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| Planet Fox; Trump's 'paranoid' comments; The City's launch; Politico's new boss; CBS changes; the DOJ and the Oscars; 'This is Us' season finale Posted: 02 Apr 2019 08:38 PM PDT Here's the latest on The City, Apple News+, "CBS This Morning," Politico, the "meme wars," WhatsApp, Disney+, "One Day at a Time," and more... EXEC SUMMARY: Here's the latest on The City, Apple News+, "CBS This Morning," Politico, the "meme wars," WhatsApp, Disney+, "One Day at a Time," and more...
FIRST LOOK:
Rupert's world
Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler have been working on a New York Times Magazine cover story for the last six months. And it's coming out on Wednesday. Here's the cover: | | The subject: Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The pair interviewed 150+ people in three countries. Their story will be up on the NYT home page by 6 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
Rutenberg and Mahler acknowledge that the Fox News-White House alliance is very closely covered, and "the Murdochs themselves are an enduring object of cultural fascination." But, they write, "what we as reporters had not fully appreciated until now is the extent to which these two stories — one of an illiberal, right-wing reaction sweeping the globe, the other of a dynastic media family — are really one. To see Fox News as an arm of the Trump White House risks missing the larger picture. It may be more accurate to say that the White House — just like the prime ministers' offices in Britain and Australia — is just one tool among many that this family uses to exert influence over world events."
More to come on Wednesday...
Suzanne Scott speaks
Variety's Brian Steinberg landed the first in-depth interview with Suzanne Scott since last May, when she was appointed CEO of Fox News. Key quotes:
-- What she's doing differently: "There wasn't much communication with the staff under Roger Ailes..."
-- What she's not doing differently: "Our audience is deeply connected to our primetime shows. We are the only ones with conservative talent in primetime. We believe in free speech. We fully support our primetime talent, and we're not going to let the voices of the few impact our business."
-- Per Steinberg, "she says 85% of people who take a one-week free trial" of Fox Nation "are electing to stay on board..."
Meantime, Fox's prime time ad problems continue...
Tom Kludt emails: Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" reflected Fox's new normal, with only 16 ads -- including a pair of two-minute spots from MyPillow -- running throughout the hour-long broadcast. It's been this way for a while now. Before Carlson's racist remarks about immigrants making America "dirtier" in December, the show averaged around 36 ads a broadcast. Months later, those advertisers have not returned. Maybe that's because subsequent controversies have kept the heat on Carlson. Read on...
Fox still says the advertisers will return
Fox News president of ad sales Marianne Gambelli responded to Kludt's story by saying, "As the top-rated network in every region of the country since the 2016 election, Fox News viewers are a buying audience, consuming products across all major index categories. Our sponsors know the value of that audience which is not only unduplicated, but also highly affluent and educated." Separately, she told Variety that the advertisers who have bailed on prime time "say they are going to pause, with the intent to return." So far, there are few signs of returnees. So Fox News is not able to fully capitalize on its big ratings victories...
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- Q1 ratings are in: Fox News "wrapped up another quarter as the most-watched network on cable television, running its streak in total day to 11 consecutive quarters at No. 1..." (TVNewser)
-- White House security specialist Tricia Newbold, who's been dubbed a whistleblower by House Democrats, gave an exclusive interview to NBC's Peter Alexander on Tuesday... (NBC)
-- Manuel Roig-Franzia's up-close look at WorldNetDaily: "Inside the spectacular fall of the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites..." (WaPo)
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST:
The City is launching on Wednesday
"The City" calls itself "an independent, nonprofit news outlet dedicated to hard-hitting reporting that serves the people of New York." The project was announced last fall... And financed to the tune of $8.5 million by foundations and individual donors... And now it's ready to report to the public. Per two sources, the website will launch on Wednesday morning... And I'll have details on CNN Business in the A.M...
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act is being reintroduced on Wednesday...
Keach Hagey's scoop in the WSJ: Rep. David Cicilline and Rep. Doug Collins plan to introduce a bill on Wednesday "to let publishers team up to negotiate with Google and Facebook." The bill didn't really go anywhere last year. But its backers -- including the publishing biz's main advocacy group -- are hoping it will "gain momentum in a Democratic-controlled House and draw bipartisan support." Cicilline is planning to hold hearings about local news woes...
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- Oliver Darcy emails: NowThis announced on Tuesday (Equal Pay Day) that it is teaming up with Times Up to "highlight key issues facing women in the workplace..." (Deadline)
-- Chloe Melas emails: On the occasion of Equal Pay Day, actress Laura Dern told me she still doesn't believe she's being paid equal to her male co-stars... (CNN)
-- This new lawsuit, filed on behalf of two employees, is "claiming that Disney discriminates against female workers by paying them less than their male counterparts." Disney says the suit is without merit... (NYT)
200,000 subscribers for News+ so far
Edmund Lee's in-depth look at Apple News contains this news: "More than 200,000 people subscribed to Apple News Plus in its first 48 hours — more than Texture had amassed at its peak, according to two people..." And his story has lots more info here...
--> David Uberti tweeted that 200,000 subscribers "sounds like a big number. It's also $12 million/year split between 300 publishers..."
YouTube's harmful recommendation engine | | Tuesday's top must-read is this nearly 4,000 word story by Bloomberg's Mark Bergen about the very real ways YouTube's algorithms hurt people.
The headline: "YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant." Bergen spoke with current and former staffers who said that proposals to change the recommendation engine and curb conspiracy videos "were sacrificed for engagement."
