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"The online publication Slate has suspended a well-known podcast host after he debated with colleagues over whether people who are not Black should be able to quote a racial slur..."February 23, 2021 at 11:01 AM "... in some contexts. Mike Pesca, the host of 'The Gist,' a podcast on news and culture... made his argument during a conversation last week with colleagues on the interoffice messaging platform Slack. In a lengthy thread of messages, Slate staff members were discussing the resignation of Donald G. McNeil Jr., a reporter who said this month that he was resigning from The New York Times after he had used the slur during a discussion of racism while working as a guide on a student trip in 2019....Tags: Law, Censorship, New York Times, Anderson, Slate, Mike Pesca, Jacob Weisberg, Donald McNeil, Race Consciousness, Ann Althouse, Insults, Joel Anderson, Employment Discrimination, DONALD G McNEIL Jr, Jacob Weisberg Slate, Slate disagreed For Black 35 people like this. Like Meet the 29 power players of podcasting who are pushing original audio production forward as the industry surges toward $1 billion in ad revenueFebruary 4, 2020 at 9:02 AM  Tags: Spotify, Hbo, Hollywood, Nbc, La, Boston, New York City, US, America, Trends, Atlanta, House, New York Times, The Times, Argentina, Hobbs 147 people like this. Like Alan Cumming, Russell Tovey to be Featured on CAUTIONARY TALES PodcastNovember 5, 2019 at 10:46 AM CAUTIONARY TALES is a new podcast a produced by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg's audio venture Pushkin Industries - that tells stories of history's mishaps and disasters and illuminates what we can learn from each of these remarkable and in some cases, unbelievable true tales. Written and hosted by bestselling author of The Undercover Economist Tim Harford, the podcast will launch with eight episodes on November 15, 2019. [Author: TV News Desk]Tags: Theatre, Malcolm Gladwell, Tim Harford, Jacob Weisberg, TV News Desk, Alan Cumming Russell Tovey, Pushkin Industries 44 people like this. Like Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system"October 18, 2018 at 1:32 PM Facebook is the poster-child for the techlash, the worst offender in the monopolistic bunch, and recent books like Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan (previously) and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier present variations on the main critiques of Facebook with some prescriptions for what to do about it.
In his New York Review of Books review of the two titles, Jacob Weisberg identifies the ...Tags: Facebook, Post, Corruption, News, Instagram, Microsoft, US, America, Ireland, Antitrust, Justice Department, Latin America, Ftc, Clinton, Weisberg, Sandberg 26 people like this. Like Jacob Weisberg Recalls The Founding Of Slate MagazineOctober 3, 2018 at 5:28 PM  Tags: Art, Words, Jacob Weisberg, 10.03.18, Founding Of Slate Magazine 79 people like this. Like Slate's Jacob Weisberg debates the dangers of the media's 'bad faith actors'February 9, 2018 at 2:37 PM In both politics and the media marketplace, the idea and influence of "bad faith" has taken center stage.Tags: Cnn, Jacob Weisberg 19 people like this. Like Donald Trump's Alleged Yearlong Affair With Porn Star — New Details Revealed!January 16, 2018 at 2:59 PM Only for Donald Trump could the reveal he paid off a porn star for her silence about their extramarital affair NOT be the biggest scandal on his plate.
But that's the case for President Shithole (or President Shithouse if you like -- notice how it doesn't make a difference?). So far anyway...
As more details emerge, the Stormy Daniels story is becoming closer to being well and truly confirmed -- and that could be a problem for the POTUS.
Related: Trump Retweeted Alt-Right Leader Who Allegedly Ca...Tags: New York, Celebs, Russia, Evans, Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly, Trump, Slate, Melania Trump, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Daniels, Weisberg, Jacob Weisberg, Alana Evans, Shithouse 10 people like this. Like Report: Trump lawyer brokered $130K payment to porn star for silenceJanuary 12, 2018 at 10:19 PM Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, said Friday that in a series of interviews with Stephanie Clifford in August and October 2016, Clifford said she had an affair with Trump after meeting at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament.Tags: News, Nation, Clifford, Trump, Jacob Weisberg, Nation & World, Nation & World Politics, Slate Group, Stephanie Clifford 36 people like this. Like Secrecy News for 10/16/17October 16, 2017 at 11:11 AM SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2017, Issue No. 73
October 16, 2017
Secrecy News Blog: https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/
WHITE HOUSE DIRECTIVE SPAWNS CONFUSION
WHAT IS AN ACT OF WAR IN CYBERSPACE?
WHITE HOUSE DIRECTIVE SPAWNS CONFUSION
Four months after President Trump issued his National Security Presidential Memorandum 5 on US policy towards Cuba and ordered it to be published in the Federal Register, that has still not been accomplished.
