In the American Spectator Tuesday, Jeffrey Lord exposes Cumulus Media owners Lew and John Dickey for their dishonest corporatist ways. While Cumulus made noise about how Hannity was dragging the stations down, as we reported yesterday, the actual numbers show
When you’re royalty, it’s fashionable to make your subjects wait. President Barack Obama is notoriously tardy, and now we find out that Queen Bey, aka Beyoncé, who is normally used to being worshiped and adored, left thousands of very unhappy
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/18: Backlash over TIME reporter’s tweet suggesting drone strike on Assange; Google patents “pay per gaze” eye tracking tool; NBC hiring “media hacker”; what’s behind Wikileaks’ ‘insurance’ files release?; Stuxnet
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/17: Google blackout’s massive impact on the web; Facebook faux-pas nabs Huntington Beach riot suspect; church choir’s viral video warns Facebook oversharers; terrorists on Twitter; Wikileaks releases insurance file; hacker
Worldwide internet traffic plunged by about 40 per cent as Google services suffered an ‘unprecedented’ black-out, web experts have revealed. The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down
The Lee County, Florida chapter of the NAACP has decided to wage a crusade against a Robert E. Lee portrait that hangs in the commission chambers. Lee County NAACP president James Muwakkil said the portrait of the Confederate general is
I don’t want to talk about it. I was just trying to confirm something people were talking about on Twitter. I really don’t want to talk about it. But I already went this far. Okay, here it is. Deep breath.
Google Translate, the free online translator the company offers, now translates the Spanish word “indocumentado” to “undocumented immigrant” instead of “illegal immigrant” or “illegal migrant” after pressure from Hispanic activists and journalists. According to a writer at ABC/Univision, “a free
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/13: Former NY Yankees outfielder victim of radio hoax, podcast also remained online for hours; female Detroit cops’ bra sizes mistakenly emailed to entire police department; Gmail users should have
At the Otay crossing near the San Diego border last Monday, about 200 people coming from Mexico gained entry to the United States all using the same key phrase; they claimed they had a ‘credible fear’ of drug cartels. According
(AP) Demolition set for Ohio house in kidnapping caseBy THOMAS J. SHEERANAssociated PressCLEVELANDThe house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade faces demolition Wednesday morning in Cleveland. The house will be torn down as part of
Al Jazeera is asking for reader help in identifying “#AllAmericans” for its new show, America Tonight, starring host Joie Chen and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien. Al Jazeera America posted this on its Google+ Hangout website: Join us for a Google+
An ex-FBI official reports the agency can remotely activate the microphone in your android phone and record your conversations. They can also do the same with your laptops. The claims were made in a Wall Street Journal article publihed yesterday.
In Virginia’s first gubernatorial debate, Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Virginians, at a minimum, have a right to demand that candidates running for governor should have some record of commitment to the state before they decide to run. As documented
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/1: hacker Guccifer allegedly posts link to ‘very personal’ emails of Colin Powell’s on Facebook; deadly Facebook feud; Juror guilty of contempt after Facebook post on case; broken-hearted man sells
While residents across Chicago continue to struggle facing a 10.3 percent unemployment rate and a median household income of $47,371, according to the 2010 U.S. Census the city of Chicago is paying 2,409 of its employees over $100,000 per year. The
Unburdened by the Constitutional requirement to obtain a search warrant, those nice people at the National Security Agency (NSA) have teamed with Apple, Google and Microsoft to take time out of their busy day to capture all your party pictures from
Students in San Diego middle schools and high schools will soon be asked to participate in discussion of the George Zimmerman case. The school board voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow such discussions to take place. According to ABC 10,
Yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopolous, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian asserted that the National Security Agency can listen to the phone calls and read the email of American citizens. He went on to promise that more information would be
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jordan’s one year old Zaatari refugee camp: 150,000 Syrian refugees Israel agrees to prisoner release, as new Mideast peace talk talks begin U.S. drone strike kills 6 in Pakistan, despite opposition Jordan’s one year
Glenn Greenwald on This Week With George Stephanopoulos discusses the National Security Administration’s storage of private communications by American citizens: “The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and email in their databases. What these programs are are very simple screens,
A homemade explosive device was found July 21 in a parking garage at the site of the Brazilian shrine Pope Francis will visit this week while in Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day 2013. According to AFP, the Sao
On Saturday, Virginia’s two candidates for Governor, Republican nominee and current Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, and Democratic nominee and former DNC Chairman, Terry McAuliffe, faced off in a debate sponsored by the Virginia Bar Association. During the two-hour long contest,
Al Sharpton’s National Action Network held a “Justice for Trayvon” rally in downtown Los Angeles this morning. I estimate there were 200-300 people in attendance with probably ten percent of them journalists. There were more than a dozen speakers during
In case you haven’t heard, there are about 100 “Justice for Trayvon” rallies being held all across the nation, today. I say that with a hint of sarcasm because news about the rallies is hard to miss. Virtually every major
