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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…
You can see it from the minute the television news day starts, on the set of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. A few months ago media writers were describing a too-cozy relationship between Mr. Trump and the show’s hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Yet there was Mr. Scarborough on Wednesday asking the former Central Intelligence…
Oh well, looks like Facebook just got all anti-user · 2016-08-09 17:52 by Ben Williams Earlier today Facebook announced that it would start trying to circumvent users with ad-blocking software and show them ads. This is an unfortunate move, because it takes a dark path against user choice. But it’s also no reason to overreact:…
HEIST is a big DEAL Newly Discovered Exploit Should Trigger a Moratorium on Blocking Adblockers and a Retooling of AdChoices At this year’s BLACK HAT conference in Las Vegas, Belgian researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Tom Van Goethem demonstrated a newly discovered technique where JavaScript loaded by a third-party is able to circumvent the encryption of…