Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After running Model View Culture for three years, I’m writing our community to share that I am shutting down the publication. We will not be offering any further subscriptions or publishing any new content. All of our existing content will remain free and online on modelviewculture.com, and we’ll be working with authors whose pieces were…
As the press secretary for a president who’s obsessed with how things play on cable TV, Sean Spicer’s real audience during his daily televised press briefings has always been an audience of one. And the devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Spicer that aired over the weekend — in which a belligerent Spicer was spoofed…
You Can be ‘Quite a Ridiculous Figure’: Michael Wolff Rips Stelter for Lecturing on ‘Virtues of the Media’ Please enable Javascript to watch. During an at times contentious exchange today on CNN’s Reliable Sources, The Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff criticized host Brian Stelter over the style and approach Stelter has taken of late on…
Donald Trump is obsessed with the media. And the media is obsessed with Trump. Let’s take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy. The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president and the press was during the Nixon administration. The current White House would…
Credit Bráulio Amado MILWAUKEE — If President Trump’s first tumultuous weeks have done nothing else, at least they have again made us a nation of readers. As Americans grapple with the unreality of the new administration, George Orwell’s “1984” has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, becoming a surprise best seller and an invaluable guide to…
This story has been corrected since it was originally published. Kellanne Conway appears to be dabbling with “alternative facts” again. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that aired on Thursday night, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and now an adviser in his administration, referenced the “Bowling Green massacre” when justifying the president’s controversial executive order…
President Donald Trump reacted angrily to overnight protests against alt-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos at University of California, Berkeley, and threatened to withdraw federal funds if the university “does not allow free speech and practices violence” in a tweet posted early Thursday morning. If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent…
Kill the article. That was the theme of the Global Editors Network hackathon that I participated in with Seattle Times teammates Ben Turner and Justin Mayo. This was one of 20 hackathons happening worldwide, with winners of each event going to Barcelona to compete against each other. Unfortunately, we didn’t win. But we still think…
Since the election, many people I know who don’t work in news have taken a break from the news, social media or some combination of the two. This is healthy and normal. Taking a small break from the news is recommended by psychologists who study the negative health effects caused by constant bad news. The…
On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016. I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass in this…