Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton embrace as they attend the 2015 meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University in Coral Gables, Florida.Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Politico’s chief White House correspondent Mike Allen, one’s of the publication’s most prominent ambassadors, has been caught committing a serious journalistic faux-pas. On Tuesday, Gawker, which has…
After what was likely a heated debate around the editorial desk, The New York Times decided to rework a story that described Robert Lewis Dear, the man who killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, as “gentle.” A story published on Saturday about Dear’s background used that adjective,…
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Yesterday, Breitbart Tech published a story claiming to debunk earlier reports that “white student union” pages that had popped up on Facebook over the weekend were a hoax. “People held out to talk to Breitbart because we knew that they are a respectable organization that would protect the privacy of the individuals involved,” the administrator…
Donald Trump is not alone on his campaign in drawing attention to the physical condition of others. | AP Photo New York Times slams Trump’s mocking of reporter as ‘outrageous’ By Ben Schreckinger 11/25/15 05:58 PM EST Updated 11/25/15 08:55 PM EST Donald Trump has added a new item to his growing list of presidential…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two Italian journalists who wrote books detailing Vatican mismanagement go on trial Tuesday in a Vatican courtroom along with three people accused of leaking them the information in a case that has drawn scorn from media watchdogs around the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the OSCE,…
You may have heard of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died in a raid carried about by French police in the days after the attacks in Paris. Or you might have seen her on the website of the Daily Mail, which said it obtained exclusive photos of her, or the New York Post, which…
“The Man In The High Castle.” (David Berg/Amazon) We have a Nazi analogy problem. “Nazi,” in an argument, doesn’t buy quite as much as it used to. We have Godwin’s Law (as an online discussion goes on, the probability of a Nazi comparison approaches 1) and its corollaries (the first person to make a Hitler…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…
LOL just sneaked into an op-ed in America’s paper of record. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of several society-satirizing books, wrote a piece for the New York Times on the failures of French leadership following the recent attacks in Paris. The French will survive, he argues, out of force of habit at least, but “it’s unlikely that…