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don-lichterman · 1 year

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theculturedmarxist · 7 months

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US television news outlets appear largely to be following the administration’s lead, minimizing any talk of ceasefire or de-escalation on the air. FAIR searched transcripts of the nightly news shows of the four major broadcast networks for one week (October 12–18) in the Nexis news database and Archive.org, and found that, even as the outlets devoted a great deal of time to the conflict, they rarely mentioned the idea of a ceasefire or de-escalation.

While ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and PBS NewsHour aired a total of 105 segments primarily about Israel/Gaza and broader repercussions of the conflict, only eight segments included the word “ceasefire” or some form of the word “de-escalate.” (The word “de-escalate” never appeared without the word “ceasefire.”)

NBC and PBS aired three segments each with ceasefire mentions; CBS aired two, and ABC aired none.

The October 18 protest on Capitol Hill led by Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now demanding a ceasefire—a peaceful protest that ended with over 300 arrests—accounted for half of the mentions, briefly making the evening news that night on all the broadcast networks except ABC. (The protesters’ demand was mentioned in two segments on NBC.)

That was the only day CBS Evening News (10/18/23) mentioned a ceasefire or de-escalation, though correspondent Margaret Brennan also noted in that episode, in response to a question from anchor Norah O’Donnell referencing the protest, that Biden “refrained from calling a ceasefire. In fact, the US vetoed a UN resolution to that effect earlier today.” Brennan continued:

Given that there have now been 11 days of bombing of Gaza by Israel, with thousands killed, there is a perception in Arab countries that this looks like the US is treating Palestinian lives differently than Israeli lives.

Of course, one doesn’t have to live in an Arab country to see a double standard.

Only twice across all nightly news shows did viewers see anyone, guest or journalist, advocating for a ceasefire—both times on PBS NewsHour.

The NewsHour featured a phone interview with Gaza resident Diana Odeh (10/12/23), who described the dire situation on the ground and pleaded: “We need help. We don’t need money. We don’t need anything, but we need a ceasefire. People are getting worse and worse.”

A few days later, the NewsHour (10/18/23) brought on Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon analyst currently serving as military advisor at PAX Protection of Civilians, who said: “You’re talking about 6,000 bombs in less than a week in Gaza, which is the size of Newark, New Jersey. It’s just incredibly dangerous to the population, and we need to have a ceasefire and get an end to this conflict as quickly as possible.”

Sunday shows and cable

Across the agenda-setting Sunday shows, which are largely aimed at an audience of DC insiders, the word “ceasefire” was entirely absent, except on CNN State of the Union (10/15/23)—but there, only in the context of reporting on a poll from earlier this year that found a strong majority of Gazans supporting the ceasefire that had previously been in place between Hamas and Israel.

Looking at the broader cable news coverage, where the 24-hour news cycle means much more coverage of the conflict, viewers were still unlikely to encounter any mention of the idea of a ceasefire. Using the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer, FAIR found that mentions of “cease” appeared in closed captioning on screen for an average of only 19.7 seconds per day on Fox, 11.1 seconds per day on CNN, and 9.2 seconds per day on MSNBC. (FAIR used the shortened form of the word to account for variations in hyphenation and compounding; some false positives are likely.)

Meanwhile, mentions of “Israel” did not differ substantially across networks, averaging 18–20 minutes per day. (Note that this is not the amount of time Israel was discussed, but the amount of time mentions of “Israel” appeared onscreen in closed captions.)

Fox mentioned a ceasefire roughly twice as often as either CNN or MSNBC, largely to ridicule those on the left who called for one, as with host Greg Gutfeld’s comment (10/18/23):

Enough with the ceasefire talk…. I mean, Jewish protesters calling for a ceasefire is like the typical leftist pleading not to arrest their mugger because he had a bad childhood.

Fox also frequently compared Jewish peace advocates unfavorably with January 6 rioters (Media Matters, 10/19/23).

CNN on a few occasions featured a guest advocating a ceasefire, such as Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative party. On Situation Room (10/17/23), Barghouti argued forcefully:

The only way out of this is to have immediate ceasefire, immediate supply of food, drinking water to people immediately in Gaza and then to have exchange of prisoners so that the Israeli prisoners can come back home safe to Israel.

