Monday, September 30, 2024

The death of corporate media has been widely misreported

In 2024, we're yet again constantly being told that corporate media is over, on the ropes, dead or dying.  We've heard the lie before.  Part of the reason is keeps getting repeated is because people don't understand the difference between reporting and commentary and they don't understand the difference between a news program and a talk show. There's so much that is misunderstood.  Last week's claims of reporting and censorship only made that more evident. 


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Ken Klippenstein is a journalist who has published with a variety of outlets including THE NATION, THE INTERCEPT, SALON and THE DAILY BEAST. Senator  JD Vance is Miss Sassy, Donald Trump's charisma-free running mate. 


Though it defies logic, the Trump campaign did vet JD Vance before Donald made him his running mate.  And the proof of that has been the report the campaign prepared.  That report has been offered to some news outlets who declined to cover it.  There is an allegation that the material may have been hacked.  Whether it was hacked or not, it is information of value to the public.  Vance could end up Vice President of the United States as a result of the November election -- early voting has already started in some states.  


Ken published the report on his SUBSTACK.  Uber creep and Donald Trump groupie Elon Musk immediately banned Klippenstein on TWITTER (X?  We don't work for Elon, we'll call it what the people still call it: TWITTER.  You 'new Coke' whores keep swinging that ass for Elon.)

 

And a back-and-forth has ensued that pretends this is a journalistic battle of the biggest form.

 

We disagree.  

 

Like Matt Taibbi's TWITTER FILES 'reports,' there's no reporting being done here.   We called Matt's work "The Twitter Dumps" and that's what Ken has done.

 

Reporting is not releasing documents.  Releasing documents is releasing documents.


We applaud the releasing of documents -- The Pentagon Papers, WIKILEAKS' work, etc.


But we don't confuse that with journalism.


That Ken does makes him appear more than a little out of touch.  


271.  That's the amount of pages -- that's how long the leaked report is.  In what world do most Americans have time to wade through 271 pages.  We did.  It meant losing sleep time.


Reporting could have been done on the 271-pages.


We'd argue that what emerges is that JD Vance is an angry, little boy who's never grown up and feels he'll never become a man because of Daddy issues related to his father abandoning him.  He goes around looking for a Daddy and he has no scope or prism by which to examine any issue beyond his own limited personal view.  He can't relate to others or understand them unless they share his grievances and immaturity.  He clearly needs help.

 

We say that as two who trudged through every page -- including the page where his September 1, 2006 speeding ticket is reproduced.  The ticket, of course, wasn't issued to "JD Vance."  It wasn't issued under his birth name  James Donald Bowman.  It was issued under his first legal name change name James D. Hall.  He would have another name change in 2013 -- around the age of 29  -- when he became JD Vance.


Who changes their legal name twice?  Once, okay, but going to court to get a third name?  That really goes to his inability to be consistent.  His name, like his political positions, are all over the map.


As debate prep for Tim Walz, publishing the 271 pages might have some value.  They demonstrate how hollow Vance is and how he'll do or say anything  America doesn't know JD Vance. 


That is the take way from the 271 pages -- and JD Vance doesn't know JD Vance.  He's forever changing and remaking himself, forever looking for a daddy figure to guide him.


He's forty-years-old and, if Donald's elected, he could be president because Donald's so old and so very fat that he could easily die in the next two years from a massive heart attack.  


Tim might wonder in Tuesday's debate whether, for example, he was standing onstage with the JD that supported the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-se marriage or he was standing on stage with the 2020 JD that had a hissy fit over basic workplace protections that prevented someone from being fired for being gay?


Corporate media refused to release the report or cover it because, some claim, it might have been hacked and it might have been from Iran (the hack might have been done by an Iranian citizen acting alone or by the Iranian government).  

 

While that may indeed be a reason given, we'd argue the larger issue is that they take the position that they've already covered it.

 

Vetting Vance, for any who don't know, is research that the campaign did on JD.  They vetted others as well.  Marco Rubio, for example, was vetted as well.  (His file has not leaked at present.)  But, at that Mother Tucker Carlson's urging, Donald went with JD.  Whack job Tucker insisted that the 'deep state' would assassinate Trump if he picked Rubio because they'd want Marco to be president.  


