Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call. Notorious for keeping its communications department locked up tight, Twitter is not only the psychic bellwether and newswire for the media industry, but also a stingy interview-granter, especially now that it’s floundering with poor profits,…
One evening in Hawaii in 2009, a lanky young man named Nathan Williams led his girlfriend Katie into a forest near the beach. They were both students at the nearby Honolulu campus of Brigham Young University, and unbeknownst to Katie, that morning Nathan had come across a cozy bower and worked with a few friends…
Cokie Roberts talks about her book Capital Dames on ABC’s Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos last April. Roberts left her position as a full-time staffer at NPR in 1992 but has regularly appeared on the air as a commentator. Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images…
Furious troll Donald Trump’s only sympathetic publication is now, fittingly, a heap of anonymous, furious trolls. Since the moment Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields claimed that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had physically assaulted her, the conservative news organization has had a major crisis of conscience: could the publication, which so routinely mistrusts women and the…
Hulk Hogan. Getty Images Not long after taking the stand in the Hogan v. Gawker lawsuit, Jezebel editor Emma Carmichael faced the exact kind of sexist BS her website covers. After fielding questions from both Gawker and Hogan’s legal teams about her role in the publishing of the Hogan sex…
/quality/90/?url=http://static.politico.com/c3/dd/97bddc4c48ad9da1b921050fdc1d/corey-lewandowski-getty.jpg” data-size=”promo_xsmall_rectangle” /> Though Breitbart has released statements saying they stood by Fields, the site seemed to waver at first and at one point published an article questioning whether the situation was a case of mistaken identity (the post was updated once video evidence surfaced showing a clearer link between Fields and Lewandowski). Fields said…
Turmoil and recriminations seemingly spread to almost everything the Trump campaign touches lately. That now includes one of the political news websites most closely associated with the controversial Republican presidential candidate. Several senior staffers at the conservative-leaning Breitbart News site resigned on Monday, declaring they have lost confidence in management following the Trump campaign’s manhandling…
ST. PETERSBURG — Publishing a sex tape of the former wrestler Hulk Hogan embroiled Gawker Media in an expensive legal battle, but it also was a boon to the media company. On Friday, an expert witness hired by Hogan testified that when Gawker.com posted a one minute and 41-second edit of the video on Oct….
We thought we were the honorable ones In surprising news Sunday night, Breitbart “News” (that still cracks us up) reporter Michelle Fields and sphincter-at-large Ben Shapiro said they are leaving the august bastion of rightwing journalism. Following the alleged assault of Fields by Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Cory Lewandowski last week, Fields and Shapiro say…