On CNN‘s most-watched show, Anderson Cooper 360, the possibility of a ceasefire was mentioned in three segments during the study period—each time in an interview with a former military or intelligence official, none of whom supported the idea. For instance, with former Mossad agent Rami Igra on the show (10/16/23), Cooper asked about negotiating the release of hostages. Igra noted that Hamas had “twice already” said they were “willing to negotiate the release of the prisoners,” contingent upon a ceasefire and release of Palestinian prisoners. But Igra insisted Israel should not negotiate:

IGRA: Israel will do all it can in order to release these prisoners, and some of them will or maybe all of them will be released, but by force.

COOPER: That’s the only way.

IGRA: The only way to release prisoners in this kind of situation is force.

Meanwhile, the only time viewers of MSNBC‘s popular primetime show The Beat heard about the possibility of a ceasefire was when guest Elise Labott of Politico told host Ari Melber (10/12/23) that, for Israel, “this is not a ceasefire situation.” Melber responded:

If you said to someone in the United States, if ISIS or Al Qaeda or even a criminal group came into their home and murdered children or kidnapped children or burned babies, the next day you don’t typically hear rational individuals discuss a ceasefire or moving on. You discuss resorting to the criminal justice system or the war machine to respond.

Melber’s eagerness to lean on the “war machine” left his argument a muddle. Obviously, those calling for a ceasefire are not suggesting simply “moving on”—in fact, a “criminal justice system” response is more than compatible with a ceasefire, as you don’t try to bomb someone that you’re seeking to put on trial.

Netanyahu has been trying with limited success to equate Hamas with ISIS for many years now (Times of Israel, 8/27/14), and the Israeli government continues to try to paint Hamas’s tactics as so barbaric as to justify the mass killings by Israel. (See FAIR.org, 10/20/23.) But it’s passions, not reason, that allow individuals like Melber to gloss over the deaths of thousands of civilians—a child every 15 minutes, according to one widely circulated estimate—in their thirst for revenge.

With Israeli bombing intensifying and a ground invasion appearing imminent, US television news outlets’ refusal to give more than minimal airtime to the widespread calls for a ceasefire fails to reflect either US or global public opinion, and fuels the warmongering march to follow one horror with another.

#israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #FAIR #gaza ceasefire #us imperialism #us propaganda #censorship #hamas #benjamin netanyahu

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WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on the state of democracy after attack on Paul Pelosi

November 02, 2022 01:10 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Wednesday evening on threats to democracy, as he seeks to raise the stakes for voters less than a week before the midterm elections.

The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above.

Biden, who has repeatedly said that “democracy is on the ballot” on Nov. 8, will speak at 7 p.m. from Washington’s Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the White House said.

“It’s from Capitol Hill, because that is where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy,” White House senior adviser Anita Dunn told Axios, referencing the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Previewing Biden’s remarks, Dunn said the Democratic president “will be very clear tonight that he is speaking to people who don’t agree with him on any issues, who don’t agree on his agenda, but who really can unite behind this idea of this fundamental value of democracy.”

WATCH: Lies and conspiracy theories about attack on Pelosi’s husband spread online

The speech comes days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely injured her husband, Paul Pelosi, in their San Francisco home and as threats of political violence have rattled members of Congress and election workers.

“The threat of political violence which most Americans find abhorrent, the idea that you would use violence to further your political means, it’s something that unites almost all Americans and that we can all be united against, and obviously, we’ve seen horrible things happen quite recently,” Dunn told Axios.

Biden last delivered a prime-time speech on what he called the “continued battle for the soul of the nation” on Sept. 1 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in which he condemned the “MAGA forces” of former President Donald Trump and his adherents as a threat to America’s system of government.

“They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country,” he said.

The Wednesday remarks come as hundreds of candidates who have falsely denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are on ballots across the country, with many poised to be elected to critical roles overseeing elections.

In contrast with the September remarks, which drew criticism from some corners for being paid for by taxpayers, Biden’s Wednesday speech will be hosted by the Democratic National Committee.

“The president will address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy; and the stakes for our democracy in next week’s election,” the DNC said.

Biden’s remarks come as many Americans remain pessimistic about the state of U.S. democracy. An October poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 9% of U.S. adults think democracy is working “extremely” or “very well,” while 52% say it’s not working well.

AP writer Seung Min Kim contributed.

The post, WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on the state of democracy after attack on Paul Pelosi, first appeared on the PBS NewsHour website.

