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The canniest and most overwhelming documentary to date about the ongoing Syrian civil war, Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts contrasts the story of a heroic group of citizen journalists with a grim view of the international community they desperately need to galvanize.

Not exact matches

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

According to reports, Macron's digital team created dummy accounts, or honeypots, that looked like an individual's account with top level information from the campaign, but much of the contents was fake — planted specifically to render a data dump confusing, if not useless, since it would take a tremendous amount of time for reporters and citizen journalists to sort out the real from the fake.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has learned with utter shock, disbelief and dismay, the jailing of a journalist and two Ghanaian citizens by the Supreme Court of Ghana after contempt proceedings.

Genius idea from PoliticsTV's Dan Manatt: with Obama's now - infamamous (and citizen - journalist - reported) «bitter» comments in mind, he wrote in techPresident today that ubiquitous digital recording should now require campaign staff to take Extreme Measures:

With the profusion of digital publishing tools, one now has to deal with an unlimited number of publishers and editors and bloggers and citizen journaliWith the profusion of digital publishing tools, one now has to deal with an unlimited number of publishers and editors and bloggers and citizen journaliwith an unlimited number of publishers and editors and bloggers and citizen journalists.

It is, like the fate of the newspaper in the age of digital, a matter related to my professional life, but it is also very personal in the sense that it has to do with the interesting transition I have made, from being a journalist and a private citizen, to being a government official.

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And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.

Ezeokafor, who spoke to journalists at the annual meeting with the Religious Council in the diocese at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Awka, said it was normal that people asked questions about the health of their President as he was not a private citizen.

It's a self - reinforcing cycle, a feedback loop sparked by Trump himself but encompassing thousands of citizens, journalists, bloggers and activists, with millions more watching.

Genius idea from PoliticsTV's Dan Manatt: with Obama's now - infamamous (and citizen - journalist - reported) «bitter» comments in mind, he wrote in techPresident today that ubiquitous digital recording should now require campaign staff to take Extreme Measures: Combine (1) this...

In addition to tightening the distinction between fact and opinion, the time is long overdue for lawmakers to undo the absurdity they have created — and the real damage caused to all citizens» prerogatives of democratic participation — when they equate a journalist's controversial allegations about a George Galloway with Joe's controversial allegations about Dr Bright.

Imagine journalists and citizens meeting with political leaders who seek support for a proposed law to exclude certain groups from due process.

In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, and signed by the party's Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, the party said it «has learned with utter shock, disbelief and dismay, the jailing of a journalist and two Ghanaian citizens by the Supreme Court of Ghana after contempt proceedings.

When journalists are dealing with foreign affairs or the military, I think there's a natural tendency for them to feel like they are asking questions not just as journalists but also as citizens, and that affects how they design the questions.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

And while the film is sort of about this war of ideas, propaganda, information from these citizen journalists and ISIS» slick propaganda, it's also a story of immigrants, an exodus story, of Man's understanding, coming to terms, and dealing with the cumulative effects of trauma... also, rising nationalism both in Germany and around the world.

Documentarian Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» profiles a group of citizen - journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who are fighting the terrorist group ISIS with pens and cameras,» not guns.

As with his previous, highly topical work, the of - the - moment subject of «Ghosts» is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS — or, rather, a band of citizen journalists from the Syrian city of Raqqa who have defied death threats and assassinations to get the news out of the Islamic State's capital, via a Web portal called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Director Matthew Heineman followed up his Oscar - nominated Cartel Land with City of Ghosts, his paean to citizen journalists in Raqqa, Syria who struggled to inform the world about ISIS atrocities in their city.

Starting with the Arab Spring and fight against Syria's Assad regime, through the brutal takeover by the Islamic State, a group of citizen journalists has been documenting life inside Raqqa under deadly circumstances.

It launched on iOS two months ago and has been a hit with celebrities and citizen journalists alike.

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Around half are editorial, contributing to research, campaigns, guides, deals hunting and more — with backgrounds including former national newspaper journalists, Citizens Advice workers and maths bods.

Like the increasingly influential «citizen journalists» who inspired him, he mixes actual news footage, found eyewitness video clips, and reenacted found footage with his own fictional narratives.

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This does bolster the ability for citizen journalists to comment with impunity, but also presents a significant question over abuse.

This publicly accessible database — already containing hundreds of entries — will provide lawyers, citizen journalists, and mainstream media alike with a valuable resource for assessing the validity and possible outcomes of legal threats to online speech, based on actual cases and legal actions.