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Sometimes it isn't the statistic that threw you back on your heels. And not every week imprints a doe-eyed child, or the cops or some nut shooting somebody.The one that stuck all this past week? Alec Baldwin's Trump on SNL: "We've turned the corner on the virus, turned the corner, turned the corner, so now we've gone all the way around the block and we're right back where we were in March."
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Did any of us believe this election would ever come? It all started ridiculously early, then insinuated its tentacles into every aspect of life. Watching the news in America became a disgraceful immersion in ethnocentricity that ignored the affairs of the world. Except for the pandemic. There was plenty from some quarters about the pandemic being "the fault" of a country its accuser called "Ghina."
Was it the blame game, constantly played against some nation, some racial or ethnic group, or some "other" political party -- or more commonly, against all at the same time -- that prevented any effective response to COVID-19 in the U.S.? Almost uniquely in the U.S., among the world's nations? With a mere 5% of the world's human population, the U.S. has consistently had one-fifth of the world's cases of the virus and one-fifth of all deaths from it. Nations with far less sophisticated medical care have maintained far lower death rates and total infections and deaths that are a tiny fraction of what Americans have suffered.Between now and Tuesday is your chance to do something about it.
Just remember that all those "down-ballot" elective offices AND all those ballot propositions can be decided by just a few votes. So be sure YOU vote -- or be prepared to explain yourself forever to kids and grandchildren why you didn't
Want witty, irreverent election night coverage?
Lee Camp, host of "Redacted Tonight," tells us, "Tuesday - Election Day - I will be livestreaming with Eleanor Goldfield from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Pacific (7:30 pm to 8:30 pm ET) only at YouTube.com/MomentofClarity."
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Music and the candidates
The Trump campaign continues to flaunt demands from musicians, bands, songwriters, music publishers, and record labels that it stop using their music at his maskless Maskhole, Branch Covidian rallies. There have been lawsuits, court orders to cease-and-desist, impassioned pleas, and when the frustration gets nowhere else, scathing vilifications by the artists of Trump himself for stealing their creative product for his own promotional purposes.
Mostly classic rock tracks have been at issue, with songs by and complaints from Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Heart, Queen, the Beatles, James Taylor, John Fogerty, and many more.
Fogerty even did an interview on CNN, perfectly playing the baffled "I-don't-get-it" character. Seems the Trump campaign had been making heavy use of Fogerty's old Creedence Clearwater Revival classic, "Fortunate Son."
"Thing is," said Fogerty, "I could have written that song today, about a very contemporary 'fortunate son' who uses privilege and a sense of entitlement to avoid paying his taxes."
"It goes, 'Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,' but 'when the taxman comes to the door, the house looks like a rummage sale.' It speaks to a pretty obvious con, to somebody trying to take advantage of the rest of us."
The Trump campaign, when it replies at all to the offended musicians, usually claims "fair use," which it isn't, or says it paid a music bundler for the use of everything in a package of recordings, so like it or not, they're covered.
Why the Trumpertarians can't just stick with Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr, who both support him, is anybody's guess.
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Over on the Biden side, prominent artists have been happy to supply music for smaller, socially-distanced, often drive-in rallies.
Taylor Swift, Immediately upon being contacted, granted her first-ever blessing to having a song used for political purposes.
Watch the new video for Taylor's song, "Only the Young, Our Future Is Worth Our Fight":
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And, as "Reliable Sources" reports...
Bruce Springsteen boosts Biden
Biden's campaign ran a new campaign ad featuring Bruce Springsteen during Saturday's game between Ohio State and Penn State on ABC.
Dan Merica and Veronica Stracqualursi writes: "The 60-second ad -- titled 'Hometown' and featuring Springsteen's song 'My Hometown' from his 1984 album 'Born In The U.S.A.' -- includes the Boss touting Biden's ties to Scranton, PA... The ad alludes to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, showing footage of Biden, first responders and restaurant workers all with masks..."
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Letter To You film, Bruce's 20th studio album featuring the E Street Band, is available everywhere now. |
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Watch the Letter To You film, directed by Thom Zimny, on AppleTV+ now.
