If you’re anything like us, Twitter made your Election Night both unusually fact-packed—hey, someone had to tell us about Heidi Heitkamp’s win while Diane Sawyer sang old Irish drinking songs on TV—and almost completely insufferable. That manically partisan stream of mots both bon and mal comes in for examination tonight, as The New Republic’s new Read More
The state of journalism is bad. Of course, Jonah Lehrer and Fareed Zakaria—high-profile writers at The New Yorker and Time, respectively—were recently exposed as frauds and plagiarists, but that’s not the worst of it. Not even close. The phone-tapping scandal that nearly imploded NewsCorp’s news division last year? Nope.
In fact, nothing illustrates the distressing state of affairs more clearly than the reaction to Judge William Alsup’s recent order that Google and Oracle turn over the names of the reporters and bloggers whom the two companies had paid for potentially positive coverage supporting their case in a high-stakes copyright lawsuit.
Wait, what reaction? Oh, you didn’t even hear about this? Read More
As we noted earlier this morning, some of the retail brokerages fortunate to get their hands on Facebook allocations are apparently telling clients they’re out of stock, i.e., you and Aunt Sally can forget about $38 a share and assume that whatever you wind up paying, you’re going to be lining the pockets of Read More
