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|| This is an imaginary report for an imaginary title, ‘The Ely Chronicle’, by a Fictitious Reporter: Wednesday: February 05: 2020: Eleanor Wheatsheaf Reporting  || ά. Outside the Church a whole lot of lit-green-luminous light-carpet lay flat on all sides other than the space, where the shadow of it measures itself better than Turner himself could ever do while the crickets, every now and then, chirp and jump to break away the silence of the late afternoon in Ely. Quiet as a dictionary, the day moves not.

The wheat fields dazed in the sun, staring at the blank of the hazy sky. This is not much of a report and, you, may, accuse this Reporter of being a bit ‘empty-headed’. But, it was here at this Church, where a few of them were housed and they reached millions of readers every time they got published by ‘mad people’, who had nothing else to do but keep publishing those, what, people, affectionately, called, ‘Little Magazines’; they would be any publications, that people published because others, particularly, large publishers were not interested in publishing them. Some of those, housed in this very Church, became large and went onto becoming powerful, professional publishing outlets.

They were all printed out and wet and soft and wonderfully chemical-smelling with their inherent ‘risk’;  as, if, like being given ‘evidence’ of a kiss, if, you touched them fresh. You get their ‘marks’ on your hands and from there the evidence would spoil your shirt or dress etc. So many newspapers of so many varying types got published and flourished everywhere like this. They formed a living-breathing ecology of a living-breathing public discourse; feeding debates and advancing discourses. Just from this Church many voluntary groups worked and published about eleven different titles, such as, The Left, The Left Right, The Poetic Fish, The Bookeroo, The Social Impetus, The Visionary, The Ecology, The Spirit of the Human Soul, Philosopher’s Walk etc. From Ely there used to be published about 177 titles of many types. All those out of this Church vanished now. Out of the 177, most followed the same vanishing fate; a few still struggle, their futures hang on the ‘wheatsheaf’ of cruel times.

Where is it all heading? What are we faced up with: where does humanity, communities of all kinds and types, get access to that ‘living-breathing ecology of a living-breathing public discourse; feeding debates and advancing discourses’? ‘’The distorteddia have taken things up and over; those, whose job it is to mind only, their money and profit-making and how to pocket the largest parts of it are ‘given’ the title of ‘media’ while they can not, even, spell media. Smaller outlets, provincial, regional, local, specialist and niche, most of them, have, already, been sacrificed. Even, larger national outlets are struggling to survive and in this only the regressive outlets have powerful money behind them while progressives are sent away packing. Where are we heading?’’ asks Mr Jefferson Stone, a local bookseller, who has closed down his bookshop, only, a couple of weeks ago, that his family ran for two centuries. ‘’People read no more. Wondering souls did still come but they were like an extinct species, you know. I had to call it a day!’’ Mr Stone walks off towards the Canal.

 

 

|| Wednesday: February 05: 2020 || ά. On Friday, June 05, 2020 the Society of Editors will once again host the Regional Press Awards to celebrate the best of British regional and local newspaper journalism in 2019. Journalists will have until Monday, March 02 to submit their entries.

The Regional Press Awards, organised by the Society of Editors, will, for the first time, acknowledge the shift from sales of newspapers to combined audience figures to recognise excellence in local press during 2019. The awards will continue to regard different categories in the daily, weekly and free weekly sections of the industry but, set the distinguishing levels in line with industry-recognised JICREG figures for ‘total monthly reach’, including, both print and digital audiences.

‘’The industry has moved on and quite correctly recognises the total audience its titles reach with their superb news, sports and features coverage. The Regional Press Awards will now recognise those figures, also, as part of this celebration of the vital role the vibrant regional press plays in the communities the length and breadth of the UK." said Mr Ian Murray, the Executive Director of the Society of Editors.

Consistent with last year’s awards, in some established categories, the award has been split to ensure that journalists working on smaller titles with less resources are recognised without having to compete with larger, better-funded regional daily newsrooms.

The Cathryn Nicoll Interviewer of the Year Award will run for its second consecutive year at this Regional Press Awards. The award was launched last year in memory of Cathryn Nicoll, who held the position of the News Editor at the Croydon Advertiser during her career as a journalist.

 Mr Paul Sinker, News Media Association, said, “During her career, Cathryn Nicoll devoted a significant amount of time to training and mentoring young journalists, who showed promise. The launch of an award in her name at last year’s Regional Press Awards highlighted some brilliant examples of interviewing and feature writing by young journalists and we hope to build on this with even more entries for the 2020 award.”

The award is open to any journalist, working for a weekly or daily local or regional newspaper, published in the UK, who is aged between 18 and 25 and rewards a £500 cash prize to its winner.

The awards will celebrate regional and local journalism in print or as part of a corresponding digital platform and will include the Making a Difference: People’s Choice public vote, organised by the News Media Association for Journalism Matters. 

Early registration and entries are encouraged so that any issues can be attended to in advance of the deadline. The entry price has been kept at the same level as last year. A shortlist will be announced in April 2020. The Awards will culminate with a glittering lunchtime ceremony on Friday, June 05. Proceeds will help fund the Society of Editors campaigning for press freedom.

A full list of categories and entry guidance can be found on the Society website.

For queries, contact ellen.bramley at societyofeditors.org or office at societyofeditors.org. Or ring the office on 01223 304 080.  

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10 Downing Street’s Orwellian Distortive Manipulation of the Media: The Society of Editors Condemns No 10’s Actions to Bar Journalists From Selective Lobby Briefing: Protesting Against It All Journalists Walked Out

 

|| Tuesday: February 04: 2020 || ά. The Society of Editors condemns Downing Street’s decision to bar journalists from an ‘inner lobby’ briefing yesterday, in a move that reflects the Society’s recent fears that moving the lobby briefings to Downing Street would allow the government to pick and choose which news outlets receive information. ‘’The Society of Editors commends the collective action of lobby journalists to walk out of the briefing and all eyes are on No 10 to make a swift turnaround of their decision. Yesterday’s actions are very much at odds with the pledges made for freedom of expression by the Prime Minister in his Queen’s speech in December.” said Mr Ian Murry, the Executive Director of the Society of Editors.

According to the Daily Mirror Political Editor, Ms Pippa Crerar, around 12 journalists from selected outlets, such as, the FT, The Sun and The Telegraph had received official invitations to attend a briefing with Mr David Frost, the European Advisor, to discuss the Prime Minister’s trade plans following the UK departing the European Union. On arrival, those, who were not on the official invite list were forced to stand on the opposite side of the foyer. Reportedly, Downing Street’s Head of Communications Mr Lee Cain told journalists, “Those, who are invited to the briefing can stay, everyone else, I'm afraid will have to leave.” In response to the lobby journalists’ outrage, he added, “We’re welcome to brief whoever we like.”

No, Mr Cain, you are not because this is the British Government, belonging to the people of this country and, thus, it is not anyone’s private property and, therefore, this is not a private house warming party! And, the press and media outlets are elemental part of the a democratic governance system and culture to do their part, their job: to keep the power and the powerful in account and offer the necessary check on behalf of the people. You do your job and let the press and media do theirs.

Journalists, both invited and barred, then, staged a walkout from the briefing in protest. Those involved in the walkout included reporters, such as, the BBC’s Ms Laura Kuenssberg and Sky News’ Ms Beth Rigby. And, that should be celebrated that all the journalists had acted together in unity and unison, apparently, in impromptu a manner. This is how the entire press and media world and all journalists should respond to these Orwellian distortive manipulation of the media.

Mr Ian Murray, the Executive Director of the Society of Editors, said, “Just three weeks ago, the Society of Editors sent an open letter, signed by many national newspaper editors to Downing Street, calling for No 10 to safeguard press freedom with assurances that no news organisation or journalist would be barred from entering Downing Street under the new arrangements for the lobby briefings. We did not receive a formal reply from No 10.

Yesterday’s events confirm the Society’s concerns for press freedom are very real. As a direct result of this change to the lobby system, reporters from the Mirror, the i, Politics Home and Huff Post, amongst others, had been barred entry from the briefing.

The Society of Editors commends the collective action of lobby journalists to walk out of the briefing and all eyes are on No 10 to make a swift turnaround of their decision. Yesterday’s actions are very much at odds with the pledges made for freedom of expression by the Prime Minister in his Queen’s speech in December.” 

