According to new reports, every major news network plans to televise President Trump’s first address from the Oval Office Tuesday night. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox News and Fox Business all plan to air Trump’s address focusing on border security.“ABC, NBC, MSNBC taking, too. So trump will have a primetime platform across broadcast and cable tomorrow night to push the idea of a “crisis” at the southern border,” Politico media reporter Michael Calderone said in a tweet. CSPAN will also televise the address. President Trump said in a tweet Monday that he wanted to talk to the nation about “the humanitarian and national security crisis on our Southern Border.” The president is also planning to visit the Southern border later this week. Breitbart News previously reported that many television networks were debating whether or not to show Trump’s address, as they worried he might use the opportunity to spread “lies” … [Read more...] about Every Major News Network to Broadcast Trump’s Oval Office Address on Border Security
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A top cardinal’s sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can’t report it there
Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post Published 2:08 pm PST, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Cardinal George Pell leaves the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on March 5, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Cardinal Pell was charged on summons by Victoria Police on 29 June 2017 over multiple allegations of sexual assault. Cardinal Pell is Australia's highest ranking Catholic and the third most senior Catholic at the Vatican, where he was responsible for the church's finances. Cardinal Pell has leave from his Vatican position while he defends the charges. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images) less Cardinal George Pell leaves the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on March 5, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Cardinal Pell was charged on summons by Victoria Police on 29 June 2017 over multiple allegations of sexual ... more Photo: Michael Dodge, Getty Images … [Read more...] about A top cardinal’s sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can’t report it there
The Energy 202: Trump administration’s release of a climate report on Black Friday didn’t bury the news
Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post Published 7:50 am PST, Monday, November 26, 2018 The Trump administration did something over the long holiday weekend it has rarely done for most of the president's tenure. It actually acknowledged global climate change is real and its effects on the United States both now and in the future are dire. But Friday's release of the congressionally mandated report was stuffed into the middle of a Thanksgiving weekend on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. As The Washington Post reported: "Several people involved in the report said its release originally had been planned for early December, but after a behind-the-scenes debate in recent weeks about when to make it public, administration officials settled on Black Friday." If the intent of that publication date was to keep the climate report out of public view, the plan did not quite work. Major news organizations still featured the report prominently in print and over the airwaves, … [Read more...] about The Energy 202: Trump administration’s release of a climate report on Black Friday didn’t bury the news
Major news: A record number of women were elected to the House
Democratic candidates enjoyed strong support from LGBT voters nationwide on Tuesday, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. Roughly four out of five LGBT voters reported casting a ballot for their district’s Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives. The exit poll also found LGBT voters supporting Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates in strong numbers. Since the 1990s, exit polls have found large majorities of LGBT voters supporting Democratic presidential candidates as well as the party’s candidates for Congress. The exit poll also found LGBT voters expressing strong concerns about the direction of the country under President Donald Trump. About eight in 10 LGBT voters said things in the country were on the wrong track, and just one in 10 said they cast their House vote to express support for Trump. … [Read more...] about Major news: A record number of women were elected to the House
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Most of all, I am disoriented by the speed at which major news events pass into the rearview mirror in contemporary America. Last week a man was alleged to have mailed in letters to the Pentagon containing the raw material for the ricin poison. No one seems to have been harmed, but if this had happened in, say, 2003, it would have been a major news story for weeks or months. Now I type “ricin” into Google and the top news results are a week old. There hasn’t been much coverage lately, nor have the 200-plus people in my Twitter feed been talking about it. You might think this is because President Donald Trump is commanding all the attention, but even Trump-related stories often pass from view quickly. The New York Times published 15,000 words, taking up an entire section of the physical newspaper, documenting alleged tax fraud by Trump and his associated businesses (partial summary here). In earlier times such a story might have prompted impeachment proceedings or a … [Read more...] about Go ahead, forget the news