Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo credit: Pablo Martinez/AP Get a load of these sorry quisling motherfuckers. The reviews are in for insane lying press secretary Sean Spicer’s second performance as the bullhorn of America’s new illegitimate white-nationalist government, and here are Washington Post staffers Chris Cillizza and Karen Tumulty—reporters, at least nominally, for one of the most powerful press…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants. Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases,…
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Getty Images A journalism professor raises some excellent points. It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all…
Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer began his second briefing from the White House by referring to it as the “first briefing,” an attempt to downplay a statement he gave Saturday that contained a number of falsehoods in reference to Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd size. Spicer began the press conference at 1:45 p.m., almost 15 minutes…
Image via AP. The Hill is reporting that the incoming Trump administration has dramatic plans to reduce federal spending, mostly by cutting the budgets for everything that progressives have ever held dear: civil rights, reducing violence against women, the arts, the humanities, and energy efficiency. The budget proposal is reportedly lifted almost directly from a…
Someone needs to write a book about how literally insane it made you being constantly lied to about Iraq by sloppy propaganda as a teenager. Right now, I’m slowly working my way through Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream, a meticulous deconstruction of the media’s response after 9/11. In it, Faludi argues that producers, pundits and executives…
Women march to Roberto Clementi Field in Boston to protest a continuing trend of violence against women and minorities in the city on Aug. 9, 1980. (Photo by Deborah Petto/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) This week, countless American journalists have been weighing the costs of joining the Women’s March in Washington, DC, or one…
NEW YORK—Admitting they badly need to turn their business around, executives at struggling media company Vidmark Interactive confided to sources Tuesday that their situation has become so dire they may have to consider giving a job to someone who is actually qualified to hold it. “We’ve had such a difficult time staying afloat in the…
Washington Post video reporter Dalton Bennett was pulled back and knocked down by riot police in downtown Washington D.C., while trying to video tape the arrest of dozens of anti-Trump protesters in Washington D.C. Protesters wearing all black were arrested as part of an unauthorized march by a group calling itself the “Anti-captialist, Anti-Facist Bloc.”…