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UK: The Cairncross Review
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|| Friday: January : 2020 || ά. h|| Friday: January 31: 2020 || ά. The National Union of Journalists:NUJ has condemned the government's response to the Cairncross Review recommendations as a wasted opportunity to address the crisis facing local journalism. Nearly, a year after the review was published, the statement from the government ruled out the creation of an Institute for Public Interest News to help save the news industry, claiming such a body could be seen as government interference in a free press.

Ms Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ General Secretary, said, "The Cairncross Review demonstrated the stark challenges, facing journalism and the NUJ welcomed its recommendations as a unique opportunity to address the deepening crisis and take action to stem the damage being done to our democracy. This tardy response from the government, jettisoning an Institute for Public Interest News on spurious grounds, fails to acknowledge the scale of the crisis in the media industry and demonstrates a lack of vision when it comes to implementing meaningful solutions. efusing to open up charitable status as a business model is, also, short-sighted, whilst it may not suit the needs of some major publishers, it would have provided an opportunity for many smaller and new entries into the industry, who are committed to the provision of quality public interest news. The response fails to address the need to bolster diverse and sustainable journalism in the UK. Calling for the BBC to fork out, even, more from the licence fee we pay for our public service broadcaster is not a solution to the problems the industry face; this 'more of the same' approach is simply not going to cut it."

The government signalled its willingness, however, to consider extending some tax breaks, which could include removing the VAT charged on online news subscriptions to fall in line with printed newspapers. The only financial commitment is a £1,500 discount on business rates for office space, occupied by local newspapers in England and a confirmation of the already committed investment of £02million to the charity Nesta, to encourage innovation in the news industry.

The Cairncross Review, also, recommended the development of a media literacy strategy, a market review of the digital advertising market, the creation of an online code of conduct and regulator for tech platforms, tax reliefs, an Ofcom review into the BBC and an expansion of the Local Democracy Reporters scheme.

In response to specific Cairncross recommendations the union has said:
::: Any new codes of conduct, recommendation one, or regulatory supervision, recommendation three, should not just advantage the large media companies, that currently dominate the news industry market.
::: Any new statutory duty of care for online providers, recommendation three, should be explicit in its definition of harm and safety and it should not impinge on freedom of association or expression. Any proposals for a new regulator for online platforms should be open to public and stakeholder consultation.
::: The NUJ encourages the government to publish the draft media literacy strategy, recommendation four, for consultation in advance of the launch in summer 2020.
::: Further investigations or assessments of the BBC’s market impact, carried by Ofcom, recommendation five, should not just focus on additional technical and digital expertise for the benefit of the largest publishers.
::: The new pilot innovation fund, recommendation six, operated by Nesta has been welcomed, however, only 19 projects out of the 178 applications have been approved, this shows the existing £02 million budget is not sufficient to meet the demand for investment and support.
::: The government have said the Chancellor will now consider the case for tax incentives, recommendation seven, to support the news publishing industry. The union believes there needs to be a proactive approach to supporting new models of media ownership.
The Cairncross Review recommended the Local Democracy Reporting Service should be reviewed and expanded, recommendation eight. The service was established by the BBC in 2017 and currently funds around 150 journalists across the UK, with a focus on reporting on the activities of local authorities and other public bodies. The scheme's creation was an acknowledgement of both the importance of public interest journalism and the deficit, created when many private sector media organisations sacrificed this kind of reporting in favour of what they perceived to be more profitable content.

NUJ believes that it is not appropriate for the licence fee payer to foot the bill for media companies to hire reporters. The Union wants the management and oversight of the scheme to be the responsibility of the BBC or a not-for-profit organisation. If, the scheme is expanded it should, also, cover local courts, as well as, public services. || Readmore ||
 

The Society of Editors Broadly Welcomes the Government's Support for Cairncross Review But Warns of Potential Risks to Free Media Online

 

|| Friday: January 31: 2020 || ά. The Society of Editors:SoE has broadly welcomed the Government’s response to the Cairncross Review into the future of UK journalism. The Society applauds the Government’s decision not to go ahead with a proposed Institute for Public Interest News and its support for a range of recommendations aimed at boosting the long-term future of the industry and in underscoring the important role of a free media in UK society.

However, the Society has urged caution in proposals to create a regulator to tackle the problems of disinformation and fake news on the web for fear it could dampen freedom of expression, have a chilling effect on media coverage and, possibly, harm the UK’s vibrant press. The Society was one of a number of organisations, consulted by the government, following the publication of the Cairncross Review last year.

The Society’s Editorial Director Mr Ian Murray said, “It is the correct step for the government to take to not follow through with the Cairncross Review’s recommendation to create an Institute for Public Interest News. The Society of Editors was consulted by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on this issue and felt there was a danger that the government would be seen to be deciding what constitutes worthwhile news coverage and what doesn’t. That should never be the role of government in a free, democratic society where many voices should be heard through a plurality of media outlets.

The Government’s underpinning of its support for a free media, media literacy and improving diversity in journalism is, also, to be very much welcomed and are subjects close to the hearts of Society members. The proposed role of a regulator to create a code of conduct to hold the digital platforms to account, particularly, in the areas of disinformation and unreliable news, will have to be approached with great care, however.

It is a difficult road to travel and there are real dangers that such codes could impinge on media freedom on the web and freedom of expression. The digital platforms may resort to sweeping algorithms to enact any codes imposed, which may not be subtle enough to understand what is genuine news and debate and what are unfounded, ill-researched or deliberately misleading articles.”

The Cairncross Review into the future of UK journalism set out nine main recommendations for the government to consider, including, introducing new tax reliefs, aimed at encouraging payments for online news; the expansion of the Local Democracy Reporting Service; Ofcom to explore the market impact of BBC News; and the establishment of new codes of conduct to re-balance the relationship between platforms and publishers. The government has accepted all of the recommendations with the exception of the proposal for an Institute for Public Interest News.

The government, also, added further action points, including, work to improve access for journalists, covering courts to promote open justice, work to increase the efficiency of government advertising spending with the media, ensuring the Local Government Publicity Code is fully implemented by local authorities and to promote an ongoing dialogue with the media industry.

The Government’s response to the Cairncross Report can be read in full here

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The Society of Editors Responds to ICO’s Assurances on New Age Appropriate Design Code

 

 

 

|| Monday: January 27: 2020 || ά. The Society of Editors has welcomed assurances from the Information Commissioner’s Office that a new code, designed to protect children while online, will not interfere with the freedom of the Press. But the Society, while welcoming assurances the code is not targeted at the news media, has expressed concerns that it remains vague in some areas and that news websites are still expected to take steps that, may, put off readers, especially, the younger ones.

The new Age Appropriate Design Code was presented on January 22 by the Information Commissioner’s Office:ICO. It is designed to force websites that target young people up to the age of 18 and those, that could attract children, even, if, aimed at adults, to take steps to protect their data and information.

The new code sets out 15 steps sites must take or acknowledge, including, the setting of privacy settings at the highest level. The news media industry had voiced concerns when the code was first drafted that older teenagers below the age of 18 were attracted to news sites and the code’s restrictions could harm their ability to engage and access information.

Too draconian rules for age verification could, also, drive away readers and harm advertising revenues to news websites, the SoE and other media representatives had argued. 

In a statement, accompanying the code, the ICO noted that there was no exemption for media sites and recognised that children would be attracted to them but, added. ‘’The ICO recognises that digital news media are not a core concern for children online, so the provisions of the code can be applied in a risk-based and proportionate way to reflect this.”

Mr Ian Murray, the Executive Director of the SoE, said that, while welcoming the assurances, time would tell what steps news media sites were now expected to take to fulfil the requirements of the Code.

“The ICO, obviously, realises that some children, young people aged under the age of 18, access news media sites and media organisations will have to take some steps to recognise this, albeit, at a low level. There is, however, no explanation of what that means in reality and whether a future Commissioner’s office will take a tougher stance.

A complete exemption from this code for the media would have been more appropriate, especially, given that there is a great deal of encouragement for young people, including, those under the age of 18, to engage with the news. The media guidelines to the code, also, state that online news services will have to establish low level self-verification forms of age certification for their users to identify children but does not state what form this should take.”

Mr Murray further added, ‘’Again, the Society broadly welcomes the recognition that intrusive age verification for news site users is not required. But the requirement will still be there for some form of action to be taken by news site visitors to confirm their age, which, may, prove unpopular, even, at the simplest level. Asking visitors to confirm their age, even, a simple yes or no tickbox, could be a barrier to readers, especially, children. There will, probably, need to be more clarification on this point.”

Once the Code has been laid by the Secretary of State at the Parliament, it will remain before Parliament for 40 sitting days. If, there are no objections, it will come into force 21 days after that.

