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"Debt. Looking especially at for profit campuses. Charmin helped craft new policies as a senior Education department official in the first years of the Obama administration. Yet for our purposes, Sharman is less of interest as a policymaker than as a punching bag every Six or 12 months. Uh, somebody, usually somebody, probably in the for profit college industry decides to resuscitate these old tired claims. The colleges and their allies have used The Wall Street Journal article to shred Charming's reputation for years. He says it's caused deep stress and wasted time. Charmin has been accused of corruption by pro industry websites, Conservative opinion pages, The Wall Street Journal, even liberal groups with financial ties to an industry leader, and they look for ways that they can try to smear me and they find this article and and they cited as evidence of something even though there's nothing to it in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department was investigating Charman for violating a policy prohibiting communications with his former employer. And that much was true. The article went further, though the Journal implied he might have been involved in insider trading, giving secret information to an investor who could have made money off it. A federal inspector general's report had already determined he had not The Journal didn't report that The inspector general had found his emails with his former employer were innocuous. The Journal didn't report that either. The Justice Department investigation went nowhere. But the attacks kept coming, including one in April from Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who cautioned a former colleague of Sharman's Finally I want to carefully point out You're close proximity to potentially unethical conduct at the department under the Obama administration. Bird didn't use Sharman's name, but accused him of providing deliberative and confidential regulatory information. Short sellers on Wall Street. The problem is, that's just not true. It's preposterous. It's actually preposterous. Justin Hamilton worked with Sharman at the U. S Education Department. He was a spokesman for the department in 2010. That's when Sharman listened in by telephone. As Wall Street investor named Stephen Iseman made a presentation, Iseman warned that student loans from for profit colleges could collapse that said Iseman was a short seller. He stood to make money at the price of their stocks fell. Simon later emailed Iseman to say he had gotten a statistic wrong. That's it. Again. Justin Hamilton. There was no, uh, conspiracy to do the bidding of short sellers in order to make a quick buck. I think what you had here is a guy who dedicated his entire career to this issue. For me. The focus was never Shire, but it was Eisen. Melanie Sloan is the founder of the liberal watchdog group called Crew. Her group had been a key source for the Wall Street Journal. I just don't think we want short sellers, um, making policy on the issues in which they are shorting shorting companies. I think that's dangerous for everybody something to know about Sloan's outfit and many of Sharman's critics. They have ties to the for profit colleges. Senator Burr received $47,000 in campaign contributions and Melanie Sloan's group. It received $150,000 in 2010 and 2011 from the founder of the University of Phoenix. Sloan says she has no regrets about what Charmin went through in Washington. Do people get hurt all the time? Yeah, all the time. This spring, the attacks kept coming, some still citing that 2013 Wall Street Journal story. Chairman went to the journal He hoped it would revisit its reporting, maybe with a correction or even an update. Political editor replied that the paper concluded no action was warranted. I thought they would at least take some kind of corrective action, and, you know, frankly, quite surprised that they they did kind of less than nothing, The Journal told NPR. It reviewed chairman's request seriously. Despite the age of the article in question. David Folkenflik NPR news Firefighters from across the country have headed to Lake Tahoe to help contain the huge plays. Burning their their ranks include migrant workers from outside the U. S. KQED s Raquel Maria Dillon met up with a mostly Mexican crew battling the fire. Nice little so much in there. At a fire base on the eastern flank of the Called or Fire burning just over a ridge from South Lake Tahoe manual Correo eyes his crews bag lunch with skepticism. Cheese trail mix yogurt, lots of protein, but it sort of looks like an airplane meal. Eat this everyday We needed 14 21 Day straight. We crave a lot of home foods. A lot of warm meals, soups. Uh, Beef stews. Correo is from California's Central Valley and just spent 28 days on the Dixie Fire. His crew of 20 men kept him going there, mostly from Mexico here on temporary work visas. Bad. I learned Spanish and they've taught me a lot how to work hard. He introduced me to Rodrigo and held a Gila, who's working his third year as a wild land firefighter for a private contractor out of Salem, Oregon, Qantas in Houston. 20 cinco onions. He is the second youngest of seven siblings and three of his brothers are also working as firefighters in the US right now to our heading here to the Kaldor fire. Those are minnows males being in Baraka. He doesn't know which crew there with or where they'll be assigned on the sprawling fire, But he's hoping to track them down. Otherwise he'll see them back home in Morelia, where the only jobs are in the fields. Tobacco is Campell December my ears. He won't say.
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"This week said they closed the gaps and how to spend nearly $1 trillion bill, But they're still working on how to pay for it. President Biden has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to offset the cost of the spending, but Republicans have flat out rejected that. Lawmakers have also floated the idea of raising the gas tax, White House press secretary Jen Psaki says to the president. The bottom line is clear. The choice for him on the pay fors is. Are you going to ask Americans who are just trying to go to work? Just trying to drive their cars to work? Drop their kids off at school to pay more through the through a gas tax, or should the wealthiest Americans pay what they owe in taxes? Lawmakers say they're hoping to reach a basic agreement before the Senate breaks for a two weeks. Life. Fourth recess. Windsor Johnston. NPR News Any virus software creator John McAfee has been found dead in a Spanish prison just hours after a court signed off on his extradition to the US The death, which officials say appears to be a suicide comes after the Spanish high courted authorized the extradition of the 75 year old McAfee, who faces tax evasion charges in the U. S. Mac if he was arrested at the Barcelona airport in 2020, and has claimed the charges against him are politically motivated. US prosecutors unsealed an indictment in October against McCarthy, alleging he made more than $23 million and undisclosed income from false and misleading Cryptocurrency recommendations and failed to file tax returns. New York Times reporter Nicole Hannah Jones has told the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will not teach this fall without being granted tenure as NPR's David Folkenflik reports. The demand is the latest twist in a controversy. This caused a furor at the school. The UNC husband School of Journalism and media sought to grant Hannah Jones tenure. After all, she's a Pulitzer Prize winner. National Magazine Award winner, a MacArthur Genius award winner and she has a masters from the school itself. Arkansas newspaper publisher Walter Husband, after whom the school is named, pointed to questions about claims made in the 16 19 project. Times Initiative about the legacy of slavery and prejudice in American life. The university's board of trustees declined to take up her nomination. Some black faculties say that's making them question how welcome they are at Chapel Hill. The husband school gave her a five year contract to teach anyway. Hannah Jones now says she's rejecting that offer The trustees next meet three weeks from now. David Folkenflik. NPR NEWS The message from some big Wall Street banks to their employees get vaccinated and get back into the office. Morgan Stanley this week joining the list of banks that are saying all employees will be required to attest to their vaccination status, and those not fully vaccinated will be required to work remotely. On Wall Street. The Dow was down 71 points. This is NPR, and this is 90.9 W. Bur in Boston. I'm Lisa Mullins, the state of Massachusetts is again considering allowing people who are in the country illegally. The chance to get a standard driver's license or state. I D. Dozens of people told the committee on Transportation today that driving is essential to getting around in the state. Steve Tolman, president of the Massachusetts AF L C. I. O testified that allowing people with no documentation to get a driver's license ensures that the roads are safer. All drivers need to know the rules of the road and past the same driver's test to be properly registered and insured. That's what this bill will do. In the past. Governor Charlie Baker has expressed opposition, saying there's no way of knowing who undocumented immigrants are because they lack authorized proof of identity. A similar bill stalled in the Legislature last session. State Senator Sonia Chang Diaz is now the third Democrats who enter the States 2022 gubernatorial race. In her video announcement this morning. The Jamaica Plain lawmaker says she supports a so called millionaire's tax constitutional amendment. She joins former state Senator Ben Downing and Harvard professor Daniel Allen in the Democratic race. Acting Mayor Kim Janey says Boston is on the rebound from the pandemic. In remarks to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce today, Jeannie called the city its residents and business community strong and resilient. Our economy is rebounding and people are getting back to work. Our unemployment rate has dropped from 16% a year ago to roughly 6% today, and economic activity continues to pick up. Jamie says challenges the city face before covid still exist, including high housing costs and disparities in wealth, health.
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"Every weekend. It's the same thing this is targeted. This is definitely not random. No arrests have been announced. In Texas. The Republican led House of Representatives is due to vote today to give final approval to new voting restrictions that the GOP led Senate passed overnight. Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign it. It reduces polling hours requires mail in ballot applications toe on Lee be sent to those who request them, among other limits. Bipartisan Senate group is preparing to meet with the exiled Belarus Ian opposition in Europe tomorrow. The visit comes amid a growing crackdown inside Belarus, where activists say more than 400 political prisoners are being detained. As NPR's Lucian Kim reports from Moscow. Despite the arrests, protests continue. Belarus is exiled pro democracy movement says more than 90 cities worldwide took part in a global picket of solidarity. With demonstrators showing their support for the Belarusian people across Europe and in Canada and the United States. Global attention has focused on Belarus after the regime of Alexander Lukashenko forced down a commercial airliner last week just so it could arrest a dissident journalist on board. The European Union has pledged more than $3 billion in aid for Belarus once a democratic transition begins. Lukashenko has ignored calls for dialogue and visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. During two days of talks, Putin promised Lukashenko another $500 million in loans. Lucy and Kim NPR NEWS Moscow The acting director of Voice of America, says she regrets how the federally funded international news network handled instances of plagiarism is NPR's David Folkenflik reports. The comments follow reporting by The Washington Post, as the Post reported to journalists at Voice of America Challenge. Some of the stories and segments filed for African audiences in one episode as far back as February, 2020. News managers took months to respond. The Post reported that the Via Ways Standards editor said one instance was definitely plagiarism. Your land. ALopez, former head of the Central News Desk, became acting director after President Biden took office. She says that new, stronger policies have been posted online and urged employees to report an address any plagiarism concerns promptly. Dozens of articles by a Paris based freelancer are now under review. David Folkenflik NPR news This is NPR. This is W. N. Y. C. In New York. I'm David. First people who were sexually abused as adults would have a chance to sue the perpetrators, even if the usual deadline to bring a lawsuit had expired under a bill gaining momentum in New York's legislature. The bill is called the Adult Survivors Act. It would give abuse survivors of one year window in which to bring lawsuits that would otherwise be barred by the state's statute of limitations. Similar window, created in 2019 for victims of childhood sexual abuse led to an avalanche of lawsuits over decades old allegations of abuse. Judge has rejected a lawsuit that was filed to stop New York City from building a shelter for homeless men. WN Y sees Sophia Chang has more For years, The city has wanted to build a shelter with 150 beds inside the park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street in midtown. The group was 58th coalition filed a lawsuit in 2018 to stop the plan, saying the hotel building was too old and dangerous for a shelter. The lawsuit also said the shelter residents could cause crime in loitering in the area. A state judge world this week that a previous finding by a court of appeals in favor of the group was overreaching and improperly second guessed the plans by the city's Department of Homeless Services. A spokesperson for the city said they hope to open the shelter as soon as possible. An MBA playoff basketball. The Knicks continue their serious with the Atlanta Hawks this afternoon. The Nets continue their series with the Boston Celtics tonight. 49 degrees now expecting rainy weather this afternoon, and this night tonight is well tomorrow, a chance for drizzle and light rain in the morning and then skies begin to clear in the afternoon. Support for NPR comes from Jones Day and integrated Partnership, collectively providing legal services for more than a century 43 offices. Five continents serving clients is one firm worldwide. Learn more at Jones day dot com. Kai Wright. And this week on the United States of anxiety..
