Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Well, I’ve waited a few weeks to write my “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” review and finally, after multiple viewings and numerous vibrant discussions, I feel that I’m ready to give this movie the review it truly deserves. I gave the film a ton of time to sink in. I analyzed the story structure and…
I Consider a simple and deceptively important question: What exactly is the Republican Party, anyway? One possible answer to this question — more commonly held than one might expect at first blush — is that the Republican Party is a group of people very loosely bound by little more than an arbitrary shopping list of…
paging_filter Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron told C-SPAN that the paper could become a truly international news organization under the leadership of Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos. Baron made the comments during an interview that is scheduled to air on C-SPAN Sunday at 8 p.m. C-SPAN published two excerpts of the interview on Youtube. Before…
Jay Rosen coined a term to describe the basic attitude of our professional journalism and commentary class, the Cult of the Savvy. Rosen: “In politics, our journalists believe, it is better to be savvy than it is to be honest or correct on the facts. It’s better to be savvy than it is to be…
Dec. 31, 2015 11:36 a.m. ET Gawker Media, a network of websites known for pillorying the powerful in media, tech and politics, has helped sell millions of cable ties to readers looking to control their tangled messes of electronic cords. Gawker has also been hawking flashlights, laser printers, headphones, car phone chargers and a 42-piece…
This was supposed to be an election driven by social media, be it dominant players like Facebook and Twitter or newcomers like Snapchat and Meerkat. Yet it was another banner year for Matt Drudge, whose eponymous website racked up more than 8 billion visits in 2015 as he remained the top traffic source for many…
Anealla Safdar | 03 Jan 2016 08:54 GMT | US & Canada, US, Crime 3222 19 Follow Anealla Safdar on Twitter: @anealla Source: Al Jazeera [<a href=”//storify.com/AJEStorify/oregon” target=”_blank”>View the story “#OregonUnderAttack” on Storify</a>] Follow Anealla Safdar on Twitter: @anealla [&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”//storify.com/AJEStorify/oregon” target=”_blank”&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;View the story “#OregonUnderAttack” on Storify&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;] Source: Al Jazeera Double standards cited amid armed protest in Oregon – Al Jazeera English.
Meet Gideon Grudo. Actually, before I do that, let me explain… Judges for journalism contests are almost always anonymous. I’ve judged high school, college, and professional contests and never told anyone but my wife (who didn’t give a crap as long as it didn’t cut into our wine drinking). That wasn’t because I feared criticism — any…
“Fifty Years of Walking in Space and What We Found There” includes context cards with videos about the first space walk in 1965, NASA TV, and space robots. Even in an era of online, hyperlinked journalism, many stories need more than 140 characters. So MIT Media Lab researchers are working on storytelling techniques that combine…
It’s strange to edit a feminist website when almost nothing offends you, because the feminist website is traditionally imagined to run on offense. This is not how we imagine it ourselves while we’re working. I’ve learned it slowly, watching strangers react. The model, I gather, is that of a factory, which ideally functions like this:…