--> YouTube's response: "Our primary focus has been tackling some of the platform's toughest content challenges... Responsibility remains our number one priority..."
Bianna Golodryga out at CBS
While network newsers wait for Susan Zirinsky to reveal her plans for CBS News changes, news keeps breaking... On Tuesday morning, while "CBS This Morning" was on the air, Yashar Ali reported that the show's newest co-host, Bianna Golodryga, is being "moved off the program."
"Zirinsky felt that the show had too many anchors," according to Ali's sources. "Zirinsky had hoped to keep Golodryga at CBS to work on other news programs," but her deal allowed her to leave if she wasn't kept on the morning show, and "a source close to Golodryga said she planned to exercise her option to leave." By late afternoon, according to VF's Joe Pompeo, "her office was already being boxed up."
Golodryga was off on Tuesday. And from the looks of it, she will not be on Wednesday's show either. This seems like the type of awkward breakup that networks try hard to avoid. In any case, Golodryga remains a CNN contributor. She has not commented on the CBS exit, and a CBS spokeswoman declined to comment...
Some more CBS News news...
Pompeo's piece also notes that "CBS This Morning" has been "without a permanent executive producer since the December departure of Ryan Kadro." He reports that senior broadcast producer Diana Miller, who's been running the show on an interim basis, "is now officially getting the top job..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
-- Keep an eye on this suit: Several former U.S. intel and military officials are suing over "rules that require them to submit book manuscripts and other writings for review long after leaving government service." They say it amounts to censorship... (WSJ)
-- The winners of this year's White House Correspondents Association Awards: McKay Coppins, Josh Dawsey, Ed Henry, and a team from Reuters... (WHCA)
-- The nominees for this year's Webby Awards are out... Disney won 40 nominations, WarnerMedia nabbed 39, Vice Media has 35, Google has 26... (THR)
Matt Kaminski named EIC of Politico
Oliver Darcy emails: After 12 years, Politico is getting a new editor-in-chief. Publisher Robert Allbritton emailed staff on Tuesday to announce that Matt Kaminski will be taking the reins from John Harris, starting on Monday. Allbritton described Kaminski as a "leader with tireless ambition and creativity" who will work with US newsroom editor Carrie Budoff Brown to "create impact and drive growth across a competitive landscape in media that continues to rapidly change."
Allbritton said Harris will "step aside from managerial duties and move into a governance role," joining the corporate board that oversees Politico. Harris, Allbritton wrote, had "long made clear" that he wanted to return to reporting. "Over the last two years, it became evident during our conversations that he was thinking seriously about a transition," Allbritton explained in his memo. "His final assignment as editor in chief was to ensure that our newsroom was led by a team in whom I have trust, and who are ready to write a new chapter of their own for Politico."
Politico poaches Natasha Bertrand
Darcy sends one more nugget of Politico news: The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand is joining the publication as a national security correspondent. "We thought she would be a perfect fit here: she is a scoop-driven, high-metabolism reporter with the ability to quickly break news as well as turn big, important stories and deliver sharp analysis," Paul Volpe wrote in an internal memo. Bertrand will continue her role as an MSNBC contributor...
| | Happy International Fact-Checking Day!
Pro-journalism groups use the day after April Fool's to promote fact-checking. Of course, in this twisted era, fact-checkers should be celebrated every day. Here is Chris Cillizza's latest: "Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Trump has made 9,451 false or misleading claims in his first 802 days in office! That's according to the invaluable Washington Post Fact Checker."
As Cillizza wrote, the lies are "a feature, not a bug, of not only his presidency but his life..."
Shouldn't these comments be the lead story?
These are just a few of the things the president said on Tuesday:
-- Talking about his "great respect" for Germany: "My father is German, right, was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany." Fred Trump was born in the Bronx.
-- Describing what "we need" to do to fix the immigration system: We "have to get rid of judges."
-- Sowing doubt about election integrity and telling GOP lawmakers to be "more paranoid:" "We have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied."
-- Supporting a conspiracy theory about wind farms: "They say the noise causes cancer."
Over on Earth 2, these comments are treated as shocking breaking news, instead of being shrugged off...
"That country"
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said it not once, but twice during an interview with MSNBC's Hallie Jackson on Tuesday. He said Puerto Rico is "that country" -- when in fact it's a proud part of the United States. He later called the mistake a "slip of the tongue."
But as WaPo's Aaron Blake tweeted, it's "not difficult to see a deliberately provocative effort to other-ize Puerto Rico," between Gidley's dismissive remarks and Trump's claims that Puerto Rican officials "only take from USA."
How Ortagus has changed
Former Fox News contributor Morgan Ortagus blasted Trump as "disgusting" and "not serious" back in 2016. Now she may become the next State Department spokesperson. Zachary Cohen and Andrew Kaczynski reviewed her resume and past TV appearances for this CNN.com story... They say "officials have been preparing paperwork and examining Ortagus' background for weeks and sources close to her say she is in good standing with the President, but there is lingering uncertainty around whether Trump is fully aware of the blistering attacks Ortagus levied against him during the campaign..."
--> Ortagus is in line to replace Heather Nauert, who hasn't been visibly working for months, but who has remained on the payroll. As of Tuesday, she no longer works for the State Dept, per CNN's Michelle Kosinski...
