Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Only a minority of people feel their lives are better today than they might have been fifty years ago. In response, the intellectuals I follow tweeted something like: “these foolish people! Don’t they know how good they have it! They should be happy!! What’s wrong with them?!” Their words dripped with the strange hallmark of what passes for…
The video bubble hasn’t burst quite yet, but it sure has deflated for video makers looking to sell short-form content to streaming platforms. Over the past few months, several high-profile video streaming platforms have either shut down or scaled back their spending on original content. So far this fall, NBCUniversal closed the doors on Seeso, its…
By the end of the thread, McCarthy made it clear that these trolls are part of the “alt-right.” “The problem I’m stating here is not that ‘there are trolls on the internet’ but that people who proclaim to be on our side are trying to tear down women in our in-group,” she wrote. Another self-described “conservative woman”…
Getty Images She can’t interview worth a damn. She performs the common traits associated with morning television—levity, banter, dancing, and basic familiarity with the ways of human beings—with the level of grace as a dentist snatching your wisdom teeth out with pliers. And yet, not only does Megyn Kelly reportedly want to became the new…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Matt Lauer with Hillary Clinton at the NBC News “Commander-in-Chief Forum” in September 2016. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Matt Lauer, like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him, is a journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for sexually harassing female…
Starting in July, Jaime Phillips, an operative with the organization Project Veritas, wiped her previous right-leaning social media accounts and joined two dozen networking groups related to either journalism or left-leaning politics. (Julio Negron/The Washington Post) The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington…
As the co-host of NBC’s “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her…
Here’s the memo, hot off the presses, from ESPN President John Skipper: Today we are informing approximately 150 people at ESPN that their jobs are being eliminated. We appreciate their contributions, and will assist them as much as possible in this difficult moment with severance, a 2017 bonus, the continuation of health benefits and outplacement…
Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email. In a follow-up statement, he said he was fired over “a story that I think is more interesting and…
BuzzFeed is laying off about 100 employees — about 6 percent of its workforce — after it failed to hit its 2017 revenue targets. And Greg Coleman, the longtime digital advertising executive who joined the company as its president in 2014, is moving out as well. BuzzFeed is looking for a chief operating officer to…