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We wish we had time to bring you a more complete round-up of all the musicians lending support of their creative product and performing talent to propel the effort to bring change through this election. But our own involvement limits how much effort we can expend reporting about that aspect.
So we bring you the following and then move on to our other topics.
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MUSE: "My Vote, My Voice, My Right"
7pm ET/4pm PT on the MUSE website. Register for this free event
We're thrilled to be included in this latest virtual rally from MUSE: Cincinnati's Women's Choir, "My Vote, My Voice, My Right"! MUSE was founded by our friend, Dr. Catherine Roma, and has performed in "colleges, schools, churches, prisons, temples, hospices, street events, conferences and workshops promoting peace, equality and justice" since 1984.
Here's what MUSE has been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Since May 2020, MUSE: Cincinatti's Women's Choir has been exploring novel ways to connect with our audiences and provide a space for expression, education, inspiration, and healing. On November 1 at 7pm EST, we proudly present the culmination of the last six months of virtual choir work. During this event, host Marie Elyse Krulewitch-Browne will take you on a journey with videos from the year, focusing on the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the intersectionality of Black women’s experiences, youth voter participation, income inequality & barriers to voting, and LGBTQ rights. The evening will feature MUSE’s world-premiere video, The Revolution, and special guests Emma’s Revolution. |
Dump the Trump: A Voters Kick-him-out Sing Along Session Join in for this virtual collaboration between Queer Arts Center and Rose Street House of Music, including: Irina Rivkin, Lisa Sanders, Blackberri & Cadence Myles. Check out the virtual songbook. More songs to come. Donations welcome to Queer Arts Center, a grassroots, interdisciplinary collaborative of Oakland, California based Black, Indigenous + Brown LGBTQ+ identified artists and wellness practitioners serving a global community. |
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Last Minute ZOOM Pre-Election Rally & Concert
Hear Garret Swayne and Terry Okey perform songs of protest and solidarity. They say, "Seriously… we gotta get this guy out of the White House before he destroys the nation entirely! So we’re holding a virtual Rally! And it’ll feature a bunch of good old-fashioned Protest songs! (Except they’ll be new, original protest songs, applicable to the current political landscape!)"
Sunday evening Nov 1, 2020 at 7 pm Pacific Time.
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“This isn’t forever, but it is for now”
Guest editorial by Andy Hill, co-leader of the award-winning band Hard Rain that hosts the annual "Dylanfest."
...in our dejection, we remind ourselves not to allow temporary disappointment to rationalize behaviors and attitudes that may have permanent consequences.
One day, we will have a vaccine. One day this will be over, and covid-19 maybe more like the flu, and who knows maybe less deadly. Science and medicine will get us there. Not deflection, understandable desperation, and certainly not callous ideological posturing.
It’s important for all of us to come to terms with the fact that there is no choice available not defined by sacrifice and loss. The hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost an irreplaceable family member don’t need us to explain that. But there is a choice that holds as our highest ideal safety and the respect of others. Higher, for example, than personal liberty – in exactly the same way we temporarily suspend our personal liberty by agreeing to drive on the right side of the road, when the left side has fewer cars on it.
We’d like to close with a quote by Dr. Bonny Henry.
She was a family doctor and is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine in my home province of British Columbia. In view of her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. the New York Times called her "one of the most effective public health officials in the world".
In the words of Dr. Henry;
“This isn’t forever, but it is for now”.
Please go out and vote.
We’ll see you [in our live online concerts] and someday we will see each other on the other side of Covid. Until then, be especially gentle and kind with others in your physical cohort, who are feeling all the same pressures and disappointments as you. We are each other’s support system. Good night. We love you.
~ Andy Hill
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Politically attuned new tuneage
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DEAD ROCK WEST Releases Politically Charged Song and Video
“Revolution In The Garden,” out Oct 23 on the Blackbird label
Very electric track, written 30 years ago and just released, speaks across the gulf to our time and circumstances
Watch it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJZogGyLIU
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New song for pandemic times, from Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen
- a fund-raiser for nurses
"You can listen to this new song for free by going to this page and clicking on the (very small) play button.