Baier's tweet to Pirro raises eyebrows
Oliver Darcy emails: Bret Baier raised eyebrows on Tuesday afternoon -- including among some at Fox -- when he tweeted out a "congrats" to Jeanine Pirro for "a big Saturday ratings win." Baier's tweet was striking, not only because he is one of the face's of Fox's hard news division, which often is seen at odds with the opinion programming, but because it was a "Special Report" producer's rebuke of Pirro's Islamophobic remarks that went viral last month. At the time, the producer, Hufsa Kamal asked Pirro to "stop spreading this false narrative that somehow Muslims hate America" because "you have Muslims working at the same network you do."
EYE ON 2020
-- The second #DemDebate of the year, to be hosted by CNN, "will take place in Detroit on July 30 and 31..." (CNN)
-- On Tuesday CNN announced the dates for FIVE more 2020 town halls: Kirsten Gillibrand on April 9, Jay Inslee on the 10th, Julian Castro on the 11th, and two back-to-back on the 14th: Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang... (CNN)
-- Arlette Saenz and Jeff Zeleny's latest: "Joe Biden undeterred from 2020 race as he faces allegations he made women feel uncomfortable..." (CNN)
Who's winning the meme wars?
Mother Jones' Stephanie Mencimer has a smart new piece about the use of memes in politics: She says "well-funded conservative groups are making a more organized push to train young internet-savvy right-wingers in the art of meme-making, enlisting a growing army in what they see as the coming meme war of 2020." The left, she says, "is trailing the right badly, and falling even further behind..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART FOUR
-- Nicholas Quah's newest edition of Hot Pod: "Can a local public radio station make a national podcast — and build a donor base off it? In New Hampshire, they have..." (NiemanLab)
-- I forgot to include this important bit of news yesterday: "The Financial Times now has 1 million paying readers, reaching its target a year ahead of schedule..." (Digiday)
We need to talk about WhatsApp | | Donie O'Sullivan emails: Facebook likes to tell us about all the steps it's taking to fight disinformation on its platforms. But over on Facebook-owned WhatsApp, they really can't do much to stop the spread of disinfo. WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, meaning the company is not able to read any messages. Sounds good, right?
I know most of us don't want Facebook or WhatsApp reading our messages... but that creates a ton of challenges for Facebook in stopping the spread of disinformation on WhatsApp. It's a trade off. Maybe Facebook will be comfortable saying, "It's either encrypted or it's not. If we can read your messages, so can the government." But that's an... interesting... approach from a company that has spent two years talking about how they're fighting disinfo.
--> Related: Donie wrote about how, after the New Zealand attack, FB told us all it was doing to stop the spread of the attack video — but on WhatsApp there was nothing they could do...
--> Meanwhile, in India, where WhatsApp has a huge disinfo problem, the company has set up a "tip line" ahead of the elections...
FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE
-- Chloe Melas confirms: Mick Jagger will undergo heart-valve-replacement surgery this week... (CNN)
-- "The Bleacher Report-produced documentary 'Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story' is headed to Showtime..." (Awful Announcing)
-- "Troy Carter, formerly Spotify's global head of creator services and Lady Gaga's manager for the first five years of her career, has teamed up with his longtime friend and business partner J. Erving to form a 'new, modern music and technology company' called Q&A..." (Variety)
-- This week Netflix reminded subscribers that its price hike will take effect soon... (CNN)
"Antitrust concerns" about the Oscars?
Frank Pallotta emails: DOJ antitrust division chief Makan Delrahim recently sent a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars, expressing antitrust concerns about the possible new rules for Oscar awards categories.
The letter, which was first obtained by Variety, followed news reports that Steven Spielberg wanted to create rules that could block Netflix from Oscars contention. That may raise antitrust concerns, according to the DOJ. "In the event that the Academy — an association that includes multiple competitors in its membership — establishes certain eligibility requirements for the Oscars that eliminate competition without procompetitive justification, such conduct may raise antitrust concerns," Delrahim wrote.
Per CNN's Megan Thomas, The Academy confirmed that it received a letter from the DOJ and "responded accordingly..."
--> THR editor Matthew Belloni's reaction: "The US government cares about the awards given by a private arts organization? LOL."
Iger's personal involvement with Disney+
The Information's Beejoli Shah reported this on Tuesday: "Disney's CEO Bob Iger has been personally involved in greenlighting some of the series for the streaming service, according to two people familiar with the matter. That's a sign of how closely Mr. Iger is monitoring original series production for the streaming service, Disney Plus, on which Disney is betting its future..."
| | 'Avengers: Endgame' crashes ticket sites
Frank Pallotta emails: I don't think anyone is surprised that "Avengers: Endgame," Marvel's next superhero-a-palooza, is highly anticipated, but even I think this is crazy. Pre-sale tickets for "Endgame" went on sale Tuesday morning and caused chaos. The rush to buy tickets created long lines on Fandango (seriously, the site put consumers in an online queue) and downright crashed AMC Theaters' ticket site.
The film set Fandango's first day pre-sales record in just six hours. April 26 can't come soon enough...
"This is Us" season finale time...
The third season finale episode aired on NBC on Tuesday night. Please don't tell me anything... Me and Jamie are like four episodes behind... We're going to be all caught up by the end of this week 😊
But Chloe Melas is all caught up... And she wrote this about Tuesday's episode... Click here for spoilers!
| | "One Day at a Time" moving to CBS All Access?
"While the canceled Netflix sitcom remains a long shot to survive, producer Sony Pictures Television has had conversations with multiple outlets about ways to keep the series alive — and has now fielded an official pickup offer from at least one platform," Vulture's Joe Adalian scooped on Tuesday.
