Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Brian Lesser sits in the shadow of Comcast. It’s an unusually cool New York City summer morning, and as Lesser, the CEO of AT&T’s advertising and analytics unit, details his grandiose plans to upend the TV ad industry from the roof-deck of AT&T’s offices in Rockefeller Center, the peacock logo of Comcast’s NBC division…
The now finally former CBS CEO Les Moonves is a crawling smear of slime. He’s like the dog poop that Wadsworth the butler steps in at the start of Clue. But we’ve known that since Ronan Farrow’s expose in the August 6 issue of The New Yorker, which revealed how Moonves assaulted women, including the…
This week, like every week before it, quickly set a new high bar for asinine political takes. As always, the trash piled up from a number of sources, for a few different reasons — Nike’s ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick, confirmation hearings for Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the New Yorker dropping Steve Bannon from its annual pretension festival. The rhetoric was hardly…
storytext Twitter banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform Thursday afternoon, a month after several of its Silicon Valley counterparts did so. Jones was suspended from Twitter for one week last month after he posted a video in which he said, “Now is time to act on the enemy…
info@studyhall.xyz // studyhall.xyz September 5, 2018 When The Outline launched in late 2016, they promised to be “a new kind of publication” that would, against many odds, find ways to thrive in a near-apocalyptic media landscape. Yesterday, they announced layoffs of their remaining staff writers, as well as members of their non-editorial staff….
Was the New York Times’s decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing an organized resistance inside the Trump administration “gutless,” as the president has angrily deemed it? Or was it a crucial public service, as the Times’s top opinion editors see it? I’d call it neither. What it was, however, was a quagmire of weirdness: fraught…
President Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, suggesting in an interview with a conservative news site that the act of protesting should be illegal….
We’ve had set photos. We’ve had space-beepers. We’ve had comic universe teases. Hell, we’ve had notepads. But finally, finally, hope for a battered and bruised post-Infinity War Marvel Cinematic Universe has arrived—in the form of the mighty Captain Marvel herself! As revealed by the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, we finally have…
A tall, unemployed man took his niece to see Serena and Venus Williams play each other at the United States Open on Friday of last week. The man, a free-agent football player clad in a simple black T-shirt, was briefly shown on the video board at Arthur Ashe Stadium to thunderous applause from the crowd….
Medium Deprecates Custom Domains Service Medium: Medium is no longer offering new custom domains as a feature. Instead, you can create a publication on Medium that will live on a medium.com/publication-name URL. I don’t understand why any publication, even a personal blog, would use Medium without a custom domain name. It’s not just about branding now,…