Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Since the election, many people I know who don’t work in news have taken a break from the news, social media or some combination of the two. This is healthy and normal. Taking a small break from the news is recommended by psychologists who study the negative health effects caused by constant bad news. The…
On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016. I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass in this…
This year, Samantha Bee won’t be a guest at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — she’ll be hosting her own. Bee, the host of “Full Frontal,” on TBS, will be skewering President Trump on the same night that journalists are hobnobbing with their sources during a televised banquet in Washington, D.C. The event, called…
In one short week in the White House, Donald Trump has managed to shatter the tradition of the honeymoon period enjoyed by new presidents. While predecessors eased themselves into the role and were showered with national adulation, he has prompted widespread criticism with a stream of provocations. Trump has proclaimed war on the media, was…
Salon Media, whose sluggish stock had been surging in recent days on reports by The Post that an activist investor planned to buy a controlling stake in the company, is expected to formally reveal as soon as Friday that hedge fund Spear Point Capital is now the controlling shareholder, sources said. A new board of…
Salon Media, one of the trailblazing pioneers of digital publishing that has struggled in recent years, is on the brink of selling a controlling stake to activist investor Spear Point Capital, sources tell Media Ink. Spear Point would then use its control of Salon to make a run at Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com, one person familiar…
Spear Point is going to officially assume control of the Salon Media board Friday and Silicon Valley billionaire John Warnock, a co-founder of Adobe, is expected to step down as chairman, The Post has learned. The deal is expected to be announced Friday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. Warnock and another member…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container During his inauguration address on Friday, Donald Trump released an image that had nothing to do with crowd size or marchers: his official White House portrait. The picture, which features prominently in the White House website’s biography of Trump, depicts…
Trump is in power, and one of his first acts has been to gag government agencies. After the National Park Service bruised his ego by retweeting a New York Times tweet showing Trump’s inauguration numbers to be lower than President Obama’s 2009 crowd, they were ordered to stop all tweets, including scheduled ones. He then…
Back in September 2016, two months before the election, The New Yorker ran an article imagining the worst possible future: a Trump presidency. The article was accompanied by a mocked-up photo of Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Well, that darkest possible future really happened. And oddly enough, ABC News just accidentally used the fake…