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Illustration: Jim Cooke ESPN is doing a very bad job of pretending it isn’t deathly afraid of rapidly declining subscriber numbers. At the end of October, Nielsen released its monthly television subscriber numbers report, and it showed a loss of 621,000 subscribers for ESPN and similar losses for ESPN2 and ESPNU. Other networks, like Spike…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a 2016 “Innovation Hub” event in Berlin, Germany.Image: Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Facebook is promising yet again to tackle the spread of misinformation in your News Feed.”We value authentic communication, and hear consistently from those who use Facebook that they prefer not to see misinformation,” Adam Mosseri, the vice president of…
This October, when Ido Alexander saw photos a young man had posted on social media, he thought he had hit the bankruptcy jackpot. Mr. Alexander, a Florida lawyer working for a court-appointed trustee, dispatched an appraiser to the man’s home to inspect the expensive-looking gold chains and other jewelry he had been posing in, which he hadn’t…
Politics googleon: index FACT CHECK: Donald Trump’s First 100 Days Action Plan END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” Facebook Twitter Google+ Email END CLASS=”SHARE-TOOLS SHARE-TOOLS–PRIMARY” ARIA-LABEL=”SHARE TOOLS” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” November 10, 20166:27 PM ET END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” NPR Staff END CLASS=”BUCKETWRAP BYLINE” ID=”RES501597955″ PREVIEWTITLE=”BYLINES” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Enlarge this image Donald Trump laid out a plan for…
After US citizen Rizwan Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people in San Bernardino on December 2, 2015, Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Trump tweaked the plan, but never abandoned it. He later rephrased it as suspending “immigration from terror-prone regions where…
googleon: all Former Philadelphia Magazine editor Patrick Kerkstra, recently ousted from his post, is rejoining the newsroom that includes the Inquirer, where he once worked as a reporter and columnist, Philadelphia Media Networks senior vice president and executive editor Stan Wischnowski said Thursday. Kerkstra, who will become managing editor of digital content, is one of…
A cornfield near Patrick Thornton’s childhood Ohio home, taken last year. (Patrick Thornton/CQ Roll Call) I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in Washington, D.C. All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backward. My home county in Ohio is 97 percent white. It, like a lot…
Despite relatively small numbers by most estimates, the alt-right, a group of almost entirely anonymous posters without a leadership structure, emerged as a potent online force over the past year. As the presidential campaign wore on and minorities, journalists, and Clinton supporters were subjected to an unending campaign of insults, harassment, false information, and horrifying…
Donald Trump won, and the media is grasping for answers as to why we didn’t predict it. Already, you can see the seeds of many bad solutions forming. The New York Times, a useful enough stand-in for the prestige mainstream media, did communicate in both the tone and substance of its coverage that Hillary Clinton…
Illustration by Jim Cooke This morning, many Americans woke up fearful, wondering what comes next. The only possible answer: four years of hard fucking work. Periodically throughout our nation’s history, we have been grasped by major social and political movements that thrust us forward—or backwards. There will always be political disagreements, and social and political…