During his absence, The Daily Show will be anchored by John Oliver. Stewart said of the decision, “One of the reasons we are in this business is to challenge ourselves.”
Source: The New York Times
Full page New York Times ad for ‘Game of Thrones’ is great
“She goes further and demands that all women find a life purpose or career which will give them an independent identity and what she calls fulfillment. In that, she surely goes too far. … Rather than be a file clerk, the average girl will continue to stay home and cream her face as long as society sanctions it.”
—Sarasota Herald-Tribune, September 1963
“What is to stop a woman who is interested in national and international affairs from reading magazines that deal with those subjects? To paraphrase a famous line, ‘The fault, dear Mrs. Friedan, is not in our culture, but in ourselves.’”
—The New York Times, April 1963
“Friedan tends to set up a counter-mystique; that all women must have creative interests outside the home to realize themselves.”
—The American Sociological Review, December 1963
“Any single pattern for women, or anyone else for that matter, is bound to be wrong for many.”
—Marriage and Family Living, August 1963
Social gaming has arrived: The Playstation 4 controller has a share button.
Source: polygon.com
This week, This American Life published its first podcast in a two part series on school shootings. Their team spent five months at a Chicago high school acquiring an intimate understanding of the cultures that produce and resist gun violence. If you’re sick of the CNN-#BreakingNews-“who is the killer?”-“why did he do it?”-style coverage, this is the antidote.
As New York Times columnist David Carr put it, “One of the discussions that comes up every time there is a mass shooting at a suburban school or a movie theater is how underreported other, equally disturbing killings are — like the ones at urban high schools and in city neighborhoods. Those deaths don’t come in a single spasm, but instead are part of a chronic drip of bloodshed, day in and day out.”
The podcast’s host, Ira Glass, introduces the topic by saying, “It’s hard not to think that if you grafted these facts onto another high school, in a wealthier place, maybe a suburb — dozens of students shot, three of them killed — In other places that would be national news, right? We would all know the name of that school.”
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