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CNN And PBS Win Two DuPont-Columbia Awards Apiece For Coverage Of War In Ukraine, U.S. Exit From Afghanistan

CNN and PBS took home two prizes apiece, headlining tonight’s duPont-Columbia Awards handed out by Columbia Journalism School. Founded in 1942, the awards aim to uphold journalism standards, inform the public about accomplishments by video and audio journalists and support journalism education and innovation. CBS Evening News Anchor Norah O’Donnell and Co-Anchor of PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz…

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anthonybwilson · 1 year

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Monday News/Sports TV for 1/16/2023

- [ ] 4:00am: Morning Joe (MSNBC) - [ ] 5:00am: Morning News NOW (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 5:00am: Good Morning Football (NFLN) - [ ] 6:00am: Good Morning Arizona (KTVK) - [ ] 6:00am: Get Up (ESPN) - [ ] 7:00am: CNN Newsroom (CNN) - [ ] 7:00am: CBS News Live News Hour (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 7:00am: ABC News Live First (ABCNEWSLIVE) * - [ ] 8:00am: Jose Diaz-Balart Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 8:00am: CBS News Latest Headlines (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 8:00am: First Take (ESPN) - [ ] 9:00am: At This Hour with Kate Bolduan (CNN) - [ ] 9:00am: MSNBC Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 9:30am: FOX College Hoops Tip-Off (FOX) - [ ] 10:00am: Inside Politics with John King (CNN) - [ ] 10:00am: Andrea Mitchell Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 10:00am: FOX 10 News Now (KUTP) - [ ] 10:00am: CBS News Live News Hour (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 10:00am: NBC News Daily with Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 10:00am: SportsCenter (ESPN) - [ ] 10:30am: NBA TV Pregame Show (NBATV) - [ ] 11:00am: CNN Newsroom (CNN) - [ ] 11:00am: Chris Jansing Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 11:00am: ABC 15 News at 11am (KNXV) - [ ] 11:00am: CBS News Latest Headlines (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 11:00am: NBA: Celtics at Hornets (NBATV) - [ ] 12:00pm: CNN Newsroom (CNN) - [ ] 12:00pm: Katy Tur Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 12:00pm: NBC News Daily (NBC) - [ ] 12:00pm: NBC News Daily with Kate Snow and Aaron Gilchrist (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 12:00pm: First Take (ESPN) - [ ] 12:00pm: FOX College Hoops Extra (FOX) - [ ] 12:30pm: NBA Pregame (TNT) - [ ] 12:30pm: NCAA BB: Purdue at Michigan State (FOX) - [ ] 1:00pm: Hallie Jackson Reports (MSNBC) - [ ] 1:00pm: 12 News at 1pm (KPNX) - [ ] 1:00pm: NFL Live (ESPN) - [ ] 1:30pm: NBA: Heat at Hawks (TNT) - [ ] 2:00pm: The Lead with Jake Tapper (CNN) - [ ] 2:00pm: Deadline: White House (MSNBC) - [ ] 2:00pm: Meet the Press NOW (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 3:00pm: Red & Blue (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 3:00pm: Hallie Jackson NOW (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 3:00pm: Around The Horn (ESPN) - [ ] 3:00pm: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (CNN) - [ ] 3:30pm: CBS News Latest Headlines (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 3:00pm: Tennis Channel Live at the Australian Open (TENNIS) - [ ] 3:30pm: Pardon the Interruption (ESPN) - [ ] 4:00pm: The Beat with Ari Melber (MSNBC) - [ ] 4:00pm: ABC15 News at 4pm (KNXV) - [ ] 4:00pm: PBS NewsHour (PBSYOUTUBE) * - [ ] 4:00pm: Monday Night Countdown (ESPN) - [ ] 4:00pm: NBA: Suns at Grizzlies (TNT) - [ ] 5:00pm: Erin Burnett OutFront (CNN) - [ ] 5:00pm: The ReidOut (MSNBC) - [ ] 5:00pm: Good Evening Arizona (KTVK) - [ ] 5:00pm: CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson (CBSNEWS) * - [ ] 5:00pm: Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 5:00pm: ABCNL Prime with Linsey Davis (ABCNEWSLIVE) * - [ ] 5:00pm: 2023 Australian Open First Round (ESPNPLUS) - [ ] 6:00pm: Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) - [ ] 6:00pm: All In with Chris Hayes (MSNBC) - [ ] 6:00pm: ABC15 News at 6pm (KNXV) - [ ] 6:00pm: NOW Tonight (NBCNEWSNOW) * - [ ] 6:00pm: NFL NFC Wild Card: Cowboys at Buccaneers (ABC/ESPN) - [ ] 6:00pm: Super Wild Card with Peyton & Eli: Cowboys at Buccaneers (ESPN2) - [ ] 6:30pm: Inside the NBA (TNT) - [ ] 7:00pm: The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC) - [ ] 7:00pm: FOX 10 XTRA News at 7PM (KUTP) - [ ] 8:00pm: CNN Tonight (CNN) - [ ] 8:00pm: The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNBC) - [ ] 8:00pm: Arizona’s Family News at 8PM (KTVK) - [ ] 8:30pm: NBA: Rockets at Lakers (NBATV) - [ ] 9:00pm: The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle (MSNBC) - [ ] 9:00pm: Arizona’s Family News at 9PM (KTVK) - [ ] 9:15pm: Monday Night Postgame (ESPN) - [ ] 9:30pm: SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt (ESPN) - [ ] 9:30pm: 2023 Australian Open First Round (ESPN2) - [ ] 10:00pm: Arizona’s Family News at 10pm (KTVK) - [ ] 11:00pm: NBA TV Postgame Show (NBATV)

