagement and started a Chompsky channel (but had to tweet it to share here because Substack et al don’t support TikTok embeds yet):

Twitter avatar for @chompskyblogChompsky: Power & Pop Culture @chompskyblog
I started a #TikTok. It's going... okay. #nsfw
tiktok.com/@chompskyblog/…

April 8th 2022

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It’s Friday April 8th, 2022

Media News

  • UK journalists, campaigners, academics and other media representatives have signed an open letter to the government’s new Information Commissioner John Edwards, stating that the current Freedom of Information Request process is “clearly not working”, encouraging him to review and repair the process in consultation with them. Signatories include Joe Lycett, openDemocracy, Ian Hislop and Caroline Lucas.

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