Remember, kids, when you need the polling on the deep-state go to Mother Tucker, he's the inside man.


We'll come back to Tucker.


How can the media claim that they've already reported on the 271 pages?  Because it's largely their reporting.  It's statements that Vance made to the media, it's statements from pieces that Vance wrote for the media.  It's also his traffic record (public information), his basic school records (public information), etc 

 

If Ken were to do journalism on the 271 pages, he could pick any issue and report on the changing positions that Vance has held in his 20 or so adult years.  He could do that on any issue.  He could do that on many issues.  He hasn't done that though he has published that TWITTER deactivated his account and then he shared a communication informing him that this was permanent -- he was permanently banned from TWITTER.  He's shared that FACEBOOK and GOOGLE have also banned links to the 271 page report but they have not banned Ken himself.


We repeatedly castigated Matt Taibbi for claiming Tweets were reporting.  They are not.  Nor is publishing a 271-page report.  There's an argument that can be made insisting it was journalism and we wouldn't quibble with that.  But publishing a 271-page report is, in and of itself, not reporting.


Should the 271-page now published report be banned?  No.  There's no reason to ban it or to ban Ken.  The bulk of it is a collection of quotes from publications like THE WASHINGTON POST.  


Elon Musk and his whores insist that privacy was violated.  How so?  They insist that Miss Sassy's phone number and address were published.  


So what?


He can change his number at any time and probably already changes it regularly.  As for his address?  It is true that, in the 20th century in the pre-mobile days, you could get an unlisted phone number.  You've never been allowed an unlisted house -- unless maybe you're in the witness relocation program.  Property records are public information.  His address is not a secret and that became very obvious in August when his neighbors began complaining to the press -- see THE WASHINGTONIAN ("On Saturday night, a few dozen people who live in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood gathered at Judy Lowe Neighborhood Park to bid it goodbye. The city of Alexandria had announced that the park, which abuts US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s house, would be closed “until further notice” due to a request from the US Secret "), THE INDEPENDENT, THE DAILY BEAST, THE US SUN, THE TIMES OF INDIA, CLEVELAND.COM, WASHINGTON DC's FOX 5, THE DENVER GAZETTE, THE IRISH STAR, THE LAS VEGAS JOURNAL-REVIEW . . . Again, property tax records are not secret and JD's neighborhood was in the news all around the world in August. 


Such an idiotic claim falls apart under scrutiny.

 

Did Elon Musk carry out censorship?  Yes, he did.  There's no question that he did.  And he's a Trump-Vance supporter and that's why he did it.  He deserves to be called out.

 

So do the whores supporting Elon.  Especially one whore: Matt Taibbi.

 

Tabbi has called for Ken to be reinstated on Twitter.  However, he's gone to great  pains to lie that this is not the same thing as when TWITTER previously censored the Hunter Biden laptop.  He's tried to say  that the difference is private information.  That wasn't private information.  An e-mail from Jill Biden to Hunter on his laptop was private information (and most outlets have presumably avoided reporting on it for that reason), the photos of Hunter and others nude would be private information.

 

There was no private information in what Ken published.

 

But most damning of Matt's claims is this, "No, it’s not the same, unless the FBI had a hand in getting him suspended."  It's 2024 and Matt's a deeply stupid person.  But does anyone not see the problem with that statement?  


Matt claims his TWITTER FILES reporting blew the lid off it all, showed government attempts to suppress the story.


Okay, let's say that's true.  That's 2023.  


Go back to 2020.  What will you find?  Matt stating it's censorship.  And that was before Matt's supposed proof emerged in 2023.


Matt's a lying hypocrite.  So is Glenn Greenwald and if someone wants to go there you could especially pay attention to his GUARDIAN work but we don't have time for him.


Tucker?  


The increasingly deranged personality (he was never a reporter and even 'journalist' is a stretch) has told us that corporate media -- legacy media, whatever you want to call it -- is dying.  He's apparently thinks he's the rebirth but we'd argue he's the afterbirth. 


We bring that up because Glenneth Greenwald makes the same claim as does Megyn Kelly and, last week, Don Lemon started making the rounds as he made the same claim.


So for how long now?  Four years at least, these grifters have insisted that they are the new (and improved) media.  What story have they broken?  They haven't.  They've done no reporting that benefited American public interest. 