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capricorn-0mnikorn · 2 years

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I recently reblogged and added to a post about the Brothers Hank and John Green, and their work with the international organization Partners in Health.

I woke up this morning to the news that the founder of Partners in Health died unexpectedly in his sleep Monday night (21 02, 2022), Here’s a remembrance / short biography of him from PBS NewsHour.

Transcript below the cut (Including caption time stamps):

00:00 JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, remembering a giant in the world of public health. 00:04 Dr. Paul Farmer, a physician, anthropologist and founder of a leading global health organization, 00:10 died today. He was known worldwide for improving health care access in developing countries. 00:16 The group he co-founded, Partners In Health, said that Farmer died in his sleep. 00:21 Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro, who has long covered Farmer, has this remembrance. 00:26 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: From prominent voices in global health today, 00:30 shocked reaction to the passing of an iconic figure. 00:33 "Paul Farmer was brilliant, passionate, kind, and humble," former President Bill Clinton said. 00:39 "He touched millions of lives, advanced global health equity, and fundamentally 00:43 changed the way health care is delivered in the most impoverished places on Earth." 00:48 Farmer came to prominence in the early 2000s, 00:51 working in Haiti's remote central region amid a raging HIV epidemic. He argued that patients 00:57 here deserved the same expensive antiretroviral drugs that were available in rich countries. 01:02 He spoke to the "NewsHour" in 2003. 01:05 DR. PAUL FARMER, Co-Founder, Partners In Health: One of the biggest myths we're 01:07 dealing about are about therapy for HIV, right? HIV, it can't be done in a place like this, 01:14 people don't have the right -- they don't have a concept of time, they don't have wristwatches, 01:20 the medications have to be refrigerated, it's not cost-effective, it's not anything you could 01:27 initiate in a really poor country. 01:29 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: His advocacy is credited with helping shift that perception. 01:33 In 2003, the George W. Bush administration created its so called PEPFAR program. 01:39 It brought the lifesaving drugs to millions of patients in developing nations. Today, 01:44 the non profit he co-founded, Partners In Health, is one of the largest in the world. 01:49 In the past year alone, it's provided over two million women's health checkups and nearly 01:54 three million outpatient visits to clinics in regions from Africa to Europe and Latin America. 02:00 DR. PAUL FARMER: I'm sure you all read our piece in "The British Medical Journal" last year. 02:03 (LAUGHTER) 02:04 DR. PAUL FARMER: I mean, no one would ever miss that. 02:06 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: A prolific writer and author, 02:09 Farmer was never afraid of criticizing colleagues or the systems in which they worked. 02:13 DR. PAUL FARMER: Instead of collaboration, there was competition where it wasn't warranted, 02:18 right? Public health is full of it. 02:20 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Farmer's work inspired countless doctors around the globe, including 02:24 Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at the New York University School of Medicine. 02:30 She's also a senior fellow and editor for public health at Kaiser Health News. 02:34 DR. CELINE GOUNDER, Infectious Disease and Public Health Specialist: He viewed health holistically 02:38 and through a lens of justice. I think what makes Paul's loss in this moment so devastating 02:44 to so many of us is, he is precisely the kind of leader we need in public health at this moment. 02:51 And I really hope that so many of us who were touched by him and 02:56 his mentorship and his teachings will bring his life, his spirit to our work 03:03 in the years to come as we continue to fight this pandemic. 03:06 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: In recent months, Farmer connected his decades of work 03:09 on health inequities to the pandemic. He spoke to Jeffrey Brown last year. 03:13 DR. PAUL FARMER: There's this confusion that happens at the beginning of many epidemics, 03:18 the idea that, if it's really a novel pathogen and no one is immune, 03:23 that it's going to be some sort of great leveler. 03:25 There really are almost no examples in which that's the case. These diseases are never levelers 03:32 in that sense. They always look for weaknesses in society. They invade these cracks and fissures. 03:38 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Paul Farmer is survived by his wife, 03:41 Didi Bertrand Farmer, and three children. He was 62. 03:45 For the "PBS NewsHour," this is Fred de Sam Lazaro. 03:48 JUDY WOODRUFF: And there was an outpouring of tributes today for Paul Farmer, 03:52 calling him brilliant, generous and a giant. 03:56 We mourn him.