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"In Florida's Miami Dade County Investigators are at the seat of his shooting overnight that left two people dead and more than 20 injured. Police director Freddy Ramirez says his people were lined up for a concert. An SUV pulled up three people got out with assault weapons and handguns and opened fire. This type of gun violence has to stop. Every weekend. It's the same thing this is targeted. This is definitely not random. No arrests have been announced. In Texas. The Republican led House of Representatives is due to vote today to give final approval to new voting restrictions that the GOP led Senate passed overnight. Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign it. It reduces polling hours requires mail in ballot applications toe on Lee be sent to those who request them, among other limits. Bipartisan Senate group is preparing to meet with the exiled Belarus Ian opposition in Europe tomorrow. The visit comes amid a growing crackdown inside Belarus, where activists say More than 400 political prisoners are being detained as NPR's Lucian Kim reports from Moscow. Despite the arrests, protests continue. Belarus is exiled pro democracy movement says more than 90 cities worldwide took part in a global picket of solidarity. With demonstrators showing their support for the Belarusian people across Europe and in Canada and the United States. Global attention has focused on Belarus after the regime of Alexander Lukashenko forced down a commercial airliner last week just so it could arrest a dissident journalist on board. The European Union has pledged more than $3 billion in aid for Belarus once a democratic transition begins. Lukashenko has ignored calls for dialogue and visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. During two days of talks, Putin promised Lukashenko another $500 million in loans. Lucy and Kim NPR NEWS Moscow The acting director of Voice of America, says she regrets how the federally funded international news network handled instances of plagiarism is NPR's David Folkenflik reports. The comments follow reporting by The Washington Post, as the Post reported to journalists at Voice of America Challenge. Some of the stories and segments filed for African audiences in one episode as far back as February, 2020. News managers took months to respond. The Post reported that the Via Ways Standards editor said one instance was definitely plagiarism. Orlando Lopez, former head of the Central News Desk, became acting director after President Biden took office. She says that new, stronger policies have been posted online and urged employees to report an address any plagiarism concerns promptly. Dozens of articles by a Paris based freelancer are now under review. David Folkenflik NPR news This is NPR. Judge in Italy says a service technician is largely responsible for a cable car accident that killed 14 people a week ago. The judge says the technician intentionally disabled the car's brake. Because it kept locking spontaneously. The only survivor of five year old boy is still hospitalized. Auto racing drives into history Today when Klein felter of member station W. E T reports the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500. Features the return of large crowds and the first appearance of a mostly female IndyCar teen after covert 19 precautions. Exiled fans from attending the famed 500 Mile race last year, the speedway is now opening 40% of its grandstands, seeding a crowd of 135,000 to the most at a sporting event since the beginning of the pandemic. They'll be greeted by the first ever Indy race team made up mostly of women. Detroit based Pareto Auto Sport Parada and its technical partner, team Penske did not qualify well, but look much faster and their race day setups. There's a generational battle at the front of the 33 car field, where 40 year old six time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon starts in pole position next to two drivers half his age. Colton heard it and Rina's VK for NPR news. I'm Quinn Klein Filter in Detroit. China says a cargo spacecraft it launched yesterday has now docked with the space station the countries developing officials say it's delivering supplies for an.
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"Our investigators on the scene were asking for any information from the community. Anyone who has any tips on these individuals, Please give it to us. Ramirez calls the shooting outside a banquet hall that had been rented for the concert. A cowardly act of gun violence out was targeted. Roughly two dozen states have decided to end some form of enhanced expanded unemployment benefits offered through the covert relief bill passed by Congress this past spring. For some states, those unemployment benefits will end. As early as June. Piers Osma College reports. These expanded benefits mean an extra $300 a week. They also mean that people who don't traditionally qualify for unemployment like gig workers. Have been able to get help. These expanded benefits don't expire until September. But a number of states led by Republicans say their states don't need them. In fact, some argue that the extra money is actually hurting the job market and leading to worker shortages. Not a single state, led by a Democratic governor has decided to terminate unemployment benefits. Early in analysis by J. P. Morgan argues that it looks like politics rather than economics, is driving the decision. While some of these states have tight labor markets and strong earnings growth, many of them do not. A small college, NPR news authorities in Tennessee. They say they have transitioned from a rescue effort to that of recovery after a small plane carrying seven people crashed into a lake near Smyrna. The announcement last night. Indicates that no one on board survived. Three living survivors of an attack 100 years ago on a prosperous black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are suing the city and others involved for reparations. And Matt Trotter member station K. W. G s Reports the sponsor of a bill creating a federal commission to study reparations is standing with. Um Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee says the commission HR 40 sets up will also help the cause for reparations in Tulsa. Because it will look at not only slavery but also at state and local practices used to brutalize and disadvantaged black Americans. We got to come to Oklahoma for hearing just like they came here. We've got to go to Mississippi for hearing. We gotta go to Harlem for hearing. Jackson. Lee made those remarks at a panel discussion during an event honoring Tulsa race Massacre. Survivors and descendants in 1921, a white mob destroyed told his Greenwood community killing as many as 300 black residents. A Human Rights watch report recommends a comprehensive reparations plan that includes financial compensation, continuing a search for victims remains and investments in education. For NPR news. I'm Matt Trotter in Tulsa, and you're listening to NPR news. Distributors of the Rush Limbaugh show have announced replacements for his decades long hit radio program. NPR's David Folkenflik reports Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Are expected to appeal to younger but equally conservative listeners. Limbaugh died earlier this year. It's 70 from complications of lung cancer. His show was a mainstay of radio and of right wing politics for three decades. Premiere networks has continued to broadcast the Rush Limbaugh show, relying on highlights of past programs and retaining about three quarters of his audience. Now is the Wall Street Journal reports. Premier hopes the two men will bring in a younger audience. Sexton has hosted his own conservative talk show Travis commands of following from his Fox sports gambling show, and it's podcasts, and he just sold his right leaning sports website out kick to Fox Court. Though a sports commentator, Travis is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, and for months has claimed the threat of the covert 19 pandemic was overblown. To new hosts starting June. David Folkenflik NPR NEWS The entertainment industry is mourning the deaths of actor Gavin Macleod and singer BJ Thomas McLeod played the news writer Murray on the classic 19 seventies sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He then played the cruise ship Captain on the Love Boat. He was 90 years old. EJ Thomas was a Grammy Award winning singer who also wanted Oscar for best original song for Raindrops Keep Falling on my head, part of the soundtrack for the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Almost was 78. His publicist says he died of lung cancer..
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"You have Apple and Amazon and Netflix to compete with a now sort of a hyped up Disney after it acquired much of Fox and by getting what's now called scale by merging its intellectual property. With that of discoveries, 80 hopes that its content properties can kind of weather the storm and be big enough to ride this out. NPR's David Folkenflik reporting Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is working around the clock to try to bring an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. But NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, Blinken says the two sides have to want a cease fire on a trip meant to focus on the Arctic region. Blinken says he's been working the phones with regional players in the Middle East. He says the U. S. Is prepared to doom or if the Israelis and Palestinians try to seek a ceasefire, but ultimately it is up to the parties to make clear that they want to pursue a cease fire. Any cease fire would be by definition between them, but we're ready to engage to support it. He was speaking alongside his Danish counterpart, who called Hamas rockets unacceptable, but also says Israel's military response should be proportionate and in line with international law. Michele Kelemen NPR NEWS Copenhagen former police officer who was accused in the fatal shooting of a black man in suburban Minneapolis last month, is due to appear in court again today. From Minnesota Public radio mats. Epic reports. Kimberly Potter is charged with manslaughter in the death of 20 year old Dante, right, Potter pulled over Wright's car April 11th police say expired plates for the reason, writes. Mother says it was a dangling air freshener. As Potter and another officer tried to arrest right on an outstanding firearms warrant. He broke free and got back in his car. Potter's heard on body camera video shouting Taser, but instead she grabs her hand gun and shoots right in the chest. The killing, led to a week of protests in the suburb of Brooklyn center that included violent clashes with police activists want Potter charged with murder, which carries a longer prison sentence than manslaughter. Potter has yet to enter a plea for NPR news. I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis on Wall Street, the Dow was down 137 points..
