Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Stanford rapist Brock Turner sent a photo of his victim’s breasts to friends after the attack outside a frat house party. Court documents seen by Daily Mail Online reveal that the disgraced athlete was sent a text via a group messaging app shortly after his arrest that read: ‘Whos tit is that’. The message, which…
Recently retired New York Post editor Col Allan took the time to write Gawker a thoughtful note today. http://gawker.com/5994999/is-the… Perhaps reflecting on his rich history with this website during these tumultuous times, Allan reminisced… Col Allan To: tips@gawker.com Today at 3:15 PM Here’s a tip. You lie, you die. Squeal, pig fuckers, squeal. Sent from…
In an economy where the idea of a woman is often more commercially appealing than the actual presence of one, it is seemingly a natural development that the White Girl brand is now run by a group of men. The story goes that viral Twitter account White Girl Problems was launched in March 2010 after…
For the better part of two decades, Gawker Media and its founder and CEO Nick Denton have thrived on crisis. The company would fire executives, change directions and drop conversation-driving stories more frequently than perhaps any other digital publisher. But after today’s announcement that the company will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will…
A financial meltdown in China is the currently the leading contender for “Next global financial crisis that will definitely screw you somehow, even though you don’t have that much money.” We now know that GEORGE SOROS is betting on China’s demise too. http://gawker.com/how-scared-sho… Soros is famous for making a billion bucks betting against the British…
On Thursday, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal released mammoth reports documenting Donald Trump’s alleged failures to pay his bills full. In hundreds of court filings from more than 30 states, the newspapers found businesses owners, contractors and employees who claimed Trump and his companies refused to pay what they owed. According to USA…
The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Now it is over. People are still making plenty of apps, of course. And many people are still downloading them. But the go-go growth days are gone. If you are an independent app developer or publisher, you have probably known…
Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation released a report full of statistics about the ways in which people get around town, and how long it usually takes them to do so. Incidentally, these stats, taken together, present a pretty compelling argument in favor of a particular piece of legislation that was recently introduced…
In the 2011 book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Tom Freston recalls the origin of the first modern reality TV show. “People asked me, ‘How did you come up with The Real World? That is genius.’ It was just because we didn’t have any money.” Related Story The Fierceness of ‘Femme,…
This is the paradox of Hillary Clinton: She has achieved something no one else in the history of American politics has even come close to doing, yet she is widely considered an inept, flawed candidate. These two things are not unrelated. Twice now we have thought that it should have been easy for Clinton to…