They've had all these years to produce something of value and they've produced nothing.  They do their lousy talk shows where they go on and on about what someone else published -- amplifying the research and work done by others -- and then they do interviews with their friends.  And they try to pass this crap off as reporting and their talk shows as 'news' when, not only are they not news, they don't even qualify as public interest programs.


Saturday, we got some good news.  It came to the inbox from RUMBLE of all people and it was entitled "Did The Alleged Assassin Have Intel on Trump?"

 

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Get it?  Get why that's good news?


Glenneth was a failure in corporate media, Tucker was such a failure he was publicly fired, Megyn failed everywhere.  They don't do reporting and never really did.  They did commentary.  But they claim big media, corporate media, whatever you want to call it is failing and that they are the future -- not just the future, actually, they claim that they are the present.  But not one of them makes RUMBLE's top five content creators despite having repeatedly attempted to lure people to RUMBLE nor have any of their clips last week made it into the top five.


They're failures.  The were failures in the corporate media and now they're failures on right-wing RUMBLE. 



 

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Truest statement of the week

Her presence at the convention predictably elicited some racist responses, and I expected a robust defense from her husband, who instead was tepid at best: “Obviously, she’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that … but I just, I love Usha.” It harked back to the simpering, kiss-the-ring spinelessness of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz after Donald Trump called his wife ugly.

I can’t help but wonder about Usha Vance’s reaction each time her husband’s campaign churns out a fresh wave of racism. How did she react after Trump’s grotesque comment about Kamala Harris only recently deciding she was Black? Did she think of her own three biracial children? Did it give her pause at all about who she was standing with and what she was standing by? I alternate between thinking of her as a victim and as an accomplice.

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio joined Trump at a memorial event this month, and one of the former president’s invited guests was the loathsome 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who recently stated that if Harris wins, “The White House will smell like curry.” This was so blatant that even Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called it “extremely racist.” How did the senator respond when asked about it on the Sunday morning talk circuit? He hedged and meandered with a “I make a mean chicken curry” until when pressed, he finally said, “I don’t like those comments.”

As an Indian American woman, I can only imagine that Usha Vance doesn’t like those comments either.


--  Dipti S. Barot, "Opinion: How can Usha Vance stand by her husband as he fans bigotry?" (THE LOS ANGELES TIMES). 



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Tuesday. 



Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen, 
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

 

And what did we come up with? 

 

A powerful column, use the link to read in full.


Ava and C.I. never disappoint.  Here they take on two things that never get better but always get worse.

 

Short feature and we dug into the visual archives for the illustration.

Marcia talks about a book she loved.

 

Yes, Junior is cheating on his wife and it's not just with that reporter.

Notable deaths this year.

What we've reviewed in the community.

Reposting Marcia's review.

Reposting Kat's review/report regarding Cher's new album.

So Donald Trump basically pays Jill Stein and her supporters so they won't call him out.

 

What we listened to while working on this edition.

 Mike and the gang pulled that together and we thank them for it.


And we are late this week.  Mike  and Elaine went to Texas to campaign for Colin Allred (running for the US Senate and Texas needs him), while Dona and me (Jim) went to Ohio with Jess to campaign for Kamala Harris, Ty and Kat and Wally went to Washington state, Betty and Ava and C.I. went to Georgia to campaign and it was a very busy weekend so we had nothing on Sunday.  Maybe it'll be different this weekend.


If not, that's fine.  Our focus is on saving democracy and the only way that's happening is electing Kamala Harris.

 

Peace.

 

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

 

 

 

Media: Broadcast TV and Jill Stein -- two things that always fail to deliver

Fall TV is like a Jill Stein campaign, it always promises so much but in the end delivers so little.

 

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This fall broadcast networks will start rolling out their new episodes from now through third week of October.  Once upon a time, this all happened in September.  And they wonder where the audience goes?


Since 2010, broadcast networks have bled viewers and done nothing except flap their gums.  For example, what broadcast TV scripted show did you watch new episodes of over the summer?  Remember the announcements that streaming meant the networks would now be offering year-round programming to address the loss of viewers?  And what summer programming, scripted, did you watch on the network TV this year?


None.


Because they offered none.


