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Submission + - Facebook founder presents vision for New Republic and (nearly) everyone resigns (nytimes.com)

Submitted by SkiTee94 on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:21PM

SkiTee94 writes: Chris Hughes, one of the original founders of Facebook, is in damage control mode to save his recently acquired century old publication The New Republic. In response to Hughes' vision to turn the highly respected, and most would say old school, publication into a "digital media company" dozens of senior editors and writers simply quit. As a, likely now former, reader myself it seems Hughes doesn't understand that the publication's edge in the market is precisely that it isn't a fluffy clickbait "digital media company." Is simply Hughes a visionary cleaning out dead wood or a clueless one-hit wonder tech star now leaving destruction in his wake? More from the NY Times: http://nyti.ms/1FZs2zL

Submission + - Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC (nytimes.com)

Submitted by SkiTee94 on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @03:01PM

SkiTee94 writes: Many people, perhaps millions, in and around NYC were loudly awoken shortly before 4am morning by an activation of the Wireless Emergency Alert system. As the New York Times is reporting, the alert was related to an ongoing search for a missing child. Given that the alert asked people to look out for a "Tan Lexus ES300" with NY Plate "GEX1377" many New Yorkers are questioning the logic of waking up the whole city to ask them to look for a car. Normally such alerts are reserved for road-side signs. While emergency authorities have yet to give a precise reason for why the decision was made to wake up the city, many have taken the step of deactivating these alerts to avoid future jolting mid-slumber alarms (likely not the indented result of last night's exercise).

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