The Code, then, provides a transition period of 12 months, to give online services time to conform. The next phase of the ICO’s work will include significant engagement with organisations to help them understand the code and prepare for its implementation.

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The Humanion Group of Publications: The Holiday Season Closure

 

|| Sunday: December 15: 2019 || ά. Dear Reader, during the Christmas and New Year holiday season The Humanion Group of Publications will not be published between Saturday, December 21, 2019 and Sunday, January 05, 2020. Therefore, this year’s last editions of both publications will be published on Friday, December 20 and the first editions of the New Year on Monday, January 06, 2020.

The Humanion Team wishes all our readers, well-wishers and supporters and their family, friends and colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New Year. Because hope is an eternal light, it does not ever get wiped out; we, therefore, keep on the eternal green of hope and keep on walking on the path of humanics with the faith that we humanity are an infinity unfolding itself.

Please, make a note in your dairy that the First Humanics Spring Festival 2020 and the First Regine Humanics Lecture 2020, will take place on Monday, April 06, from 10:00-20:30, all day, in Rotherhithe, South East London and the VIII London Poetry Festival 2020 on October 14-15 at the same venue in the evening: The Finnish Church in London: 33 Albion Road, London SE16 7HZ. Everyone is welcome and invited to join in.

Keep on sending your materials and news despite the fact that we won’t be open in the holiday closure but we shall receive and note them as they arrive. Make joy a sun and hope a moon and keep on going with their songs and landscapes in your soul regardless of what, where or how.

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|| Wednesday: September 11: 2019 || ά. Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd would like to let all the readers of all The Humanion Group of Publications know that, as of today, Wednesday, September 11, the Foundation’s and all its publication-websites are made secure.

This applies to The Humanion UK Online Daily at https://thehumanion.com, The Humanion Portable Daily at https://thehumanionportabledaily.com and The Foundation website, https://reginehumanicsfoundaiton.com. The Foundation would like to express its thankfulness and gratitude to all the readers for their continued support throughout the past and hopes that they will continue to walk with and support its efforts to seek to envision, believe and work for a better world with a better human condition across the mother earth for all humanity.

The Humanion Portable Daily is the latest in this effort and The Foundation invites everyone’s support in building it up. The print media, whatever format they are published, has been facing increasing and existential threats and a great deal of them have, already, disappeared. The latest sad news is that Marie Claire UK is to stop publishing. The print titles, that are being published by rich people and their companies will, eventually, come to an end because the rich and their companies will not countenance not making big profit, let alone, making big losses. Therefore, inevitably, these print publications face real prospect of being shut, gradually as their losses increase with falling sales and falling advertising revenue.

Th future of bona fide, professional, free, fair, transparent and independent journalism faces grave existential threats and, while this is the case, the future is heading towards the online and Portable Format, which The Humanion Portable Daily is following. Were readers and agencies, business, trade and commerce, as well as, all other organisations and agencies are not ready to pay for these publications and support them through advertising etc, the future of democracy, governance structures and the public discourse faces equally a bleak scenario. We invite everyone to support The Foundation to build something, that is for all humanity and not for profiteering for any owner or shareholder.:::ω.
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The Humanion Portable Daily: The Vast Majority of All the Mediums of the News Press and Media Outlets and Agencies of All the Countries of the World Are Owned and Run by the Rich of the World So That They Direct Herd and Dictate the Populace: The Humanion Group of Publications Are Not Owned by the Rich But by a Foundation That Does Not Believe in Ownership: Is It Necessary: Ask the Question to the Dispossessed of the Earth Whose Lives are Ravaged by the Dictates of the Rich

 

 

 

|| Sunday: September 08: 2019 || ά. Editorial: The Humanion Portable Daily || Monday: September 02: 2019 || ά. This is a fact: the print media of all manners and types are fast in the run of disappearing, those, that have not already done so, the radio, the television and now the online plethora of expressions of all these mediums, are mostly owned by the rich. And why would the rich of America speak of the vast multitude of the dispossessed, who make the vast chunk of America or any other place in the world for that matter? Why on earth, while the dispossessed are the vast majority, America has always been ruled by either the Republicans or the Democrats? Who are these parties and whose interests do they exist to support, protect and advance but the rich? But the rich do not constitute the majority, the dispossessed do: so how do we square it up: how come the vast majority of the dispossessed unfailingly keep on electing people and parties, that will harm their interests?

The same applies to the United Kingdom and all other countries in Europe and the rest of the world. The news and media outlets are owned, the vast majority of them, by the rich so that, at election times and any other time for that matter, the media and press sing from the hymn-sheet of their owners and, in this, there are some outlets, that claim to be independent but, they express editorial preference and call for the people to elect a party, that exists to promote the rich and harm the dispossessed! Example, The Guardian, once, supported and called for the people to vote for the Conservative Party and what did that Conservative Party do to the poor and the dispossessed: well, one would need to write an epic of a journalistic report on that for the years, that that Conservative run has done to the fabrics of the United Kingdom. The two bouts of Conservative Governments, once with the Liberal Democrats, who are now pretending that the country has forgotten about that, have established the sociology of squalor where sociology of evil spreads its devastating destructions of what are individual, familial and communal life and spheres.

There are so called independent media, such as, the BBC, the ITV and many such agencies but, they, too, fail terribly and have been doing so over a long time whereby they, too, are subscribed to certain viewpoints and they, too, fall into traps so that their independence gets compromised: example: BBC and ITV had lost a great deal of their credibility and independence during the times of Afghan and Iraq War.

Furthermore, BBC had failed terribly during the European Referendum and many other occasions. This goes to show that, in general, the media and press outlets, that are owned by the rich and, even, those, that are supposedly not owned by the rich, all follow the same pattern: they subscribe to the ‘accepted and established’ ‘school of viewpoint’ whereby anyone challenging their way of viewpoint is ignored and not spoken about or given any mention.

However, the world today is a dangerous one where it does not exist as one and old world and the way to conduct national and international affairs have broken down so that there is anarchy taking over everything so that, instead of advancing serious engagement and profound commitment and resolution, the world seems to have entered a puddle-phase where dysfunctional ways of working, hostile, abusive, abrasive, discourteous, vicious and dangerously aggressive attitude have begun to appear ‘normal’ while the world is falling apart.

Capitalism has established itself over the world, as, if, it has won the third world war because socialism has collapsed and disappeared. However, the world has moved on and came along the financial crash and in the background the distorteddia conglomerate appeared and kept on taking over everything so that capitalism has been transformed into pseudonomics, which can not but bring capitalism to its terminal end. Yet, no press, news and media outlets has much time about bringing these vital issues and fundamental plethora of crises forward. Along with these challenges there are the distorteddia, which have been devastating the very existence of independent, free and bona fide journalism, news, press and media and, these distorteddia conglomerate are running a culture of ‘fake and mythology making warehouses’ and with these they begun to direct, herd and manipulate, even, the running and functioning of the judiciary and democratic processes, such as, the conducting and running of democratic elections.

The world across the earth has been devastated by the rapid and ferocious spread of dehumanisation of humanity, the spread of the sociology of squalor and the sociology of evil and with all this the ever-increasing poverty, hunger, malnutrition, unemployment, unemployability, homelessness, rough sleeping, lack of universal education, lack of safe water to drink, lack of sanitation, malnutrition and illnesses and, the list goes on keep on, going while millions of humans are perishing away of many causes, that are easily preventable. Every economy in the world is such that the vast majority of workers are being paid poverty wage and, yet, the system goes on and there are not many media outlets in the world, that are raising these vast and vital issues and they are rather interested about imposing things over the people so that America keeps on being ruled by the rich people’s party so does the rest of the world.

On top of all this the world is a hypothetical thing: it is not one nor does it have a body to look after it and speaks for it where the United Nations has, effectively, been eliminated into the background of being a ‘grand talk shop’. The world’s press, news and media outlets are national and they are engaged in that closed-up sphere where they are filled with things about their own locality and the world does not exist to them or for them. Some outlets offer ‘apologetic’ space to the world, as, if, by some ‘grace’. The Humanion began for the world and world humanity and with it today joins The Humanion Portable Daily, seeking to be the voice of the dispossessed and the voice of the voiceless humanity and the mute mother earth.

The world can not exist the way it is today and humanity will perish and get extinct until and unless we rise to face, accept and respond to the challenges we face and go forward boldly, raising questions and seeking answers. The Humanion family of publications are determined to keep on going, challenging, for ‘For Serious, Committed, Independent and Fearless Journalism: For Vital, Fundamental and Complex Issues.’

