Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Hearthstone’s next adventure, One Night in Karazhan, begins rolling out this week. New cards are always an exciting time for the game, and this add-on brings 45 total with it. But there’s one card in particular that has a lot of Hearthstone fans talking, and they are not happy with it. The card in question…
Aug. 9, 2016 5:59 p.m. ET It seems almost everything involving Gawker finds its way into a courtroom nowadays. A blowout bash to celebrate the company’s “14 years of independent journalism” ahead of a bankruptcy auction next week became the subject of debate in court on Tuesday. Lawyers for Gawker’s creditors said they felt the…
Popular online ad-blocking software Adblock Plus will soon include a feature allowing users to pay websites for content, which could help those sites recoup some revenue from visitors who choose to avoid ads. Thanks to a partnership with Sweden-based content-funding startup Flattr, Adblock Plus users will be given an option to specify how much money…
Donald Trump once again turned heads throughout the political world when he said the “Second Amendment people” might be the only answer to Hillary Clinton’s potential judicial appointments. Trump calls on ‘2nd Amendment people,’ internet reacts – CNNPolitics.com. Source: Trump calls on ‘2nd Amendment people,’ internet reacts – CNNPolitics.com
First Look Media has decided to discontinue funding of Reported.ly, a social media reporting and verification outfit. This has led the organization to announce it will suspend operations on Aug. 31. Besides Reported.ly’s editor Andy Carvin, four more staffers are affected by this decision and will be leaving First Look Media at the end of…
Police departments will be required to give the US justice department full details of deadly incidents involving their officers each quarter, under a new government system for counting killings by police that was influenced by the Guardian. Announcing a new program for documenting all “arrest-related deaths”, federal officials said they would actively work to confirm…
Even this goomba is pissed. Image: clry2/Flickr Did you see my article about Nintendo Power and its historical significance to games media a few days ago? Well, I hope you did, because the archive of Nintendo Power’s entire run that I linked to in the piece has now vanished. Why the sudden disappearance? If…
Loading the player reg… BRIAN STELTER: In terms of the money, this is Gabriel Sherman’s reporting in New York magazine. He’s been a leader on this story, wrote a book about Roger Ailes a number of years ago. A lot of what he’s reporting I think reporters have suspected for a while. I’ll give you an…
Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News. Ailes’s very own corner office on the second floor of 21st Century Fox’s glass and steel headquarters, in Midtown Manhattan, featured a solid wood door that prevented anyone on the outside from peering in. Visitors had…
But his highbrow, lowbrow image — of the jet-setting mogul who takes buckets of fried chicken onto his private plane with the gold-plated seatbelt buckles — is also a carefully crafted one. If President George Bush revealed his patrician upbringing by requesting “a splash” more coffee at a truck stop in New Hampshire, and John…