tabloids
I Do Drugs Because Doing Drugs Is Fun
Making alcohol illegal wouldn't stop alcohol addiction. It would push alcoholics out of society and increase the likelihood of death while reducing opportunities for them to break the habit. So why do we do that with drugs?
Australia's Drunken Teens Have Nothing On Their Parents
If you believe recent headlines, Australian youth are booze-fuelled little turds prone to acts of violence. The reality is that Australians are consuming less alcohol per capita today than in the beer-swilling 70s and 80s.
The Ugandan Media Is Exacerbating Anti-LGBT Violence
In the midst of horrific Ugandan violence against homosexuals, the country's tabloid media is running lists of known or suspected gay people.
A British Woman Wasn't Behind al-Shabaab’s Westgate Attack
On the first day of al-Shabaab’s siege of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, several bystanders allegedly spotted a veiled white woman commanding the gunmen in Arabic. The next day, the British tabloid the Daily Mail identified the woman as “the...
Thatcher's War on Acid House
There was a time when plugging in a record player in an abandoned building brought a police response more appropriate to the assembly of a nuclear device. Whatever rattled the establishment about rave culture, in their own warped way they had a point...
Motherboard Meets Errol Morris
It was by total chance that Errol Morris’ documentary opened in theaters just as the tabloid-worthy “British hacking scandal” was descending upon a slice of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid empire.