SFF author Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind), at Chicago's pop culture event C2E2, talks about why images of women are so often absent or distorted in scifi, video games and other media, and what to do about it.
Sony and the hackers captured the year-end news cycle for over a month, unveiling a treasure trove of emails exposing stark flashes of the hidden underbelly of Hollywood. Certain "racist" emails of Sony executive Amy Pascal were made public.
The hackers are unknown, yet the media was initially more than ready to accept the initial government claims.
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The national media have tended to focus on which potential candidate Perry's indictment might help or hurt. But Texas reporters know Perry has a history of hardball politics, forcing people out of office, and say that we should take the charge of criminal abuse of office seriously.
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