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This post has been updated with a statement from the Asian American Journalists Association and tweets by Watters. On the eve of the first general-election debate moderated by an Asian American journalist, the “O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News aired a segment so full of Asian stereotypes and jokes that fitting them all into five minutes was…
The answers could be worth millions — even billions — of dollars: Where have Metro’s riders gone, and will they ever come back? In the most recent quarter alone, the beleaguered transit agency reported an 11 percent drop in Metrorail ridership. In the last fiscal year, Metrorail riders took 15 million fewer trips than the…
There is no question that Bomba Estereo’s newest music video, “Soy Yo,” is a refreshing representation of Latina girls. The video for the Colombian electro-cumbia group’s 2015 single features a confident young girl walking the streets of New York with her chin held high and the world at her feet. The opening scene sets the…
An epidemic of clown sightings is spreading across America – and no one is laughing any more [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] ‘I saw them. They ran off into the woods just as I came out. They’re trying to scare us’. Photograph: Alamy Matthew Teague in Greenville, South Carolina, and Flomaton, Alabama Wednesday...
September 12, 2016 10:31 a.m. After All That Complaint, Only 2 Percent of Twitter Users Turned Off the Algorithm By Brian Feldman Share Share Tweet Share Share Email Print Back in February, power users of Twitter were distraught to hear that Twitter would be introducing algorithmic sorting into its feed. Up until then, Twitter had…
Lawless forum site 4chan is going broke as ad sales dry up Members of the hack-tivist collective Anonymous once flocked to 4chan, the anonymous nature of which suited their clandestine needs. By Patrick Kulp2016-10-06 13:11:36 UTC Earlier this week, 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura hit the forum site’s users with some jarring news. The company is…
Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working His quiet gesture was precision engineered to accomplish exactly what it’s accomplished. /header The 49ers’ Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick during the national anthem prior to the game against the Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium on Sept. 1, 2016, in San Diego, California.Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images On Sunday, the Kansas…
Here is an opinion: Fashion shows are not that fun. They are okay sometimes, and an important caveat is they make for pretty decent Snapchat stories that your mom will find deeply fabulous. But among the vast number (read: less than ten, probably) of fashion shows I have attended, much of the experiences have gone…
A closer look at the yield curve on U.S. Treasurys — one of the more closely watched indicators of overall economic health Understanding the Yield Curve – WSJ.com. Source: Understanding the Yield Curve – WSJ.com
Tensions between Facebook and the news industry boiled over this week when the social media corporation censored a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam war photo, because it featured a naked child and violated site “community standards”. The dispute over the “napalm girl” image, which a Norwegian writer published in a post about historic warfare photography, ended Friday when…