We hope the readers will join us and support us keep on raising questions and seeking answers and bringing things, issues and ideas before the public domain, that not many other outlets are doing. Your support for Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd and what it is seeking to do is sought, welcome and valued. Change happens all the same: unless we envision and work for such envisioned change, by default change happens without our leave or involvement but that change by default is not change but decay: we need to initiate and bring about change so that we know what is changing and why it must change but, most importantly, what change is taking the place of the old: this change happens because we make it happen and it begins at nanoscale, always, building up, deeper, wider and farther. Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd has begun its existence in the vision of humanics and that is where we are heading. The world must be one and we humanity must be one and must we find a way to exist in harmony, peace and equilibrium or homeostasis, which can not ever come to exist until and unless we reach a state where all humans of this earth are at liberty and at equality in the rule of law in natural justice. So long there is capitalism there shall never come such a state nor can socialism or communism can ever take us there for the later has demonstrated that by its failure. The future of that state of humanity is in our hands, in our faith and in our conviction that we are better than this ruinous human condition, in which capitalism has brought us. Humanics is the future of humanity and the earth: but for this we ought to have faith and belief in our innate infinite goodness for humanity is an infinity unfolding itself: humanics has been walking on this path: humanity is an infinity unfolding itself. Tell capitalism that: you can not keep on slaughtering humanity for this is what you have been doing all along. :::ω.

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Scotland Yard's Attack on Press Freedom Unacceptable: Society of Editors
 

 

 

|| Saturday: July 13: 2019 || ά. The Society of Editors said today that the warning from Scotland Yard to the media not to publish leaked government documents shows a truly worrying lack of understanding of how a free press works in a liberal democracy. “I can not think of a worse example of a heavy-handed approach by the police to attempt to curtail the role of the media as a defence against the powerful and those in authority.” said the Society’s Executive Director Mr Ian Murray.

His comments were in response to the Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner Mr Neil Basu’s insistence that publishers and editors hand back any leaked government documents, following the publishing of confidential emails from Sir Kim Darroch, the UK Ambassador to the United States and his subsequent resignation. “The implied threat is that the media would be acting against the law in publishing leaked documents, even, if, they were in the public interest.’’

‘’This is simply not acceptable in a free society and will act as a huge deterrent to whistle-blowers.” Mr Murray went onto saying.

“Frankly, it is the kind of approach we would expect from totalitarian regimes where the media are expected to be little more than a tame-arm of the government. This is not nor should be the case here in the UK.

It is ironic, indeed, that Scotland Yard’s approach comes in the week where the UK has hosted the first Global Conference for Media Freedom. And we should not forget that the UK already languishes at number 33 in the World Index on Press Freedom, created by Reporters Without Borders.

To be a true beacon to the world on press freedom, the media in the UK should not have to face threats from the police in this way.”:::ω.

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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s Convicted of Journalism Claim Is a Dangerous Distortion of the Truth: Society of Editors

 

 

|| Thursday: July 11: 2019 || ά. The Society of Editors has stated that he claim by the former English Defence League Leader Mr Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the pseudonym, Tommy Robinson, that his jailing for contempt of court is an attack on journalism is a ‘dangerous distortion of the truth’. Mr Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed at the Old Bailey for nine months today, July 11, after being found guilty previously of interfering with the trial of a sexual grooming gang at Leeds Crown Court.

Mr Yaxley-Lennon had broadcast footage from outside the court in breach of a court order banning all media coverage until the end of a series of linked trials. At his sentencing Mr Yaxley-Lennon claimed the sentence was an attack on journalism and wore a t-shirt with the words ‘Convicted of Journalism’, that, also, compared the UK to North Korea. Reacting to his claims, the Society of Editors’ Executive Director Mr Ian Murray said that in reality Mr Yaxley-Lennon had broken the law by ignoring the laws of contempt, that any junior reporter working for a reputable news provider would be aware of.

“On the one level, this underscores how it is the mainstream media and others, that devote huge amounts of time and resources to training their journalists, that can be relied upon to provide accurate and balanced reporting of the facts. While anyone can claim to be a journalist in this country and there is no appetite nor should there be for the licensing of journalists in the UK, the mainstream British media adheres to the laws of the land, is correctly regulated and ensures its journalists are highly trained. I am not aware that Robinson has any formal training as a journalist and to claim his trial and sentencing is an attack of journalism itself is a farce.”

But, Mr Murray added that the claims would, no doubt, resonate with his supporters and, also, provide ammunition for those, who wish to harm the UK media. “Sadly, there are people, who wish to see the media in the UK emasculated and, these sorts of claims are so obviously unfounded, they provide ammunition to attack us with.

Against a background where some politicians, who should know better, are constantly attacking the free media, Robinson’s actions and subsequent claims to represent journalism under attack are a dangerous distraction.

There are sufficient real and potential threats to genuine journalism to contend with, such as, the Online Harms White Paper, the Age Appropriate rulings from the Information Commissioner’s Office and the still un-repealed Section 40 clause to the Crime and Courts Act 2013.”:::ω.

Caption: Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Murdered Maltese Journalist

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Courtney Radsch to Deliver Tom Olsen Lecture 2019: Enemies of the People: The Global Assault on Journalists and Press Freedom: July 08 at St Bride Fleet Street

 

 

 

|| Wednesday: June 19: 2019 || ά. Tom Olsen Lecture 2019 is to be delivered by Ms Courtney Radsch, titled, Enemies of the People: The Global Assault on Journalists and Press Freedom, on Monday, July 08 at St Bride’s, Fleet Street at 19:00. Ms Radsch is is the Director of Advocacy at the Committee to Protect Journalists:CJP.

CPJ is the partner of the One Free Press Coalition, which identifies the top ten urgent cases, in collaboration with the International Women's Media Foundation. The Lecture, ‘Enemies of the People: The Global Assault on Journalists and Press Freedom, will focus on the global assault on press freedom, what this means for journalists and how the media organisations and agencies are standing up to protect their own through initiatives like the Coalition.

For further enquires contact claire.seaton at stbrides.com: Tickets: In Advance: £10.00: Students: £05.00: On the Door: £15.00: Students: £10.00.

Doors open at 18:30: guests can join for a drink after the lecture, courtesy of Kaizo, an independent PR and digital agency, that helps business and consumer brands thrive in today's economy.

About the Tom Olsen Lecture: Tom Olsen had a long career in journalism both in London and the provinces. He worked as reporter, leader-writer, editor and author. He had a great love of writing whether under his own name or the nom de plume John Morrell. He loved wine, too and, spent the last fifteen years of his life as the wine correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.

Tom Olsen was an enthusiast for the Church of St Bride, which during his time shared Fleet Street with the nation's press. When he died in 1987 it was felt that his memory should be perpetuated through a trust, that bears his name. The aim of the Trust is to further the work of St Bride's.:::ω.

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The Society of Editors Warns of Severe Consequences If Plans to Restrict Young People’s Access to News Websites Go Ahead

 

 

|| Thursday: May 30: 2019 || ά. Writing to the Information Commissioner’s Office:ICO, the Society says that proposals to ensure news websites are age appropriate risk doing untold harm to legitimate media companies, even, forcing some regional titles to fold. The proposals are part of the ICO’s Age Appropriate Code Consultation, which seeks to protect young people and children under the age of 18 from having their data details exploited on the web.

The proposals, if, enacted, would require news websites to either ensure their content is suitable to be read by children or require users to prove they are adults. “Not only are these proposals a real threat to the financial future of media companies, they, also, fly in the face of other endeavours to encourage young people to engage with the world around them and play a part in their future.” said the Society’s Executive Director Mr Ian Murray.

“In either eventuality the media industry online would be severely harmed. Making news content child-friendly will inevitably mean watering it down substantially, while asking users to provide proof of age would see a huge loss of readers. Without the ability to provide advertisers with market research, collated from users, the aim of these proposals, the industry would be unable to attract revenue.” Mr Murray said.

The proposals from the ICO are not aimed at protecting children from possible unacceptable content but solely from the use of their data. “While no one wishes to see children and young people exploited, there appears to be no evidence this is, actually, the case with media websites. Yet, now the industry is faced with potentially catastrophic harm in an attempt to remove an unrecorded threat.” Mr Murray said.

In his letter to the ICO, Mr Murray wrote that, although, news was not targeted specifically at children, those under the age of 18, there had always been an encouragement that young adults and teenagers do engage with the world through reading newspapers and following news broadcasts.

