Over the course of the
past few years we have seen Social Media becoming increasingly more important
and influential in our politics, and while we all know about ‘trolls’ and
“bots,” accounts programmed to follow instructions, such as automatically
replying to tweets from other accounts; what is not so well known is the
growing popularity of a variation, called “cyborgs,” that mix human creativity
and initiative with a computer’s relentless speed, allowing their views to gain
audience while sidestepping the traditional gatekeepers of news and
commentary. Joining me today to talk all
about these twitter “cyborgs” and the impact they have on our country’s
political discourse is Craig Timberg,
national technology reporter for The Washington Post.
Since we last spoke
with Mark Joseph Stern of Slate last week a lot has happened, from
President Trump announcing his nominee for the Supreme Court to a Federal Judge
halting his ‘Muslim Ban’ Executive Order.
Mark returns to the show today to talk all about these issues and so
much more.
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Monday, February 06, 2017
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Last year, lawmakers in
South Carolina introduced legislation that would have increased the standard
penalties for anyone who assaults, intimidates or threatens another individual
if they did so because of the victim’s “race, religion, color, sex, age, national
origin, or sexual orientation.” However,
the bill which was drafted by Democratic legislators after white supremacist
Dylann Roof murdered nine African-American parishioners at a church in
Charleston, never even came up for a vote; and according to journalist A.C. Thompson of ProPublica this is
something that has happened with at least a half-dozen other hate crimes
proposals in the South Carolina statehouse and in number of other statehouses
around the country. A.C. joins me on the
show today to talk all about the Christian groups behind these efforts to kill
hate crime laws in 5 states and their claims of a mass ‘Homosexual Agenda’ to
use hate crime legislation as sort of Trojan Horse.
Last Monday, Lewis Wallace was fired from his job as
at American Public Media’s Marketplace,
where he has worked as a news reporter since May 2016. His dismissal was in response to a post that
he published on his personal blog about being a transgender journalist
exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass
in this very complex time. While his original blog post was meant to question
the meaning of neutrality in the face of an administration that’s aggressively
promoting fiction and prompt a discussion among journalist about the issue, his
dismissal raises serious concerns about the dangers facing our free press in
the era of Trump. Lewis joins me on the
show today to share his story and talk about the role of journalists in today’s
political climate.
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