"Please consider purchasing a download or CD of “Sense of Number.” When you do, half of your payment will go to the American Nurses Foundation Coronavirus Response Fund for Nurses. Nurses everywhere are bearing a terrible burden, and their stresses increase daily as the pandemic surges once again. Many public health officials are being undermined and are even facing threats of violence. We need to lend our support to health care workers.
"The other half of your payment will help support Cindy and me during these very difficult times for working musicians. I realize many of us are making multiple donations of time and money these days. We appreciate your generosity so much."
There's more.
Grey continues, "Two months ago Cindy and I released another new song of hers, which we combined with a traditional Irish air: “Letter to America/The Green Fields of Canada.” That recording, which portrays the plight of refugees, has so far generated $3300, half of which goes to The National Immigration Law Center and Refugees International. If you haven’t heard this music yet, I urge you to go here and give it a free listen. Then, if you purchase a download or CD, know that you are helping refugees and immigrants, many of whom are children, find a better life, while at the same time helping Cindy and I earn something for our creative work while the pandemic prevents us from touring.
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The GRAMMY Museum has a plan:
" Make Your Voice Heard At The Ballot Box"
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Cartoons -- the best we've seen, before their shelf life expires
Editorial cartoonists prove every day that the old saying is true: "A picture is worth a thousand words."
Ya gotta love the on-screen network logo
The way he's behaved, this is too easy to visualize.
Where is she when you need her?
SCOTUS & the Trump health care "plan"
Entitled, by stealing
Let's help Canada do this, and screw the corporations that screw us
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WHY ELECTION NIGHT WILL BE EXPLOITED AS CAUSE FOR ALARM, WHEN IT'S REALLY JUST THE TIME FOR PATIENCE
Here, we turn to other sources we have read and found valuable.
First up: this Oct 27 "Vanity Fair" piece by William D. Cohan is kind of long, but it's an essential read to get a real grasp on major underreported sectors of what's going on. US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is a hero of mine for myriad reasons. He sent the link. Take the time to read this. You'll discover the Koch Brothers are part of a deep bench on a very scary team:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/is-wsj-editorial-board-too-cozy-with-the-bradley-foundation
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Next, here is Alan Alda in the Oct 29 Washington Post, ,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/29/alan-alda-vote-for-science-against-trump/
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In a moment, we turn to Brian Stelter, host of the weekly CNN series "Reliable Sources."
His daily internet publication does a fine job exploring and explaining why the media is likely to frustrate viewers with an inability to tell you who won.
In fact, we may not know for days. Which was absolutely typical in the 18th and 19th centuries. But when 20th century communication technology was established as universal infrastructure, we forgot about those earlier times. Well, with pandemic-driven remote voting, welcome back to the future.
Here's Brian Stelter.
Happy Halloween and welcome to November. Brian Stelter here with a basket full of Sunny and Story's candy. Think they'll notice if a few Snickers are missing in the morning? Scroll down for Halloween pictures plus much more... The scariest thing about Election Night
Keeping with the Halloween theme tonight: Lots of people have lots of fears about the election, from voter suppression (which is visible) to ballot fraud (which is mostly invisible and imagined) to foreign interference. My more prosaic fear is impatience. Americans are accustomed to knowing the outcome of elections within hours. For some, speed engenders trust in the result. Not-knowing stirs skepticism and distrust. Yet there's a lot we won't know on Election Night this year, due to the ways different states count mail-in ballots.
"This is the most unusual election in our lifetime because so many people have voted by mail," CNN DC bureau chief Sam Feist told me on Saturday after finishing another prep session with the Election Night anchors and producers.
The word Feist used most often: Patience. "We have to be patient with the election authorities so they can count the votes, and we have to be patient with our decision desk teams because the votes are going to be counted more slowly, so we are going to make projections more slowly."
Feist said "we're going to be projecting states later than we've probably ever projected them," in large part because opening and processing the mail-in ballots takes longer: "It simply takes longer to project the results in this year of a pandemic."