‘’The proposed age-appropriate codes would seem to go against that body of thought, which in itself is strange at a time when there are more and more calls for young people, especially teenagers, to have their voices heard with regard to their future. Here it appears teenagers and young people under the age of 18 are to be treated as too young to be allowed to engage in the world taking shape around them.” Mr Murray wrote in the letter

Read the Society’s submission to the ICO.

About the Society of Editors: The Society of Editors has members in national, regional and local newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and new media, journalism education and media law. It campaigns for media freedom, self-regulation, the public's right to know and the maintenance of standards in journalism.:::ω.

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An Invitation: Join The Humanion Team

 

 

|| Thursday: May 02: 2019 || ά. There are countless neutrinos, invisible, insignificant but necessary, the last, almost, hypothetical ‘matter’ in this Universe; combining all of them together would create an enormous body of a mass! Invisible is invincible, if, we count these neutrinos. The world and humanity did not know they existed until very recently. We have two things in an equation: Questions=Answers. We have infinite range of questions to raise, seek and get answers to in relation to working out this infinite conundrum of this Colossus Complexus, that is this human life and human existence on earth, this life, this ecology of the web of life, this humanity, this human progression, this society and all, that goes on in it and this ever evolving expanse of the Mother Universe, where matter, motion and biological life function under Universal Laws and to do all this and, to do this well, all we have is the ]eternal power’ of the human mind: to keep on learning eternally. We keep on learning and we keep on developing ourselves as we go on. This is the developmental and progressional pathway for taking forward the human condition. This is why and this is how we have been able to leave the cave and ventured out to build and we have built much, albeit, of weakly construction, that does not seem to support our existence.

Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd and The Humanion and all the other things we are seeking to do is to seek to finding a way to do exactly this: keep at it on the path of eternal learning and inspiring minds to keep on learning and expanding our understanding and our abilities further and forward. There are many views one could take in relation to time but, taking the cosmosian time frame and arrangements, human time seem, almost, pointless. A year or a decade or a century or a millennium is nothing in relation to the Astronomical times. Often, it takes billions of years for us to come to know of an event, that took place in that long a past. Sometime, we look at stars shimmering away in the night heavens without knowing or realising that that star had already died long ago.

In this Cosmosian spread of time, human existence, must, therefore, be always mindful of our existence in this Cosmosian spread of time and in this Universal context. So far, less than 02% of the human genome has been expressed of the human genome! 98% has not yet been expressed. That is how far we are at the developmental stage: we are, this humanity, is nothing but a crawling baby and this baby has been able to create this mess, this capitalistic apparatus, that is the proof as to what a little baby this humanity is. We can work, act, do and create more and better were we to be able to raise ourselves up and wayward with the injection of this view-point that this is the humanity baby and this is how far it will have to keep on going, developing itself, from 02% of the genome to 100% of it, few hundred million years into the future, only to reach full young adult stage of development.

Therefore, those, who subscribe to the view that capitalism and Marxism have become the ultimate strait-jacket of inventions within whose ‘decrepitude’ humanity must keep on suffering and paying the price for this horrendous human condition imposed on humanity by capitalism and by the failure of Marxism, are nothing but dead wrong. However, they seem to offer the view that this is the pinnacle of human development and progression, this capitalism, this killing mechanism, this mother-apparatus-of-all-misery, that have put up all barriers, all obstacles and all prohibitions against the very humanity and the very human existence. Humanics challenges this view and puts forward the critique in philosophy, political philosophy, political economics, public affairs management, jurisprudence and sociology, demonstrating as to why must we rise to remove these obstacles, barriers and prohibitions, established, created, implemented and enforced onto the human existence so that they, effectively, annul the human existence into nothing but a life-long live-in-life-sentence of suffering, misery, agony and pain.

The Humanion invites readers to make a choice and raise questions and not accept taughtologies. Despite capitalism’s assertion, through its psychology of zoohuman, behaviourism and Freudianism, that humanity is selfish, humanity is nothing like it. Humanics views humanity as an infinity unfolding itself: humanity is nothing but infinite imagination, empathy, ingenuity and creativity put together in a finite expression with hypothetical infinite potentials to be and do: human. Only zoohumans are selfish; natural humanity, humanity naturale is not and can not be selfish. Take the view: a Consultant spends her entire life, learning and practising Medicine. And what does she do with it: yes, she gets paid so she pays her bills and makes some savings etc and she serves people and she dies, leaving any left-over wealth she was able to generate behind. But what did she do with her learning of a life time? Who did she serve? Who did she leave behind anything she had created? And, here, in the long run, all her life’s works served the people, all the student medics she taught and left behind will do the same as she did with her life and learning. She left some books, that she had written, many medical text books, which will be studied for generations. Who did this Consultant’s existence serve, what did all her life long learning do? Who did she serve?

And we see that this Consultant’s existence and life was not selfish. She did not learn for herself! Imagine that she did not get paid for all her life’s work, that she needed no money and she did all that she would have done. She would have existed in humanics without money and still she would have contributed to better the human condition by as much. No one learns anything for oneself, in the long run. The generations of teachers served the people. Generations of social workers, doctors, engineers, architects, authors, poets, composers and so on served humanity with their craft. Take money and ownership off existence and all these professions still keep on serving humanity with their knowledge, learning and crafts and society will go on but, much better for they all now will have a meaning and purpose in life because they do not get paid for what they do so that, effectively, all they create are given to society as gifts, as personal contributions, donations to one’s society and communities while one existed on other humanity’s gifts and contributions. In giving humanity becomes second to none and in receiving humanity becomes as gracious as humanity can be because one has existed in one’s entire existence with others’ contributions to enable their existence.

Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd and The Humanion invite for your support, which you can do in many ways: today, we write to invite and encourage people, particularly, the youth, to join The Humanion Team. We need more people to get involved and help us take humanics forward. Humanics is not going to happen tomorrow or at the next election or next year or next decade but it can not but happen; otherwise, capitalism has enough killing power to bring the entire humanity into extinction. We are offering this minority view today and we are taking small but sure little strides in taking the message and vision of humanics forward. Take part, join in and let us take forward the vision of humanics towards the future. The Humanion covers a whole range of things and there are opportunities for many people to get involved: offer some time with commitment and a sense of purpose. Anything big begins small. We have made our small little start and we are going: join us in this Long Walk to Humanics and let us lay the little neutrinos on the architectural grid and let us keep on adding them so that they begin to become electrons, protons and neutrons and they create atoms and they join and begin to form molecules and they join and they keep on creating wider grid. Capitalism is not the high pinnacle of humanity nor does Marxism have the answers we need. We need you to join our team and let us keep on building and adding one neutrino to another till they begin to form large enough structure to be seen. One by one: one star in each eye for one soul and there stands another soul, that makes two sets of stars in two sets of eyes and each gets added power from the other for their stars are now reflected  in the other eyes. Join us and let us go: keep on walking on the path of the Long Walk to Humanics.

Send in your CV, with a short write up of no more than 300 words, about humanics and why you would like to join us and what you can offer, in terms of time commitments etc and send it to editor at thehumanion.com: These are voluntary and unpaid positions and you join in simply because you believe in what we are seeking to do, you believe in humanics and the vision its puts forward for the future of this humanion and, most importantly, you believe that by joining forces and working together, hand in hand, we could gather more neutrinos together faster and reach wider quicker. Capitalism has brought the world and world humanity to a state of ‘decay’, a state of ‘rot’ and a state of ‘dysfunction’. Let us take the new, vibrant, ever-green, ever-growing, ever-natural, ever-soulful vision of humanics to build a soul-commune-ecology of one-humanity, to each and every soul of this humanity.

We await to hear from you all: you, who are at learning and research institutions, at medical schools, at law schools, at college and university campuses, at cafes and cafeterias, at work places, in communities and organisations and agencies, at hospitals and teaching hospitals and research, learning and innovation fields, at business, trade and commerce across the United Kingdom, across Europe and across the world, across the Mother Earth. But let us re-iterate, humanics is not going to happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or next year or in a decade but unless we set up and out and work for and establish the foundation of the idea and vision of humanics and put up a parallel society, civilisation, philosophy, political philosophy, political economics, public affairs management, jurisprudence and sociology in every room, every arena, every sphere and every space, where capitalism is discussed capitalism will not be seen as to how rotten, how decaying and how desperately monstrous a killing apparatus it is and it has become and why this rotting, stinking and monstrous dead and deathly thing must be taken out to free humanity from the psychology of zoohuman into the psychology of humanity naturale: all children, both woman and man, of the Mother Earth is set free at liberty, at equality at all times under the rule of law in natural justice, where humanicsovics runs the public affairs management system and all business, trade and commerce or all the productive and economical activities are run in humanics in a humanical civilisation in humanical societies, that have buried ownership and money into the depth of the deepest vault of the history museum of human development. We await to hear from you.:::ω.

