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Photo Gay Talese, whose comments on female writers at a conference in Boston put him in an unfamiliar forum — on Twitter. Credit Robin Marchant/Getty Images On Friday, April 1, the 84-year-old writer Gay Talese made his way from New York to Boston, where he was scheduled to speak at Boston University’s “Power of Narrative”…
NYT executive editor Dean Baquet responds to “Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer“: “We published a story yesterday about controversial remarks made by the writer Gay Talese concerning female journalists at a conference at Boston University. The story also recounted an exchange between Talese and Nikole Hannah-Jones, a keynote speaker at the conference and…
Remember ChatRoulette? You’d log on, click through webcam feeds of obese men having sex with fruit, and walk away feeling like you’d finally made a human connection. Just take away the anonymity, the second camera, the sense of fate, and the fruit intercourse (for now) and you get Facebook Live’s new map—a digital panopticon fueled…
Bill Clinton was supposed to be stumping for Hillary Clinton in Philly today. Instead, he spent a considerable amount of time explaining to Black Lives Matter protestors why they need to stop being so loud. The clip above was perhaps the most egregious of Clinton’s condescending, tone deaf remarks, as he clashed with protestors in…
:32 A killer planet is rapidly heading towards earth Scientists believe that they have discovered an as-of-yet unnamed planet, currently being referred to as Planet 9. Unfortunately, this might not be great news, since the planet’s orbit might cause asteroids to come shooting at the Earth. :35 Cop body slams 12-year-old girl on camera A…
April 7, 2016 5:40 p.m. ET More than a dozen major U.S. newspaper publishers have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of a new Web browser that features built-in ad-blocking software, calling it ”blatantly illegal.” The letter said the plan by Brave Software Inc. to speed page loading times by stripping away ads the…
To the non-legal mind, Kesha’s court case is eminently reasonable. She would like to be unshackled from a decade-old contract tying her to producer and collaborator Lukasz Gottwald (aka “Dr Luke”), a man she says has drugged, raped and psychologically abused her from the time she was 18. Specifically, she would like to be freed…
Photo Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, said the website would “move away from covering world news and politics as stand-alone channels.” Credit Andrew Kelly/Insider Images The news website Mashable announced sweeping changes to its operations on Thursday, replacing its executive editor, Jim Roberts, and its chief revenue officer, Seth Rogin, and making a round…
Say that everything that Kesha alleges about the producer Dr. Luke raping and abusing her is true. She still loses her lawsuit against him. This is not a hypothetical scenario. In the ruling where the New York judge Shirley Werner Kornreich dismissed all of Kesha’s claims against the man born Lukasz Gottwald, his affiliated companies,…
Kesha, the singer known for hits such as “Tik Tok” and “Die Young,” had appealed a decision in February that said she could not be released from her contract with producer Dr. Luke. Kesha has alleged that Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, had sexually, emotionally and physically abused her. Dr. Luke’s record…