Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As of mid-April, when a Pentagon flack announced it in Kiev, and as barely reported in American media, U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. Now there is a lead I have long dreaded writing but suspected from the first that one day I would. Do not take a moment to think about this….
Erin Gloria Ryan Jezebel managing editor Erin Gloria Ryan was punched in the head without provocation while walking in Williamsburg on Friday night. The 31-year-old was walking alone on North Sixth Street around 10:40 p.m. when she was allegedly struck by Mariah Correa, a 20-year-old woman to whom Ryan had no relation. An NYPD spokesperson…
When he joined Vocativ, Gittrich told Poynter he planned to grow the newsroom between 25 and 30 percent this year; he later announced that expansion would be focused around coverage of national security, technology, gender, culture, criminal justice and real-time news. Capital New York reported in February that Vocativ laid off about eight staffers in…
On “The O’Reilly Factor” last night, Megyn Kelly shamed host Bill O’Reilly for daring to criticize Pam Geller’s absolutist version of free speech, saying that he was “catering to the jihadis.” The pair were discussing the shooting of two Islamic extremists in Garland, Texas, on Sunday when O’Reilly echoed Donald Trump and claimed that Geller…
‘Claims’: You’re not buying it, CNN? The headline has been changed to “Pentagon: No Texas takeover plot.” New: Read comments from my Facebook friends and subscribers < ?php if( class_exists(‘Add_to_Any_Subscribe_Widget’) ) { Add_to_Any_Subscribe_Widget::display(); } ??> Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render Place this tag after the last plusone tag (function()…
Last May, the first women to edit the New York Times and Le Monde were very publicly forced out of their jobs within a few hours of each other. What followed was perhaps just as surprising as the events themselves: a viral national debate about a previously little-noted problem, the incredible paucity of women running…
At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only reason I ever came to the University of North Carolina was to work for…
It’s dueling MLK quote season again. Both sides are making accusations of selective reading at the other, and given that many people on either side have probably read very little of his words that don’t appear on a poster, both sets of accusations are perennially accurate. We might make a policy of saying that if…
A Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip Doonesbury’s Charlie Hebdo Problem — The Nib — Medium.
Feb. 3, 2013 (Patrick Smith/Getty) On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, the Baltimore Ravens won the NFL Super Bowl game against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans went wild and took to the streets of Baltimore in “celebrations” and “victory riots.” They were called “rowdy fans” who took “their celebrations too far” by local Baltimore CBS news….