The details: "Two people familiar with the matter tell Vulture that the streaming network CBS All Access, whose interest in acquiring One Day was reported a few weeks back, has now submitted an official bid to procure at least one more season of the series from Sony." But: "Netflix's deal with Sony allows it to veto any move to a streaming network for at least two years after cancellation." But, but: "It appears Netflix is unwilling to budge and allow One Day to shift to the much, much smaller CBS All Access." Stay tuned...
--> James Poniewozik tweeted: "This would be quite a trajectory: CBS --> Netflix --> CBS's Netflix..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART SIX
By Lisa Respers France:
-- Kim Kardashian West is expecting baby No. 4 soon via a surrogate. Here's how she picks baby names...
-- Justin Bieber's April Fool's pregnancy joke drew some serious backlash...
-- Bristol Palin is quitting the MTV reality series "Teen Mom OG."
-- Donny and Marie Osmond are ending their Vegas run after 11 years... but not because they are feuding...
Is Baldwin getting bored of Trump?
Alec Baldwin is once again floating the idea of retiring his Trump impersonation. Is it due to contract negotiations? Exhaustion? Disgust? Who knows? But he's been on the interview circuit lately, and in this interview with IndieWire he talked about playing Trump less.
"We did it like once a month, this season," he said, pointing out that "SNL" has reduced the sheer # of Trump sketches. "I think people are, uh, they want a little bit less of that," he said. "And whether I do it much longer, remains to be seen."
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| Convergence Of Cyriss - A Side Project Posted: 02 Apr 2019 07:23 PM PDT
This post is going to start a hobby documentary on how to rehabilitate poorly treated used models and salvage an army using hobby skills. It'll also document my dabbling with Convergence of Cyriss from a gameplay perspective. I'm still mainlining Trolls, but I figure I'll play with my new CoC every once and a while.
Why start Convergence?
I've had bits and pieces of CoC sitting in my closet for years. Maybe a year after release I picked up an original Prime Axiom and Transfinite Emergence Projector basically new in box for like $60 for the two of them, figuring it was a deal too good to pass up. I also picked up a friends Aurora and Clockwork Angels when he was selling out of the faction (my wife said they were pretty).
In terms of design, they've certainly appealed to me from a gameplay perspective. With the latest release of Orion for the faction they really seem like they have the tools to be able to deal with pretty much anything, which is something PP has been setting as their goal for their limited release factions. I also kind of like the idea that once I've bought into it, I'm basically done with major purchases. It's all about experimenting with the limited toolset as the meta changes.
Also the focus induction mechanics seem really cool. I appreciate the puzzle in each game of trying to mastermind how to make the clockwork like system of getting the focus around to maximize efficiency. I'm an engineer by trade and the way PP made that clockwork system into a game mechanic really intrigues me.
What made me actually jump into the faction was that I found two separate retail for retail trade opportunities. Someone was looking to trade CoC for 40k Orks, and was interested in the entire lot I've been looking to offload for years. I also found someone who wanted nearly all of the Circle I was trying to offload and we worked out equitable trades. It's always a great value when you can do retail-for-retail trades on models you own to get models you want. The downside is that the very large lot I got in exchange for my old Orks was largely piles of crap that I had to salvage. Luckily the trade I got for Circle was excellent.
What to do when you get badly treated used models
One mistake I made on my first trade with the Orks for CoC was not asking for pictures of the models I was trading for. Note to readers: Always Ask For Pictures When Trading On The Internet.
This ended up being pretty bad overall, since the models I got were nearly all broken, some of which looked like they were given to a young child to try and paint, and some were clearly nicely done conversions that were then traded to this person who then mistreated them. My trade was to include an Axis and Lucant, but since the models weren't complete the person included a second version of the models, all of which still required bits orders from PP or just wholesale replacement of the model to get something functional.
Nearly every walking Vector chassis had all their legs broken off at weird angles, and two of the Inverters I got are missing the chain+flail bit altogether. What's worse is that I found the unit of Reciprocators I received weren't actually glued to their bases. The person used blue sticky tac and then spray painted metallic spray over all of it.
I didn't take pictures before I started fixing everything, but you can see exactly how awkward the pinning/leg reattachment went on some of the jacks, as well as how bad the paint job was:
Nothing like sticky tac for getting models on bases! It was actually piled all the way up in huge amounts. Lots of scraping to clean it up. Talk about a mess.
You can see what lengths I went through to get the legs back on. This was the only way it'd fit. It looks like a 5 year old was told to pain this guy. The leg in the air was the only leg actually still glued to the model when I received it. The solution in nearly all cases was simply pinning, lots and lots of pinning legs back after dry fitting to see which pieces went with which broken jacks. Fortunately I was able to get all my vectors up and stable on their bases.
My unit of Reciprocators were missing the tips of their halberds. These are near impossible to find bits for online, but I ended up going with the Steelsoul Protector spear from PP and luckily I was able to use the tip of the spear as a replacement for the halberds and have it work out nicely. All in all it was $30 in bits from PP to replace parts either too broken to salvage or bits that were straight up missing. Not terrible, but not great either.
What was worse is that the Clockwork Angels and Auora model I had effectively fell apart over the years they sat in my closet. My friend had used some really thin pins and apparently a not very good superglue. I basically re-pinned everything with the Angels, though making sure to use a much thicker paperclip as my pinning.
