Victor Pickard
@VWPickard
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Author of Democracy Without Journalism? https://t.co/g5WVOyT7qf Mostly relocated to @victorpickard.bsky.social
Philadelphia/Ithaca/?
Joined December 2013
In this @thenation piece I argue that much of the recent firestorm over Musk misses the bigger picture: Core communication infrastructures like Twitter shouldn’t be left to the whims of billionaires and profit-driven corporations in the first place.
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RT @BernieSanders: Oligarchs vs. Workers Oligarchs: 💰Musk’s wealth - $402 billion 💰Zuckerberg's wealth - $252 billion 💰Bezos' wealth - $2…
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RT @BedoyaFTC: Why you should care about what’s happening to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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This was a really fun panel -- glad to see it recorded for C-SPAN!
watch the panel discussion I did with Amy Goodman, Greg Grandin, Bev Stohl, and Victor Pickard about Noam Chomsky ideas and "The Myth of American Idealism," now available on CSPAN!
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The Trump administration/FCC's hostility toward public media makes this important book even more timely.
Thanks to @VWPickard for this spot-on review of my book. As he notes, alternative concepts of media are not only possible, they’ve always been present. It’s an ideological choice for media research to dwell so thoroughly within free market logics.
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RT @sandeepvaheesan: How is this anything besides an oligarchic coup? Congress passed a bill creating the CFPB, the president signed it int…
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RT @ProfTWolf: The @AAUP will fight Trump's EOs that undermine higher education- whether it's DEI, Deportation, funding freezes or the futu…
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This statement says far more about Alex than it does about Lina's sensible argument.
Bonkers op-ed by Lina Khan in NYTimes. She argues that we must break up US firms like Google, Apple, and Meta to compete with China’s more open and more competitive system. Unreal.
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RT @adamjohnsonCHI: in which I argue it was probably a bad idea for major US media outlets to treat Musk's "DOGE" committee as an aw shucks…
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RT @HeerJeet: Here's a quick thing Dems could do. Retire Schumer & replace him with Bernie. Imagine if this were the main voice of Dems in…
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RT @catchatweetdown: Any revolutionary analysis must proceed with a clear-eyed and extremely critical view of the federal government. But w…
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RT @Jesse_Brenneman: Congratulationsto the neoliberals. They spent decades trying to reshape the Democratic Party into a conservative, oste…
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RT @AOC: This is a five alarm fire. The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk. Having an unelected billionaire, wit…
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RT @ViewsParallax: PARALLAX👁🗨VIEWS Prof. Victor Pickard joins the show to discuss media oligarchy in the United States as it pertains to t…
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RT @UniWestPress: Big thanks to @fulcrumpub, @M_Publishing and those kindly endorsing the memoir of late @Vmosco incl. @enda_b @nicole_s_co…
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RT @Ali_Christopher: So excited to be part of this team that will help evaluate digital equity funded programs in Philadelphia! This will b…
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RT @froomkin: Traditional media coverage of Donald Trump‘s second inauguration was too obsequious to point out that almost everything he sa…
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RT @ProfTWolf: This is the worst possible news. The Trump administration is impeding critical research on any number of maladies from heart…
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RT @KatrinaNation: Bless the Episcopal bishop of Washington: She implored Trump to “have mercy upon” immigrants and LGBTQ+ people across th…
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