There’s a template that media outlets love to follow to gin up outrage over someone who has to face the consequences of his or her actions. It could be a whistleblower or someone who took a stand for some questionable or foolish reason, but the headline always follows a pattern: “So-and-so did something. Now so-and-so is paying for it.”
The Bondi mass stabbing left six people dead, 17 people injured and the nation in mourning. NSW Police said in a press conference on Monday that the attack was not being investigated as "ideologically motivated" — despite also stating the killer targeted women. So, how can these two claims exist at once? And why don't we consider attacks that target women as terrorism?
The post-event press conference for UFC 300 was almost as eventful as the card. Dana White announced 3 huge fights in June and called for a future HOFers retirement.
O.J. Simpson is impossible to mourn without reservation. Without anger.
O.J. Simpson has died at 76. He became a a football star, but a 1995 murder trial made him infamous. Simpson was eventually acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend – a verdict that split the public. How will he be remembered?
Eve O. Schaub is the author of “Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic
A man used online social network site Reddit to post a sickening message detailing imagined sexual abuse of school-age boys, a court heard. Michael Spowart, 37, of Chiltern Close, Lambton, Washington, detailed his ‘love’ of others’ sexual activity with children as young as four in his disturbing and obscene 54 word-long post. His message highlighted sexual activity with males aged up to 11 – and how he liked it ‘to start young, the younger the better’, prosecutor Olivia Randell said. He posted...
Recently, there’s been a lot of commentary about the umpiring across Major League Baseball, especially around balls and strikes. That bled into the Baltimore Orioles-Kansas City Royals game on Saturday, and it also reared its ugly head during the Philadelphia Phillies-Chicago White Sox game. In the top of the third inning of Saturday afternoon’s game,
Trader Joe’s is warning customers who purchased fresh basil from stores around the country after investigators linked the product to a salmonella outbreak.
Uri Berliner, the NPR senior business editor who was suspended after publicly accusing the non-profit media outlet of a pervasive left-wing bias, said Wednesday he has resigned due to the "divisive views" of CEO Katherine Maher.But as the Berliner saga comes to a close, conservative attacks on Maher persist and calls for defunding NPR are only growing louder.In his scathing essay published April 9 at The Free Press, Berliner wrote that NPR lacked viewpoint diversity, noting that at its...
Edith Pritchett attended the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a
Mayor Karen Bass is joining a bipartisan group of more than 40 mayors from across the country to shine light on the issue of homeless veterans.