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"Been finding is the pandemic just exacerbated the hypervigilance. What will it take for students and parents to trust the system plus a sit down with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers to discuss what's needed. Get teachers back in the classroom. They've asked just to be safe, and there's a road map to be safe. It's politics with Amy Walter on the take away right after these headlines. Life from NPR News on Barbara Klein, the end of former President Donald Trump. Second impeachment trial marks the beginning of a new chapter for his White House success of her. As NPR's Amy held reports. President Biden is issued a statement on Trump's acquittal and says he's looking ahead to getting his covert relief package passed quickly from Camp David President Biden issued a statement noting that seven Republicans joined Democrats in finding Trump guilty. Not enough to convict but a record for an impeachment trial. Bipartisanship is what Biden says he wants for his economic rescue package through the process of budget reconciliation. Democrats have already begun moving forward without Republicans. How former President Trump moves ahead now remains uncertain. After being acquitted of inciting insurrection, he hinted at a political future, saying in a statement his movement has only just begun, and he'll share more in the months ahead. But first Trump faces potential legal trouble. From a New York grand jury investigation and a criminal probe in Georgia. Amy held NPR news A spokesman for the Biden White House has resigned a day after it was revealed he subjected a reporter to accept sexist rant. NPR's David Folkenflik reports the White House had initially suspended TJ Duck low. The episode promised to test the Biden administration's promises of comedy End of Respect for the press. Duck loaded, lashed out at political reporter Tara Palmeri when she inquired about his relationship with the reporter for another news site, Axios. Relationship had been disclosed to the couple's bosses, but not the public. Douglas said he destroyed Palmeri and added a vulgar and misogynistic diatribe. Douglas suspension was met with criticism from the media. His resignation included an abject apology, calling his behavior abhorrent, Disrespectful and intolerable. David Folkenflik NPR news A huge.
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"NPR news. I'm Giles Snyder. The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is over, though a hefty 57 vote majority voted guilty. That still felt in votes short of the two thirds majority needed to convict NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on the aftermath. It was a day of twists and turns the final one coming after the vote, when Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who voted not guilty, delivered the most scorching condemnation of Trump of the day. Trump, he said hit incited the terrorist mob that attacked the capital. Bloodied police tried to hunt down the speaker of the house and chanted about murdering the vice president. I did this Because they've been fed. Wild. Falsehoods. The most powerful man on earth. But McConnell said he voted against conviction because, in his view, the constitution was not meant to apply to a president who's already left office. Nina Totenberg, NPR NEWS Washington and a statement President Biden issued last, 19 noted McConnell's criticism of Trump And highlighted the bipartisan nature of the vote to convict. A spokesman for the Biden White House resigned last night, a day after it was revealed that he subjected to reporter to a sexist rant The White House had initially suspended TJ Duck Low is NPR's David Folkenflik reports. The episode promised to test the Biden administration's promises of comedy End of Respect for the press. Duck loaded, lashed out at political reporter Tara Palmeri when she inquired about his relationship with the reporter for another news site, Axios. Relationship had been disclosed to the couple's bosses, but not the public. Douglas said he destroyed Palmeri and added a vulgar and misogynistic diatribe. Douglas suspension was met with criticism from the media. His resignation included an abject apology, calling his behavior abhorrent, Disrespectful and intolerable. David Folkenflik NPR news overseas. Now Germany has put temporary controls in place on parts of its border and attempt to restrict the spread of new variants of the Corona virus of BBC's Damian McGinnis Reports. The new German border controls mean that only certain groups will be able to cross into Germany from the Czech Republic and parts of Austria. Trade links will continue and German citizens returning home or certain key workers will still be allowed to enter. But even they will have to show a recent negative Corona virus test. The movie's controversial at the start of the pandemic. Germany re imposed border controls for three months which harm trader made life difficult for local communities. Berlin promise not to impose border restrictions again, but that was before the new Corona virus variants. BBC's Damian McGinnis reporting there from Berlin to New Zealand, now the country's largest city, has been ordered into a three day coronavirus lockdown following the discovery of three unexplained cases. The lockdown, the first to New Zealand in six months. This is NPR news. This is W. N. Y. C in New York. I'm Lance Lucky. The city deployed 500 additional officers across the subway system after four homeless people were stabbed this weekend, two of them fatally. Gothamist reporter David Cruz has more The stabbings occurred within a 24 span along the A line to wear at the 181st Street station in Manhattan, one at the Mod Avenue Beach, 22nd Street Station and Far Rockaway, Queens, and the last one that the 273 station in Inwood. The victims are all believed to be homeless, according to the NYPD. Police believe one person is behind three of the four stabbings. The incidents come amid an increase in violent attacks against empty workers and straphangers. Sarah Feinberg, the head of New York City Transit, says she welcomes the new officers, adding that the city should do more to help the mentally ill. The Daily News is reporting that police have a suspect who is believed to be homeless in custody. The newspaper cites sources saying police recovered the knife believed to have been used in the attacks, and the suspect was taken into custody with dried blood on his clothes. Group of Queer Divorced musicians, many with New York ties are celebrating Valentine's Day today with an online performance of original songs about isolation community and getting into and out of state sanctioned intimacy. Ethan Philbrick is the composer and creator behind the band, the gay divorces, he says the project has been therapeutic, especially for a community where many fought for marriage equality. For queers who got married who, like believe in the institution of marriage, like who aren't just getting married for, like a bureaucratic reason. But who really have an investment and marriage? Yeah, There's this sense of like, this is a right we fought for. How could I fail at it? Gay divorces will perform live this afternoon via Zil..
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"41 degrees currently in Sacramento at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. It's now 40 downtown San Francisco this Sunday morning at 47. This is weekend edition from NPR News. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro on Fox News. They talk a lot about so called cancel culture. That's when someone is ostracized for a transgression. Well. Now it is one of former President Trump's greatest boosters who has gotten canceled from his Fox business network show. Very little explanation was given. But it happened just a day after a voting tech companies sued Fox, Lou Dobbs and two other Fox News stars for $2.7 billion that's with a B NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik has been covering this and joins us now. Welcome to the program. Hey, Lulu. Is this a cancelation David, or sacrifice? Well, you know, it's not about ratings. He's one of the top figures that the Fox business Network What Fox says is a look back in October. We told people there'll be changes coming after the elections. This is part of that. It's just hard to credit it. In fact, nobody I've talked to inside Fox other than their officials or outside Fox. Give that in credence at all the day before it's you mentioned big lawsuit from Smartmatic. It's of voting tech. Company filed the lawsuit against Fox against Lou Dobbs against two of his colleagues Maria Bartiromo and Jeannine Pirro. And against two of the president's lawyers, who have appeared frequently on those shows. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell remind us what the lawsuit alleges. Dobbs did. Smartmatic says that these figures wanted Trump to win and, in fact said so repeatedly on the air, but that they knew he had lost fairly and squarely in the November election. So they essentially bound together in a conspiracy to make completely false claims about this election being stolen from former President Donald Trump. Here's a feel for the kind of thing Rudy Giuliani was saying on. Dobbs is Fox show. In this case in an appearance in mid November, so we're using a foreign company that is owned by Venezuelans, who were close to Chavez are now close to Maduro. They were founded as a company to six elections. They have a terrible record, and they are extremely happy able. I mean to be clear, David. None of that is true. Actually. Beyond that, it's completely fabricated. Right. This was not founded by Venezuelans who are close to the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez..
