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Racist Chinese laundry commercial sparks outrage - CNN.com - 0 views
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"A black man and a young Chinese woman are flirting, as he leans in for a kiss she thrusts a detergent capsule in his mouth and bundles him into a laundry machine. She sits atop the machine as the man spins and screams inside until, to her apparent delight, out pops a handsome Chinese man dressed in a clean, white t-shirt."
Is this the new norm: the five screen family? - Thoughts On Journalism - Medium - 0 views
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"Last week, I looked around the room and noticed an interesting thing. Maybe you're seeing this at your home as well. We were watching the NBA playoffs on TV. My wife was on her I-pad and so was I. My son was on his laptop. I'm sure if my grandson was there, he'd be staring at a device as well. My wife was checking email. I was tweeting snarky comments about the game. My son was looking at stats from the game. Let's face it. We're all multi-taskers now. Why should TV time be any different? This year, 182 million folks in the US will use the internet while watching TV at least once a month, according to an eMarketer survey. That's 80% of all internet users. So I'm not alone. Or maybe I am because only 25% of those surveyed were using their device to consumer content related to TV. The rest were doing something else, like my wife. Still, 25% were so engaged in the TV programming that they were finding additional information about what they were watching. That's still a big chunk of engaged folks. "
How Drake is Redefining Masculinity - Medium - 2 views
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"Regardless of what you think about his latest feat If You're Reading This It's Too Late, (EDIT: now Views From The 6) it's hard to deny that since his first appearance, Drake has been subverting stereotypes about masculinity without even trying. Drake has made himself a successful real-life meme with a loyal fan base by rapping about his feelings.He raps like he finally worked up the nerve to challenge his Forest Hill bully to a freestyle battle, but he drops bangers. Aside from the rare critic who claims that Drake is too "soft," the hyper-masculine culture of hip-hop has welcomed his r&b/hip-hop hybridity."
Understanding That Men Also Benefit From Feminism Is Incredibly Important - 2 views
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"When someone hears the term "feminism," he or she tends to blindly link it to a group of people requesting the superiority of women. A lot of self-proclaimed feminists are named "men-haters" or "ugly women." The correlation of feminism to any of these insulting slurs is simply non-existent. Why is feminism tied to a negative feeling? I believe a lot of it has to do with fear. Maybe men fear they will somehow become inferior to women. The truth is, feminism doesn't want to pit one gender against the other. It simply wants equality."
Girls Explain How Boobs, Menstruation and More Keep Them From Coding in Satirical Campa... - 0 views
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"Tt should be obvious that your gender doesn't hinder your ability to code, yet women continue to face an uphill climb into tech careers thanks largely to unspoken stigmas against female coders. For its latest campaign, the nonprofit advocacy group Girls Who Code tackles this issue with satirical, delightfully deadpan humor. The new work, from McCann in New York, features young girls sardonically explaining how their boobs, their periods, their long eyelashes and more get in the way of their coding. "
Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored. - The New ... - 1 views
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"Fresh Off the Boat", which was just renewed for a third season, has granted Ms. Wu a steady job and a new perspective. "It changed me," Ms. Wu said. After doing a lot of research, she shifted her focus "from self-interest to Asian-American interests." In the past year, Ms. Wu and a number of other Asian-American actors have emerged as fierce advocates for their own visibility - and frank critics of their industry. The issue has crystallized in a word - "whitewashing" - that calls out Hollywood for taking Asian roles and stories and filling them with white actors. On Facebook, Ms. Wu ticked off a list of recent films guilty of the practice and said, "I could go on, and that's a crying shame, y'all." On Twitter, she bit back against Hollywood producers who believe their "lead must be white" and advised the creators of lily-white content to "CARE MORE." Another tip: "An easy way to avoid tokenism? Have more than one" character of color, she tweeted in March. "Not so hard.""
