How California’s Uber Law Became an Excuse to Fire Freelance Journalists
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, speaks at a rally about her measure to limit how companies labeling workers as independent contractors.Rich Pedroncelli/AP On Monday, the sports blog SB Nation, owned by Vox Media, announced it was reorganizing its model in California and would be laying off most of its staff of two hundred freelance writers…
The Best TV Show About Racism Was a Comic-Book Fantasia. Here’s How “Watchmen” Did It.
HBO On the day HBO’s Watchmen resurrected a race war, a producer brought a priest onto the set in Georgia to pray with cast members. This was going to be the show’s opening sequence, a depiction of the Tulsa massacre of 1921. White people in Klan attire, on horseback. Black folks getting gunned down indiscriminately.…
Trump Lashed Out at Fox News for Reporting on the Reality of Impeachment—Again
Matt Rourke/AP This morning, Mother Jones made the wrong prediction in a headline. We thought Trump would stick his fingers in his ears about a new Fox News poll showing most Americans supported impeachment, and agreed with the articles of impeachment about to hit the House on Wednesday. Our headline: Here’s a Fox News Poll…
Saturday Night Live Takes America Home for the Holidays and It’s Painfully Funny
Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch this week once again managed to sum up the desperately divided state of American politics, in six painfully accurate minutes. It takes place around three dinner tables: There’s an ultraliberal family in San Francisco, California, praying to “gender-neutral spirits,” a conservative family in Charleston, South Carolina, praying to “original American…
Here’s a Fox News Poll Trump Definitely Won’t Be Tweeting About Today
Abaca/ZUMA Press Update, 4 p.m. EST: So, uh, he tweeted. I’m no pollster, and definitely no impeachment historian. So I’ll leave the parsing of these numbers—on the Sunday before President Donald Trump is likely to be impeached, this week—to the experts. But like everyone, I’ve watched Trump’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News sour lately. Trump was…
Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab—and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
Rick Scuteri/AP Journalism has had a rough year full of layoffs across the country, and Bloomberg Media, the company owned by the latest entrant in the 2020 Democratic primary, just made life worse for a handful of reporters. Earlier this week, Bloomberg Media announced its first acquisition in more than a decade, buying CityLab, an…