Chelsea Clinton leaving her unbelievably cushy fake job at NBC
By Joe Coscarell From New York Mag Kicking off the annual Labor Day Friday News Dump, Chelsea Clinton has announced, via People, that she will no longer pretend to be a reporter. The once (and future?) First Daughter has been…
LIME responds to WestStar, Logic deal
From TeleGeography Cayman Islands telco Cable & Wireless, which operates under the LIME banner, has responded to the proposed transfer of the ownership of domestic telecoms operator WestStar from Botcat Holdings to WestTel Limited (trading in the country as Logic)….
How Caribbean media content is being disrupted by digital
By Marcia Forbes, PhD From Caribbean Journal What is Content? The much maligned but highly useful Wikipedia defines content creation as: “the contribution of information to any media and most especially to digital media for an end-user/audience….” Today, content comes…
The Aereo saga takes a weird turn, with a possible ally and shades of … Obamacare?
From Forbes When Aereo was arguing the case it ultimately lost before the Supreme Court, it went to great pains to argue it wasn’t a cable company. The Court, for its part, wasn’t having it. In its decision, it called…
The great moving in together hoax
By Samuel Rosenberg From Caribbean360 NEW YORK, United States, Sunday July 6, 2014 – Moving in together should be a result of strong love and looking forward to a great relationship. It is also the time that you learn about…
Rare shots of New York’s 1990s drag scene
By Erica Schwiegershausen From The Cut New York Mag Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, New York’s drag scene transformed from an underground phenomenon to a vibrant — and visible — nightlife subculture. Documenting the evolution was Linda Simpson, a longtime…
Aereo shutters its TV streaming service… for now
By Jonathan Shieber From Techcrunch In an email sent at 9 AM Eastern Saturday, Chet Kanojia informed customers that because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this week , the company would temporarily halt its operations at 11:30 Eastern…
Nurses group unveils ads on CEO pay
From The Lowell Sun State House News Services BOSTON — Hoping to spur lawmakers to act on an issue in which they’ve shown little interest, nurses are taking to the media with paid ads demanding a response from Beacon Hill…
Aereo loses in Supreme Court, deemed illegal
From Techcrunch On Wednesday (25) the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in the legal tussle between streaming TV service Aereo and major network broadcasters. SCOTUS ruled that the decision of the second circuit, which upheld that…
Ship used in Pirates of the Caribbean film series sinks to the briny depths
By Mark Reynolds From Daily Express UK It could be called The Curse Of The Black Pearl, for the schooner that appeared with Jonny Depp in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films has sunk. The Brig Unicorn went down in…
