Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange - BuzzFeed News. We Need a Press Freedom Bill, Even if the Government Doesn't Want One. On 29 July 2016, Outlook magazine digitally released an investigative report called “Operation #BabyLift,” the cover story for its 8 August issue. The story, written by Neha Dixit, an independent journalist, detailed the manner in which outfits that belong to the Sangh Parivar had abducted young girls from Assam to indoctrinate them. Less than a week after it was released, on 4 August, Subhash Chandra Kayal, the assistant solicitor general of India at the Guwahati High Court, Bijon Mahajan, a lawyer and spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and Mominul Awwal from the BJP’s minority cell, filed a complaint at the Latasil police station in Guwahati, alleging that Dixit’s story incited communal hatred. The police registered a first information report against Indranil Roy, the publisher and executive director of the magazine, Krishna Prasad, then its editor-in-chief, and Dixit.
Last week, on 13 August, Roy sent an email to the staff at Outlook. A Plan to Flood San Francisco With News on Homelessness. What are the Panama Papers? A guide to history's biggest data leak | News. The Panama Papers are an unprecedented leak of 11.5m files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca. The records were obtained from an anonymous source by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ then shared them with a large network of international partners, including the Guardian and the BBC.
What do they reveal? The documents show the myriad ways in which the rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes. Twelve national leaders are among 143 politicians, their families and close associates from around the world known to have been using offshore tax havens. A $2bn trail leads all the way to Vladimir Putin. An offshore investment fund run by the father of British prime minister David Cameron avoided ever having to pay tax in Britain by hiring a small army of Bahamas residents to sign its paperwork. What is Mossack Fonseca? Where is it based? No. What It’s Like to Write Jokes for President Obama. Photo PRESIDENT OBAMA and his anger translator were having issues. The motorcade was scheduled to leave for last year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in less than 20 minutes. We had one chance to rehearse the president’s closing sketch with the translator, “Luther,” who was played by the comedian Keegan-Michael Key.
President Obama had no problem delivering his lines or pretending to go unhinged when talking about climate change deniers. “I do actually get mad sometimes, you know,” he said. The problem was Luther. Each time Mr. “I’ve got to hold it together,” Mr. He pulled it off. Part of what makes any presidential joke funny is the fact that the president is telling a joke. When I began working for the White House in 2011, the most effective way to draw attention to even the most obscure policy issue was generally either an interview or a speech. A turning point came after a somewhat rocky fall of 2013. Of course, his most frequent target has been himself.
Why you should block ads. Arguments against ad blocking tend to focus on the potential economic harms. Because advertising is the dominant business model on the internet, if everyone used ad-blocking software then wouldn’t it all collapse? …There are literally billions of dollars being spent to figure out how to get you to look at one thing over another; to buy one thing over another; to care about one thing over another.
This is the way we are now monetizing most of the information in the world.The large-scale effort that has emerged to capture and exploit your attention as efficiently as possible is often referred to as the “attention economy.” …So if you wanted to cast a vote against the attention economy, how would you do it? James Williams on why it’s not just ok, but a moral obligation to use adblocker software. Hat tip @RobReich. Why everybody loves to hate Barkha Dutt. She is a powerful, fiercely political, single, independent woman, and Internet trolls can’t stand that What would your reaction be if a grown woman shared the following story about her experience of child sexual abuse when she was eight years old?
“Little did I imagine that this much-older, family figure—someone who would take the kids for piggy-back rides and twirl us around in the air—could be such a monster. Worse still, as a child unable to process the magnitude of what had happened—I was the one who felt grotesque and dirty…. But after the first few times I had innocently followed him to ‘play’ with him in his room, I was overcome by panic and disgust. “Ridden with guilt, unable to shake off the feeling of being dirty and trapped in a sink of fear, I finally told my mother that something terrible had happened…. If you’re Barkha Dutt, the most trolled Indian woman on social media, you’ve just provided your haters their latest opportunity to abuse you. Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’ | Technology. One night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky.
Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master’s in social psychology at the London School of Economics. On her first weekend, she went drinking with a woman she thought might become a friend. “But she suddenly said she knew really high-powered people,” Lewinsky says, “and I shouldn’t have come to London because I wasn’t wanted there.” Lewinsky is telling me this story at a table in a quiet corner of a West Hollywood hotel. We had to pay extra for the table to be curtained off. It was my idea. If we hadn’t done it, passersby would probably have stared. She’s tired and dressed in black. “Why did that woman in London say that to you?” “Oh, she’d had too much to drink,” Lewinsky replies.
