The Daily Caller reaped a social media shitstorm Monday when they launched an "investigation" into Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery's blackness, or lack thereof. The post was entitled "TheDC Investigates: Is WaPo’s Wesley Lowery Black?" It examined Lowery's claim of ...read more
The arrests of reporters in Ferguson, Missouri have sparked outrage, and even a presidential rebuke, but also a goopy spew of point-missing ire at the journalists from the likes of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough andPolitico's Dylan Byers. Last night, cops in Ferguson arrested The ...read more
Late Wednesday night, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEighttweeted out an utterly tone-deaf anecdote about being arrested once for no reason, but that it wasn't bad because he was given a burrito in his cell. (More on that in a moment.) The tweets followed the arrest of reporters Ryan ...read more