Anchors and reporters are emphasizing these facts over and over again during news coverage. This information is breaking through: "Just 21% of U.S. adults think the winner of the election will be known immediately, on the evening of Election Day, while another 25% expect the winner will be known one to three days after," according to a recent Gallup/Knight survey. "The majority — 54% — expect it will take longer" than three days.
But President Trump and some of his allies are claiming that the outcome should be known on Election Night. Here's what Trump said on Saturday night: "I wonder what happens during that period of delay with the ballots." He knows exactly what he's saying. It is all too easy to imagine Trump using the uncertainty to stoke chaos. That's why I fear impatience...
>> Feist will join me on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" – tune in at 11am ET...
"Unassailably correct"
"Frankly, the well-being of the country depends on us being cautious, disciplined and unassailably correct," NBC News president Noah Oppenheim told the NYT's Michael Grynbaum for this story about the TV networks' plans for election coverage. "We are committed to getting this right," Oppenheim said. Feist and other execs spoke with Grynbaum for the story. Here are some of the standout quotes:
-- ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos: "We have to be incredibly transparent all through the night with what we know and what we don't know."
-- CBS News president Susan Zirinsky: "We're preparing the audience that this might not be over in one night."
-- Fox News president Jay Wallace: If Trump calls in, which seems unlikely since the Election Night coverage will be led by news anchors, not Trump's friends, "whatever he were to say wouldn't sway anything when it comes to what we're counting."
-- Oppenheim: "Those of us who have grown up in the last 20 years of television journalism understand that election nights can take any number of surprising directions. Our job is to be prepared for all of them."
The AP's plan
The Associated Press "is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those conclusions," David Bauder wrote. "The AP plans to write stories explaining how its experts make decisions or why, in tight contests, they are holding back. If necessary, top news executives will speak publicly in interviews about the process." More info here...
News orgs are practicing for everything
The TV networks and The AP are "training, going through drills and preparing for myriad contingencies," Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project wrote the other day.
Oliver Darcy has some details: "CNN's teams have run through various Election Day possibilities. One such scenario included Slack going down, leaving teams having to find other means to quickly communicate and collaborate. Over at NBC News Digital, teams prepped for similar situations on Saturday, including internet issues and violence breaking out at a polling place. The goal of these simulations: to make sure news teams are prepped for anything and everything that could happen..."
CNN is live until... ?!?!
Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, CNN is showing two-hour documentaries about Joe Biden and Trump. Then at 3am ET Kate Bolduan begins what will be a truly extraordinary stretch of live TV coverage. "Countdown to Election Day" will be followed by "New Day" and special live coverage all day and night on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and beyond, according to the programming listings. I'm not privy to the post-Election Night plan, but I think it's safe to assume that the live coverage will extend for 100+ hours, beginning at 3am Sunday...
Special coverage on Fox and MSNBC, too
On Fox News, the weekday co-hosts of "Fox & Friends" will be hosting Sunday morning's edition. Starting at 4pm Sunday, all the weekday hosts will be on, from Neil Cavuto to Shannon Bream. On MSNBC, special programming includes "American Voices" host Alicia Menendez live from Florida and a "Decision 2020" special with Brian Williams, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace at 8pm...
Sunday's live events
Trump is hitting five states on Sunday -- Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida -- while Biden is holding two events in Philly. Of note, neither candidate is giving national media interviews at the moment...
>> Related: "7 kinds of dishonesty to expect at a late-campaign Trump rally," by Daniel Dale...
These pre-Election Day vote totals are simply astonishing
Just in from CNN's Adam Levy, Ethan Cohen, and Liz Stark: "Pre-election voting has now surpassed two-thirds of all ballots cast during the 2016 presidential election. More than 91.6 million Americans have voted so far with three days left until Election Day, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC by CNN, Edison Research, and Catalist. That's about 67.1% of the more than 136.5 million ballots that were cast in the 2016 presidential election." FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE -- The big headline on the Sunday front page of WaPo: "A closing blitz to sway a shrinking voter pool..." (WaPo)
-- The story notes that, on the TV airwaves, "the Biden campaign had a nearly 3 to 1 advantage in advertising that included five states where they were on air unopposed, according to Advertising Analytics..."