You may remember when they briefly rallied and offered new shows during the summer like Halle Berry's EXTANT.  They were going to combat losses to streaming, they insisted, by programming year round.  That now translates as "We'll take a low rated game show we do in the daytime, toss some celebrities on it and air it in prime time."  And as late as 2011, they still programmed occasionally for Saturday night.  2011 being an important year -- that's the last year before NETFLIX offered its first streaming show (LILYHAMMER).  They've long since given up on new scripted programming and, worse, they've dropped Friday as well -- unless you're CBS or one hour of programming on NBC (LOPEZ V LOPEZ and Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman's HAPPY PLACE).  

 

There are also less broadcast choices then there were in 2011.  For example, THE CW is not a network.  You're not a network when this fall you will only offer one scripted show: SUPERMAN & LOIS.  That's it.  Everything else in prime time?  Repeats of ABC's THE CONNERS, repeats from Canadian and British television, repeats of their own PENN & TELLER FOOL US, repeats of shows you can stream on YOUTUBE . . .  On Fridays, they're offering WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?  That's the show that they never wanted and every few years threaten to cancel but delivers ratings and is cheap to make since it's an improv show. 

 

Let's make sure everyone grasps that: The network that was the home to SUPERNATURAL, THE ORIGINALS, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, ARROW, SUPERGIRL, THE FLASH, BATWOMAN, GOSSIP GIRL, ONE TREE HILL, NIKITA, BEAUTY & THE BEAST, HART OF DIXIE, JANE THE VIRGIN, THE 100, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW and many more is this fall offering one scripted program with new episodes: SUPERMAN & LOIS.

 

Last June, NBC announced that LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS was losing its house band in a cost cutting measure and then this month, another cost-cutting measure, NBC was reducing THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON to just four nights a week.

 

They claim that they are losing viewers to streaming and the reality is that they are pushing viewers away.  They claim that people only want to watch a la carte -- streaming a show when you want to which they insist is costing them viewers.  That really doesn't explain the TIVO and other Cloud programs that let you record a TV program and watch it when you want (and, if you do so within seven days after it aired, you're added to the show's ratings).   Nor does it explain the growth in live TV streamers who make PLUTO and FREEVEE TV and others outlets streaming TV programs such a big hit.

 

And you can't talk things that don't make sense without talking Stein.


The perennial presidential candidate is at it again.  

 

She gets more and more disappointing with each run but one difference this go round?  She's having to face a little bit of accountability.  The week before last, Angela Rye  asked her real questions and held her accountable in an interview.  Then last week Mehdi Hasan performed the same feat.  


What is a War Criminal?  Stein says Benjamin Netanyahu is which Medhi agreed with.  But did Stein believe that Bashar al-Assad of Syria is a War Criminal?  Does she think Russia's Vladimir Putin is a War Criminal?

 

Jill Stein hemmed and hawwed while Mehdi asked her to answer the yes-or-no question.  And she flubbed it over and over.  At one point she tried to turn it on him and he pointed out that he could answer and did answer but that he wasn't the one running for president.  

 

She offered that she had said Putin was a War Criminal "in so many words."


In so many words?


What does that mean?


It means she couldn't let go of her hypocrisy.  


Instead, she tried another tactic and began insisting that if she became President of the United States in this election, she would have difficulty conducting talks with Putin if she'd called him a War Criminal.  Mehdi immediately asked her how she planned then to have talks with Netanyahu if she were president since she repeatedly calls him a War Criminal.  Then she tried to say that there was no arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Putin.  But, as Mehdi pointed out, yes, the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin.


And it didn't just happen.  The ICC issued that arrest warrant in March of 2023.


She's running to be the President of the United States -- for the third time! -- and she doesn't know this?  It's not like Mehdi brought up the issue of arrest warrants.  She's the one who brought that topic up in an attempt to defend herself and she didn't even know what she was talking about. 


Mehdi's interview and Angela's the week before really just underscored what a lazy and incompetent media we have in the US.  Third time.  This is Jill Stein's third time running for president and it's the first time she's ever been challenged in an interview.  For her two previous campaigns, the media has treated her like a child with a terminal disease in a Make A Wish program whose dream was to run for president. She has gotten one pass after another.


Her cult couldn't handle her being challenged.  They trashed Angela and Mehdi for not just sitting across from Stein and fawning over her.  