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Cancel Culture: Slaying the Fox Monster
"We're going to cancel anybody. We disagree with cancel. Culture now has permeated every single part of our society. Sadly i predict it's only gonna get worse. Silence more dangerous voices. You know sean hannity. Maybe you're onto something in advance of an impeachment trial of ex-president on the grounds of inciting insurrection. There is growing sentiment for the cable. Channel that most amplified donald trump's ravings to be held accountable as well in the past week. The new york times washington post mother jones variety and cnn. All entertained musings about fox. One way or another being shunned from polite society. Washington post media columnist. Margaret sullivan declared quote corporations. That advertise on fox. News should walk away and citizens who care about the truth should demand that they do. Such is the post insurrection. Comeuppance zeitgeist after the january sixth riots mainstream social media rid itself of donald trump and thousands of other conspiracy theorists twitter. Dropped more than seventy thousand accounts devoted cunanan single day likewise partner. The extremist heavy twitter clone lost. it's internet host. Republican members of congress suddenly lost sources of campaign funds and donald trump himself lost crucial business relationships. Cancel culture sean. Well yeah more or less and so in this hour. We address two questions first. What if fox news were to be neutralized or at least radically ostracized and secondly in a democratic society in which free speech is foundational. Is that an outcome. We really want. Both questions are premised on the belief that whatever fox has been since one thousand nine hundred ninety six launch a megaphone for wedge issues fearmongering lies conspiracy theories culture. Wars has poisoned with sleep. Mutated it's no longer just an argument with the left. It's explicitly a safe space for insurrectionists and all those who imagine themselves under the heel of tyranny tens of millions of americans have no chance there are about to be crushed by the ascendant left. These people needed defender. You need a defender. Why is no one defending them. That was tucker carlson. One day after the storming of the capital which according to angelo kerosone president and ceo of the left leading advocacy group media matters for america exemplifies the channels dark and treacherous turn. They know that a part of their audience especially tucker's with this idea genocide that white culture is in some way being replaced in decayed and they are trying to appeal to that and they're warning them. They're coming for them. It's a political plain and simple. It's now standard operating procedure in the democratic party. Are you or have you ever been a supporter of donald trump on put a scarlet letter tv on supporters. This is a slippery slope. Are people going to say. We're not going to sell you a car. A republicans. we're not gonna. We're not going to issue you a mortgage conservatives. I mean how far does this go. And you listen as the geniuses explain how the single biggest threat to country isn't chinese. Hegemony or even the coming hyperinflation. Pretty much uncertainty now. Which was one hundred percent caused by elite mismanagement of our economy. But no let's not talk about that. The real threat is a forbidden idea. It's something called that's carlson. Dismissing worries about cunanan a cult dedicated to dismantling government filled with pedophile cannibals. Which is something of a departure from historical conservative values of states rights fiscal responsibility a strong military and self reliance because you know cannibals. The last year in particular is when it certainly seemed as though the cauldron of him and lies. That fox news had been boiling boiled. Over and i think it affected. Everybody's lives i with kobe and all the misinformation and how they influenced the public health response and then in the aftermath of the election. An how they kind of built the framework that really helped undermine the results in the minds a so many of our fellow citizens and after the rage it had helped fuel finally materialized into violence. Did fox hole back humbled in jason over. Its own dark power. No just last week. Here was fox news founder. rupert murdoch. Australia denouncing not insurrection but cancel culture is rigidly enforced. Conformity didn't better. I circled central me. A straightjacket on sensitive -tuni- people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech. To be suppressed for this awful woke orthodoxy murdoch's denunciation of political correctness was widely interpreted as a vow not to cave either to the bleeding hearts or to the even fringe ear conservative channels like newsmax and one american news where many maga- fateful fled on election night. When fox was the first call arizona for joe biden in the aftermath the perennial ratings leader skidded at least temporarily to third place in cable news and for now. Murdoch is steering into the skid. Npr's david folkenflik reports by taking even more news fox news one of their top news. Anchors martha mccallum. She was shifted from seven pm prime evening slot to three pm in the afternoon. And that is a major opinion our and let's be clear conservative opinion. Our among those auditioning is maria bartiromo an anchor. Who has made a lot of unfounded. Unhinged claims here's one from let's just for the sake of argument except that fox news channel has not only crossed a line but defiantly stayed there and thus the chorus of calls for boycotts by its advertisers and of its advertisers in order to starve the beast in the interest of full disclosure in other spaces. I myself have called for that very thing. This happens to be the work. Kerosone media matters has been undertaking. Four years with mixed success. One of the big efforts was a campaign to get either glenn beck to be less destructive or ultimately fired and that's exactly what happens on the other hand or recently advertisers have sled tucker and laura ingram they have lost about half of their paid commercials they used to have more than thirty commercials show now the average between fourteen and sixteen and even though they've lost money obviously they're still on the network and they
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"Software maker Smartmatic is suing Fox News, three of his host and two pro Trump attorneys for defamation. NPR's David Folkenflik reports that the $2.7 million complaint alleges that the defendants conspired to make false claims about the company and the 2020 election. Fox News calls the lawsuit Merritt listen, says it's proud of its reporting. And Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he's looking forward to the case. Smartmatic was the subject of conspiracy theories from Trump allies making wild and untrue claims about actions to rig the election. Fox News host Lou Dobbs, Jeannine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo gave ample air time and credibility to those allegations. In late December, Fox News Force those three host to run a short and stilted interview about Smartmatic with the voting software expert on their shows. Expert Eddie Perez tells NPR. That segment never acknowledged they were correcting anything and failed to recognize how much Fox News had to amplify damaging misinformation.
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"Money wherever you listen to podcasts. There's been so much controversy. At the voice of america and its parent agency that it's easy to forget the human toll executives fired reporters investigated reputations shattered all part of an ideological civil war begun by former president trump's appointee to the agency. Npr's david folkenflik reports the us agency for global media overseas the voice of america and other federally funded international broadcasters. Last monday just two days before he resigned. Michael pack defended his record on fox news. I've been head of the agency for about seven months. And my only goal has been to get it to fulfil its legally mandated mission. Its charter which is present objective balanced comprehensive news. Tell america's story to the world others who worked under pack till npr a different story. It was actually one of the most surreal times of my career and federal government. That's dan handling a senior advisor to the ceo. When pack took office handling joined the trump white house team during the transition in two thousand sixteen and stayed throughout hanlin says he figured his loyalty to the administration would never be in doubt he was wrong. Pack decided almost immediately that hamlin and need weren't to be trusted and he banished them to the far corners of the agency. Headquarters found a foosball table. And since they weren't talking to us we would come in or nine o'clock and stamp out five o'clock and we play football day and we just sit there in common. About how absurd. This whole thing was hamlin's says it was a sign of worse to come. I don't think he had a plan other than to just blow the place up. Voice of america's top officials resigned. Pack fired the presidents of all the other networks back also suspended six top agency executives and paid private law firms millions of dollars to investigate them and the also refused to extend visas for any foreign employees implying they could be spies. Here's former general. Counsel david clergyman. He was among the executives suspended because he believed that we were disloyal to him. It perceived a us as being part of this cabal and it was. It was very troubling clicker. Men says pack embraced trump's fight against the media and against the professionalism of government employees one point even quoted leviticus to me some provisions at talked about bearing false witness clemson resigned in december after months in limbo. You have to stand up to bad actors like my colleagues. And i have done. And we've paid the price for pack pursuit investigations of journalists for perceived anti-trump bias on fox pack renewed allegations against a video segment on view as early language. Service was essentially a repackaged biden. ned It was not targeted as the deserves supposed to be to pakistan but really the michigan an appeal to michigan muslims to flip the state for biden via way. Staffers say packs. Charges are ridiculous. Very few people in the us consumer even know of its coverage social media. Promotions of valley are blocked here. Plus they're only about fifteen thousand michigander. We've speak urge do multimedia journalists benazir samah had her contract terminated diva fired because they thought it was you know against it was like biased towards trump view. Cut loose three colleagues to some odd came to the us from pakistan on a fulbright journalism fellowship. She went to work for the urge. You service in two thousand nineteen. She's now one of many who lost their jobs under pack. Who are seeking to get them back. It has threatened to turn my entire
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"Glaringly apparent that Donald Trump absolutely crushed Joe Biden in the election. This all puts box in a very tight spot. I think Fox is feeling kind of a pincer movement of bit that is NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik. He literally wrote a book about Fox News, and he covers media for NPR in this chat. David will tell me how Fox got in this predicament. And how they might get out of it. Plus what Trump's departure means for all cable news, not just Fox. All right, let's get to it. Fox is facing some challenges You've seen. MSNBC and CNN do certainly well in recent days, and even since the election But you've also seen Newsmax, which is a much much smaller outfit start to get some traction for its personality is an audience is fueled in part by people like President Trump saying Fox is disappointing me with all this. Reporting stuff, so let's go to other places where we can do it. So Fox even removed its 7 P.m. show, which was given by Martha MacCallum, a news anchor, not an opinion host. Although I'd say she was sort of Shows sympathy and consideration the president beyond what the facts might suggest, and they moved her to the more of an exiled time wise to mid afternoon. And so you know, all they've done is they basically said we're going to give a yet another hour in the evening when we have larger audiences to opinion hosts. My opinion, It's hard to imagine that's gonna be a contrary opinion host. Yeah, they see that the opinion resonates more, you know, And but it's if Fox News is in this pickle, trying to figure out whether their opinion or were there they're fact based news. What kind of spot does that put them in? Compared to some of the other conservative news upstarts I'm talking about. Newsmax. I'm talking about own Was it? Oh, a in in one American news network. Like those two platforms, it seems as if they have less of that double pressure. I think a lot of folks here in this episode may not really know about OA in or newsmax yet tell folks who they are. So let's walk through that news. Max is an online conservative outlet that aggregates opinions has some reporting a lot of it sort of rewritten from other sources. And news. Max as a few years back several years back, created a TV presence. It's been a money losing venture, but it's been gaining some steam in the trump years. Access to some trump people, and I got to tell you in recent months as Trump has been banging against Fox is news side. On anyone who really expresses any degree of Acknowledgement of the fact that Biden one freely and that you know his election should be certified. He should take office you specs has made gains. Now It's there's still a much smaller operation than Fox, but they can cause Fox pain. What about the one American news network? So like they I don't really know what they are. I mean, they are a fantastic repository and circulator of Off the wall conspiracy theories. Okay, They justified pretty much any indulgence that Trump wants to any allegation he wants. They went in deep on on Biden and Ukraine in ways that even after official government reports and investigations came out, not finding it. You know, they kept going back to Rudy Giuliani, allowing him to make claims that appear at least in part. To be based on information and material provided by a guy that Trump's own Treasury department have said is essentially Russian operatives. These these guys are very much It's not like they've doubled down. They have bet the house On the idea that whatever helps trump in the moment, however, while the conspiracy theory is, if there's something for them to spend as a tail, they'll do it. Okay, so then If there are these upstarts challenging Fox from the far right Newsmax and one American News and Fox News is now kind of losing, compared to outlets like CNN. You know, CNN has been the most watched cable news network since the day after the election on there, just beating Fox right now, how bad of a predicament is Fox News in there being attacked from both sides, and they you're kind of losing on both fronts. I mean, from my standpoint. I would say that Fox, on the one hand is crazily profitable. And they've gotten incredible Brandon loyalty among a lot of viewers, but it's bumpy right now, and I'd also say that it's somewhat it appears to be somewhat rudderless, like so, like no one's in charge. I mean they're people in charge. Suzanne Scott, a long time Fox executive, is the head of Fox News Media, which incorporates Fox business News and network and other Affiliated platforms, but you're not hearing them set parameters. It's not that you want them to dictate what people say. But you think that they would say, Hey, look, folks, we need to honor it throughout our news and opinions that Biden has won this You're not seeing any sort of command response say this is a time of national crisis. Both the challenge to the election was a national crisis and last week during the assault on the capital that is a moment of national crisis. And you saw Fox basically cut away from a lot of the impeachment debate. Instead, you saw them spend an extraordinary amount of time about social media deep platform ng of President Trump and his associate ID supporters. Intriguing. That is, though that is a crisis now. I actually think there's some interesting free speech implications to that. But I don't think that's more important than an entire insurrection against thesis eat of the legislative branch of federal government. And although there are people reporting on that for Fox, that is not what you would take away from their coverage. You're listening to. It's been a minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders talking now with NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik. We are discussing the future of Fox News and where that network goes. Now that Trump is out of the White House. I'm thinking back to when I first discovered Fox News. I was like high school junior And I had not been into the news at all before. But this story of Elian Gonzalez broke and there was like a Sada and I remember turning on my TV. So watch and see what was going on in the first news channel that I've got to was Fox News, so I began to watch Fox News voraciously. And I remember like a lot of reporters talking about fax. And the Fox News that you're talking about today seems very, very far removed from that place. There's been an evolution of Fox, and it seems to have happened at a breakneck pace. Under Donald Trump. And you talk briefly about how much Trump changed Fox News itself and how and how far it is gone, perhaps from The role that Rupert Murdoch might have conceived for the network years ago. So it's such an interesting thing. You know, you talk about the question of getting away from reporting. In fact, and I would say to be fair that they're reporters have done a very good straight ahead job of reporting on all the individual claims of fraud and the larger question and deep taken efforts to debunk it, But there's a shriveling of what the news hole occupies compared to the opinion space. Which was always major. But there's a shriveling of that. And also, I think there's a degradation of what you see is the new space in that they now take a lot of clips from their top opinion hosts and injected into their so called news programming. S so that the actual news Belle and call it news and then they're like, Well, what do you say about that? And then it allows them to have segments that essentially opinion inside water, technically news program, So the new Z nous of the news side has also been diminished as well. And don't think that that's not noticed internally by journalists and and producers there. In terms of what Rupert Murdoch wanted, you know, he wanted to. He saw on appetite and an audience for people who believed that they were not served by the mainstream media, particularly on the right and and culturally conservative. He was accompanied by his executive Roger Ailes. And I mentioned Ales because it has been so important with that, because he stoked that grievance..
