Amos Barshad
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Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza. (opens the original)
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Assal Rad, an activist and Middle East historian, has become known for social media posts in which she edits headlines that she finds absurd, largely for their refusal to name Israel as the aggressor in its military campaign in Gaza. (Like this one, from the Washington Post on April 10, 2025: âHow Palestinian First Responders Ended Up in a Mass Grave in Gaza.â Radâs edit: âIsraeli Forces Killed Palestinian First Responders and Buried Them in a Mass Grave in Gaza.â) In Radâs new book,
Done and dusted. (opens the original)
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William Tong is the attorney general of Connecticut, a member of a coalition of states that, up until this weekend, was suing to stop Paramount’s 111-billion-dollar merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Deep into Sunday night, Tong told me, “I was fighting. I wasn’t willing to concede until late into the evening.” That fight is now officially over: a consent decree has laid out Paramount’s legally obligated concessions, allowing the merger to go forward. A string of major entertainment and n
The shipping news stars. (opens the original)
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Sal Mercogliano appears on my video call screen looking precisely how you’d hope one of the internet’s foremost shipping experts would: surrounded by nautical paraphernalia, wearing a shirt so riddled with parrots and margaritas that it would have made the late Jimmy Buffett weep with pride. A military- and maritime-history professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, Mercogliano runs What’s Going On with Shipping?, a YouTube channel where he cheerily explains dark fleets, blockades, and
Hyperlocal Listening: The Montclair Pod brings audio journalism to small-town obsessions. (opens the original)
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Last September, days after students returned to classrooms from their summer breaks, Ruth B. Turner, the superintendent of schools in Montclair, New Jersey, sat down for an interview with a hyperlocal news podcast called The Montclair Pod. Montclair, an affluent town of forty thousand people about forty-five minutes by train from Manhattan, had been facing a serious school budget deficit. At the time, the deficit was reported to be around eleven million dollars. But the number was actually “abou
If they can't block this merger, can anyone? (opens the original)
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Last month, the Department of Justice officially blessed Paramount Skydanceâs merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), praising the proposed deal for its potential to boost competition âacross the media and entertainment ecosystem.â On July 13, a coalition of twelve state attorneys general, including Rob Bonta of California and Letitia James of New York, filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of California arguing more or less the opposite. âThe unlawful merger of these two en
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