Category Archives: news

Julie Chen’s deeply personal story about getting plastic surgery to advance her news career is heartbreaking but inspiring

NOTE: I have no idea why I saved this as a draft and never published it live, but here ’tis. My friend Emil Guillermo has a solid piece about Chen’s surgery that chides Chen for selling out to “the man” and getting the surgery. I know a lot of people think that way, but I’m […]

TV news FAIL: KTVU anchor reads fake names for Asiana pilots, has no clue what she’s saying

(Note: KTVU attempted to use copyright law to remove this video clip even in instances, like mine, where the clip is essential to the discussion about it, for critical journalistic purposes. The station said it was removing the clips to protect the Asian community: “By now, most people have seen it. At this point, continuing […]

Racist trolls come out from under their rocks following Asiana plane crash

I shouldn’t be surprised or disappointed anymore, and accept the fact that there will always be idiotic people in the United States who probably function perfectly normally most of the time, and then turn into stupid racist haters the moment there’s some sort of tragedy in the world that involves people of color. Two years […]