Muck Rakers motivated more by uncovering bizness models beneath seemingly philanthropic modes of operation will appreciate Arun Gupta's willingness to subject himself personally to all sorts of doxxing, online mischief (see under SubStack's BIG TECH ON TRIAL) and petty to serious harassment in his well-sourced report(s) on Israeli Hasbara and the U.S. Security State's as well as Daddy Warbucks' own weaponization of propaganda. The Cold War and a nuclear or germ warfare spark or wayward molecule Ground Zero is always only a budget angler's call removed from re-igniting. With the proper funding and professional use of the early 20th Century's Public Relations\Pay2Play Broadcasting & Publishing Platforms' tools of the trade and the academic field of Rhetoric's historically borne-out truisms: A) Amplification; B) Repetition C) Wet, Rinse, Lather, repeat etc....
However, we who seek out especially indie Public Interest muck rakers with Arun Gupta's journalistic discipline of vetting sources have sorely missed the disappearance of those professional watch dogs who police their own (ethnic or identity group). In the world of the blurring of civics, policy\politics and combustible competing nationalisms such Pay2Play journalistic coverage can rarely keep up with the professional spreaders of Hasbara or weaponized Daddy Warbucks prospectus\portfolio of propaganda.
The Orthodox religious Jewish and even secular nationalistic\business Israeli indie journalistic watch-dog for most of my adult life went by the name of Shmarya (Scott) Rosenberg, a secular Jewish raised midwestern college kid who first went searching for spiritual connection to his own family's faith of birth and after finding what he felt was a suitable (no pun intended) role for himself within the fold (ahem...) he took advantage of the accessibility developed for internet communications and took to what he saw as a Public Interest-led watchdog role of his own community's diaspora leadership and the corporate modes of communications that often masked the privileging of private interests over public interest policy-making and personal profiteering as well as covering cartel-style for cases of institutional corruption that Pay2Play News Info'tainment Media is always loathe to prioritize.
Especially when entertainment is so much cheaper and less strenuous to produce than properly researching, vetting and pursuing over long periods of time and public records a proper agenda of top-of-the-fold newspaper stories to influence the Broadcast and Film entertainment industries who influence the rest of U.S. the Pay2Played so-called 'Free Market' of passive mass mediated consumers who vote for products rather than policy-defending political candidates....
I don't register with Elon Musk corporate acquisitions like Twitter dba X or Book of Face, but do search any networked search engine for the formerly independent Shmarya Rosenberg produced and curated www.failedmessiah.typepad.com web site (sold by Shmarya Scott Rosenberg to a Venture Capital consortium in 2016 named Diversified Holdings) and review via the site's web search engine the linkage of the former watch dog's coverage of the Israeli Orthodox ZAKA organization and the vibrant Hebrew language press coverage continuing through to this day of their members' un-Orthodox methods and management, not to mention the religious organization's shortcomings in terms of public accountability and paradoxical public interest responsibilities in the "Secular Jewish State of Israel."
Keep on doing Arun Gupta and those newshounds that have funded themselves and are trying to reach a Public Interest scaled readership seeking meaningful coverage in the jungle of Pay2Play Private Interest Wealth Concentrating policy-making and Bank Secrecy legislation-exploiting Treasure Islands of 'Free Media Markets', corporate Cyberian platforms that rule over the demographic distracted and increasingly homeless and voiceless Wage Stagnated (now quantified over the past 50 years) masses of blue collars and fodder for Daddy Warbucks' soldiers of fortune and adjunct corporate-captured and corporate-loyal instead of stable and secure publicly funded educators who are our unrecognized Perpetuators of participatory democracy.
Muck Rakers motivated more by uncovering bizness models beneath seemingly philanthropic modes of operation will appreciate Arun Gupta's willingness to subject himself personally to all sorts of doxxing, online mischief (see under SubStack's BIG TECH ON TRIAL) and petty to serious harassment in his well-sourced report(s) on Israeli Hasbara and the U.S. Security State's as well as Daddy Warbucks' own weaponization of propaganda. The Cold War and a nuclear or germ warfare spark or wayward molecule Ground Zero is always only a budget angler's call removed from re-igniting. With the proper funding and professional use of the early 20th Century's Public Relations\Pay2Play Broadcasting & Publishing Platforms' tools of the trade and the academic field of Rhetoric's historically borne-out truisms: A) Amplification; B) Repetition C) Wet, Rinse, Lather, repeat etc....
However, we who seek out especially indie Public Interest muck rakers with Arun Gupta's journalistic discipline of vetting sources have sorely missed the disappearance of those professional watch dogs who police their own (ethnic or identity group). In the world of the blurring of civics, policy\politics and combustible competing nationalisms such Pay2Play journalistic coverage can rarely keep up with the professional spreaders of Hasbara or weaponized Daddy Warbucks prospectus\portfolio of propaganda.
The Orthodox religious Jewish and even secular nationalistic\business Israeli indie journalistic watch-dog for most of my adult life went by the name of Shmarya (Scott) Rosenberg, a secular Jewish raised midwestern college kid who first went searching for spiritual connection to his own family's faith of birth and after finding what he felt was a suitable (no pun intended) role for himself within the fold (ahem...) he took advantage of the accessibility developed for internet communications and took to what he saw as a Public Interest-led watchdog role of his own community's diaspora leadership and the corporate modes of communications that often masked the privileging of private interests over public interest policy-making and personal profiteering as well as covering cartel-style for cases of institutional corruption that Pay2Play News Info'tainment Media is always loathe to prioritize.
https://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/about-me.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmarya_Rosenberg
Especially when entertainment is so much cheaper and less strenuous to produce than properly researching, vetting and pursuing over long periods of time and public records a proper agenda of top-of-the-fold newspaper stories to influence the Broadcast and Film entertainment industries who influence the rest of U.S. the Pay2Played so-called 'Free Market' of passive mass mediated consumers who vote for products rather than policy-defending political candidates....
I don't register with Elon Musk corporate acquisitions like Twitter dba X or Book of Face, but do search any networked search engine for the formerly independent Shmarya Rosenberg produced and curated www.failedmessiah.typepad.com web site (sold by Shmarya Scott Rosenberg to a Venture Capital consortium in 2016 named Diversified Holdings) and review via the site's web search engine the linkage of the former watch dog's coverage of the Israeli Orthodox ZAKA organization and the vibrant Hebrew language press coverage continuing through to this day of their members' un-Orthodox methods and management, not to mention the religious organization's shortcomings in terms of public accountability and paradoxical public interest responsibilities in the "Secular Jewish State of Israel."
Keep on doing Arun Gupta and those newshounds that have funded themselves and are trying to reach a Public Interest scaled readership seeking meaningful coverage in the jungle of Pay2Play Private Interest Wealth Concentrating policy-making and Bank Secrecy legislation-exploiting Treasure Islands of 'Free Media Markets', corporate Cyberian platforms that rule over the demographic distracted and increasingly homeless and voiceless Wage Stagnated (now quantified over the past 50 years) masses of blue collars and fodder for Daddy Warbucks' soldiers of fortune and adjunct corporate-captured and corporate-loyal instead of stable and secure publicly funded educators who are our unrecognized Perpetuators of participatory democracy.
Health and balance,
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\LookseeInnerEarsHearHere