Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
HOW do you follow up on a phenomenon? At the end of its first series “Serial”, presented by Sarah Koenig and affiliated to “This American Life”, had become the most popular podcast in the world. It was the first to reach 5m downloads from iTunes, and each episode reached about 2.2m pairs of ears. The…
Over at the ‘Meet the Press’ site, where NBC’s Chuck Todd holds forth, this question was recently asked: Why the selective political outrage? “It says something about our current polarized politics, as well as the sheer number of violent killings in this country, when the left and right are picking which mass shootings to exploit…
Entry Text Earlier today, the candidate currently leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” That was, of course, Donald Trump. As Jeffrey Goldberg just tweeted, “Donald Trump is now an actual threat to national security. He’s providing jihadists ammunition for…
Photo An illustration by Molly Crabapple of herself (center) and friends Sarah Jaffe (left) and Laurie Penny during the Occupy Wall Street movement. Credit Courtesy of the artist and Harper Collins Photo Crabapple. Credit Clayton Cubitt Molly Crabapple made her name in 2005 as the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School — a sketching club…
Screenshot via MSNBC On Friday, a bunch of journalists barged inside the apartment of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook, the deceased suspects in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. For nearly 15 minutes, MSNBC broadcast a live feed of reporter Kerry Sanders traipsing through the apartment, picking stuff up, and describing what he…
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., the owner of the most local TV stations in the country, has purchased and next spring will relaunch the defunct mobile news site Circa, the company announced Monday. Sinclair has hired John Solomon, formerly the vice president for content and business development for The Washington Times, to lead the effort as chief…
The New York Times front page on Saturday. There is a way of thinking — one that tends to comfort the comfortable and leave the afflicted in extended misery. It’s a way of dividing every vexing, complicated, long-running but slow-moving matter of public debate into one of three categories, then getting about the more ordinary business…
Here are today’s front pages of New York City’s two tabloid newspapers. Which one is “better?” NY Daily News front page retweets: 20,500 NY Post front page retweets: 500 NY Daily News front page Facebook shares: 73,000 NY Post front page Facebook shares: 1,700 More likely to stoke public anger toward craven politicians: NY Daily…
For the first time in many decades, The New York Times has taken the rare step of running an editorial on its front page. Calling the availability of deadly weapons “a moral outrage” and “a national disgrace,” the editorial calls for an outright ban on some weapons: Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly…
These tweets early in the San Bernardino shooting Wednesday attracted a lot of media attention, including a blog post from me last night and the initial version of this post (most of which will be retained here, with updates noted): As I noted in both posts, this was either an eyewitness who could provide helpful…