Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In corporate America, the most persistent refuge of outright charlatanism is “branding.” The only thing more offensive to honesty than a “rebranding” campaign is a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign. What do we have in Wired today… ah, it’s a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign! “The Inside Story of Uber’s Radical…
Reporters were guided by police escort from San Francisco down to the media center in San Jose yesterday and, according to the San Jose Mercury-News the escorts will continue during the week. While the reporters tweeted about how awesome their escorts were (yes, really, they did), it got me wondering who’s paying for all this….
The Intercept disclosed today that a former reporter for the national-security focused website fabricated quotes and invented sources for a number of stories published last year. According to a post published on Tuesday afternoon by editor-in-chief Betsy Reed, that reporter, Juan Thompson, went so far as to register fake email addresses, including one in Reed’s…
The Intercept recently discovered a pattern of deception in the actions of a staff member. The employee, Juan Thompson, was a staff reporter from November 2014 until last month. Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name. An…
VICE reporter Ben Anderson talks about facing captured ISIS soldiers and more in tonight’s VICE on HBO Debrief of “Fighting ISIS.” VICE returns on Friday, February 5 at 11PM, exclusively on HBO Watch Season 1: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S1Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S2-E1 Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-VideosVideos, daily editorial…
Krishna explores the history of Brooklyn by traveling its longest street: Bedford Avenue. Check out the VICE City Guide for more NYC recommendations: http://bit.ly/1P5awPe Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-VideosVideos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.comMore videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideosLike VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/viceFollow VICE on…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the University of Iowa in Iowa City on Tuesday. On any day, Mr. Trump’s entry on Wikipedia usually attracts more views than those any of his Republican rivals. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times For a website with no paid writing staff that is still overcoming an out-of-date…
Photo Gregory Anderson’s lawsuit provides a peek inside Yahoo’s controversial quarterly performance review system. Credit Laura McDermott for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — One of Marissa Mayer’s signature policies as chief executive of Yahoo has been the quarterly performance review, in which every employee at the company is ranked on a scale of…
Famed atheist and of-late-anti-PC crusader Richard Dawkins is again in hot water after retweeting images of a parody book called “The Social Justice Delusion” (a spoof of his best-seller, “The God Delusion”), which was meant to criticize the supposed double-standards of political correctness. Though ostensibly par-for-the-course for Dawkins’ Twitter ethos, the jacket (go figure) featured…
Marijuana has been legal in the District of Columbia since February of last year. But walking around, you would be hard pressed to notice any sign that the weed has indeed been freed. Sure, most any large American city smells like marijuana these days. But unlike other states where pot is legal, there are no…