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"From NPR and W bur. I'm Robin Young and I'm Tanya. Mostly it's here and now in his first day in office, President Biden signed in order repealing what are thought to be some of the Trump administration's harshest immigration policies. He repealed a travel ban halted the border wall construction and the remain in Mexico policy, and he moved to preserve and fortify the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Which protects some 700,000 people brought to the United States is Children from being deported. Joining us now to talk more about this is Leon Kraus, Univision News anchor and Washington. Post column Welcome to the show. And it seems that we don't have Leon Cross. He's gone eyes that you almost had him. It's like a fish on a line. You almost had him there, and we are waiting on this end for NPR's David Folkenflik. It's like in here from the studio. We have him. We could go to that. This is live radio people reminding that we do a lot of live radio here. We have David Folkenflik. It sounds like no. We now have David Folkenflik. So I'll let you take it from there. And I know how much you want to talk about the DACA, uh, thinking, and so we will make sure that we do that. But now two How will the President Biden in the White House affect the news? Landscape up former President Trump came from? Ah, combative reality television background. You're fired. He brought that chaos and competitiveness. The country's top office. Now we have the man he derisively called sleepy Joe Biden. Let us bring in NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik so glad you're here, David. Hey, great to join you guys. Hope you can hear me fine. Because Tony and I like each other, but we'd much rather interview people like you. So let's talk about this landscape. On day one Fox News opinion host came out swinging against new President Biden here, Sean Hannity. His first address to the nation, Joe predictably meandered his way through what is a truly un remarkable, totally forgettable, even pre rehearsed set of remarks. Let's be honest, the rest of the media mob. They were just flat out lying to the American people as per usual, this was not in any way shape matter of form. A memorable speech. The rest of the media mob That included in Fox is news division Fox's Chris Wallace because he called binds inaugural address the best he'd ever heard. David, We know there's a divide within Fox, but it seems more pronounced since Trump ditched Fox News for other networks, one America and other, You know partisan outlets because Fox News acknowledged that Biden won So what's going on in Fox? Well, I think it's important to note that Trump didn't really ditch Fox. What Trump did was get angry at those at Fox, who would sometimes admit facts against his interest or report the news. And there are some journalists at Fox, who worked diligently to do just that. It's just not the point of Fox. Trump double down on the sort of sycophantic far right media and on those folks within Fox, who comprise a lot of its most important hours, people in prime time. Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Fox and friends, people who would give him time of day We just heard Sean Hannity described the rest of the media as a mob. Let's think about the word mob. In what context We've heard that in the past couple weeks we heard about him, saying that the rest of media is lying to you. Let's think about the way in which the American people were lied to by the ex president and some of his most prominent supporters, some of them on Fox News itself. What Fox is desperate to do is to try to hold on to the president's core voters who had been very demoralized by what's happened, which they've said repeatedly. And to keep that is their base. How do they do that? Well, they pivot away from talking about the events of 16 or the rifts within the Republican Party about questions of accountability and they focus all on. Let's look back at Hunter Biden. Let's find ways to attack Joe Joe Biden. Let's find ways to figure out lines to demonize Kamila Harris, the new vice president..
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"From NPR news. This is all things considered. I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington and I'm Elsa Chang in Los Angeles. The house has voted to impeach President Trump. He is now the only president in U. S history to be impeached Twice. Last time, No house Republicans voted to impeach the president That was different today. 10. Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting. Yes, it's unclear when the Senate will begin a trial. But when it does, the Democrats will be led by Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin. Welcome back to all things considered also, thank you for having me. There are just seven days left in President Trump's term. So tell me, Congressman, why should Congress pursue this? Well, this was a powerful bipartisan Statement. The vote was 232 to 197. We were voting in a room that came under attack just one week ago. The Congress, United States. Experienced a full blown violent assault. On the capital. They ransacked the place. They occupied the Senate chamber. They tried to get into the house chamber. Gunfire had to be used to push the mob back. They surround me. What is the main objective of this impeachment process? Is it punitive? Are you trying to prevent Trump from ever running for office again. Strip him of his pension. What? What is the objective? No. Impeachment is not a punitive instrument. It is protective instrument, and we need to protect our people right now. The same violent white supremacist mobs that attacked us last week have said they're coming back to Washington on the 17th 18th and 19th in the 20th. This is a clear and present danger. People who think that we should just let bygones be bygones are not dealing with the reality of what took place last Wednesday in the continuing violence threat to Republican government in the United States, But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that the Senate will not begin a trial until Biden is inaugurated. Are you concerned that trial will distract from other items and Biden's agenda? Look, this president has obviously been severely derelict in dealing with all of the crisis of the nation that he's let run rampant, including Cove in 19, where now we lead the world, of course, in case count in death counts and As well as propaganda about Children, 19 so justice and protection of the Congress, the government and the people are goals right along with the public health and Environmental defense and getting the economy moving again. How do you convince how do you convince 17 Republicans in the Senate, which is what you would need to convict? How would you convince them? I mean, isn't that going to be harder in the future than it would be right now? In this moment? Well, the Senate itself was attacked by an armed a violent mob, Senator Lindsey Graham said. On the day This happened that they could have had a bomb. They could have blown us all up. So I think that will concentrate the month of the senators. I think that they Will be jurors who are going to look very carefully. What took place in this absolutely unprecedented attack on their chamber and on the peaceful transfer of power. Remember, all of this took place. On Wednesday, January 6th for a reason. This was a concentrated deterrent attack on our form of government. Let me ask you, though. What if Then former President Trump does not get convicted. What are the political consequences if he's vindicated like that? Look, he has already been impeached. He has not been convicted and removed from office yet, but I see irresistible momentum towards that conclusion, so I really don't want to Entertain your rather depressing hypothetical. He has been impeached today and the moment that we conceptual rate him from power over the government is the moment that we will begin to restore safety and progress to our people. Congressman Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. He will lead the Democrats in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Thank you very much for your time today. Thank you for having me, Elsa. Across America and within the Republican Party of Reckoning has erupted over rhetoric leading up to the attack on the U. S. Capitol. Not so at the Fox News Channel, where people repeatedly claimed falsely that President Trump was cheated out of a victory in November. NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the Fox News Channel was the first network to call the pivotal state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night. Get some of the network's most popular figures have done something very different ever since an Intel source telling me that President Trump did. In fact, when the election he's that was Maria Bartiromo, Fox's delusion viewers with false claims, even allegations of betrayal and treason. And in the days preceding Congress's certification of Biden's win exhortations for citizens and lawmakers to do something about it. Here's Jeannine Pirro invoking the Revolutionary War, followed by Mark Levin and Lou Dobbs. As we're all being told to simply shut up and move on. January, 6 will tell us whether there are any in Congress willing to battle for the America that those soldiers fought for. On January 6. We learned whether our constitution will hold and whether the Republicans care wouldn't it be criminal? For these Republicans and particularly Republican senators, who are saying that they will not step forward. Among those watching Fox was an Air Force veteran named Ashley Babbitt. Babbitt was shot and killed last week as she participated in the pro Trump mob trying to enter the U. S. House speaker's lobby. Here's a video she posted to Social media two years ago. You guys reviews To choose America America over your stupid political party. I am so tired of NPR reviewed Babette's Twitter feed, and here's what we found. She shared conspiracy theories of Cuban on, she watched Fox sometimes complained about it. But she also took inspiration from its hosts, commentators and frequent talking heads Retweeting them scores of times in the past year. Right after the election. She retweeted this video of Fox host Tucker Carlson. You can't simply tell people to accept an outcome because forced doesn't work in a democracy that's dictatorship. The commercial radio giant Cumulus media has ordered its radio hosts to accept the legitimacy of President elect Biden's win. Social media companies have frozen accounts, including that of President Trump that it says have incited violence. Fox News staffers tell NPR The network has not had any such reckoning. Well, one responsibility that Fox News has is not to spread false conspiracy theories. By doing so they are fueling a movement that they actually at the end of the day. Can't control the Columbia University historian Nicole Hammer is a scholar of conservative media. She also writes columns for CNN's website. She says it's not enough that sometimes, Tucker Carlson and others urged Trump to accept the verdict or denounce violence, as many did in the aftermath of the capital insurrection. What you would like to see Is Fox news come forward and not only say that we're not going to spread these conspiracies anymore on our network, but we take responsibility for platform in these ideas and for spreading them instead. If you turn on Fox News now Hosts and personalities are focusing on what they say is an ominous new threat. Social media acting against pro Trump voices, here's Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. No relation to Nicole the events of last Wednesday, notwithstanding, the ultimate cancel culture, would you not agree? Is when you can cancel a sitting U. S president, as his question suggests. Much of Fox's coverage involves moving focus away from the deadly attack of last week. David Folkenflik NPR news.