Budweiser and the Selling of America - The New Yorker - 0 views
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"From summer until the election in November, the King of Beers will be called-and labelled-"America." By way of explanation, an executive declared that, with the upcoming Centennial Copa America, and the Summer Olympics, and, of course, the Presidential campaign, "we are embarking on what should be the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen." Interesting word choice, "embarking." I guess it will, in its way, be a bit of a trip. As for "patriotic," it's true that I'm thinking quite a lot about the country these days, and feeling the kind of love for it that can only come through mortal fear and a touch of embarrassment. The new "America" beer can displays a nationalistic commercialism that shouldn't be unfamiliar to any American. The America evoked by the can is an America that I recognize-one that exists only in advertisements. You find it in commercials for pickup trucks and lawnmowers, jeans and mass-produced beer. "
The Washington Post, PolitiFact and Factcheck.org are using this widget to make facts m... - 0 views
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"Factcheck.org, PolitiFact and The Washington Post are now collaborating by jointly piloting Share the Facts, a widget developed by the Duke Reporters' Lab and Alphabet's technology incubator Jigsaw (formerly known as Google Ideas). Share the Facts structures a fact check's key elements - the claim, its origin and the rating - in a box like the one below."
With Billions About To Be Spent In Political Ads, Media Coverage Is Crucial In Keeping ... - 0 views
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"With billions of dollars expected to be spent on political television and radio ads in 2016, the media's role in keeping those ads honest could not be more important. A recent example in Wisconsin shows the impact and value of media fact checks of ads, a public service for voters that will be increasingly valuable as the campaign season intensifies."
Mark Zuckerberg To Meet With Glenn Beck, Top Conservatives Amid Bias Claims - 0 views
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"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet Wednesday with TV and radio host Glenn Beck and other prominent figures on the right following allegations the social media giant's "Trending Topics" feature has been biased against conservatives. "It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool," Beck wrote on Facebook. "
Lab-grown meat is in your future, and it may be healthier than the real stuff - The Was... - 0 views
Jon Stewart bashes 'corrupt, blinded' media and TV execs opting for conflict over clari... - 0 views
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"TV news is corrupt and incentivized to accentuate conflict over clarity, with Washington's media and politicians constituting "an incredibly corrupt and blinded, symbiotic terrarium," according to Jon Stewart. The comic-satirist and longtime TV host left no doubt that he's not softened toward the media, government or the political process since exiting "The Daily Show" during an appearance at the University of Chicago Monday."
Why Ads Go Viral, and What Made Apple's 'Taylor vs. Treadmill' the Perfect Viral Spot |... - 0 views
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"Unruly co-founder and co-CEO Sarah Wood explains which aspects of an ad are relevant when seeking widespread success online including the level of emotional intensity and the diversity and strength of users' social motivations. Wood also dispels some of the misconceptions surrounding virality. "There's a myth around video success-which is if you get a million views or 5 million views, then you've got a successful video," Wood says. "All that view shows is how much you spent on the media. If you want to think and understand why people shared that video, and if it really has been a viral success where word of mouth played a key part, then you need to be measuring the shares." "
The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost - The New York Times - 0 views
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Wrong, wrong, wrong - to the very end, we got it wrong. Recently - as in Tuesday - the data journalist Nate Silver, who founded the FiveThirtyEight website, gave Hillary Clinton a 90 percent chance of beating Bernie Sanders in Indiana. Mr. Sanders won by a comfortable margin of about five percentage points. You can continue to blame all the wrong calls this year on new challenges in telephone polling when so many Americans - especially the young - do not have landlines and are therefore hard to track down. Or you can blame the unpredictability of an angry and politically peripatetic electorate. But in the end, you have to point the finger at national political journalism, which has too often lost sight of its primary directives in this election season: to help readers and viewers make sense of the presidential chaos; to reduce the confusion, not add to it; to resist the urge to put ratings, clicks and ad sales above the imperative of getting it right."
Orwell's Nightmare: The NSA and Google -- Big Brother Meets Big Business - 0 views
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"What would happen if the most powerful technology company in the world and the largest clandestine spying agency in the world joined forces? No need to wonder. Just look around you. It's happened already. Thanks to an insidious partnership between Google and the National Security Agency (NSA) that grows more invasive and more subtle with every passing day, "we the people" have become little more than data consumer commodities to be bought, sold and paid for over and over again."
ASNE's Youth Journalism Initiative : News Literacy Training - 0 views
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""News media literacy" isn't just about being able to read and understand the news; the term also refers to the ability to analyze the news for reliability and accuracy and distinguish between fact, opinions and assertions. This task - for the journalist and the citizen in a democratic society - grows increasingly difficult in the digital age as the number of news generators proliferates and the process of creating content becomes less uniform."
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