New Yorker
The Reporter Who Wrote About Layoffs at the Cleveland Plain Dealer -- After He Was Laid Off (New Yorker)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 10:48The New Zealand Shooting and the Challenges of Governing Live-Streamed Video (New Yorker)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:54The making of the Fox News White House: Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda? (New Yorker)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/04/2019 - 10:24Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): " I don’t understand..how you can have rural cell-phone service all over Iceland and not in north MN (New Yorker)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/27/2018 - 17:01Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of Google—and the Internet (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/04/2018 - 05:42Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients? (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/07/2018 - 11:20
The Growth of Sinclair's Conservative Media Empire
Sinclair is the largest owner of television stations in the United States, with a hundred and ninety-two stations in eighty-nine markets. It reaches thirty-nine percent of American viewers. It’s unclear whether Sinclair is attempting to influence the politics of its viewers or simply appealing to positions that viewers may already have—or both.
Was There A Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 13:41
How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump
Politicians may be too timid to explore the subject of whether Russian election interference affected the outcome of the 2016 election, but a new book from, of all places, Oxford University Press promises to be incendiary. “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know,” by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania, dares to ask—and even attempts to answer—whether Russian meddling had a decisive impact in 2016.