How to Pay For Real News

Our nation’s present uproar over the deleterious effects of social media on society and fretting about the decline of trusted news outlets is nothing new. What’s new is the fact that the straightforward ways to prop up the Real Journalism industry have never been more obvious. For two decades, professional thinkers—most of them employed in…

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The Atlantic Fires Opinion Writer For Opinions He Held When They Hired Him To Write His Opinions For The Atlantic

Does it qualify as a Milkshake Duck if they knew the duck was racist to begin with? What the hell has even happened here? Today, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced that the magazine has fired right-wing extremist Kevin Williamson, a soft-boiled egg coated in pube clippings, only two weeks after it announced the hiring of…

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Oh God, Even Our Parent Company Is Airing The Barstool Sports CEO’s Evasive, Charming Bullshit

Since she was hired as CEO of Barstool Sports in July 2016, Erika Nardini has done countless interviews about the company’s growing revenue and “disruptive” business model of publishing misogyny because it’s fun. (Some greatest hits are in the video above.) In these press hits, Nardini shows herself to be a master of saying as little as…

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Who Does She Think She Is?

Another day at the Telegraph and another attack on Laurie Penny. — Nick Cohen, The Spectator, 2011 Do you think that red hair and makeup is used for anything other than attention? Her writing? Same. That bitch is a whore who needs to die choking on cocks. — 4chan, 2016 I think that nice Laurie…

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Piss Off, Brian Stelter

Photo: Getty It did not take long for America’s despicable conservative movement to lose its goddamn mind about the campaign by Parkland shooting survivors to, you know, not be shot in their classrooms. Laura Ingraham is just the tip of the vile iceberg; look in the fever swamps of right-wing Twitter and you’ll see that…

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