Seven years earlier, on 16 January 1998, Lewinsky’s friend – an older work colleague called Linda Tripp – invited her for lunch at a mall in Washington DC. “What does retriggered actually mean?” The Path Away from Arnab Goswami Can't Lead to Barkha Dutt. Times of moral certainty carry an inherent danger. When the opposing view is so clearly demarcated and our own cause seems just, it is easy to forget that our consensus hides contradictions that contributed to the situation in the first place. What happened in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on 9 February 2016 and how those events have unfolded since, suggest that we are living in just such a time. It takes extreme stupidity to react to a bunch of students shouting any slogans within a university campus. Worse has been said before, without damage to the republic. But we now have a ruling party that, unable to deliver on poll promises, finds itself looking for symbolism to bail itself out from electoral disaster.
Under these circumstances, not only is the choice to resist by speaking against what is taking place easily made, perhaps it is even forced. Just as the country is cleaved by strong opinion, so is the media. The problem started shortly after. Fast and Furious. WHEN A MASSIVE FIRE ERUPTED at Mantralaya, the headquarters of the Maharashtra state government in Mumbai, shortly before 3 pm on 21 June, national news channels interrupted their broadcasts with live coverage of the blaze. Producers at Times Now, which calls itself “India’s most-watched English news channel”, borrowed footage from a Hindi channel until their broadcast vans reached the place at 3.20 pm, and the channel’s reporters and cameramen began to record pictures and describe the scene. A jittery camera found frightened people inching away from blazing windows on a ledge high above.
A man dressed in white, just out of reach of the firemen, swung down from an air conditioner’s holding cage, put one foot on an open window frame a floor below, and gingerly reached out to another window, a few feet away, with the toes of his other foot. Nothing but the ground lay beneath. By 4.20pm, Times Now had five reporting teams at the scene. Broadly speaking, this was not true. Corrections. Changing your Facebook profile picture is doing more good than you might think. Following a set of terrorist attacks on Paris that killed 129 people in November, one thing was clear to pretty much every American with a Facebook account: their friends stood with France.
That’s because soon after the attacks, Americans across the country enabled a feature on Facebook allowing them to superimpose the French flag on their profile photos. The condemnations quickly started rolling in. Salon implored Facebook users to "Spare us your French flag filter. " CNN ran an op-ed that declared, "Enough with the French flag Facebook logo. " It’s a popular sport on the Internet to hate on these so-called "slacktivists," the people who show support for a cause by little more than lifting a finger — to click the "like" or "share" button.
But what if these armchair activists are actually having a meaningful effect? How do researchers even measure this kind of thing? This shows the flow of information to those "periphery" activists. In other words, there is hope for millennials yet. The Tempest | The Caravan – A Journal of Politics and Culture. Print | E-mail YOU HAVE TO BE A VERY IMPORTANT PERSON to celebrate a business milestone at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. But considering that Radhika and Prannoy Roy launched their 24-hour news channel, more than 15 years ago, at the prime minister’s official residence, it seemed apt that, in 2013, the programme to mark the twenty-fifth year of its parent company, New Delhi Television Private Limited, was held at the president’s.
The Roys organised a glittering event on a December evening that year, attended by some of India’s most famous and powerful people, many of whom the network was felicitating as the country’s “greatest global living legends.” In attendance were titans of industry (Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Indra Nooyi, NR Narayana Murthy), sporting legends (Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Leander Paes) and film stars (Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Waheeda Rahman, Shah Rukh Khan).
His channel had made two mistakes. The second error was far more grave. This was NDTV’s heyday. Did the media ignore the Beirut bombings? Or did readers? If social media is an expression of public sentiment, then it seems significant that perhaps the most widely shared tweet on Friday's terror attacks in Paris was not about Paris at all but rather was about another terror attack, earlier that week, in Beirut: The photo in this tweet is not, in fact, from last week's blast in Beirut. Rather, it is from 2006, during Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. But what is most striking to me about this tweet, now shared by well over 50,000 people, is that it's wrong: The media has, in fact, covered the Beirut bombings extensively. The New York Times covered it. The Washington Post, in addition to running an Associated Press story on it, sent reporter Hugh Naylor to cover the blasts and then write a lengthy piece on their aftermath.
The Economist had a thoughtful piece reflecting on the attack's significance. "Nobody is going to read this" Watching this debate unfold, my mind goes back to one of the first bombings I covered, in early 2010. National Geographic lays off staff following 21st Century Fox merger | Media. National Geographic informed employees Tuesday it would lay off about 9% of its staff, months after announcing it would partner with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox as part of an expanded joint venture. That would amount to about 180 people out of the total 2,000 employees under the new partnership with Fox. In September, 21st Century Fox announced a for-profit venture in which it paid $725m for control of the National Geographic Society, to create National Geographic Partners, which includes National Geographic Channels.
Magazine staffers received an email from CEO Gary Knell on Tuesday morning with instructions to make themselves available throughout the day and monitor their inboxes for information about their employment status. According to the statement, layoffs will represent about 9% of the overall workforce reduction. A “voluntary separation” offer has been made to other eligible employees. “All staff have been advised as to their status as of closing,” the spokesperson said.