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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…
More people know how to use Facebook, which was started in 2004, than natively speak any single language; the particular syntax of Google’s email service, which soft-opened the same year, is familiar to about three times as many people as live in the United States; Pinterest won’t say how many people use its app, but…
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…
Earlier this year a young employee at a celebrity magazine explained to me a problem. The magazine was doing reasonably well, as was its website. But both were publishing photos taken from Instagram with increasing frequency. This was fine: the photos were good and people liked them. The problem, this person said, was that it…
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…
Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door By Brian Ries2015-12-04 17:51:34 UTC In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door. News outlets, including MSNBC,…
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance on Facebook to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Updated on December 4 at 12:06 p.m. Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San…