The howls and hisses coming from her cult was something to witness.  Or seemed that way until things got even worse.  As she slowly grasped just how idiotic she had come out, she took to TWITTER with a Tweet insisting she hadn't been allowed to respond in a "nuanced and serious" manner but now, on TWITTER where nuance and seriousness are all the rage, she wanted to say that, yes, Putin was a War Criminal and here's a list of others.  


And then the breast beating, garment rending and howling truly began.

 

The crazies really came out as Kyle noted in a SECULAR TALK segment.

 

 He missed noting some important crazies.  Maybe he was trying to be kind?  Maybe the amount of crazies was just so high that many had to be excluded.


You can't exclude one person.


 
It is unfortunate that elements in the Stein campaign have confused Jill's consistent anti-imperialism by attempting to play to the middle with the condemnation of the empire's favorite enemies. International criminality is coming from one source - the "collective West."


And that Tweet was coming from one source -- the 'collective Idiot.'


Ajamu Baraka Tweeted that.  He took time out of his never-ending research on what 'really' brought down The Twin Towers to Tweet:


It is unfortunate that elements in the Stein campaign have confused Jill's consistent anti-imperialism by attempting to play to the middle with the condemnation of the empire's favorite enemies. International criminality is coming from one source - the "collective West."


Ajamu Baraka, for any who don't know, was Jill's running mate the last time she ran for president.


Apparently what we and so many others saw as a Tweet put out by Jill Stein was actually a 'controlled demolition' carried out by others meant to bring down the campaign of Jill Stein.


We don't need a government created commission to look into the matter of whether or not Ajamu is certifiable.  No, we think the evidence on that is scattered all around and not across some open field but right there on his TWITTER feed for all to see.  And to see his fellow Truthers like PACIFICA's Ann Garrion wanting to know "who wrote statement?"  


Apparently, neither Ann nor Ajamu feel that Jill could have written the statement -- either because they think she's too stupid to write or because they believe she's such a push over that you can get her to put her name to anything.  


It's bad when people see you that way -- but it's really, really bad when one of the people seeing you like that is your former running mate.

 

Like we said at the top, a Jill Stein campaign always starts promising so much and always ends delivering very little.  While you grasp that, also grasp that for two previous runs our  so-called media refused to challenge her and offered fluff that they pretended was journalism.


 

Pathetic Idiot

 

Pathetic idiot of the week and/or year?

Try the Log Cabin Republicans who are working so hard to be in MAGA's good graces.  One candidate after another attacks them as filth -- Mark Robinson is only one example -- and they just whimper and take it.   You may remember that they tried to portray a visiting 'dignitary' as proof of their acceptance within MAGA.   Squint-eyed Melania Trump showed up in April to speak to them and it was though they were touched by her porcelana smeared hand.  
 


But it turns out that the arrangement was a bit like her marriage, they fork over the cash and she will show up.

Daniel Hampton (RAW STORY) reveals the amount of money the Log Cabin Republicans had to pay to get her to show: $237,000.  


Good thing it was an election year and Trump needs their votes; otherwise, Melanie might have really soaked them.
 
 
 

Book Talk (Marcia, Ava and C.I.)

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As we did in 2021 and 2023, we're attempting to again increase book coverage in the community. This go round, we're talking to Marcia about her review "California Dreamin': The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas."  That's Mama Michelle Phillips' memoir about her time in the classic and legendary rock group.  You liked the book.



Marcia: Correct. I loved it.  So there was a band in the sixties called the Mamas and the Papas and they were huge.  It was Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty and John Phillips.  Michelle and John were married.  In the 80s, they both published books.  PAPA JOHN is insufferable and boring.  That's his book -- you can ask my wife about it.  Michelle's book was a joy to read full of funny moments and serious moments.  She also had recall of specific events whereas -- maybe it was all the drugs he did and then ended up selling in the 70s and early 80s -- John honestly didn't seem to remember much of anything.  At all.


What were the best parts for you?

