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This week, NFL lawyers sent a letter to The New York Times demanding that the Times’s recent investigation into the league’s bogus concussion studies be retracted. It was so limp that it demanded a proper takedown. Thankfully, the Times was happy to oblige, via a response letter from their own lawyers. http://deadspin.com/nfl-demands-re… You can read…
Rei Kawakubo of COMME des GARCONS The press used to subsist on leaks; it now thrives on plants. The politician is not a liar or a demagogue but a product. It was therefore revealed a month ago that the hacks Marc Ambinder and Mike Allen of respectively the boring Atlantic and vapid Politico sold their souls…
The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed. When the Nazi party seized power in Germany in 1933, one of its first objectives was…
Photo: AP Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and always one for public self-flagellation, has whole-heartedly embraced the idea that “we in the media” have “empowered” Donald Trump. This is incorrect. According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, barely half of GOP primary voters said that they’d be satisfied with…
Playing his tune: Alan Rushbridger was one of the best newspaper editors of his generation, but lacked commercial success ©Amy T. Zielinsky/Getty Images Let’s agree that the Guardian is a great newspaper whose survival should concern us all. It may sometimes be pompous and self-regarding, but in an age of dumbing down it still carries…
Two injured women are seen inside Brussels Airport after deadly explosions on March 22. (Ketevan Kardava/Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP) Ketevan Kardava was at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday, headed to Switzerland for an assignment. So she was there when the first explosion occurred, a blast that sent debris flying, she told Time magazine. The airport filled with…
Two injured women are seen inside Brussels Airport after deadly explosions on March 22. (Ketevan Kardava/Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP) Ketevan Kardava was at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday, headed to Switzerland for an assignment. So she was there when the first explosion occurred, a blast that sent debris flying, she told Time magazine. The airport filled with…
The nation’s largest newspaper company is placing a bet on Billy Penn. Gannett Corporation, the publisher of USA Today and more than 90 daily metro newspapers like the Indianapolis Star and the Arizona Republic, is now a minority owner of Spirited Media, Billy Penn’s parent company. The investment, effective immediately, will allow Billy Penn to add…
Week 2 of the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial started today, and it’s already looking like it’ll be every bit as strange as Week 1. Hogan is, once again, outfitted in a formal black durag in the courtroom, and this morning, he watched as former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio took the stand and offered up…