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"This is all things considered. I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington and I'm Ailsa Chang in Los Angeles. The House has voted to impeach President Trump. He is now the only president in U. S history to be impeached Twice. Last time, No house Republicans voted to impeach the president That was different today. 10. Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting. Yes, it's unclear when the Senate will begin a trial. But when it does, the Democrats will be led by Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin. Welcome back to all things considered also, thank you for having me. There are just seven days left in President Trump's term. So tell me, Congressman, why should Congress pursue this? Well, this was a powerful bipartisan Statement. The vote was 232 to 197. We were voting in a room that came under attack just one week ago. The Congress. United States experienced AH, full blown violent assault. On the capital. They ransacked the place. They occupied the Senate chamber. They tried to get into the House chamber. Gunfire had to be used to Pushed the mob back. They don't mean what is the main objective of this impeachment process. Is it punitive? Are you trying to prevent Trump from ever running for office again. Strip him of his pension. What? What is the objective? Impeachment is not a punitive instrument. It is protective instrument and we need to protect our people right now. The same violent white supremacist mobs that attacked us last week have said they're coming back to Washington on the 17th 18th and 19th in the 20th. This is a clear and present danger. People who think that we should just let bygones be bygones are not dealing with the reality of what took place last Wednesday in the continuing violence threat. You Republican government in the United States. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that the Senate will not begin a trial until Biden is inaugurated. Are you concerned that trial will distract from other items in Biden's agenda? Look, this president has obviously been severely derelict in dealing with all of the crisis of the nation that he's let run rampant, including Cove in 19, where now we lead the world, Of course, in case count in death counts and as well as propaganda about coded 19, so justice and protection of The Congress. The government and the people are goals right along with the public health and environmental defense and getting the economy moving again. How do you convince you convince 17 Republicans in the Senate, which is what you would need to convict? How would you convince them? I mean, isn't that going to be harder in the future than it would be right now? In this moment? Well, the Senate itself was attacked by an armed a violent mob, Senator Lindsey Graham. Said on the day this happened that they could have had a bomb. They could have blown us all up. So I think that will concentrate the month of the senators. I think that they Will be jurors who are going to look very carefully. What took place in this absolutely unprecedented attack on their chamber and on the peaceful transfer of power. Remember, all of this took place. On Wednesday, January 6th for a reason. This was a concentrated deterrent attack on our form of government. Let me ask you, though. What if Then former President Trump does not get convicted. What are the political consequences If he's vindicated like that? Look, he has already been impeached. He has not been convicted and removed. Um, office yet, but I see you're irresistible momentum towards that conclusion, so I really don't want to entertain your rather depressing hypothetical. He has been impeached today and the moment that we can separate him from power over the government is the moment that we will begin to restore safety and progress to our people. Congressman Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. He will lead the Democrats in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Thank you very much for your time today. Thank you for having me, Elsa. Across America and within the Republican Party of Reckoning has erupted over rhetoric leading up to the attack on the U. S. Capitol. Not so at the Fox News Channel, where people repeatedly claimed falsely that President Trump was cheated out of a victory in November. NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the Fox News Channel was the first network to call the pivotal state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night. Get some of the network's most popular figures have done something very different ever since an Intel source telling me that President Trump did. In fact, when the election he's that was Maria Bartiromo, Fox is deluged viewers with false claims, even allegations of betrayal and treason. And in the days preceding Congress's certification of Biden's win exhortations for citizens and lawmakers to do something about it. Here's Jeannine Pirro invoking the Revolutionary War, followed by Mark Levin and Lou Dobbs. As we're all being told to simply shut up and move on. January, 6 will tell us whether there are any in Congress willing to battle for the America that those soldiers fought for. On January 6. We learned whether our constitution will hold And whether the Republicans care. Wouldn't it be criminal? For these Republicans and particularly Republican senators, who are saying that they will not step forward. Among those watching Fox was an Air Force veteran named Ashley Babbitt. Babbitt was shot and killed last week as she participated in the pro Trump mob trying to enter the U. S. House speaker's lobby. Here's a video she posted to Social media two years ago. You guys refuse to choose America America over your stupid political party, but I am so tired of it. NPR reviewed Babette's Twitter feed, and Here's what we found. She shared conspiracy theories of Cuban on she watched Fox sometimes complained about it. But she also took inspiration from its hosts, commentators and frequent talking heads Retweeting them scores of times in the past year. Right after the election. She retweeted this video of Fox host Tucker Carlson. You can't simply tell people to accept an outcome because force doesn't work in a democracy that's dictatorship. The commercial radio giant Cumulus media has ordered its radio hosts to accept the legitimacy of President elect Biden's win. Social media companies have frozen accounts, including that of President Trump that it says have incited violence. Fox News staffers tell NPR The network has not had any such reckoning. Well, one responsibility that Fox News has is not to spread false conspiracy theories by doing so, what they are fueling a movement that they actually at the end of the day, can't control the Columbia University historian Nicole Hammer is a scholar of conservative media. She also writes columns for CNN's website. She says it's not enough that sometimes, Tucker Carlson and others urged Trump to accept the verdict or denounce violence, as many did in the aftermath of the capital insurrection. What you would like to see Is Fox news come forward and not only say that we're not going to spread these conspiracies anymore on our network, but we take responsibility for platform in these ideas and for spreading them instead. If you turn on Fox News now Hosts and personalities are focusing on what they say is an ominous new threat. Social media acting against pro Trump voices, here's Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. No relation to Nicole the events of last Wednesday, not withstanding the ultimate cancel culture. Would you not agree? Is when you can cancel a sitting U. S president, as his question suggests. Much of Fox's coverage involves moving focus away from the deadly attack of last week. David Folkenflik NPR news.
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"You know, people are using words like sedition. That's a hard one to avoid. But I think there are other ways of describing it, characterizing it precisely. That may not carry a legal definition that you can get tied down in In that way, You know, they're similarly a question of what the president did. Did he insight this violence? He certainly seemed to encourage a Physical battle. To ensure that people were prevented from doing this. Did he want there to be violence? When I say battle. I mean, like he talked about a fight a struggle and we're going to take it to them, he said. We're going to go to Capitol Hill. Now you know, folks who are sympathetic to him that parses words and say it nowhere here did he explicitly endorse violence? And that's probably right. But he certainly with them into a froth said I'll be with you and then took off back down Pennsylvania Avenue to go to the White House when when his aide said, You can't do that. I guess David Folkenflik, NPR's media correspondent. Let's go to our lines. Let's go to Kevin Online for Kevin. Thanks for calling all of it. You're on the air. Hey, thanks for putting me on. So where did you get your information? Kevin? Um, weirdly enough. Almost almost is instantly is used, though you fascist stormed the capital. I was watching a live stream directly from their phones and video. Um, uh, there were a lot. There's a lot of independent reporters that I follow on social media, mainly Twitter and as well as a lot of anti fascist groups that you know they've been focusing on these people for months. So the second the strings went live. This was being shared across the network, so a lot of the stuff I saw was right on the ground as it was happening. How did you feel about seeing it's without delay unfiltered. I feel like more people need to see if this way. I mean, when you actually Babbitt was shot and killed. That's not footage that you saw in the media, but it was up. Live stream, and that was a real impact of these sorts of action. That's the stuff that people just don't see an hour later a day later, what is being covered on mainstream media sources. Kevin. Thanks for calling and let's go to Rebecca Online eight calling in from Brooklyn. Hi, Rebecca. Thanks for calling all of it. Hi. Thank you for having me on Where did you get your information of the past In the past five days. Where did you get your information? Did it evolve? Did it change? It did well s so I happened to come, You know, back from a run at about the time that the cast the almost of the castle, the capital stormed on Wednesday, and I had turned on MSNBC and was basically glued to the to the screen for for the rest of the day. Um, so I was getting you know, MSNBC coverage and unlike Kevin was not seeing You know the the excruciating, violent detail that he was seeing. But throughout the weekend, the weekend I turned to social media Twitter mainly to see you know the actual Terrible videos of what was really going on. And then you know, watching the quips from Pelosi on 60 minutes to really get, you know an understanding of what was really going on in capital, which is so different than what I saw on MSNBC on Wednesday. It's one of those events that the more we learn, The more frightening it is. We're so lucky that these lawmakers and their staff didn't lose their lives. Thank you for calling in Rebecca. Cagey on Twitter said followed CNN in one room. W N Y C in the kitchen and scroll Twitter all watching and listening Private service shutting down on him. I'm okay with it. He isn't safe for the country. We have to figure it out. Going forward. We don't give terrorists megaphones. I'm talking Tonto, ours. Media correspondent David Folkenflik. That's the second part. Another part of this conversation. Another layer of this conversation is social media platforms. Deciding to stop being a platform for President Donald Trump. Twitter. FACEBOOK YouTube, the stream platform twitch have all silent given Donald Trump. And exit s so to speak to varying degrees. We've also heard that parlor which is an unmotivated platform. Apple and Google have kicked parlor off the APP stores. Amazon is not providing Web service. It's a lot, so I'm just gonna ask you. What's your opinion? As a media correspondent. I think that it is reasonable to expect private companies under intense public pressure. To think hard about what kinds of speech and discourse that they are not only enabling but amplifying to tens of millions of people. I also think it is worth our thinking. And you know when we think about First Amendment issues and the implications or analogous issues, the First Amendment after all, these private companies aren't government agencies and therefore aren't actually covered by the First Amendment the same way But These air platforms for speech, and it is in the troubling instances where we have to think hard about where we draw lines. And is it okay for a couple of Silicon Valley billionaires like Jack Dorsey? And Mark Zuckerberg to be the ones who can pull the plug on in some ways, the most important and influential, however, However disgraced and discredited and and disruptive he is a political figure in the country. Is it okay? They have the power to just sort of cut the mic and I think that Their ways in which it is, but I also think they have to think very hard about this. What they're doing is what I call at Hocking it where they're just They're just flying by the seat of their pants every time you know, they're invoking lofty principles, particularly Facebook Does this Twitter has tried to wrestle more openly? I think with this They're flying by the seat of their pants and figuring out you know, when is there just Is it too much to take? You know, Donald Trump's certainly said and did things that other times that could have gotten his account locked? Under policies that apply to everybody else in the free world. And they finally did it now with nine days left because, of course, the insurrection. The seizure of the capital essentially urged by the president, knighted states publicly was too much to bear. And they cited specific tweets to do so. We're asking you listeners What's been your main source of the information in the past week Has it evolved, and I were also curious. What's your take on social media, shutting down Donald Trump's accounts? Let's go to hit on line three from Bayville, New Jersey. Hi Kit. Thanks for calling all of it. Hi, Alison. Thank you for taking my call. What's on your mind? A couple of things. First of all, I tried really hard and I always have in the past four years to go back and forth between Um liberal media and conservative media, even though I'm a dyed in the wool liberals, So I was flipping back and forth between CNN coverage and Fox coverage. But as I told your screener I was literally crying while I was watching that because I have two young Children and I am deeply troubled about the direction our country is going in. And you mentioned before 9 11. And it reminded me Wednesday reminded me so much of how I felt on 9 11 just the shock and the horror.