Marcia: Cass.  Cass really comes alive in Michelle's book.  I greatly enjoyed Owen Vanessa Elliot's MY MAMA, CASS: A MEMOIR.  It was a very moving book. [See Kat's "MY MAMA, CASS" for a review of Owen's book.]  But Cass died when Owen was so young.  There are a lot of great stories in Michelle's book that reminds you how great Cass was -- as a singer, as a strong woman, as an artist and a mom to young Owen.  Michelle got to know Cass as a friend and a peer.  Michelle does a great job with portraits. My wife said, of the two books, that she didn't get the impression from John's book that he ever spent much time thinking about anyone but himself.  


A part that made you laugh?
 

Marcia: They would turn the plane upside down.  They traveled to concerts in a plane.  Private.  The pilot would flip it upside down and they'd float and be weightless.  I loved on the island where the four begin to sing together.  I just loved so much of it.  My wife said Michelle's book was more cinematic and really should have been turned into a film.  And let's talk what I did not know.  The book notes that "Monday Monday" was a number one hit and the band's only number one hit.  But that's not really true?

 
No, it's not.
 

Marcia: You, C.I., told me that they had another number one hit and, in fact, you could argue that number one was more important.  "California Dreamin'," written by John and Michelle Phillips, only made it to number four on the weekly top 40 -- anyone remember Kasey Kasum?  "The weekly top 40."  But it's a bigger hit than "Monday Monday."  And I should have gotten that because "Monday Monday" is a gold record -- which is good -- but "California Dreamin'" is a triple platinum seller.  How did that happen?  Because it was the bigger hit.  Though "California Dreamin'" never made it above number four during the weeks of 1966, it ended up being, at the end of the year, the number one song on the Billboard charts.  Number one for the year.  Biggest hit of the year.  So, yeah, I agree with you, "California Dreamin'" needs to be called a number one hit.  
 

What's your favorite Mamas and Papas song?

Marcia: I love them all but I especially love "Dedicated To The One I Love."  I bought my first album of the Mamas and the Papas because of that song.  Michelle Phillips had just come on KNOTS LANDING as Ann -- Paige's mother and Mac's old girlfriend -- and they'd play that song for her scenes.  I loved that song and my parents told me -- this was pre-internet days, you had to have someone tell you, that it was a Mamas and Papas hit song.  So went out and got the cassette called something like 16 OF THEIR GREATEST HITS.  So "Dedicated" is one of my favorites.  I love everything on that album.  After "Dedicated," my favorite song would be "Safe In My Garden."  Third would be "Got A Feelin'."  I love everything on THE PAPAS AND THE MAMAS and I love "Dancing Bear" and "Snow Queen of Texas" and "I Wanna Be  A Star" and "Creeque Alley" and all of it.  I just love them.  They were such a great group.  And I recommend Michelle's book CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'.


 

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Previous book discussions: 

 

"Books (Dona, Ava and C.I.)"

 "Books (Jess, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Ty, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Stan, Rebecca, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Trina, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Kat, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Ruth, Jim, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Ty, Ava and C.I.)

 "Books (Kat, Ava and C.I.)"

"Books (Ann, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Stan, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Dona, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Ty, Ava and C.I.)

 "Book Talk (Mike, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Stan, Rebecca, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Mike, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Ann, Marcia, Trina, Ava and C.I.)"

"Book Talk (Elaine, Ava and C.I.)

"Books (Marcia, Rebecca, Ava and C.I.)"

 "Book Talk (Kat, Ava and C.I.)"

 

Silly Junior, the truth always comes out

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Last week, it was news for some that Robert Kennedy Junior was cheating on his wife Cheryl Hines.  To some.  Madeline Berg (BUSINESS INSIDER) reports:


It turns out that the relationship between journalist Olivia Nuzzi and former presidential candidate, whale decapitator, and her one-time subject and source, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wasn't exactly kept as quiet as the pair — or at least Nuzzi — likely hoped.

Since news of the affair and Nuzzi's suspension from New York Magazine came out on Thursday night, it's spawned dozens of reports and countless tweets. But apparently, it had already been a topic of conversation among certain circles.

Following the initial news, The Daily Beast reported that the relationship between the star reporter, 31, and the Kennedy scion, 70, had been somewhat of an open secret. On Sunday night, Semafor's Ben Smith wrote that the outlet had also gotten a tip about the scandal, one which the outlet chose to ignore, given it came from an anonymous sender who did not provide any other detail.

