The man on the left welcomed the Getty photographer who took this shot on July 4. He provided “some comfort to me in a way that I know there’s somebody else there, but most importantly, someone who’s documenting it. It gave me a sense of protection.” My CJR piece here www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Media wrinkle: George Holmes' PR at the University was a former editor of the Bolton News.

Patriot Front members and a solitary woman travel on a DC train - A picture and its story www.reuters.com/investigates...

The highlighted bit here is everything.

When we were fighting to make PrEP (effective HIV prevention) available on the NHS, the Daily Mail tried to set it up as a conflict between hedonistic gays and people needing surgery. Sad but unsurprising they’re employing the same tactics now, pitting trans and disabled people against each other.

Farage has shared an image of an NUJ card belonging to a photographer that has presumably been dropped nea (one of)r his properties. For someone so concerned about his own security, he seems perfectly willing to whip up his followers against someone who presumably has none.

Beware of geeks bearing grifts.

2027, The House welcomes the Prime Minister's appointment of Lord Simmons of Thinktank.

Danish Rorschach test

17 minutes of ads/ hour is insufficient for Sky's bottom line so they're speeding up Voyager and everyone sounds like Chipmunks.

Croptastic comparison, this use of a PR handout photograph from No10 on the front pages of today's Guardian and Times.

What does this button do?

Reuters are no longer a trustworthy news source.

Is this the same Gilead accused of witholding a safer, more effective HIV treatment for over a decade in order to extend patent profit? www.bmj.com/content/385/...

Canon photographers: don't forget to set your cameras back to a time when you could use whatever lens you bloody well wanted.

Idea for a TV show: the first 20 seconds of Gardeners' World but for 50 minutes. Monty talking to Ned, pottering around Longmeadow with the barrow, cutaways of chaffinches±bees @bbc @bbcenterprises @montydonn @nedthedog

Oh FFS :(

A cowardly, bigoted Manchester school used AI to ban a "List of alleged books with inappropriate content" from its library. They destroyed their librarian's career. The list at the end of this article is just tragic.

Tommytown.

Absolute stunner of a day.

130 tickets booked for tomorrow evening's photojournalism talk in Manchester. Book now at the link here.

Incoming.

12 hours until my brain>mouth "Dorton and Genton" short circuit can be returned to the repair pile.

Shared this morning by Manchester City Council.

Yesterday in Manchester, police kettled anti-fascists, as Britain First marched through the city.

If nothing else, that Wired cover piece is weak af journalism, filled with insubstantial and unattributed gossip. It's like Gawker without the content. Did they start with the graphic and then work the story from there?

Adam Curtis could've made this as a warning.

Most days, the UK's top newspapers have a wide range of photos gracing their front pages. But on Friday, every image topping the British front pages was identical.

Photographer Richard Young on Desert Island Discs: "There is no money in it any more. I took it all".

Fantastic car photo of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being driven home from the nick, made by Phil Noble of Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Memories of Valentines past. Manchester, overnight 14th and 15th February 2016.

This notice, sent on behalf of Peter Mandelson to British media, has been published by The National at www.thenational.scot/news/2583451... It is my view that it is in the public interest for it to be widely read.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Seems as though they have laid off their entire photography staff. Photojournalists don’t just take photos, we report, we pitch, we take photos while our lives and safety are under threat. We explore our neighborhoods, restaurants and sports with a creative eye. Photojournalists do it all.

Come see me at "Under attack: 15 Years spent photographing Britain", where I'll be discussing what it is to be a photojournalist: www.manlitphil.ac.uk/events/under...

The signboard.

Much to enjoy in this BWV frame grab. I think it'll work well in a "POV" section for an upcoming talk. The line down the centre is really pronounced in this wider view. Pretty much the key moment.

Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

This New Year I am adoring Grayson Perry's take on A Rake's Progress, currently at The Box in Plymouth.

Welcome to the "disabled people shouldn't have nice things" era of heartless, irrational appeasement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...it was just a happy coincidence.

Cost of living crisis hits the FT as @pickardje.bsky.social forced to take 2nd job with Getty Images

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

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