Interrogating media
Last week an interviewer asked me who finds value in what I write and who “learns” from me. The interviewer added that “they didn’t learn …
When did Gawker start reporting “fictional news”?
I mean, I get the snark and their overall hipster “beyond good and evil” tone, etc. I get that their “news reporting” is meant, however …
Non Western economies as wild animals
I just got an email advertising the conference “Africa Works”. The first sentence in their website illustrates the premise behind the event: Africa in the …
“Too radical for Dutch media”
And “unpublishable”. Those were the words of two editors from two separate major media outlets in The Netherlands in response to something I co-wrote about …
Deliberate choice of images
There is this site, Role/ Reboot, where both Clarisse Thorn and Hugo Schwyzer write regularly. The site is supposedly devoted to issues of gender and …
Everywhere on the internet
Be it Jezebel, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Wire, etc, where the racist tweets from the writer of the HBO show “Girls” are discussed, without failure, …