Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last night, Gawker published a story about a Condé Nast executive (who’s married to a woman) allegedly arranging to meet up with a gay escort while on a trip to Chicago. When the escort found out who his client was, he attempted to blackmail him into helping with a housing-discrimination lawsuit he was embroiled in….
Dear Ta-Nehisi Coates, The last year has been an education for white people. There has been a depth, power and richness to the African-American conversation about Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston and the other killings that has been humbling and instructive. Your new book, “Between the World and Me,” is a great and searing contribution to this…
Been a long time since I’ve seen such universal media revulsion for a media company’s editorial decision: @jordansarge — Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) July 17, 2015 The beauty of Twitter is that even we don’t have to reward Gawker with a click to find out just what garbage it’s serving its readers that has them so appalled…
Gossip website Gawker regularly walks the fine line between entertaining, edgy content and completely unethical, sleazy trash. On Thursday, the website went way, way over that line by helping a blackmailer take revenge against a non-public figure because that person declined to abuse their power on the blackmailer’s behalf. FROM EARLIER: Specs leak for a mystery LG phone…
Owner of Gawker Media, Nick Denton. Gawker’s motto is “Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s news.”(Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO—Gawker drew heavy criticism Friday from online readers after the news and gossip site ran a story about the CFO of Conde Nast allegedly soliciting sex from a gay porn star. David Geithner, a married father of…
In the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee quietly rejected an amendment that would have allowed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the underlying causes of gun violence. Though gun violence and gun control has again come to the forefront of the American…
Authorities in Waller County, Texas are being questioned after video of the arrest of a 28-year-old African-American woman who died in police custody three days later surfaced. Sandy Bland had just moved to Texas to take a job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, when she was pulled over by police for not…
newest format for blog old blog format Rapper 50 Cent’s recent declaration of bankruptcy raised quite a few eyebrows, and for obvious reason: in May, his net worth was valued by Forbes at $155 million for 2015, making him the fourth-richest hip-hop artist. In addition to his music career, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) has…
There’s plenty of love for the homeless at City Hall — just not outside Gracie Mansion. A Post reporter who went undercover as a vagrant quickly got rousted near Mayor Bill de Blasio’s residence on Wednesday by a cop who told him there was no way Hizzoner would stand for it. “You see that big…
View this image › If you go to Google Translate, there’s an option where you can manually draw things like Chinese characters, which will then be translated for you into English. 2. Get a calorie comparison of your favourite foods. View this image › If you google “[food] vs [food]” then a chart…