-- Another Post story calls this "the most toxic election season in more than half a century," with plenty of evidence... (WaPo)
-- ICYMI: Here's Nate Silver "on why 2020 isn’t 2016..." (538)
-- One of the best Halloween costumes I saw on Twitter was a politico who created the "scariest Halloween costume I could think of: Steve Kornacki projecting an Electoral College tie..." (Twitter)
-- Props to CNN's DJ Judd for bringing a costume while covering Trump's rally in Butler, PA... (Twitter)  ANOTHER new daily Covid-19 case record
CNN.com's latest: "The US reported 99,321 new Covid-19 cases on Friday -- the highest single day number of cases recorded for any country. The top five records in daily cases all occurred within eight days..."
"We're in for a whole lot of hurt"
Dr. Anthony Fauci granted a "wide-ranging interview" to WaPo's Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb on Friday, and it was published on Saturday evening. The No. 1 quote: "We're in for a whole lot of hurt. It's not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly." Read on... THE AD WARS
Trump's closing argument ad
The Trump campaign is calling this its "closing television ad." The 60-second spot, called "Strength," "will run through the close of the election on NFL, ACC, and Big 10 football, as well as Fox News, the Today Show, The Voice, and other entertainment programming," per the campaign.
Notably, Trump is wearing a mask in more than one of the shots. The ad addresses Covid-19 in part by saying "now we're getting back to a normal life: The second shift, the dance lessons and Friday night football..."
Bruce Springsteen boosts Biden
Reported above. Saturday's headlines from swing states
Compiled by Oliver Darcy:
>> Des Moines Register: "Trump leads in final Iowa Poll before election..."
>> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Pace of vote count continues to be an issue in Pa..."
>> Miami Herald: "Shifting alliances and new coalitions: Why Trump’s path to victory runs through Miami..."
>> Raleigh News & Observer: "Police use pepper-spray on protesters — including children — marching to Alamance polls..."
>> The Dallas Morning News: "With Election Day still ahead, Dallas County and Texas have already set total-turnout records.."
>> Arizona Republic: "Voting enters final days in Arizona as people fear unrest, hope for unity..."
>> Star Tribune: "Unprecedented vote a test to Minnesota election system..." Pepper spray in NC...
Craziest story of the day, via CNN's Artemis Moshtaghian and Dakin Andone: "Law enforcement officers used pepper spray on Saturday to break up a march to a polling place in Graham, North Carolina."
Alamance News reporter Tomas Murawski was arrested during the fracas. Per The News & Observer, "Murawski was charged with resisting, delaying or obstructing a public officer," but "a video of the incident shows no sign that the reporter was resisting." See for yourself... FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO -- Another developing story this weekend: "Biden campaign cancels Texas event after Trump supporters surround bus on interstate..." (CNN)
-- David Gergen on CNN Saturday afternoon: "There's a very dark threat to democracy in this election. And we're going to have to fight it every step of the way. Americans are fighting back by going out to the polls. And they are doing it in droves..." (Twitter)
-- Nate Cohn says the vaunted Des Moines Register/Ann Selzer poll of Iowa "has every poll junkie buzzing tonight." He says it is Trump's best poll of the cycle. Here's why... (NYT)
-- Here is Jennifer Agiesta with CNN's latest polling: "Biden leads in Michigan and Wisconsin as campaign ends, with tighter races in Arizona and North Carolina..." (CNN)
-- Maureen Dowd's Sunday column includes this sad-but-true quote from Jake Tapper: "Trump has turned fact and decency into a partisan concept. So that journalists who are skeptical of both parties, and Republicans like Mitt Romney and Jeff Flake who are not total sycophants, become antifa to 35 percent of the country, while all the other Republican lawmakers who know better sat back and let it happen." (NYT) COVERING THE ELECTION COVERS
Check out this illustration on the front of Vermont's weekly newspaper, Seven Days, by Jeff Drew:  With Biden, "you're not gonna have to argue with your family," Obama says
Quoting from one of Barack Obama's speeches on behalf of Biden on Saturday: "Michelle and I were talking about this over dinner the other day." With Biden as president, "you're not gonna have to think about them every day. You're not gonna have to argue with your family about him every day. It won't be so exhausting. You'll be able to get on with your lives knowing that the president is not going to suggest we inject bleach as a possible cure of Covid. You won't have to wake up in the morning, kind of open your phone and, hey, NEWS FLASH: the president retweeted conspiracy theories that the Navy Seals didn’t actually kill bin Laden. You're not going to have a president who goes out of his way to insult people just because they don't support them. This is not normal behavior, people. We would not tolerate it from a teacher or a coach or a co-worker or a family member. If a neighbor was acting like this, you would stay away from that neighbor. Why would we accept it from the president of the United States?"
