The Fall Of The Fourth Estate

from Intelligencer Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. By Kara Swisher n the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post. Having just turned 30, I was the “young” person in the newsroom, so when...

Flamin’ Hot Deviance

from The Los Angeles Times Abcarian: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and iPhones are ruining my kid and yours by Robin Abcarian California lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban from public schools foods that contain certain dyes linked to brain changes, among them...

Navy Seals?

from The Washington Post via Yahoo News! How many dogs have government jobs? What about sea lions? by Andrew Van Dam Washington is going to the dogs – for real this time. As of 2022, the federal government employed 5,159 German shepherds, Belgian Malinois,...

Director BEE

from Variety Bret Easton Ellis to Make Directorial Debut With L.A.-Set Horror Movie ‘Relapse,’ Starring Joseph Quinn (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy Getty Images “Less Than Zero” writer Bret Easton Ellis is set to make his directorial debut with “Relapse,” an elevated...

Cartoons Still Old-school

from TidBITS Newspaper Cartoonists Rely on Digital Tools, but Not as You’d Expect by GLENN FLEISHMAN I spent dozens of hours last fall interviewing newspaper cartoonists about how they draw their work, assuming that many would have adopted modern tools like...