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Nov. 15th, 2018 03:47 pmПривлек внимание заголовок в The New Republic (звериная серьезность, однако) :
Facebook Betrayed America.
(Оказывается, помимо прочих непростительных грехов, Фейсбук даже потворствовал геноциду в Мьянме!)
В основном, это краткое изложение длинной статьи в NYT Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis, ссылка на которую приводится в тексте. В статье NYT встречаются любопытные пассажи, например:
In July, organizers with a coalition called Freedom from Facebook crashed a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, where a company executive was testifying about its policies. As the executive spoke, the organizers held aloft signs depicting Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Zuckerberg, who are both Jewish, as two heads of an octopus stretching around the globe.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic public relations strategist who led the protest, later said thе image was meant to evoke old cartoons of Standard Oil, the Gilded Age monopoly. But a Facebook official quickly called the Anti-Defamation League, a leading Jewish civil rights organization, to flag the sign. Facebook and other tech companies had partnered with the civil rights group since late 2017 on an initiative to combat anti-Semitism and hate speech online.
That afternoon, the A.D.L. issued a warning from its Twitter account.
“Depicting Jews as an octopus encircling the globe is a classic anti-Semitic trope,” the organization wrote. “Protest Facebook — or anyone — all you want, but pick a different image.”
Из журнала "Commentary"
May. 16th, 2018 10:20 pmавтор - Sohrab Ahmari
The Media War on Palestinian Agency
Palestinian Arabs are human beings, which means they are possessed of free will, agency, and the natural capacity to reason like any other people. This basic, incontestable anthropological reality needs to be frequently restated today since our media and foreign-policy establishment has apparently concluded the opposite.
By the Western media’s dim lights, the blame for Hamas's criminal stunt and the casualties it caused lay with . . . anybody and everybody but Hamas and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians’ more sophisticated friends know what Hamas is all about. They understand that young men whipped into a frenzy by an organization that exists to destroy world Jewry, per its charter aren't exactly latter-day Freedom Riders. But they think that the Palestinians can't help themselves. While they expect Israel - a state encircled by hostile populations and threatened with nuclear extinction by the Iranian mullahs - to behave like Norway, of the Palestinians they have the most dismal, if any, expectations.
The Media War on Palestinian Agency
Palestinian Arabs are human beings, which means they are possessed of free will, agency, and the natural capacity to reason like any other people. This basic, incontestable anthropological reality needs to be frequently restated today since our media and foreign-policy establishment has apparently concluded the opposite.
By the Western media’s dim lights, the blame for Hamas's criminal stunt and the casualties it caused lay with . . . anybody and everybody but Hamas and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians’ more sophisticated friends know what Hamas is all about. They understand that young men whipped into a frenzy by an organization that exists to destroy world Jewry, per its charter aren't exactly latter-day Freedom Riders. But they think that the Palestinians can't help themselves. While they expect Israel - a state encircled by hostile populations and threatened with nuclear extinction by the Iranian mullahs - to behave like Norway, of the Palestinians they have the most dismal, if any, expectations.
Все-таки надо следить за базаром
Dec. 15th, 2016 09:43 amPolitico уволил Юлию Йоффе (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ioffe) за испущенный ею твит следующего содержания: “Either Trump is fucking his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse?”
Уволили ее за obvious violation of POLITICO standards. Без работы она, впрочем, не останется - в январе начинает работать в The Atlantic.
Интересно, что именно не соответствовало стандартам - смелое предположение или его словесное оформление?
Уволили ее за obvious violation of POLITICO standards. Без работы она, впрочем, не останется - в январе начинает работать в The Atlantic.
Интересно, что именно не соответствовало стандартам - смелое предположение или его словесное оформление?
Искусство заголовка
Jun. 26th, 2015 09:09 pmВидимо, это попытка сострить (тема, правда, к шуткам не располагает):
На заводе во Франции террорист отрезал голову своему начальнику
На заводе во Франции террорист отрезал голову своему начальнику