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John Witherow to Deliver the Society of Editor’s Satchwell Lecture: June 10

 

|| Thursday: May 02: 2019 || ά. The Editor of The Times, Mr John Witherow will deliver the annual Society of Editors’ Satchwell Lecture in London in June. Mr Witherow is a major media figure with a distinguished career in journalism. He has edited The Times since 2013 and this year saw the paper pick up the prestigious Daily Newspaper of the Year title at the National Press Awards.

The Satchwell Lecture takes place at Stationers’ Hall on Monday, June 10, which is free to attend and includes a glass of wine. Spaces are limited and registration can be made via the Lecture’s Eventbrite page. The Lecture will start at 19:00 with a reception, followed at 19:30 by the lecture and a question and answers session with time for networking to follow. The evening is expected to end at 21:00.

The Satchwell Lecture is named for former Society of Editors Executive Director Mr Bob Satchwell, who stepped down from his role in March 2017 due to a life-changing illness. Last year’s inaugural lecture was delivered by BBC Director General Lord Tony Hall.

Mr John Witherow is the longest-serving national newspaper editor in Britain. He joined The Times in 1980 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1995 and editor of The Times in 2013. He started his career in South West Africa, now Namibia, in 1970 with the aim of teaching in Ovamboland on the Angolan border. He was refused a permit to go there by the South African government, which governed South West Africa at the time. Instead, he set up a library for Africans in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. While there, he was a BBC stringer for the Africa service.

Mr Witherow joined Reuters news agency in 1977 and worked in Madrid for a year before joining the Times as a reporter. In his first week he covered the Iranian embassy siege and later the Iran-Iraq war. In 1982, he was sent on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible to cover the Falklands war. After reporting on the air war and surviving Exocet attacks, that destroyed HMS Sheffield, he was put ashore with Five Infantry Brigade. He came under bomb attack while on an ammunition ship and was close by when Argentine aircraft struck RFA Galahad, killing 48 servicemen, the biggest single loss of British life during the war.

After the fall of Port Stanley in June, he returned to the UK on a Hercules plane with the SAS. He wrote a book, The Winter War, The Falklands, with Patrick Bishop. In the same year, Mr Witherow spent six months in Boston and Washington for the Boston Globe.

He moved to The Sunday Times in 1983. There he served in several positions, including, defence correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor and head of news. He was made Editor after the departure of Mr Andrew Neil in 1995.

Under his editorship, the paper broke a series of powerful news stories, including, cash for questions, cash for honours and the abuse of the expenses system in the upper house. Several peers were fined, suspended and one was jailed as a result. These stories helped reform the Houses of Parliament.

He was Editor when the Paper alleged that US cyclist Mr Lance Armstrong was a drugs cheat.  Armstrong sued and the paper had to settle. Only later did US authorities prove he was using performance-enhancing drugs and he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. The paper recovered its damages and costs from Mr Armstrong. The episode was made into a film, called, The Programme, 2015. He, also, presided over the start of the Insight investigation into corruption at FIFA, which, ultimately, led to the suspension of Mr Sepp Blatter in 2015.

In 2013 he was made Editor of The Times. The Paper became profitable for the first time and has won numerous newspaper awards. It, also, became Britain’s biggest selling quality national daily under his editorship.

Although, there is no charge for the event, donations towards the Journalists’ Charity will be encouraged. For further queries, interested are requested to contact Ms Mariella at the Society of Editors on 01223 30 40 80 or mariella.brown at societyofeditors.org.

Caption: John Witherow: Editor: The Times: Image: Society of Editors:::ω.

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It Is a Democratic Crisis: Make Tech-Companies Liable for the Use of Harmful and Misleading Material on Their Sites: Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee

 

 

 

|| July 29: 2018: || ά. In a first interim report in its Disinformation and ‘Fake News’ Inquiry, published today, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee warns that we are facing a democratic crisis founded on the manipulation of personal data and targeting pernicious views to users, particularly, during elections and referenda. The Committee outlines a series of recommendations to tackle the problem of disinformation and fake news facing the whole world.

Mr Damian Collins MP, the Chair of the Committee, said, "We are facing nothing less than a crisis in our democracy, based on the systematic manipulation of data to support the relentless targeting of citizens, without their consent, by campaigns of disinformation and messages of hate. In this inquiry we have pulled back the curtain on the secretive world of the tech-giants, which have acted irresponsibly with the vast quantities of data they collect from their users.

Despite concerns being raised, companies like Facebook made it easy for developers to scrape user data and to deploy it in other campaigns without their knowledge or consent. Throughout our inquiry these companies have tried to frustrate scrutiny and obfuscated in their answers. The light of transparency must be allowed to shine on their operations and they must be made responsible and liable, for the way in which harmful and misleading content is shared on their sites.

We heard evidence of co-ordinated campaigns by Russian agencies to influence how people vote in elections around the world. This includes running adverts through Facebook during elections in other countries and in breach of their laws. Facebook failed to spot this at the time and it was only discovered after repeated requests were made for them to look for evidence of this activity.

Users were unaware that they were being targeted by political adverts from Russia, because they were made to look like they came from their own country and there was no information available at all about the true identity of the advertiser. I believe what we have discovered so far is the tip of the iceberg. There needs to be far greater analysis done to expose the way advertising and fake accounts are being used on social media to target people with disinformation during election periods. The ever-increasing sophistication of these campaigns, which will soon be helped by developments in augmented reality technology, make this an urgent necessity.

 

Data crimes are real crimes, with real victims. This is a watershed moment in terms of people realising they themselves are the product, not just the user of a free service. Their rights over their data must be protected.

The first steps in tackling disinformation and fake news are to identify the scale of the problem and the areas where immediate action is required. In this interim report we have set out a series of recommendations, including, making the tech-companies take greater responsibility for misleading and harmful content on their sites, providing greater transparency for users on the origin of content, that has been presented to them, raising funding from the tech-sector to provide more media literacy training in schools, and calling for an international coalition to act against campaigns of disinformation from Russian agencies and their networks, whose purpose is to disrupt our democracy."

The Interim Recommendations: The Committee sets out a series of major reforms to begin to tackle this issue and invites responses to its proposals, a complete list of interim recommendations is available in the report:

Make Tech-Companies Responsible and Liable: We recommend that a new category of tech-company is formulated, which tightens tech-companies' liabilities and which is not necessarily either a 'platform' or a 'publisher'. We anticipate that the Government will put forward these proposals in a White Paper later this year.

This process should establish clear legal liability for the tech-companies to act against harmful and illegal content on their platforms. The tech-companies are not passive platforms on which users input content; they reward what is most engaging, because engagement is part of their business model and their growth strategy. They have profited greatly by using this model. This manipulation of the sites by the tech-companies must be made more transparent.

Just as the finances of companies are audited and scrutinised, the same type of auditing and scrutinising should be carried out on the non-financial aspects of technology companies, including, their security mechanisms and algorithms, to ensure they are operating responsibly.

Impose a levy on tech-companies to fund education and the Information Commissioners Office:ICO. We recommend that the Government put forward proposals in its forthcoming White Paper for an educational levy to be raised by social media companies, to finance a comprehensive media educational framework.

We suggest there could be a levy on tech-companies operating in the UK, to help pay for the expanded work of the ICO, similar to the way in which the banking sector pays for the upkeep of the Financial Conduct Authority.

 

Change the Rules on Political Campaigning: There should be a public register for political advertising, requiring all political advertising work to be listed for public display so that, even, if, work is not requiring regulation, it is accountable and transparent for all to see. There should be a ban on micro-targeted political advertising to Facebook 'lookalike audiences' where users have requested not to receive political adverts.

The Electoral Commission should come forward with proposals for more stringent requirements for major donors to demonstrate the source of their donations. We support the Electoral Commission's suggestion that all electronic campaigning should have easily accessible digital imprint requirements, including, information on the publishing organisation and who is legally responsible for the spending, so that it is obvious, at a glance, who has sponsored that campaigning material, thereby, bringing all online adverts and messages into line with physically published leaflets, circulars and advertisements.

