This Blind Item Helped Launch Kim Kardashian's Career 10 Years Ago

The Kardashians do their best to make sure everyone struggles to keep up with them, but it almost feels like the family was working overtime in 2016 to not only maintain their relevancy, but also to ensure pop culture domination. 


This year alone, their seemingly never-ending drama i...

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Gianni Rossi: Freedom House 2016. Un mondo sempre meno libero. L'Italia fanalino di coda nell'Ue

La libertà di stampa nel mondo per il 2015 è scesa al suo punto più basso negli ultimi 12 anni. Le pressioni indebite del potere politico, del crimine organizzato e gli attacchi del terrorismo hanno cercato di ridurre al silenzio e, quando non ci sono riusciti, di “cooptare” i me...

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Alfonso Molina: Arte, creatività e tecnologia per l'educazione

In occasione del BNL Media Art Festival più di un giornalista mi ha chiesto in che modo arte e tecnologia possono aiutare a sviluppare una nuova idea di educazione. In realtà l’arte digitale, la media art, non solo può aiutare a elaborare una nuova idea di educazione, ma ri...

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Michele Anzaldi: Big data e algoritmi: Rai in ritardo, nuovi vertici trascurano informazione

Il “Foglio” ha ribattezzato questo modello di informazione “il giornale senza giornalisti”, in maniera anche un po’ provocatoria. Si tratta di un metodo che si fonda sui Big data, l’analisi dei flussi informativi sui social network, l’utilizzo di...

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National Geographic Makes History With Transgender Cover Girl

In what’s being touted as a first for the magazine, National Geographic will kick off 2017 by featuring a transgender person on its cover. 
A stunning photo of 9-year-old Avery Jackson will appear on the subscriber’s edition of the magazine, which can be found below. “The best thing about bei...

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Outraged By What's Happening In Syria? Here's What You Can Do.

The Syrian crisis has claimed nearly 500,000 lives and forced more than 11 million people to flee their homes. Damascus is committing war crimes against its own people with apparent impunity, and is aided by aggressive military support from Russia ― a permanent member of the United Nations S...

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The End Of The Commonwealth

Amid the many controversies attending the election of Donald Trump is one easy to overlook: the mounting assault on “pubic goods”—public education, public lands, public information, and public health, among them.  The worldview of Trump and those he’s bringing into government is one in which ...

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Size Doesn't Matter In Fake Journalism

In certain areas of our lives, size matters, but in journalism, scale is not a determinant of quality, accuracy, or truth.


Craig Silverman’s Buzzfeed story on “fake” news outstripping the real news on the Internet has set off a wave of reaction both at social media...

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John Cena Shares The Secrets Of His Puzzling Instagram Account On 'SNL'

John Cena is renowned for posting ambiguous images to Instagram.

The professional wrestler and actor himself states on his profile that he uploads them “without explanation for your interpretation.” But he went some way to explaining some of the pictures on “Saturday Night Live.”

For ...

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Conan's Spoof Phone Calls Between Barack Obama And Donald Trump Will Never Get Old

What if Donald Trump kept bugging Barack Obama for advice?
Conan O’Brien imagines the kind of things the president-elect may be asking the current commander in chief in a series of hilarious spoof telephone calls.
From questioning whether Kazakhstan is a meat dish to complaining about the l...

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Ohh, Trump Drained The Swamp So The CEO Bridge To The White House Was Clear!

Championship swamp diver and President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly going to pick the president of Goldman Sachs to direct his National Economic Council. 
To recap, Trump has already named billionaire Wilbur Ross as his commerce secretary, billionaire Todd Ricketts as deputy commerce ...

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Vice Launches Apprentice Program For Former Inmates

It’s long been known that job hunting after serving time is incredibly difficult ― 60 to 75 percent of ex-offenders are jobless after a year. And joblessness is one of the key factors in recidivism.
The Center for Employment Opportunities is a nonprofit that provides career opportunities for ...

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Oakland Warehouse Manager Has Meltdown During Live TV Interview About Fatal Fire

The manager of the Oakland, California, warehouse known as Ghost Ship grew visibly upset on live TV on Tuesday morning, as he repeatedly refused to answer questions about the fire that destroyed the building and killed at least 36 people this past weekend.
“I’m not going to answer these ques...

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When Everything Is 'Fake News'

Yesterday an idiot fired a rifle in a D.C. restaurant because he was trying to investigate “PizzaGate,” the latest, dumbest variation on the decades-old series of rumors that the country is governed by secret pedophile rings. (Fortunately, no injuries have been reported.) Since...

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Donald Trump's Team Can't Back Up His Illegal Voter Lie, But Defend It Anyway

Vice President-elect Mike Pence defended President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday for making the baseless claim that “millions” of people voted illegally, saying it was “refreshing” and “his right to express his opinion.”
But his defense of Trump on ABC’s “This Week” notably skipped over any f...

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LGBT Lives Are Better Than Ever, Yet The Culture War Grows Louder

Everett Collection/NewscomMy public reaction (on Twitter) when I saw BuzzFeed’s strange, now-viral piece about a couple of HGTV hosts going to a church whose pastor doesn’t support gay marriage was to wonder if the media outlet was going to write a similar piece about every...

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Donald Trump's Presidential Texting Powers Terrify Stephen Colbert

Donald Trump will soon (in theory) be able to send text messages to every single cell phone in America at once ― whether citizens like it or not.
And “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is afraid, given the president-elect’s reputation for Twitter rants.
“Here’s the deal, you legally don’t have ...

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Why It's a Mistake to Describe the Alt-Right as 'Neo-Nazis'

Jeff Malet Photography/Newscom“Nazis. They are Nazis. Call them Nazis.”
With slight variations, this has been a common refrain since the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white-nationalist think tank headed by alternativeright.com founder Richard Spencer, held a mid-November...

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