#Public health #healthcare is a right #Paul Farmer #Partners in Health #YouTube Video (closed captioned in English)#pbs newshour #in memoriam #eulogy

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CNN-free, and feeling calmer by the day

Having cut the cord with Dish Network, we're currently suspended between satellite TV and what's next. We have an antenna for local channels and Roku for more exotic stuff.

Meanwhile, CNN is not among our options. I'll admit it; I became addicted to CNN's raw-meat approach to TV news. It happened during Trump, when I was eager to channel my outrage and disgust. CNN is quite proficient at both.

So, yeah, I'm a little twitchy living on the straight-arrow "PBS Newshour" and, for a little flavor, ABC's "World News Tonight." But I think I'm feeling calmer by the day.

My daughter once advised me, after I told her about my CNN habit, that it would make me crazy.

The wisdom of youth ...

#John Schneider #Sharon #cutting the TV cord #Dish Network #Raku #no CNN

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diarrheaworldstarhiphop · 3 years

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Evan Hill via twitter: "former intelligence official on PBS NewsHour tonight saying that the US should think about a "9/11 Commission" for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the lessons from the fight against Al Qaeda here at home." thoughts?

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four years of Q anon and alt right psyop shit just built the pretext for more of this shit

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don-lichterman · 1 year

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odinsblog · 4 years

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I’ll keep on saying it: This is not accidental, corporate media is complicit, and there most definitely IS a #BernieBlackout happening.

PBS literally hosted the Democratic debate on Thursday, 12.19.2019. And then on the very next day in their “analysis” they never once mentioned the name of the candidate who is polling nationally in second place: Bernie Sanders.

Even Julian Castro is calling out CNN’s lack of journalistic integrity.

Link to PBS’ misleading analysis: https://www.facebook.com/6491828674/videos/on-tonights-pbs-newshour-we-analyze-the-2020-democratic-presidential-race-with-j/809542679480846/

#state of the race #pbs #politics #bernie blackout #bernie sanders #media bias #journalism fail #corporate media #false media narratives #journalistic malpractice #ethics in journalism

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paulinedorchester · 3 years

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Situations that exist, none of which, under pandemic conditions, rises to the level of an emergency:

In order of occurrence:

My kitchen clock needs a new battery. I can’t reach it even if I stand on the top step of the stepladder. What made my parents — who were fairly short and very short, respectively — place it so high up on the wall is beyond me. But right now it’s not worth having someone from maintenance come into my apartment.

I have not had satellite service — i.e., I’ve had no access to broadcast, cable, or satellite television channels — since the derecho that blew through this area on August 10th. Although weather-related disruptions of satellite service are sadly normal, it usually comes back after a day or so. And so it did for most of my neighbors, but not for me. (I also have a history of non-weather-related disruptions, apparently not shared by any of my neighbors.) I called DirecTV to see if they could fix it remotely (which they have done in the past). They could do nothing. However Roku, which comes as part of the package, is still working, and best of all WTTW, our PBS station, recently began live-streaming their broadcast signal 24/7; the picture quality is undependable, the volume has a mond of its own, and of course I can’t record anything (from WTTW or anywhere else), but at least I have PBS Newshour and Chicago Tonight back, and right now it isn’t worth having them send a technician to my apartment.