...Tags: News, Washington Post, North Korea, White House, Russia, US, America, State Department, Cuba, Jeh Johnson, US Army, Cyberspace, American University, Federal Register, Trump, State 3 people like this. Like The Only Podcasts You Need To Listen To During Trump's PresidencyMarch 9, 2017 at 5:55 PM  Tags: Fashion, Music, Supreme Court, Michael Barbaro, Obama, Cheryl Strayed, Washington Post, Washington, Ray Bradbury, America, United States, New York Times, Npr, Chrissy Teigen, Donald Trump, Julie Bowen 81 people like this. Like Scarier Than 'Psycho': Twitter Erupts Over Trump's 'Bats**t' Press ConferenceFebruary 17, 2017 at 12:15 AM function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReady...Tags: News, Obama, America, Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin, Huffington Post, Bart, Trump, Ed Mazza, Homer Simpson, Dave Jones, Mark Smith, Mark Johnson, Paula, Van Badham, Gary Cooper 23 people like this. Like Layoffs Hit SlateFebruary 13, 2017 at 7:43 PM Slate laid off about a half-dozen full-time staffers and contract writers, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Editor-in-chief Julia Turner notified staff of the cuts Monday. Politics editor Tommy Craggs, senior editor Rachael Larimore and associate editor Laura Anderson were among the employees let go, according to sources.
Turner did not respond to requests for comment. A Slate spokesperson also did not respond for comment.
One of the web’s first standout publications, ...Tags: Amazon, Post, News, Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, Huffington Post, Turner, Univision, Michael Calderone, Tommy Craggs, Graham Holdings Company, Jacob Weisberg, Laura Anderson, Julia Turner, Rachael Larimore, Donald Graham Graham 43 people like this. Like Donald Trump’s ‘War’ With The Media Isn’t Enough To Kill The White House Correspondents' DinnerFebruary 2, 2017 at 3:39 PM NEW YORK ― President Donald Trump declared “war” on the press during his first full day in office and has since echoed chief strategist Steve Bannon’s description of the news media as “the opposition party.”
But why should that get in the way of a good party.
Jeff Mason, a Reuters correspondent and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, informed members of the organization in an email Thursday that the annual event will take place on April 29, as had been previo...Tags: New York, News, Washington, White House, Barack Obama, New York Times, Tbs, Times, Donald Trump, White House Correspondents Association, Huffington Post, Samantha Bee, Nyu, Trump, Bee, Reuters 18 people like this. Like Editors Confront The 'Emergency’ Of Donald Trump's PresidencyJanuary 26, 2017 at 7:16 PM NEW YORK ― The journalist’s job, in many ways, remains the same under President Donald Trump: report aggressively and factually and hold power to account.
But even as editors reaffirmed that fundamental role of the press during a Wednesday night panel at NYU, there was a shared sense of urgency and concern that even the most intrepid reporting alone won’t cut it during these uncertain times. Trump, said New Yorker editor David Remnick, has already “begun to challenge constitutional and de...Tags: David Brooks, New York, News, Congress, White House, America, Cnn, United States, New York Times, Donald Trump, Huffington Post, Nyu, Trump, Michael Calderone, Brian Stelter, Weisberg 6 people like this. Like Jacob Weisberg Explains The Corrupting Influence Of the Attention EconomyOctober 13, 2016 at 4:02 PM  Tags: Art, Ideas, Audience, Jacob Weisberg 52 people like this. Like Slate Backs Malcolm Gladwell Podcast, Hoping for 'Serial' Level SuccessJune 16, 2016 at 4:00 PM On Thursday, Malcolm Gladwell launched a podcast called "Revisionist History." The podcast, which Mr. Gladwell says he made in lieu of writing a book, re-examines past events that Mr. Gladwell thinks were misinterpreted the first time around. Even before anyone could listen to it, the 10-episode show was a hit. On Wednesday night, it was the top podcast series in iTunes, even though it consisted of nothing more than a three-minute introductory clip.Last week, Mr. Gladwell visited the 92nd Street...Tags: Australia, Advertising, Manhattan, Julia Gillard, Upper East Side, Malcolm Gladwell, Weisberg, Gladwell, Elizabeth Thompson, Jacob Weisberg 35 people like this. Like We Are Hopelessly Hooked On Our SmartphonesFebruary 24, 2016 at 9:15 AM  Tags: Issues, Jacob Weisberg, 02.25.16 58 people like this. Like What We're Reading: 507 Mechanisms and Devices, Travel Posters to the Cosmos and MoreFebruary 13, 2016 at 5:41 AM  Tags: New York, London, Nasa, Laura Poitras, Times, Object Culture, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Weisberg, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nir Eyal, Science Museum London, David Remnick, Rebecca Veit, Alexandra Alexa, Eric Ludlum, Currey 127 people like this. Like apocalypse obsessive linksFebruary 13, 2016 at 4:52 PM  Tags: UK, Hollywood, Beyonce, James Wolcott, Dave, United States, Luc Besson, Baylor University, Hudson, Pompeii, Clowes, Winona, Edward Scissorhands, Julieta, Matt Zoller Seitz, David Bordwell 111 people like this. Like Derfor er jeg ikke bange for filterboblerAugust 10, 2015 at 3:21 PM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Netflix, Jeg, Intelligence Group, Jacob Weisberg, Samfund, Google og Facebook MSNBC's Maddow Ridicules Fox News For Hyping O'Reilly's Ratings To Avoid Commenting On FabricationsMarch 4, 2015 at 6:14 PM From the March 4 edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show:Previously:
The Perils Of Protecting Bill O'Reilly
Slate's Jacob Weisberg Explains Why Fox News Doesn't Care About O'Reilly's Fabrications
USA Today: Fox News Should "Distance Itself" From O'Reilly But It Won'tTags: Rachel Maddow, Msnbc, Reilly, Maddow, Jacob Weisberg |