Thicker pinning = Better Pinning Between pinning up Aurora, 3 units of Clockwork Angels, and building a fresh Father Lucant, lets just say I never want to build anything like that again. My fingers still hurt from all the pinning I had to do to get those things securely built! Next Steps
Once everything has been built up (I still have a few servitors to do), I'm going to apply basing material and then test out using a metallic spray paint as a base coat. I'll have to paint the base and the basing material black again, but it theoretically allows me a lot of speed up in terms of getting the army painted up quickly. I definitely like the metal look, and I'm really keen on the idea of an easy to paint faction.
Gaming Results
I've been wanting to play a Synergy caster since forever and now I have my first opportunity with Syntherion. He's also got a really nice toolkit and is pretty well rounded. Apparently he's fallen out of favor with the larger meta as very few people seem to be talking about him, but I wanted to give him a shot.
Since I was playing a friend of mine who is just hopping back into the game with a brand new faction (Circle), I decided to avoid some of the more blatant power pieces like the TEP or Axiom, just giving things a go with heavies in Destruction Initiative:
Syntherion
-Corrolary
-Cipher -Cipher -Assimilator -Assimilator
-Inverter -Diffuser Optifex Directive Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex Elimination Servitors Elimination Servitors Attunement Servitors Attunement Servitors
I squared off against Tanith running
Feral Stalker Loki Reeves of Orboros + UA Skinwalkers + UA Wolves of Orboros + UA Gallows Grove x2
Unfortunately for me the first time I put CoC on the table I had…performance issues.
I initially thought that being a WM veteran of over 15 years I'd be able to master the Focus Induction mechanic in my first game. I was wrong. We weren't playing on clock since my friend isn't really used to the game yet, but if I was on clock I'd have surely clocked out given the amount of time it took me to figure out how to allocate and induct in the right order to accomplish everything I wanted to in each turn.
I was actually holding my own fairly well in the game, but a missed Magnetic Hold screwed up my plans and then after charging in on the Feral+Loki on my feat turn, I didn't realize a mistake: I charged in where I'd trigger admonition, but this charge was the last activation for me in the turn – meaning the Stalker with Admonition could move to threaten Syntherion and not worry about anything else coming in.
I also was bad at contesting when I easily could have multiple times, so rather than having to take the assassination victory, my opponent just had to kill an objective and survive a free strike to move Loki into another zone to win on scenario.
After the game I realized that taking a single TEP in the list would dramatically improve my ability to handle the 20+ infantry on the table, allowing me to better focus on getting up in the trading game.
So basically Destruction Initiative = 1 TEP minimum, at least to start. Given how excited I am to play with that piece, let alone the possibility of a few lists running two of them, this seems like a good general principle to start with.  |
| World Alert: Former allies who challenged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in political scandal are expelled from his Liberal Party Posted: 02 Apr 2019 05:47 PM PDT The former cabinet member at the center of the political scandal rocking Canada says she has been expelled from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party, a development that is likely to deepen questions about his handling of the case. Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was Canada's first indigenous attorney general, said Tuesday that Trudeau had informed her she was no longer part of the Liberal caucus and had been stripped of the party's nomination for the upcoming election to keep her seat in Parliament. Trudeau confirmed the news, as well as the expulsion of former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott, who had publicly supported Wilson-Raybould. | |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | World Alert | Apr 2, 8:46 PM | | | | | | Former allies who challenged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in political scandal are expelled from his Liberal Party | The former cabinet member at the center of the political scandal rocking Canada says she has been expelled from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party, a development that is likely to deepen questions about his handling of the case. Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was Canada's first indigenous attorney general, said Tuesday that Trudeau had informed her she was no longer part of the Liberal caucus and had been stripped of the party's nomination for the upcoming election to keep her seat in Parliament. Trudeau confirmed the news, as well as the expulsion of former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott, who had publicly supported Wilson-Raybould. | | Read more » | | | |  |
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| Closing the pay gap for good Posted: 02 Apr 2019 04:16 PM PDT TicToc Tonight | Greetings, TicToc readers! Tuesday's almost over. Here's what's happening: But first...  YouTube's toxic video problem A Bloomberg investigation found that in recent years, scores of YouTube employees raised concerns about the mass of extreme and misleading videos surfaced and spread through the site. But CEO Susan Wojcicki and other executives were unable or unwilling to act on those warnings because they were too focused on increasing viewing time and engagement. More: - A YouTube spokeswoman said there are currently 10,000 employees who are focused on content issues across Google.
- YouTube recently replaced engagement with "responsible growth" as its core metric but hasn't explained publicly what that means.
- "We're really more like a library. There have always been controversies, if you look back at libraries," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said at SXSW.