The radiator in my bedroom, which is 111 years old, can no longer be shut off. For those who live in areas where apartment dwellers have no control over the heat they receive (New York City springs to mind), I should explain that here in Chicago radiators have valves on them that can be opened and closed; if the valve is open, heat comes up at intervals. If you don’t want heat, you close the valve and normally that would prevent heat from coming up. It’s important that the valve be all the way open or closed; otherwise you get loud banging and clanking. Anyway, this situation is a true pain in the neck: it means that I have to run the humidifier all the time. As well, I don’t normally have the heat on at night. I’d rather pile on the covers and, as I’ve discovered, the “white noise” that the radiator makes when heat is coming up is both loud enough to wake me up and irregular enough to keep me up. I strongly suspect that the valve needs to be replaced. Heating season may not be the best time to do that (it would mean turning off the heat in the entire building for a time), and in any case see the last sentence of paragraph 1 above.

#real life #covid-19

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darthmelyanna · 4 years

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Watching PBS Newshour tonight, and there’s some lady being interviewed from her living room, and she’s got Regina Mills’ mirror over her dining table.

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rjzimmerman · 4 years

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Excerpt from this Grist story:

When it comes to climate change, television news is covering little more than the tip of the iceberg.

That’s according to a just-released report from Media Matters for America, which found that global warming garnered a tiny sliver — well under 1 percent — of overall broadcast news coverage. The progressive research nonprofit also found that, while these news outlets did cover climate change more often in 2019 than in the year prior, the quality of coverage was “generally shallow.” And when it came to giving voice to those hit first and worst by extreme weather and other climate-related disasters, the networks fell short: People of color were “massively underrepresented” in coverage.

“In spite of the increase in coverage from 2018 to 2019, climate coverage as a whole still made up only 0.6% of overall corporate broadcast TV nightly news in 2019, showing that these programs’ climate coverage does not adequately reflect the urgency and severity of the climate crisis,” the report found.

The analysis focused on four nightly news programs — ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC’s Nightly News, and public broadcaster PBS’s NewsHour — as well as four Sunday morning political shows: ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, and Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday. Media Matters has produced variations of this analysis annually since at least 2012, including reports in 2018 and 2017.

#media #climate change

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anthonybwilson · 1 year

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Friday News/Sports TV for 1/13/2013

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 9, 2020

Heather Cox Richardson

I had hoped that the days when the news came like a firehose were over, but so far, no luck.

This morning, the stock market jumped 1200 points in its first day of trading after the announcement of Biden’s election. Over the course of the day it was up as much as 1600 points, then ended for the day with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 834.57 points, or 2.95%.

The strong market is at least in part because pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German drug company BioNTech announced today they have a coronavirus vaccine which appears to be about 90% effective. The Trump administration immediately tried to take credit for the vaccine, only to have Pfizer note that it has not taken federal money under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed for rushing a coronavirus vaccine. Don Jr. promptly suggested that the delay in announcing the potential vaccine until this week was designed to hurt Trump’s reelection, but it seems Pfizer is likely distancing itself from Trump to avoid any suggestion that the vaccine is about politics, rather than science. In the past, the administration has touted a number of treatments for Covid-19 that have turned out to be ineffective, and the pressure for a vaccine before the election threatened to weaken public faith in one.

The pandemic continues to worsen across the country. Today we learned that Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has tested positive for the virus; so has David Bossie, the Trump adviser in charge of the campaign’s legal challenges to the election loss. Both men were at the election night watch party at the White House, along with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who was infected at the time and did not wear a mask. Aides told PBS NewsHour reporter Yamiche Alcindor that they were worried the event would be a superspreader, but felt pressured to attend.

President-Elect Joe Biden started his presidential transition today, beginning by announcing the makeup of his coronavirus task force. It’s an impressive group of doctors and scientists, including Dr. Rick Bright, a whistleblower fired by Trump officials. “Please, I implore you, wear a mask," Biden told Americans. "A mask is not a political statement…. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible.”

New leadership and the rising infection rates are shifting the conversation. Last night, Utah’s Republican Governor Gary Herbert announced a state of emergency. He has imposed a statewide mask mandate indefinitely and a ban on social gatherings outside of households for the next two weeks. He has limited extracurricular activities at schools. Businesses that don’t follow the mask mandate can be fined; organizers who ignore the social gathering rule can be prosecuted and fined up to $10,000.