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"Sir? Why are you saying that to me? Specifically, Specifically, it may matter that Jang is of Chinese descent. So he badgers, bullies and bulldozes, the White House press corps slanders and slaughters. Individual reporters marginalizes and mocks the media. Yet many feed on the conflict take cable news channels where some personalities developed into a hashtag resistance heroes. What is it about President Obama? That really Gets under your skin. Here's CNN's Don lemon speaking through the camera to Trump is it because he's smarter than you? Better educated, made it on his own didn't need Daddy's help. Like CNN, Anti Trump, MSNBC and pro Trump. Fox have enjoyed ratings records amid trump scandals and outrage. While local newspapers have flagged The New York Times and The Washington Post saw millions of new paying subscribers thanks in significant part toe unsparing investigations of Trump world that growth may not continue in the Biden years. Journalistic challenges, however, will linger. I do think that reporters are gonna be really paying attention to whether or not they're participating in the spread of misinformation. Kaddish, a costly white is a journalism professor at Rutgers University already seeing Reporters out right on the six PM news say this is untrue. This is not based in any reality, right? I mean, they were kind of trying to couch things that Trump says to make it very clear that it's it's not real information, costly White has written a book on conservative media and the Tea Party. She says Trump's core supporters have such strong feelings for him that he floats above journalistic reproof. For them. He's a brand rather than a politician, and his efforts to discredit the press have succeeded to a surprisingly large degree. It's up to the media to be believable, and it shouldn't be so easy for one guy to knock it all down. That's former Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron. When some overzealous exposes turned out to have holes in them, Trump exploited that sowing further mistrust in the media. And on the right. Fox gave Trump a warm embrace so warm that Cameron ultimately left the network. Yet even that wasn't enough. Trump has sought to drive audiences to even more loyal news outlets. Places like Newsmax O a N N gateway pundit. Places where groundless and harmful conspiracy theories thrive places. The president gets much of his own information. There are no guard rails, Anybody who has an iPhone or a laptop or just some way to communicate electronically. Can try to create a new Reality trumps going out just as he came in the media caught in his vortex has changed appreciably. David Folkenflik NPR news Athletes and their coaches have tried to compete safely during the pandemic, with varying degrees of success. Yesterday, the men's basketball teams from Boston University and Holy Cross played While wearing masks. Here is a state bamboo steals from member station GBH in Boston. College basketball without fans can feel like a shell of its normal self easily heard here in the quiet BU Jimmy run here, but a region steal by Johnson, Martin Dale, and he'll get the easy too. Also different. Both the BU Terriers and Holy Cross Crusaders wore masks during game play. While some high school basketball team's already do it. It's believed to be the first time two teams have donned masks in the division one men's game. After the contest, which the Crusaders 1 68 to 66 Holy Cross head coach Brett Nelson wasn't fazed. You know, we practice it him for for four months now and You know very unusual this whole pandemic, But honestly, once we got out, there are guys who used to playing with him, so I don't think it played into to the game it all Holy Cross senior guard Austin Butler admitted. There are different logistics involved in playing a real game masked up and you know it's hard to breathe. Sometimes they fall down and they get sweaty and they're hard to stay up. BU requires masks and all shared spaces on campus, including athletic events. For everyone be used been practicing with them since September. It's an extension of the uniforms for junior guard Jonas Harper. At first, it was a little irritating, but now that I've used him more and more, it's I've been getting used to it, and we're using it for a good reason, so that the other days it's the right measures to do face masks during games. That's new, as the Corona virus continues to reshape how sports are played for NPR.
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"It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Noel King, and I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. The past four years were a constant challenge for members of the media. The departing presidents business model was attacking the media, and he also let a sustained attack on truth. President's constant disinformation about matters large and small, went far beyond the ordinary range of political spin by the Andy was welcoming the support of conspiracy theorists and claiming he won an election that he obviously lost. NPR's David Folkenflik reports on how journalists faced that challenge and how it changed them. His political viability was born with the Birther lie about President Obama and Trump just kept on lying as he entered office. That was some crab when I looked at the numbers that happened to come in from all of the various sources We have the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway coined an instant classic, deflecting the skepticism of NBC's Chuck Todd by saying the administration was offering alternative facts. Then we were off to the races. It's not a policy. The president's then Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, warring with reporters over the separation of adult migrants from their Children at the southern border. Are you intending for parents to be separated from their Children? Are you intending to send a message? I find that offensive? No. In fact, the administration had set up that policy quite purposefully as others, including the sitting attorney general affirmed. Trump has sailed scientists when they contradicted his claims, assailed weather forecasters, public health experts, his attacks on the truth interwoven with attacks on the press itself. That is a line Fake news back there. That's how I'm the president and you affect is totally fake news made up fake and then on individual reporters. I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. Particularly women. Reporters, especially women of color, impress such a racist. There's some people that that to you, Michelle Center PBS who is black. This to CBS is wish Jang who questioned Trump's boasts about handling covert 19. Don't ask me has China that question. Okay, when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. Yes, behind you, Please. What, sir? Why are you.
BBC World Service
Debate commission promises changes after chaotic first face-off
"Debates is promising some changes to ensure that the process is more constructive. The move comes after President Trump ran roughshod over Democratic rival Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News during Tuesday's debate in Cleveland. NPR's David Folkenflik has more Trump attacked Biden, his family and Wallace himself. Issues were often left on the sidelines. ABC is George Stephanopoulos called it the worst debate he's seen in his decades long life in politics and journalism. CNN's Jake Tapper called it a hot mess inside a Dumpster fire. CNN's Dana bash. Well, I probably can't repeat what she said live on the air unless I want NPR stations to incur huge fines. The commission says the debate quote made clear that additional structure should be added to the format to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues, and it promised more tools from moderators to quote. Maintain order. Presumably, both candidates would have to agree, and Trump's campaign says that would move the goal posts and change the rules. Mid match. David
Weekend Edition Saturday
James Murdoch resigns from News Corp board over editorial differences
"Murdoch Murdoch has resigned from the board of directors of News Corps, the publishing arm of his family's media empire. As NPR's David Folkenflik reports. It's very public evidence of the rupture within the Murdoch Family News Corp owns The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and major papers in the UK in Australia. It's sister company, Fox Court on Fox News. It was all built by Rupert Murdoch, who pitted his two sons, Lachlan and James, against each other to succeed him. Lachlan, who's more conservative, prevailed in resigning, James sighted unspecified editorial choices by the company. He earlier criticized the Murdochs Australian papers for discounting the role climate change is played in deadly wildfires there. More recently, The Journal's opinion section sparked objections in its own newsroom over claims about the pandemic and black lives. Matters protests. While Fox News is technically separate. Some of its recent segments have been widely denounced his racist even by some Fox news staffers and its provided strong support for President Trump.
