Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the conversation that followed the revelation. The discussion begins, in most cases, with the premise that Gawker is bad. Even those…
This company was built to fail, says Michael Ferro, Tribune Publishing chairman, talking about the turnaround at Tribune. Tribune’s risk strategy. Source: Tribune’s risk strategy
CNN reporter Jake Tapper asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump if his judge attack was racist, then followed up 23 times. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) There’s persistent … and then there’s Jake Tapper. The CNN anchor posed the following question to Donald Trump on Friday: Let me ask you about comments you made about the…
Photos by John Filo (Getty Images) It is a photograph all young journalists should pin to their cubicle walls: the iconic image of the 1970 Kent State shootings, in which a teenage girl grieves over the body of a slain student. Forget for a moment that the picture is among the most famous in US…
Photo Donald J. Trump at a campaign event Friday in Urbandale, Iowa.Credit Max Whittaker for The New York Times WAUKEE, Iowa – I was late to Donald J. Trump’s unannounced visit to a Pizza Ranch on Friday, his first drop-by of this ubiquitous Iowa chain that is standard stop for candidates, but which Mr. Trump…
If the Donald Trump campaign is trying to “squelch independent coverage” by removing a reporter from an event, “it will not work,” Politico Editor Susan Glasser says in a statement to Washingtonian. On Thursday night a Trump campaign staffer and a security guard kicked Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger out of a campaign rally in San Jose,…
It may seem silly, but this is actually a major problem with the comics industry and comics media. Source: Valnet Inc. Presents: Comic Book Resources Comics journalism is a strange field. Despite all sorts of serious shit going down in the industry, comics news sites seem most excited when they get the opportunity to publish…
I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker. I made its list of “least important writers” twice, and it put me in 62nd place on its “worst 100 white men” list, which also included Judas Iscariot and Joe Paterno. Gawker writers have called me a “terrible writer” and a “terrible sexist” and…
Photo Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. It was revealed this week that he had bankrolled the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media. Credit Robyn Twomey SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley’s stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response in the…
No major American cultural force is more opposed to examination and more active in suppressing it today than Silicon Valley. So when it was revealed this week that Facebook board member Peter Thiel had been secretly bankrolling a lawsuit to inflict financial ruin on the news and gossip site Gawker, Silicon Valley cheered. The investor…