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| JWR, Jane Philpott removed from Liberal caucus Posted: 02 Apr 2019 04:00 PM PDT | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has kicked both former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould and fellow ex-cabinet minister Jane Philpott out of the Liberal caucus.Trudeau made the announcement tonight after spending the day consulting by phone with caucus members about whether they wanted the pair to remain in the Liberal fold. HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018, we introduced a new Oath privacy policy which explains how your data is used and shared. Learn more.Follow HuffPost Canada on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
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| Why analysts are worried Posted: 02 Apr 2019 03:03 PM PDT Evening Briefing The recession is coming, the recession is coming! Everywhere you turn, a new set of tea leaves is being read to grim result. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't, but across trade, equities, currencies and interest rates, these are a few reasons why analysts are worried. —David E. Rovella Here are today's top storiesAn abrupt surge in Bitcoin sent the world's most popular cryptocurrency to the highest level since November. U.S. military planners once debated how to seize it, but the Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest conventional oil field, actually produces a lot less than almost anyone believed. It's come down to this: Prime Minister Theresa May has turned to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to break the Brexit deadlock and prevent the U.K. from crashing out of the European Union. The ex-chief financial officer of United Continental Holdings Inc. is betting that the U.S. airline industry needs another budget airline. People inside YouTube have raised concerns about the mass of false, incendiary and toxic content that the world's largest video site has surfaced and spread. They were told not to rock the boat. Instagram isn't just for brand campaigns and celebrity posts; it's also a place where people go to find illegal drugs. What's Joe Weisenthal thinking about? The Bloomberg news director says there's been good news this week, and maybe there's some more in store for the rest of the week. So deal with it and stop worrying about a recession. What you'll need to know tomorrow What you'll want to read in Bloomberg PursuitsAspen and Jackson Hole might be the first ski spots that come to mind when considering a vacation at a luxurious mountain resort. But if you're actually looking to buy a home and care about convenience as well as luxury, then we have got the right place for you.  Like Bloomberg's Evening Briefing? Subscribe to Bloomberg.com. You'll get our unmatched global news coverage and two premium daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close, and much, much more. See our limited-time introductory offer. Join Bloomberg's flagship tech event, Sooner Than You Think 2019, on June 11-12 in London. Learn and be inspired by the world's most influential tech leaders. View the website here and apply to attend. Download the Bloomberg app: It's available for iOS and Android. | |   |
| Stuck In The Middle Posted: 02 Apr 2019 02:40 PM PDT I read this Tenkar's Tavern post yesterday, but this is my first opportunity to respond. Yeah, the middlemen get squeezed. Those seeking neutral ground will eventually see themselves taking up less and less space. And that's a shame. Because politics shouldn't intrude on everything... especially a leisure pursuit like roleplaying games. To be clear, I'm also a moderate, a centrist, a classical liberal who'd rather not get involved in the culture wars of increasing polarization. But it wasn't so long ago that free speech, rationality, the rule of law, and focusing on gaming were nonpartisan issues that everyone could agree on. That is not what's happened over the last 3 or 4 years. Social media is everything and everything has been influenced (corrupted?) by politics. The more radical, the better... according to the loudest and least compromising among us. Any clearheaded person can see that Erik Tenkar contributes to the RPG HIC (Hobby/Industry/Community). And Pex, as Erik's mouthpiece, has every right to post links to whatever the Tavern is talking about at the moment. Those SJWs over on Discord can believe what they want... because they're creating a reality all their own. If Erik and Pex hadn't distanced themselves from me, I'd be there to fight alongside them. But instead, they chose to throw the baby out with the bathwater and are now being ostracized within certain segments of the HIC because not enough babies were thrown. Yes, also a subtle jab at post-birth abortions that's now part of mainstream Democrat policy! Hoist on their own petard. Sad, but not unexpected. Live together or die alone, as Lost so eloquently stated. Meanwhile, I'll be here patiently waiting for my apologies. Fighting the good fight. Designing games and doing my za'akier thing. Good luck to everyone who wants to stay on the sidelines, where it's "safe," and go about their business without getting involved. Eventually, you too will be swept up in the mob. Wake up before you suddenly find your head upon the guillotine of social justice! VS |
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| Theresa May drags Jeremy Corbyn into her Brexit mess Posted: 02 Apr 2019 01:42 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  Always Be Brexiting After repeated scorchings in parliament, it appears to be dawning on Theresa May that maybe she should stop putting her hand on that hot stove – although she still seems tempted. May's Brexit approach so far has been to try to jam her plan through with only the support of her own conservative party. But hard-line Brexiteers in her camp have stood in the way, Therese Raphael wrote earlier today, leading May to a series of embarrassing losses. Therese suggested May abandon this approach and look outside the Tory party for a broader consensus. Lo and behold, May kinda-sorta took her advice; this afternoon, she announced she wants Labour to help find a way forward. This is sort of a big deal, in the sense that it suddenly saddles Jeremy Corbyn with some responsibility for helping May out of her Brexit mess, Therese Raphael writes in a second column. But it is also not a big change, in that May still clings to control, and Corbyn probably has a very different agenda, which may or may not include a second referendum and certainly does include him taking May's job. For now, the stalemate lingers on, with the Brexit deadline fast approaching. Meanwhile, parliament will take more "indicative" votes on various Brexit alternatives, some of which have been more popular than May's dud of a plan, but none of which have won a majority. Therese suggests Corbyn could play the hero here by suggesting a change of voting rules to help parliament land on a solution. Leonid Bershidsky suggests it could try a thing called "cumulative" voting, in which lawmakers assign points to various options. But then that may require more creative thinking and pain-avoidance instincts than British politicians have shown so far. Always Be Repealing Obamacare President Donald Trump may have sought to avoid political pain by abruptly dropping a pledge to replace Obamacare before the 2020 election. But he has actually created a bigger mess