Not everyone likes the idea of new leadership, though. In an unprecedented move, Trump is refusing to acknowledge that he has lost the election. He has launched lawsuits challenging the ballot counting in a number of states, and his surrogates—including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany—are accusing the Democrats of cheating. Tonight, Attorney General William Barr legitimized the idea of voter fraud by permitting federal prosecutors to investigate such allegations. Barr’s move prompted the head of the Election Crimes Branch of the Department of Justice, Richard Pilger, to resign.

But what’s so weird about this is that they are losing all these lawsuits. Indeed, some of them they’re not even trying to win: they’re not bothering to fill out the correct paperwork. It seems clear that they are simply stoking the narrative of an unfair election, but it is not at all clear to me to what end.

It is certainly possible that Trump and his people are launching a coup, as observers warn. And yet, this would not be an easy task. Biden’s win is not a few votes here or there; it is commanding, and Trump’s aides are telling reporters they think the game is played out. The military has already said it wants no part of getting involved in the election, and the courts so far are siding against the administration entirely. Even key Republican leaders, such as Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor, are denying there has been any problem with the vote.

Maybe what’s at stake is that last Tuesday’s election left control of the Senate hanging on two runoff elections in Georgia. Today the Republican candidates in those races tagged on to the cries of voter fraud to call for Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to resign. Raffensberger is the top elections official in the state. He is a Republican. There is no evidence of any irregularity in the 2020 Georgia election, and the two senators did not offer any. But if they can get Democratic votes thrown out, Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler might avoid the runoffs that look like they might well result in Democratic victories.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is determined to keep control of the Senate, and ginning up a conviction that the election was rigged could do that. McConnell defended Trump’s challenging of the election today, although he did not explicitly say he believed the election had been fraudulent. Trump’s attacks are working: new polling shows that 7 out of 10 Republican voters now think that the 2020 election was illegitimate. Barr met with McConnell before he signed onto the idea of voter fraud by announcing that federal prosecutors could go after it.

Still, while control of the Senate is likely driving McConnell, it seems highly unlikely that Trump cares about it. Perhaps the president is simply deep in a narcissistic rage, unable to face the idea of losing.

But there is something else niggling at me.

Trump’s refusal to acknowledge Biden’s win means that the current administration is denying him the right to see the President’s Daily Briefing (the PDB) which explains the biggest security threats facing the country and the latest intelligence information. Trump can keep Biden from seeing other classified information, too.

Today, Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper (by announcing the firing on Twitter), and replaced him with a loyalist, Christopher C. Miller, who will be “acting” only. Trump also selected a loyalist and Republican political operative, Michael Ellis, to become the general counsel at the National Security Agency, our top spy agency, over the wishes of intelligence officials. Ellis was the chief counsel to Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), a staunch Trump loyalist. Trump is also reportedly considering firing FBI director Christopher Wray and CIA director Gina Haspel. Last week, he quietly fired the leaders of the agencies that oversee our nuclear weapons, international aid, and electricity and natural gas regulation, although the last of those officials was moved to a different spot in the administration.

In other words, Trump is cleaning out the few national security leaders who were not complete lackeys and replacing them with people who are. It’s funny timing for such a shake-up, especially one that will destabilize the country, making us more vulnerable.

Today Washington Post diplomacy and national security reporter John Hudson noted that a source told him that the “Trump administration just gave Congress formal notification for a massive arms transfer to the United Arab Emirates: 50 F-35s, 18 MQ-9 Reapers with munitions; a $10 billion munitions package including thousands of Mk 82 dumb bombs, guided bombs, missiles & more….” This deal comes two months after the administration’s Abraham Accord normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE opened the way for arms sales.

The UAE has wanted the F-35 for years; it is the world’s most advanced fighter jet. They cost about $100 million apiece. The president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has secretly been pushing for the sale of the arms to the UAE in the face of fierce opposition by government agencies and lawmakers.

The administration had announced a much smaller version of this deal at the end of October, in a sale that would amount to about $10 billion, but Congress worried about the weaponry falling into the hands of China or Russia and seemed unlikely to let the sale happen. In 2019, it stopped such a deal. Trump declared a national emergency in order to go around Congress and sell more than $8 billion of weapons to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He later fired Steven Linick, the State Department’s inspector general looking into those sales, but when the IG’s report came out nonetheless, it was scathing, suggesting that they put the U.S. at risk of being prosecuted for war crimes.

When you remember that Trump’s strong suit has always been distraction, and that he has always used the presidency as a money-making venture, I wonder if we need to factor those characteristics in when we think about his unprecedented and dangerous refusal to admit he has lost this election.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

Heather Cox Richardson

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