Mediagazer: Cable news' panicked coverage of the pipe bomb explosions gives us the impression that we are at risk, despite that modern life is safer than ever (Jack Shafer/Politico)

9:20 AM ET, September 20, 2016

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Jack Shafer / Politico:

Cable news' panicked coverage of the pipe bomb explosions gives us the impression that we are at risk, despite that modern life is safer than ever — Goaded by politicians and cable, a safer-than-ever America goes into full red alert mode. — In a rational world, we would interpret …

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

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Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:

Vox Media, owner of The Verge and Recode, has asked its VP of International, Jonathan Hunt, to consider opportunities for foreign expansion, devise a strategy — Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Google+ E-mail Vox Media Inc. …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:

A profile of non-profit Nautilus, a science site that publishes one weekly issue with stories based around a one-word theme, and has a print mag with 6K subs — Nautilus might be the only science publication that pays philosophers to sit in on its pitch meetings.

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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:

The New York Times coverage of Donald Trump's comments on Obama birther conspiracy theories marks a departure from “He said, She said” journalism — Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extraordinary story. What made the story extraordinary wasn't the event the Times covered.

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter no longer counts photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets against the 140-character tweet limit — Beyond 140 characters — Tweets are holding steady at 140 characters, but a variety of additions to your tweets will no longer count against that limit..As The Verge reported last week …

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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:

Profile of Joe Seales, CEO of Right Side Broadcasting Network, the website best known for its YouTube channel that live-streams almost every Donald Trump speech — Joe Seales was a stay-at-home dad between jobs. Then he started watching Donald Trump's speeches.

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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:

ESPN debuts first bilingual sports news show, Nación ESPN, aimed at US' growing audience of Latinos; show presented in English, but guests can speak Spanish — ESPN is launching its first bilingual sports news show, aimed at the growing audience of Latino viewers in the U.S. Starting Sept. 26 …

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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Mic introduces Mic Bright ads, a new video ad product that allows advertisers to sponsor editorial videos on Facebook — New ‘Mic Bright’ ads are technically classified as branded content by Facebook — The millennial-targeting Web publisher Mic has introduced a new video ad product …

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