for himself and for health care, writes Max Nisen. Vowing not to pursue an Affordable Care Act replacement until 2021, while also pushing a lawsuit that could blow up the ACA well before then, is reckless endangerment, Max writes. What's more, the replacement plan being kicked around would do away with Obamacare's most popular features, meaning Trump's capitulation doesn't even buy him political relief. Trump diving back into the health-care morass that sunk his party in 2018 is the latest example of how he loves to act unilaterally, blowing off advice from his administration and party, writes Jonathan Bernstein. Trump seems to think this makes him look strong, but these displays actually reveal his isolation and weakness, while also exposing him to more embarrassing losses, Jonathan writes. Further Health-Care Reading: Political pressure on drug prices is hurting pharmacy chains. – Max Nisen Fox Suggests New Rules for Henhouse Facebook Inc. has been caught in many of the most alarming tech developments in recent years, from data-privacy violations to election-hacking. It's besieged by calls to regulate and even break it up. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he takes criticism very seriously and recently proposed a set of new rules for Facebook and the rest of the Internet. You will probably not be shocked to learn that, as Bloomberg's editorial board points out, all of these rules benefit Facebook while hurting users and small competitors. Lethal Supreme Court Arguments In February, the Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of a Muslim who wanted an imam with him at his death. Less than two months later, the court basically reversed that decision, staying the execution of a Buddhist prisoner in similar circumstances. Many accused the court of hypocrisy, but Stephen Carter suggests we should cheer it for quickly coming to its senses and scoring a victory for freedom of religion. But maybe these are the wrong discussions for the Supreme Court to have. In another death-penalty case this week, the Supremes argued about whether one state's method of death would amount to torture for a sick prisoner. Such arguments, Noah Feldman writes, both ignore and legitimize the underlying horror of the death penalty itself. Telltale Charts Saudi Aramco lacks the natural-gas reserves to meet its own future demand, and finding them will be costly, writes David Fickling.  Big corporate owners are squeezing the market, keeping people from living the dream of home ownership, writes Noah Smith.  Further Reading Royal Dutch Shell Plc breaking publicly with an industry lobbyist over climate change is a big moment. – Liam Denning Populism and nationalism are tearing Europe's banking union apart. – Ferdinando Giugliano Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson shouldn't have settled over their blood-thinner Xarelto; it turned a losing case into a big payday for plaintiffs' lawyers. – Joe Nocera Netflix Inc. has ruled streaming-media for a long time, but serious challengers are coming. – Tara Lachapelle Fed policy makers seem too sanguine about recession risk. – Tim Duy Stephen Moore is a bad Fed pick for many reasons, but his lack of an economics Ph.D. isn't one of them. – Justin Fox Rammstein's bonkers new rock video, "Deutschland," sums up the mixed feelings Germans have about being German. – Leonid Bershidsky ICYMI Trump retreated from his border-shutdown threat. Bitcoin is good again, apparently. YouTube executives let toxic videos run rampant. Kickers Something on Mars is producing methane, a gas usually associated with life. Restoring natural forests may be the best way to remove atmospheric carbon. Need to avoid a bounty hunter? You probably can't. How "Blair Witch" invented modern movie marketing. Note: Please send bounties and complaints to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. New to Bloomberg Opinion Today? Sign up here and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. | |   |
| BREAKING NEWS: GOP Rep. Mark Walker entangled in federal corruption probe in North Carolina Posted: 02 Apr 2019 12:28 PM PDT Republican Rep. Mark Walker has been caught up in a federal corruption probe that has rocked the North Carolina Republican Party and led to the indictment of former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.). Walker received $150,000 from a business owner, Greg Lindberg, at the same time Lindberg asked him to pressure North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey to replace his deputy, according to an unsealed indictment released Tuesday. Walker, a member of GOP leadership, is not named in the indictment. However, POLITICO has identified him as "Public Official A" using the indictment and FEC records. Walker denied any wrongdoing in a brief interview. A spokesman emphasized that Walker has not been charged or indicted, and said that Walker has been fully cooperating with the probe. Read more here. To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings
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| News Alert: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika submits resignation, ending two-decade rule Posted: 02 Apr 2019 12:22 PM PDT The announcement, reported by the state press agency, followed weeks of massive protests. | |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | News Alert | Apr 2, 3:19 PM | | | | | | | |  |
| BREAKING NEWS: House Oversight Committee approves subpoena for probe into White House security clearances Posted: 02 Apr 2019 11:43 AM PDT The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted to authorize a subpoena in connection with an investigation into the White House security clearance process. In a party-line vote, the committee approved a subpoena for former White House Personnel Security Director Carl Kline to testify before the panel about his role in approving security clearances. The subpoena was authorized a day after the committee revealed that it interviewed a White House whistleblower who claimed that senior officials ignored national security concerns to approve security clearances for 25 individuals whose applications were initially denied. Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/house-oversight-committee-approves-subpoena-for-probe-into-white-house-security-clearances-1249332 To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings
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| Nuclear Issues Sharpen Focus on Saudi Relations (Henderson | The Hill) Posted: 02 Apr 2019 11:30 AM PDT NUCLEAR ISSUES SHARPEN FOCUS ON U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS by Simon Henderson The Hill
April 2, 2019 Those who favor helping the Saudis develop their nuclear industry are running up against skeptics who fear Riyadh cannot be trusted with such capabilities. READ THE FULL ARTICLE
A nuclear war is in prospect between Congress and the Trump administration. Saudi Arabia wants nuclear power plants for generating electricity and desalination. To access U.S. technology, Riyadh needs to sign a so-called 123 Agreement. There are powerful economic arguments why oil-rich countries like the kingdom need nuclear power. In Congress, however, there is a bipartisan belief—likely reinforced by intelligence briefings on the demise of Jamal Khashoggi—that the mercurial Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is not reliable... Simon Henderson is the Baker Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute.
