the media
I’m Being Crushed Under the Weight of Keeping Track of All These Celebrities
If there are thousands of famous people, millions of people are celeb-adjacent. And every day I learn about a dumb thing one of them did.
Don't Apologise Quincy Jones, You Living Legend
Giving two of the best interviews in recent memory is nothing to be sorry about??
Can White People Please Stop Demonizing Bubble Tea?
We don't see health warnings about unicorn lattes or rocky road ice cream, yet bubble tea remains the subject of incessant fear-mongering.
What Our Obsession With That Nude Woman Story Says About Sexism in Indonesia
Would anyone have even cared if this was a video of a naked man?
What the Graphic Coverage of the Nice Attack Tells Us About the Media
We talked to a media sociologist about Thursday night's rolling coverage of a horrific attack that saw 84 people killed while celebrating Bastille Day.
iWeak In Review: The Big Game and the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is a football game, and it looks like it will be a good one. Everything around it is bigger, dumber, worse, and more expensive. That won't change.
Floyd Mayweather's History of Violence and All That Money Wants
Floyd Mayweather is a great fighter and a loathsome misogynist. But the man who named himself "Money" is only worth a thing if we continue to pay for it.
Players, Haters, Ball, and the Players' Choice Awards
The NBA Players Association wants to have its own postseason awards. It's not like the world needs more awards, but how could it be worse than the status quo?
CNN Host Don Lemon Covered Ferguson Like a Judgmental Mom
He was too busy narking people out to think about what he was saying.
Cutting Through the Bullshit Surrounding Flight MH370
Somehow, it's not enough for the media to simply report that a plane is missing, presumed crashed, and no one has found the wreckage yet—they have to build elaborate narratives about terrorism and "mystery passengers."
You Can't Just Walk Around Masturbating in Public, Swedish People
After a 65-year-old man was acquitted of indecency charges after jacking it on a public beach, international media outlets reported that it was OK to masturbate on beaches in Sweden. This is not true, everyone!
Reality TV and the Selling of Love
The love The Bachelorette constantly references isn’t recognizable because it’s love as panacea—the idea that love itself, not the thing you love, not the goodness love inspires in you, will set you free and save you from your shit job and...