(Excerpt via The Guardian) QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Making people confident about the vote is the most democratically loving thing I can do right now as a journalist."
–Ann Fisher, host of "All Sides" on WOSU, the NPR affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, quoted in this CJR story about serving the needs of voters... Inside the effort to sling dirt on Hunter Biden
Oliver Darcy writes: "The NYT's Ken Vogel, Jim Rutenberg, and Maggie Haberman have a deep dive into efforts by Trump allies to disseminate dirt on Hunter Biden aimed at smearing the former VP. The story is worth reading for several reasons, but one thing that caught my eye was how the trio contrasts the media environment in 2016 vs how it is now in 2020. As the authors write, 'the anti-Biden material they have been pumping out has been met with heightened skepticism from traditional news outlets and social media platforms determined to avoid being seen as abetting dirty tricks.' Read on..." FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE By Katie Pellico:
-- Sara Fischer explains Spotify's "Joe Rogan dilemma," regarding Alex Jones' recent guest spot on an episode of Rogan's podcast... (Axios)
-- April Glaser reports: "Spanish-language misinformation about Joe Biden's and running mate Kamala Harris' positions on abortion is specifically targeting religious Latinos on Facebook and its messaging service, WhatsApp..." (NBC)
-- The LAT launched the Latinx Files, a weekly newsletter "dedicated to the American Latinx experience" written by audience engagement editor Fidel Martinez... (LAT) Eye rolls at The Intercept
Staffers at The Intercept are rolling their eyes "over Glenn Greenwald's censorship claim," The Daily Beast's Maxwell Tani wrote Saturday.
>> The big picture: "While Greenwald's departure from the publication was seemingly sudden, discontent between the Pulitzer-winning writer and many colleagues at the publication he co-founded had been brewing for years, sources said..."
>> Here's more from NYMag's Peter Sterne: "His eventual break with The Intercept was all but inevitable..." The Atlantic's apology
"Erik Wemple, the Washington Post media critic who first questioned the accuracy of Ruth Shalit Barrett's now-discredited story in The Atlantic, said he first grew suspicious when he read about a well-heeled 12-year-old girl's 'fencing injuries,'" TheWrap's Jennifer Maas wrote Saturday.
"As a result of Wemple's suspicions and his subsequent investigation into Barrett's whole story, 'The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League-Obsessed Parents,' The Atlantic on Friday added a lengthy editor's note and apologized for a series of fabrications and errors in the piece. In addition, the publication said it regretted hiring Barrett, who had been dismissed from The New Republic in 1999 after instances of 'plagiarism and inaccurate reporting.'" Read the rest here...
Wemple's follow-up
"The extent of Barrett’s previous misconduct combined with the subject matter of the piece, which relied on anonymous sources who could well be her neighbors, made the decision to grant her another chance particularly foolhardy," Wemple wrote Saturday. "Now for the implications beyond the Atlantic: Will other journalists seeking a second chance in journalism get a shot after this embarrassment? That likelihood is now dimmer..." RIP Sean Connery
Sean Connery, the Scottish actor "whose five-decade-long movie career was dominated by the role of James Bond, has died at the age of 90," CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Michael Pearson reported.
Connery "was remembered on Saturday by other James Bond actors and franchise producers as 'one of the true greats of cinema,'" the NYT's Christina Morales wrote. Read some of the tributes here... |
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