Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
One of the great promises of new media has been that the fresh, young, talented insurgents creating the newsrooms of tomorrow take racial and gender diversity seriously. The heads of digital media say so themselves, aiming to remake an industry traditionally dominated by white males and build staffs that better reflect the world they cover….
Though some pretty rabid anti-Fat Jew sentiment had been bubbling under for a while, it really kicked up on Twitter this weekend, with dozens upon dozens of comedians weighing in on the Instagram darling, “content aggregator,” and blatant joke thief. Everyone from Michael Ian Black to Norm MacDonald called out The Fat Jew (real name…
Award-winning cartoonist and journalist Ted Rall has accused the Los Angeles Times of wrongly casting doubt on his professional integrity, retracting one of his columns and ending his freelance work with the paper in order to curry favor with the Los Angeles police department. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has called for an investigation…
The revelations aren’t surprising, this is pretty standard startup fare. Or really just the way the economy is going in general – more work, less pay (http://www.motherjones.com/…/speed-up-american-workers… ) and increasingly terrible work-life balance ( http://qz.com/…/americans-dont-just-work-longer-hours…/ ), and less regular work (http://www.theguardian.com/…/gig-economy-silicon-valley… ). Which sort of gets to another point, that this mediated work brutality is…
AddThis Button Begin SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – Online retailer Amazon.com is facing some tough questions after a newspaper report suggested a corporate culture in which management shows a lack of empathy for workers but also a drive to push employees past their breaking points. New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfled interviewed over 100 past…
Telling someone you don’t want to date them is anxiety-inducing for everyone, but for straight women it’s especially difficult. In order to properly reject a guy, we’re supposed to be forceful enough that they take our rejection seriously, but nice enough that they don’t immediately start plotting our demise. But even if you strike the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has gotten some of the biggest and most devoted crowds of the 2016 presidential race, including in Portland, Ore., this month, where he drew more than 19,000. Troy Wayrynen/AP hide caption itoggle caption Troy Wayrynen/AP Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has gotten some of the biggest and most devoted crowds…
According to the October jobs report, more than 92 million Americans — 37% of the civilian population aged 16 and over — are neither employed nor unemployed, but fall in the category of “not in the labor force.” That means they aren’t working now but haven’t looked for work recently enough to be counted as unemployed….
Back in July we wrote “Slamming The Door Shut On The “Plunging Labor Force Participation Rate” Debate Once And For All“, in which we showed, definitively we thought, that contrary to the pervasive and erroneous propaganda, the collapse in the labor force has little to do with the alleged millions of retiring baby boomers (quite…
While the Fed is digesting what the X-13 Arima seasonally adjusted payrolls number means for the future of US interest rates, the devastation of the US labor force continues. In what was an “modestly” unpleasant July payrolls report, yet somewhat better than June’s flagrant disappointment, the fact is that the number of Americans not in…