Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, Vox Media’s SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a 12,000-word profile of a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who this winter was tried for raping 13 black women while on duty; convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and burglary; and sentenced to 263 years…
This afternoon, SB Nation’s Longform vertical published 12,000 words on Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer who was convicted of abusing his position of power to rape multiple women over a seven month period. It was, in many ways, a disaster of a story, and after a wide outcry that amounted to nearly…
Two days ago, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a long, sympathetic piece on the 29-year-old Oklahoma City police officer who was tried, convicted and ultimately sentenced in December to 263 years in jail for serially raping black women while on duty. The story was immediately and angrily criticized, and after a few hours,…
Go ahead, commit cannibalism! Slaughter your neighbors and feast on their still-warm flesh. Nobody can judge you, because the mere existence of the film Gods of Egypt has dissolved all social contracts, and eliminated forever all concepts of good and evil. The moment I walked out of a screening of Gods of Egypt, I set…
Of all Fareed Zakaria’s accomplishments—a wildly successful career in print journalism, book publishing, and television broadcasting—perhaps his most important is also his least appreciated: He has demonstrated that media reporting is next to useless. It’s been more than a year since two bloggers laid out in gothic detail Zakaria’s pattern of incorporating without credit the…
Screenshot/YouTubeGOP frontrunner Donald Trump continued his tirade against fellow candidate Marco Rubio’s previous episodes involving sweat and dry mouth. During a Friday rally, he pulled out a bottle of water from his podium and exclaimed “It’s Marco!” The bit was clearly in reference to Rubio’s 2013 State of the Union response where he stopped mid-speech…
2016 Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, from left, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc., Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and John Kasich, governor of Ohio, participate in the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the…
Photo Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump at the Republican debate in New Hampshire on Feb. 6.Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey endorsed Donald J. Trump on Friday, a major turn in a wild race and one that gives the New York businessman a major boost as he heads…
The hijab, or headscarf worn by some Muslim women, “contribute[s] to the idea of passive terrorism” and represents an implicit refusal to “speak against or actively resist terrorism,” claims a bizarre policy paper issued by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, The Intercept reported this week. The U.S. military white paper was written by Tawfik Hamid, an author…
View this image › Wells Fargo ATM bank machines are shown at one of their new retail banks in Carlsbad, California January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake Mike Blake / Reuters ID: 8082612 America’s big banks collected over $11 billion in overdraft fees in 2015, according to a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,…