The Electoral Commission should, also, establish a code for advertising through social media during election periods, giving consideration to whether such activity should be restricted during the regulated period, to political organisations or campaigns, that have registered with the Commission.

The Government should investigate ways in which to enforce transparency requirements on tech-companies, to ensure that paid-for political advertising data on social media platforms, particularly, in relation to political adverts, are publicly accessible, are clear and easily searchable and identify the source, explaining who uploaded it, who sponsored it and its country of origin.

Tech-companies, must, also, address the issue of shell corporations and other professional attempts to hide identity in advert purchasing, especially, around election advertising. There should be full disclosure of targeting used as part of advert transparency.

Competition and Market Authority:CMA Audit of Fake Accounts: If, companies like Facebook and Twitter fail to act against fake accounts and properly account for the estimated total of fake accounts on their sites at any one time, this could not only damage the user experience but, potentially, defraud advertisers, who could be buying target audiences on the basis that the user profiles are connected to real people. We ask the Competition and Markets Authority to consider conducting an audit of the operation of the advertising market on social media.

 

Digital Atlantic Charter: The UK Government should consider establishing a digital Atlantic Charter as a new mechanism to reassure users that their digital rights are guaranteed. This innovation would demonstrate the UK’s commitment to protecting and supporting users and establish a formal basis for collaboration with the US on this issue. The Charter would be voluntary but would be underpinned by a framework setting out clearly the respective legal obligations in signatory countries. This would help ensure alignment, if, not in law, then, in what users can expect in terms of liability and protections.

Other 'Malign Actors': The interim report outlines disturbing evidence of the activities undertaken by companies in various political campaigns dating from around 2010, including, the use of hacking, of disinformation and of voter suppression through alleged violence and intimidation.

One company, SCL, used behavioural micro-targeting to support their campaign messages ahead of USA mid-term elections in 2014, later claiming that in just one of their campaigns the 01.5 million advertising impressions they generated created a 30% uplift in voter turnout, against the predicted turnout, for the targeted groups.

The Committee found evidence that AIQ used tools that ‘scrape’ user profile data from Linked In. The tool acts similarly to online human behaviour, searching Linked In user profiles, scraping their contacts and all accompanying information, such as, users' place of work, location and job title.

The report begins to attempt to expose the shady, secretive world of these tech-companies and the high level international links between these companies, their subsidiaries and individuals. In one example, the inquiry heard of the links between SCL and Mr Christian Kalin of Henley Partners and their involvement in election campaigns in which Mr Kalin ran ‘citizenship by investment’ programmes involving the selling of certain states' passports to investors, usually, from countries, that face extensive travel restrictions.

The Committee's final report, which will, also, include further conclusions based on the interrogation of data and other evidence, is expected before the end of the year.

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The Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards 2018
 

 

 

|| April 22: 2018 || ά. A public art project and website celebrating dissent in Cuba and a collective of young bloggers and web activists, who give voice to the opinions of young people from all over the Democratic Republic of Congo, are among the winners of the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards 2018. The winners were announced on Thursday evening at a gala ceremony in London. Among the winners were  one of the only human rights organisation still operating in Egypt and an investigative journalist from Honduras, who regularly risks her life for her right to report on what is happening in the country.

The awards were presented in four categories: Arts, Campaigning, Digital Activism and Journalism. The winners are: Cuban art collective The Museum of Dissidence in Arts, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms in Campaigning, Habari RDC, a collective of young Congolese bloggers and activists in Digital Activism; and Honduran investigative journalist Ms Wendy Funes in Journalism. “These winners deserve global recognition for their amazing work.” said Index on Censorship CEO Ms Jodie Ginsberg. “Like all those nominated, they brave massive personal and political hurdles simply so that others can express themselves freely.”

Drawn from more than 400 public nominations, the winners were presented with their awards at a ceremony at The Mayfair Hotel, London, hosted by Poet Ms Kate Fox. Actors, writers and musicians were among those celebrating with the winners. The guest list included The Times Columnist and Chair of Index Mr David Aaronovitch, BBC Presenter Mr Jonathan Dimbleby, Comedian Ms Shazia Mirza, social human rights activists Mr Nimco Ali and Ms Sara Khan, Serpentine Galleries CEO Ms Yana Peel, Poet Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, Channel 4’s Ms Lindsey Hilsum.

Winners were presented with cartoons created by Mr Khalid Albaih, a Romanian-born Sudanese social media based political cartoonist, who considers himself a virtual revolutionist.

Each of the award winners will become part of the fourth cohort of Freedom of Expression Awards fellows. Through the fellowship, Index works with the winners both during an intensive week in London and the rest of the awarding year to provide longer term, structured support. The goal is to help winners maximise their impact, broaden their support and ensure they can continue to excel at fighting free expression threats on the ground.

This year’s panel of judges included Ms Razia Iqbal, a Journalist for BBC News, Mr Tim Moloney QC, Deputy Head of Doughty Street Chambers, Ms Yana Peel, CEO of the Serpentine Galleries and Mr Eben Upton CBE, a Founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and CEO of Raspberry Pi.

Awards judge Mr Eben Upton said, “"The ability to speak freely is a key foundation of democratic society and the rule of law: absent the ability to openly identify the abuse of power, extractive economic conditions and exclusive political institutions, proliferate. This is why freedom of expression is so precious and so often under attack from those in power."

This is the 18th year of the Freedom of Expression Awards. Former winners include Activist Ms Malala Yousafzai, Cartoonist Mr Ali Ferzat, journalists Ms Anna Politkovskaya and Mr Fergal Keane and Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.

Mr Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE, said, “The protection and promotion of free speech is a belief firmly entrenched within our values at SAGE. As both publisher of the magazine and sponsors of tonight’s awards, we are proud to support Index in their mission as they defend this right globally. We offer our warmest congratulations to those recognised and remain both humbled and awed by their inspirational achievements.”

Caption: Human rights defenders Mohamed Sameh and Ahmad Abdallah of Egypt Commission on Rights and Freedoms, Honduran investigative journalist Wendy Funes, Congolese digital activist Guy Muyembe and Perla Hinojosa, Fellowship and Advocacy Officer at Index on Censorship, holds the 2018 Freedom of Expression Arts Award for Cuban arts collective Museum of Dissidence, who could not attend the Freedom of Expression Awards: Image:Index on Censorship :::ω.

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Kathryn Berry Wins the Royal Television Society Student Award 2018 for Her Film Fallen Angels

 

|| March 15: 2018: University of Bolton News || ά. Ms Kathryn Berry has been, duly, 'documented' as having won  the Royal Television Society:RTS  Award for her poignant fact-based film, Fallen Angels. Ms Berry us a Media, Writing and Production student at the University of Bolton. The RTS presents awards to six different categories, including, Factual, recognising the best audio-visual work created by students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Ms Berry's film, Fallen Angels, provides insight into a group of individuals overcoming extreme adversity; recovering from an addiction and turning to the world of dance with the Fallen Angels Dance Theatre to battle their adversities and find new meaning in their lives. Commenting on her achievement, Ms Kathryn Berry said, "I had it in my head not to get my hopes up as Fallen Angels was in a strong category, shortlisted alongside another University of Bolton film.

But it felt very rewarding for myself and my team, who all worked hard on the project.” Ms Sam Johnson, Head of Bolton School of the Arts said, "This is a great achievement and all credit needs to go to Kathryn and the team of students and staff, that have supported her creative journey.

The 2018 award builds upon previous successes in the Factual Film category as Bolton graduate Robbie Nash, also, won top prize for his third-year documentary, ‘See What I See, Hear What I Hear’ in 2017. This is an area of real strength within our Media provision."

Well done to Ms Kathryn Berry on her way into making and breaking further grounds in making films, that challenge, as well as, 'take forward', views and viewscapes of life and reality, that the 'commercialised' 'film-bonanza-market-cult' is not interested about. ω.

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Tom Clarke Joins ITV News as Science Editor

 

|| February 21: 2018 || ά. ITV News announced today that Mr Tom Clarke has been appointed as Science Editor, leading all specialist science coverage, providing original journalism and detailed analysis of complex scientific thinking and environmental issues. Currently Science Editor at Channel Four News, in his new role Mr Clarke will work across ITV News’ television, online and social media platforms, as well as, contributing towards ITV’s Current Affairs line-up, including, the Tonight programme and On Assignment.