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| How to Make Trump’s Peace Plan Work (Singh | NY Times) Posted: 02 Apr 2019 10:26 AM PDT HOW TO MAKE TRUMP'S ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE PLAN WORK by Michael Singh New York Times
April 2, 2019 Resuming conditional aid to the PA is the best way to bolster peace diplomacy, or help ensure stability if the process founders. READ THIS ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE
After two years of playing coy, the Trump administration is reportedly finally ready to unveil its plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The plan’s details remain confidential, but if it is anything like President Trump’s moves so far on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, it will be bold. Some of those steps have worked out far better than the president’s critics anticipated. Moving the United States’ embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, for example, failed to elicit the protests in the wider Arab world many predicted, even as Israelis celebrated it as correcting a historical injustice. Another of the administration’s bold strokes has been to all but eliminate the United States’ once-considerable aid to Palestinians. And while that has attracted far less attention than the embassy move, it is likely to prove more consequential for American and Israeli interests, and for the president’s hoped-for deal—and not for the better. Until recently, Palestinians were one of the largest recipients of American aid. Then, in August, the Trump administration announced it would not make about $300 million in payments due to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which provides schooling, housing and other services to those it designates as refugees in Gaza and elsewhere. Around the same time, the State Department also revealed that it was cutting about $230 million in other aid to the Palestinians, ending support for programs bringing together Palestinian and Israeli children and hospitals in East Jerusalem, among others. This left untouched only assistance to the Palestinian security forces, long popular with both Israeli and American security officials. Yet in October, Congress adopted and Mr. Trump signed legislation that would make the Palestinian Authority, in return for accepting this and any other assistance, subject to the jurisdiction of American courts. This prompted Palestinian officials at the end of last year to reject further aid. The Trump administration has good reasons to be frustrated with both the Palestinian leadership and aid organizations. UNRWA has long been accused of failing to adequately monitor its staff and the curriculum in schools that it runs for extremism, and of inflating the number of Palestinian refugees to perpetuate its mission. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority’s president, ordered contacts with the United States frozen after the embassy move and has refused to engage with American envoys regarding the Trump administration’s efforts to devise an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. The United States has made clear that the decisions on aid are meant to apply pressure on Mr. Abbas to return to the negotiating table—a goal consistent with longstanding American policy. Nevertheless, the elimination of American aid to the Palestinians is unlikely to achieve that goal. In fact, in the long run, it will probably undermine both American and Israeli interests. The Trump administration is right that American aid to the Palestinians provides Washington with leverage, but it is applying that leverage to the wrong end. Few observers believe that Mr. Abbas is interested in negotiating with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, having rebuffed their less conservative predecessors, or, even if negotiations resumed, that a peace deal could be reached at this time. Yet aid can be leveraged to advance American aims in other ways. Past administrations have used it to strengthen the authority of Palestinian officials who favor peace and to deter the Palestinian Authority from pursuing Israel at the United Nations and in international courts. Congress has sought through the Taylor Force Act to compel the Palestinian Authority to cease the reprehensible practice of paying the families of terrorists, by reducing aid to the Palestinians by an amount equal to what the Palestinian Authority pays to families of prisoners and accused terrorists. And many supporters of Israel would have liked to see American funding for UNRWA used to compel the organization to reform. These goals have been undermined by the elimination of aid. You can’t tie strings to assistance that has already been cut. Aid is not just about dollars, but about engagement that confers influence. Aid programs bring American officials into contact with a wide swath of Palestinian society, which can help ensure that American influence outlasts the current leadership of the Palestinian Authority. It would be rash to assume that the vacuum left by the United States will not be filled by others, such as Russia, whose agenda in the region diverges sharply from Washington’s. Finally, American aid has been a stabilizing influence in both the West Bank and Gaza. Many USAID programs began in the aftermath of the Second Intifada and were designed to prevent a return to such turbulence. Over the past 15 years, security assistance programs have helped build Palestinian security forces to supplant the semiofficial militias that fueled violence during the Second Intifada. These Palestinian security forces have effectively coordinated with the Israeli Army to combat terrorism in the West Bank. By curtailing violence, raising standards of living and keeping children in school, American assistance has contributed to a long period of relative calm, if not peace. It is for this reason that Israeli officials have for years quietly supported its continuation. Anyone who supports Israeli-Palestinian peace should hope for the success of Mr. Trump’s plan. But peace will ultimately require more than the agreement of leaders. It will require a Palestinian security force that can fend off those determined to use violence to derail peace efforts, and a civil society that can ensure that peace is not just a top-down proposition. Aid to the Palestinians—conditional and coordinated with Israel—should be a part of American policy. It could not only help President Trump’s plan succeed but also ensure stability if peace efforts founder. Michael Singh is the Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and managing director at The Washington Institute.
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| Most Social: 'Inside Edition' host Deborah Norville to undergo cancer surgery after viewer spotted lump Posted: 02 Apr 2019 10:01 AM PDT | Deborah Norville is used to having her looks scrutinized as a television personality, but one comment from a concerned viewer proved to be a life-saver. | |    |
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| Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Strategy in Yemen Posted: 02 Apr 2019 08:10 AM PDT | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | | | | Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | April 02, 2019 Saudi Arabia's aid and reconstruction initiatives in Yemen aim to secure the kingdom's influence there in the long term. | | | | | | |   |
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