Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Cliff Sloan on Closing Gitmo by Deborah Pearlstein In case you missed it Monday, departing U.S. State Department special envoy for closing Guantanamo had a sharp op-ed in the N.Y. Times, marking the administration’s recent successes at moving detainees out of the prison and urging that further progress be made. Among other things, Sloan highlights…
Defenders of the police department too often ignore credible evidence that its treatment of minorities leaves much room for improvement. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters A dozen years ago, City Journal, the quarterly magazine of The Manhattan Institute, published “The Black Cops You Never Hear About” by Heather Mac Donald, one of the sharpest, most eloquent, and zealous…
PARIS—Following the fatal terrorist attack Wednesday at the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, sources confirmed this afternoon that it is sadly not yet clear whether this very article will ultimately put human lives at risk. According to totally and utterly depressing early reports, given the tragic deaths of 12 people, it is impossible to…
The internet book world has been abuzz with discussion about the ethics and logistics of crowd funding books. Well, not books, really. They’ve been talking about crowd funding an author’s career. When author Stacey Jay’s publisher declined to contract the next book in her YA series, she took to Kickstarter to fund the project. This isn’t uncommon,…
Who are these weirdos, and what do they want? Meet Le Reddit Armie, the trolls who have taken over YouTube.
Is ‘authenticity’ another word for exclusion? The tech and design industries, like Portlandia, are worryingly minority-f… Brooklyn Beta vs. Afro-Futurism — Human Parts — Medium.
Building a journalism organization that exists mostly (or only) on social media and other platforms makes a kind of weird sense. After all, where would Twitter or Facebook be without the commercial driving power of media organizations using and advertising on them? After all those years of our words helping them make money, shouldn’t they…
Updated with more comment from an AP spokesperson WASHINGTON — News organizations around the world are facing a dilemma about how to portray cartoons of Muhammad by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a deadly attack on its offices Wednesday — and some are choosing to respond by censoring or cropping out photos of…
Hours after 12 editors and cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were executed by Islamic extremists, the Financial Times‘s editorial board published a strongly-worded editorial criticizing the magazine for their “editorial foolishness.” “If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of…
The Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the CEO of Caterpillar, a manufacturer of large construction equipment, which advocated for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline but failed to disclose Caterpillar’s significant financial stake in the pipeline’s construction. The January 7 op-ed in the Tribune by Caterpillar chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman advocated for…