Mr Clarke said on his appointment, ''In my 14 years at Channel Four News I’ve reported on genetic cures for untreatable diseases to the final proof of Einstein’s relativity theories and I’ve worked in fascinating, sometimes, dangerous places with brilliant colleagues, who, I will truly miss. But now I’ve reached escape velocity, I am thrilled to be joining ITV News as Science Editor and a newsroom packed with world class journalists. To me the science and environment brief is the most important there is, covering humanity’s greatest achievements and its gravest threats.

I am really excited at the opportunity to bring that to a new audience at ITV.” Nominated by the prestigious Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his investigative work on Tamiflu, Mr Clarke joined Channel Four News in 2003 as Science Reporter, before being promoted to Science Correspondent in 2005 and, most recently, Science Editor in 2012.

He has spent 14 years reporting on a range of major science stories for Channel Four News, from investigating technical flaws in the design of Grenfell Tower and potential major flaws in the Hinkley Point nuclear reactor design, to reporting on the ground during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, analysing the unprecedented speed of warming in the Arctic and following the most ambitious Alzheimer’s trial in a remote village in Colombia, where, nearly, everyone has the disease. He has, also, reported for Channel Four’s award-winning Dispatches strand and NPR’s Science Friday programme in the United States.

Ms Julie Hulme, Director of Newsgathering, at ITV News, said, “I’m really excited Tom will be bringing his expertise and energy to ITV News’s coverage. I'm sure he will enthuse our viewers on issues from space to climate change. We can't wait for him to join us in the ITV Newsroom."

Graduating with a BSC in Zoology from the University of Reading, an MSC in Entomology from Louisiana State University and an MA in Journalism from New York University, Mr Clarke spent three years at the beginning of his career building up his expertise as a reporter at Nature Magazine, writing for print and online editions of the world’s leading science journal.

Alongside his TV journalism career, Mr Clarke sits on the board of Wicked Weather Watch, a charity devoted to getting the topic of climate change into the primary school curriculum. ω.

Caption: Tom Clarke: New ITV News Science Editor: Image: ITN

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Many Voices of America: Black Agenda Report



|| December 10: 2017 || ά. There are so many voices of America that get drowned in the political 'propaganda's shallow, hollow but dangerous rhetoric-driven bombardment. And America is portrayed as the 'dreamland' of capitalism as if humanity has reached its pinnacle and there is nothing better it can do or create or achieve. When, for the fast and the last time, we had set foot on America, somewhere in New York, America did not appear a 'dreamland'. It is not a dreamland. Not a single country that achieves the high point of capitalist development is anything but dreamland. Capitalism is a 'legitimate nightmare' and it can never be a 'dreamland' for nightmares and dreams are two opposing things, as the good old English dictionary would tell us. But the myth and myth making go on. Yet with this, parallel to the 'affluence, decadence and hedonism' of consumerism, that seems to sing from the same hymn-sheet of 'nationalism', life gets destroyed, devastated and ruined as hunger, unemployment, unemployability, lack of and ill-education, homelessness, overcrowding, rough sleeping, malnutrition, lining the food banks, drug and alcohol abuse, human and civil liberties trampled on, terrible lack of political awareness in the form of political organisations and desperate level of disempowerment and disenfranchisement, particularly, of all the poor people, all minority communities and particularly, of women, violence, murders and crimes and gun crimes,  the devastating and all-encompassing working poverty, to abruptly shorten the endless list, that keep on raging havoc on lives. Yet, voices, opposing this mythology and mythology making must keep on raising themselves; voices, such as the Black Agenda Report and in a human face, in a human voice, its Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley.

In a recent piece, Margaret Kimberley writes, ''Political hysteria has its ironies. President Obama has just signed into law a new office of government propaganda that is intended to prevent any warming of relations with Russia under a Trump administration. But, President Trump will appoint the head of the office. The Democrats apparently expect Trump to cooperate with their plan to undermine his foreign policy, 'silence dissent and create a network of propaganda partners' to badmouth Russia. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign the corporate media, Democratic Party operatives and the pundit class all proclaimed that Donald Trump is a fascist. The fascistic nature of our political, law enforcement and economic systems were conveniently omitted from these warnings, but assertions of Trump’s untrustworthiness were repeatedly endlessly. If that characterisation has any validity at all then Barack Obama’s establishment of a de facto Propaganda Department is a terrible blow to democracy. On December 23, 2016 Obama signed the National Defense Authorisation Act:NDAA, a federal law that is passed every year. NDAA authorises defense appropriations but it is also used as a Trojan horse to hide attacks on civil liberties. In 2011 the NDAA authorised indefinite detention of anyone deemed a terrorism suspect. Tucked inside this year’s NDAA was the passage of the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act which establishes the little known or discussed Global Engagement Centre.'' ω.

Image: Courtesy of Margaret Kimberley's Blog

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Sixteen World Press Freedom Groups Condemn the Killing of Investigative Maltese Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and Demand an Immediate and Independent Investigation Into Her Death

 

|| October 18: 2017 || ά. Sixteen press freedom groups have issued a statement, condemning the killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and demanding an immediate and independent investigation into her death. “The murder of a prominent investigative journalist in broad daylight in an EU Member State underscores the seriousness of this crime. Daphne Caruana Galizia’s work as a journalist to hold power to account and shine a light on corruption is vital to maintaining our democratic institutions.

Her killing is a loss for her country and for Europe.” Ms Hannah Machlin, Project Manager for Index on Censorship’s data platform Mapping Media Freedom, said. Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed when the car she was driving exploded in Bidnija around 15.00 on October 16 in, what is thought, to have been a targeted attack. “The barbaric murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia is an attack on journalism itself. This crime is meant to intimidate every investigative journalist.” Dr Lutz Kinkel, Managing Director of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, said.

“Because Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and parts of Malta’s political elite were targets of Galizia’s disclosures, we strongly recommend an independent investigation of this case. The killers have to be found and put on trial.”

The blast left her vehicle in several pieces and threw debris into a nearby field. Half an hour before the powerful explosion, the journalist posted a comment about a libel claim the prime minister’s chief of staff had brought against a former opposition leader over comments the latter made about corruption. Galizia filed a police report 16 days ago recording that she was being threatened.

Galizia had conducted a series of high profile corruption investigations and has been subject to dozens of libel suits and harassment. Because of her research, in February, assets were frozen, following a request filed by Economic Minister Mr Chris Cardona and his EU presidency policy officer Mr Joseph Gerada.

On August 24 Opposition Leader Mr Adrian Delia filed a lawsuit against her over stories linking him to offshore accounts totalling to £01 million earned from alleged prostitution in London flats. On March 11 Mr Silvio Debono, owner of the real estate investment company DB Group, filed 19 libel cases against her after Caruana Galizia published a number of articles about his deals with the Maltese government to take over a large tract of high value public land.

Galizia, also, conducted an investigation, linking the Prime Minister Mr Joseph Muscat and his wife Ms Michelle to secret offshore bank accounts to allegedly hide payments from Azerbaijan’s ruling family, which were unveiled in the Panama Papers. She worked on this investigation with her son Mr Matthew Caruana Galizia, a journalist for the Pulitzer prize winning International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who has had his posts on allegations of wrongdoing by Prime Minister Mr Joseph Muscat and his associates censored on Facebook.

On October 17, her family filed an urgent application for the Duty Magistrate Consuelo Mr Scerri Herrera to abstain from investigating Caruana Galizia’s murder because of the court’s 'flagrant conflict of interest'. In 2011, the magistrate initiated court proceedings against the journalist over comments she had made about Magistrate Mr Herrera.

Seven reports of violations of press freedom were verified in Malta in 2017, according to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project. Five of those are linked to Caruana Galizia and her family.

The murder has brought widespread condemnation from the international community, including, statements from Council of Europe Secretary General Mr Thorbjørn Jaglan and OSCE’s Media Freedom Representative Mr Harlem Désir.

The signatories of the statement said in the statement: We, the undersigned press freedom organisations call for n independent and transparent investigation into the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia; protection for her family members and for other Maltese journalists, who have been under threat; Measures to protect the environment for independent and critical journalism to ensure that reporters can work freely.''

Signatories
Article 19
The Association of European Journalists:AEJ
The Centre for Investigative Reporting
Committee to Protect Journalists
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
The European Federation of Journalists:EFJ
Freedom of the Press Foundatio
Index on Censorship
International News Safety Institute:INSI
International Federation of Journalists:IFJ
International Press Institute:IPI
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa:OBCT
Ossigeno per I’nformazione
Platform of Independent Journalism:P24
Reporters Sans Frontieres:RSF
South East Europe Media Organisation:SEEMO:
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