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U.S. import prices recorded their biggest drop in six years in January as prices fell broadly, a sign that domestic inflation pressures could remain muted for a while. The Labor Department said on Friday import prices tumbled 2.8 percent last month, the largest decline since December 2008, after sliding by a revised 1.9 percent in…
Judging by trending social media #hashtags, the world is nearing an apocalyptic Battle Royale waiting for the Four Horsemen to post an Instagram selfie. Just today, I watched #GazaUnderAttack, #Ukraine, #EbolaOutbreak, #BorderCrisis and #BIEBERvsBLOOM. Ongoing global political crises sparked vigorous, international debates …sadly taking the form of incendiary tweets, dueling hashtags and Facebook grandstanding. Alongside…
Share Tweet Share Send Link ISIS is facing massive attacks on its web forums, Twitter accounts and other social media outlets, purportedly from Anonymous, the loosely affiliated online activism group. Over the past few days, most of the prominent jihadi forums used by ISIS members and supporters, such as AlPlatformMedia.com, have been taken offline and since stayed that way. Anonymous…
Falling in love is a truly strange experience. You become utterly, inexplicably obsessed with one person. You feel a spike of pleasure whenever you get a text or email from them, and spend as much time with them as humanly possible. You see the good in them, but not the bad. When you’re with them,…
Photo Credit Photo illustration by Andrew B. Myers. Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch. close shareTools As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the…
There’s an underrepresentation of adult-on-child violence on television. And on Thursday, February 12, whether we like it or not, NBC will change that with the premiere of The Slap. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## ######## END SNIPPET ######## The network has assembled a cast of stars to tell the story of an adult man slapping a child….
Look, I hate it as much as you hate it when some beloved person dies and some less beloved person tries to ride the hem of his garments. Gimme a pass on this one. Four and a half years ago, I was caught out for sending rude, childish emails about conservatives — whom I’d been…
paging_filterDavid Carr, the ferocious and beloved longtime media columnist for The New York Times, died suddenly at the age of 58 on Thursday in the paper’s Eighth Avenue offices, the Times confirmed.In a note to staff that was provided to Capital, Times executive editor Dean Baquet called Carr, who is survived by his wife, Jill,…
Photo David Carr in 2008. Credit Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times close shareTools David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, died at the office on Thursday. He was 58. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage close…
It’s going to be unbearably cold this weekend, so we’re being treated to some unbearably irritating (though incredibly necessary) subway changes. Some things of note: the L will once again suspend service between 8th Avenue and 14th Street-Union Square, the N is suspended between Astoria-Ditmars Blvd and Queensboro Plaza during the day, and Brooklyn-bound 4…