Kennedy's bragging to friends about having a romantic affair with and receiving NSFW — but "demure" — photos from the journalist nearly 40 years his younger is what tipped off her boss, New York Magazine's editor in chief David Haskell, to the relationship, the Daily Beast reported. Nuzzi initially denied the affair, the Daily Beast added, though that clearly didn't hold up with whatever evidence Haskell had.





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Illustration is Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "He Eats Dog"

2024 passings

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1) "bad news (settlers shot a child in the back and adan canto has died)" -- Rebecca covers the passing of THE CLEANING LADY and DESIGNATED SURVIVOR star.

 

 2 and 3) "David Soul and Glynis Johns have passed" -- two passings -- one you knew from STARSKY & HUTCH, the other you knew from MARY POPPINS.


4) "Mary Weiss, The Leader of the Genre?" -- Elaine notes the passing of the leader of The Shangri-Las. 


5) "The death of Norman Jewison and the death of Taraji P. Henson's career" -- Stan notes the passing of film director Norman Jewison.

 

 6) "Melanie: Queen of the Music festivals ," "Thank you to Melanie (Jess)," "Jon Stewart to return to the desk," "Melanie, REACHER, young voters," "When are they going to arrest Kari Lake?," "We lose Melanie and Dexter King but are still stuck with Jonathan Turley?," "my top five melanie albums," "Ugly Chaya Chachi Ratchik," "Where's Florida's "Don't Say Southern Baptist" law?," and "Melanie, Mary Weiss, Green Day" -- remembering singer-songwriter Melanie.


7) "Norman Jewison and Melanie" -- Ruth notes Melanie and director Norman Jewison's passing. 


8) "Chita Rivera" -- a trailblazer's life is noted by Elaine.  


9) "Carl Weathers" -- Stan covers the actor and the athlete's passing.

 

10) "Richard Lewis" --  Ruth notes the passing of a stand up comic and actor.

 

11)  "Eric Carmen" -- Kat notes the passing of a singer-songwriter.

 

12)  "Louis Gossett Jr." -- Stan notes a passing of a breakthrough and Academy Award winning actor.

 

13) "I do Barbara Rush" -- Betty notes a passing of a golden age actress.

 

14) "Joe Flaherty" -- Stan notes a passing of a comic actor. 


15) "Robert MacNeil" -- Ruth notes a passing of a news anchor.

 

 16)  "meg bennett" -- Rebecca notes that passing of an actress and writer.

 

17) "David Sanborn" -- Kat notes the passing of a saxophone legend.

 

18) "Dabney Coleman" -- Stan notes a character actor who became a star.

 

19) "Charlie Colin" -- Kat notes the passing of an alternative rocker.

 

20)  "morgan spurlock, demi moore" -- Rebecca notes the passing of a filmmaker.

 

 21) "Rev. James Lawson" -- Ann notes the passing of a pioneer.

 

22) "Donald Sutherland" -- Stan notes the passing of a true original. 


23) "The media is full of liars" -- Ann notes the passing of Martin Mull and how the media had to fudge the truth.


24) "Robert Towne" -- Stan notes a passing.

 

25) "Media: Reality versus the lies the media loves to spread" -- Ava and C.I. note Dr Ruth's passing -- and the reality of her so-called 'ally' status.

 

26)   "shannen doherty" -- Rebecca notes the passing of the TV actress.

 

27) "Bob Newhart" -- Marcia notes the passing of the TV sitcom star.

 

28) "Richard Simmons" -- Ruth notes the passing of the fitness guru.

 

29)  "Obituaries -- thoughts on Sheila Jackson Lee and others" -- Elaine notes the passing of Sheila Jackson Lee -- exposed as a crook in Greg Palast's THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY -- and why we cover the deaths we cover.

 

30) ''Gena Rowlands" -- Stan notes the passing of a legendary actress.

 

31)  "Taco Spaghetti in the Kitchen" -- Trina notes the passing of game show host Peter Marshall. 

 

32) "Donahue" -- Kat notes a passing of a daytime TV pioneer.

 

33) "James Darren" -- Kat notes the passing of an actor and singer. 


34) "Weekend Box Office and James Earl Jones has passed" -- Stan notes James Earl Jones' passing.

 

35)  "Martha Stewart, Taylor Swift, Tito Jackson" -- Kat notes Tito Jackson's passing.

 

 

 

 

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