Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Hammerin Man) In recent years, we’ve written a number of stories about laws aimed at protecting active-duty servicemembers and their families from predatory loans and the businesses that try to take advantage of loopholes in these rules. Some readers have asked why members of our armed forces merit protections not available to civilians. But this…
The December jobs report falls right in line with the course the Fed is trying to chart for its monetary policy, and the upshot is that the numbers mean the Fed is most likely not going to hike rates any earlier than April, WSJ chief economics correspondent Jon Hilsenrath said this morning on the MoneyBeat…
At a memorial in New York City’s Union Square, a Charlie Hebdo cover that reads “Love is stronger than hate.” Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images The editors and cartoonists murdered in Wednesday’s attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo are now martyrs for the cause of free speech. Threatened with death for publishing drawings of the…
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When Reported.ly’s European team learned of the attack, our reporting operation was less than 48 hours old. Here’s how w… Baptism By Fire: What We Learned Covering #CharlieHebdo On Our 3rd Day — the reported.ly team — Medium.
Murder is wrong, and the murder of journalists cuts especially close to the bone for anyone in the industry. So I certainly sympathize with Jonathan Chait’s impulse to offer a full-throated defense of publishing blasphemous anti-Muslim cartoons as a positive good. “The right to blaspheme religion is one of the most elemental exercises of political…
On Wednesday morning, the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by three masked gunmen, armed with kalashnikovs, who stormed the building and killed ten of its staff and two police officers. The gunmen are currently understood to be Muslim extremists. This attack came minutes after the paper tweeted this drawing of ISIS leader Abu…
There has been a sudden spike recently in expressions of racism in French public life—one that has provoked a national debate and may lead to legal action this week. It began last month, when a candidate for the right-wing National Front likened Christiane Taubira, the Justice Minister, who is black, to a monkey, pairing…
The recent attack on Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical French newspaper featuring acerbic cartoons and comics, is shocking. Twelve people are dead, 11 injured. These attacks threaten the freedom of the press. But the media’s response has been troubling. Coverage lionizes Charlie Hebdo as an institution, while also taking advantage of the cartooning community. Charlie…
Dean Baquet calls Marc Cooper an ‘asshole’ for posting a ‘thoughtless and arrogant’ note Posted on Facebook In another comment on his Facebook wall, USC Annenberg journalism professor Marc Cooper writes: “You just happen to be wrong. man. I call you that instead of your word ‘asshole’ as I try to meet long standing standards…