All Of It
Former Fox News host Ed Henry accused of rape in lawsuit
"Culture of sexual harassment at the Fox News Channel. The case implicates some of the networks. Major stars. NPR's David Folkenflik reports that Fox rejects the allegations. Except for those against recently fired host at Henry. The most grave accusations were made by former Fox Business Network producer Jennifer Eckhart. She says that Henry repeatedly sent her graphic texts and images. Promising to propel her career and that she initially yielded to his advances. She also alleges that on other occasions, Henry sexually assaulted and raped her. Fox terminated her last month. This month, Fox News fired Henry, citing willful sexual misconduct in the workplace. Henry's lawyer says the two had a provably consensual relationship. Fox contributor, Kathy Aru alleges she was propositioned by Henry and separately by Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz. Fox has a thorough review by an outside law firm found Arosa allegations quote false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit except those against Henry, whom the network noted it fired. David Folkenflik,
All Things Considered
Tucker Carlson writer resigns after racist posts revealed
"A top writer at the Fox News Channel, has resigned after it was revealed that he had written a Siri's of racist and sexist post under a pseudonym. NPR's David Folkenflik reports, Blake Neth wrote for a primetime show hosted by Tucker Carlson. The writer Blake Neff posted about blacks, Asian Americans and women for years, suggesting whites needed to defend themselves against a society increasingly defined by people of color. Among the ways CNN identified him a selfie Neff posted online showed him in the reflection of a window taking the picture. Fox confirmed Neff's resignation but would not comment. Carlson has repeatedly been condemned for flirting with racism and sexism, or according to critics even embodying them. Most recently, Carlson question the patriotism of Senator Tammy Duckworth's a double amputee from her U. S Army days when Iraqi insurgents blasted the helicopter. She was flying out of the sky, she's of Thai descent. Crossing did not come in about Neff. But in a segment Friday night, he complained of an online mob, especially, he said CNN. David Folkenflik. NPR
Radiolab
Tucker Carlson writer resigns after racist posts revealed
"The top writer for Fox News star Tucker Carlson's Primetime Show, has resigned after CNN revealed he'd written a Siri's of racist and sexist posts under a pseudonym. NPR's David Folkenflik reports. The incident brings fresh scrutiny to Carlson over his commentaries. The writer Blake never posted about blacks, Asian Americans and women for years, suggesting whites needed to defend themselves against a society increasingly defined by people of color. Among the way CNN identified him a selfie Neff posted online showed him in the reflection of a window taking the picture. Fox confirmed Neff's resignation but would not comment. Carlson has repeatedly been condemned for flirting with racism and sexism, or according to critics even embodying them. Most recently, Carlson question the patriotism of Senator Tammy Duckworth's a double amputee from her U. S Army days when Iraqi insurgents blasted the helicopter. She was flying out of the sky. Issues of Thai descent. Crossing did not come in about Neff. But in a segment Friday night, he complained of an online mob, especially, he said, CNN. David Folkenflik. NPR NEWS
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife
"Mike Bloomberg's presidential bid led to tough scrutiny particularly about his company's frequent reliance on nondisclosure agreements for employees. One of the people under a nondisclosure agreement is a former employee who years ago worked on an investigative story about Chinese leaders. Bloomberg News killed that story. It also tried to silence his spouse. Npr's David Folkenflik reveals. What happened at debate? Elizabeth Warren Challenge Bloomberg. What about complaints about him Mr Mayor? Are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements? So we can hear their side of the story. Bloomberg tried to move past it. We have a very few nondisclosure agreements. Finish Bloomberg's blase response outrage the writer late. Hong fincher full disclosure award supporter finger points to the widespread use of such as by the company. Bloomberg founded the company uses them to handle complaints of sexual harassment and hostile work environment. According to reports ventures complaint is not that. I don't know exactly what happened to those women but I do know how incredibly terrifying it is to be threatened and bullied into signing a nondisclosure agreement in two thousand thirteen ventures husband. Michael Forsyth was a reporter for Bloomberg News in Beijing Bloomberg had already published his team's investigation into the wealth of the families of Communist Party leaders. The Chinese Ambassador had warned the company against publishing death threats followed venture and forsyth moved to Hong Kong yet. The team kept reporting. He continued to do an investigation and it was that story. This story on longed in China's honest man and his ties to senior Chinese Communist leaders including Jinping Z. Had just become president of China and I saw these emails from the editors praising it meaning the reporting saying that. Yeah it's it's. We're really excited about this. We can't wait to move it forward. Three former Bloomberg journalists verified this account after that however radio silence. The story never ran Serrao Mike. Her husband Mike and some of the other reporters. And Editors who had been working on this story. Just we're asking for answers about why. Why was this story killed the famously intense founding editor in chief of Bloomberg News finally weighed in? That's Matthew Winkler back then. To Editors told me the story needed work. That's not the reason we are cited for killing it. It is for sure going to invite the Communist Party to completely shut us down. Take us out of the country so I just don't see that a story that is just divide. This recording winkler on in October twenty thirteen conference call weekly praised the team but warned about covering the Chinese regime which he called it everywhere and who they are and we should have no illusions that the Chinese authorities had search Bloomberg's bureaus delayed visas for reporters and ordered state owned companies not to sign new leases for Bloomberg terminals the terminals offer subscribers specialized financial data and are the most important source of the company's profits and China was seen as a growing market and a strategic priority again. Matthew Winkler is the information they do have away that enables car to report but not Elsa Prophet Bloomberg News N Winkler. Who's retired as editor in chief declined to comment in two thousand thirteen? Mike Bloomberg was mayor of New York City and denied Bloomberg News Killed The China Story. Two months later back at the company he founded asked about the China controversy again. Mike Bloomberg said it was arrogant to impose American values on others if a country gives you a license to do something off with certain restrictions. You have two choices either. Accept the license and do it that way. Well you don't do business there. Npr also obtained audio of these remarks. Mike Bloomberg to his global newsroom Bloomberg said the newsroom should be proud of its China coverage then said all organizations have bad apples. Some staffers thought that was aimed at the China. Investigative team. Bloomberg News fired Mike Foresight. He was accused of leaking news of the killed project other outlets. He landed at the New York Times and would not comment for the story. He signed a nondisclosure agreement with Bloomberg LP lawyers for Bloomberg's company pressured someone else to sign one foresights wife later Hong fincher. The company's lawyers threatened to force her to pay a six figure sum if she didn't agree to keep silent about her husband's work. Here's venture. There was no reason why I should have to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Because I didn't possess any damaging material about the company venture recalls being summoned to the high rise offices of Bloomberg's Hong Kong lawyers. Her husband was there too. And then this lawyer from New York on that. I mean giant image of his face on the video screens said but what about all the evidence? That's in her head venture says. She walked out of the conference room and left the building. They assumed that because I was the wife of their employees. I was the wife I was just an appendage of their employees I was not a human being ventures former CNBC correspondent who was finishing up PhD. She bristled and hired top-flight lawyers and finally the company let it go now. Mike Bloomberg has returned to his company. Wants more but venture isn't letting her question go. What else in his newsroom she asks is hidden by those nondisclosure agreements.
Morning Edition
CBS News announces anchor changes at "CBS This Morning," "CBS Evening News"
"Morning. There is a shakeup underway at CBS news this morning. The network announced major changes to its flagship shows this Gayle king on CBS this morning. We are announcing some major changes today moving forward working to get even better at what we do. Those major changes come amid ratings concerns for CBS this morning and also for the CBS evening news. And also after a series of harassment revelations rocked this network in recent years joining us now with more NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik morning. David. Hey, do to what is happening CBS. And why why is it happening now? So let's first talk about what's happening. You're going to see Nora O'Donnell, leave CBS this morning. It's that's their their morning news show, and she's going to become the anchor of CBS evening news. You know, the newscast once host by Dan rather on kites storage show. She's replacing Jeff glor- who's been there less. Than eighteen months. You're going to see a little bit of rotating chairs happening on the morning show. She is doing that John Dickerson's going to leave the morning show and the coin correspondent for a sixty minutes. And you're going to see the remaining this show built around. Gayle king who's been there who's really a sword in recent years, but particularly even in the last year landing a bunch of news making interviews, including a memorable one with our Kelly's been accused of so many crimes memorable interview to say the least. Yeah, really intense and really brilliantly handled by king, and she'll be joined by Anthony Mason longtime Saturday morning show host. He's been a longtime evening news anchor Fillon at a correspondent for the network. Anthony Mason, we'll also be joined by a twenty dokoupil a correspondent for for the network, and those those figures will be rotating in and around these these major programs, and what about the timing is is there something. Significant that CBS is going through all the shuffling at this moment. What does it tell us will even seeing a lot of coverage in a lot of rumors and speculation about what was going to happen? CBS had won some audience and also gotten a lot of morale boost by pursuing harder news edge for its morning show and for the evening news, and yet ratings had sagged in recent years, Jeff chlorine, some ways was expected to be the solution. He replaced got Pelley after Kelly's ratings after initial boost had had declined and there've been some tension between Pelley, the former anchor and former CBS news president David Rhodes glare was supposed to solve onto this under under roads and had not done. So and there've been a question of what's going to happen to pairing of John Dickerson, quite brilliant. Former moderator of face the nation had not had the same level of success as the morning show. It had under Charlie rose. And so they said something's going to happen. Too risky was named at the beginning of the year to shake things up in the shakeup was hers. So is. Is it just about ratings or how much of this has to do with the the sexual harassment scandals that we've seen this network through? Well, you seen a network. The network rocked by sexual harassment scandal from the top les Moonves, the chairman of CBS the entire parent network Inc. As well as Jeff Fager, the former chairman of CBS news in the longtime executive producer, sixty minutes, which is far and away in some ways, the most important show, certainly money maker for CBS CBS evening news CBS this morning. Have sort of been perennial third rated shows Charlie Rose's departure from CBS this morning in late twenty seven teen really rocked the chemistry and rock the stability of CBS news, but they had hoped to Dickerson could stabilize that. This sentence is the latest domino to fall from that. They want to stabilize the show want to stabilize the network insurance scheme particularly wants to show it's hers, and she's going to find a path forward for CBS. All right. Big changes today at
NPR's Business Story of the Day
'National Enquirer' And American Media's Other Tabloids Are For Sale
"Support for this podcast and the following message. Come from the almond board of California working with almond farmers to improve water management practices. Learn more about the almond communities efforts to reduce the amount of water. It takes to grow each pound of almonds at almondsustainability dot org. The National Enquirer, you know. It's usually on sale at grocery store checkout stands with its sensational headlines. You might have read some as you've been waiting in line. Will it is now up for sale its parent company. American media Inc. Says it intends to sell several of its tabloids including the Enquirer and this comes after some controversial years for one thing. AM I reportedly tried to help President Trump's campaign by buying and suppressing a story from a former playboy model who claims she had an affair with Trump in February Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post and CEO of Amazon accused the Enquirer of extortion and blackmail, and now comes this potential sale. Let's talk to NPR's David Folkenflik about it. Hey, david. Hey, david. So there was Karen McDougal former playboy model. There was Jeff Bezos in his accusation. Some I mean, I just remind us about all these controversies the magazine is faced we'll think back to what we now know about the two thousand sixteen race. Karen McDougal had claimed to have a significant relationship. Extra marital affair with the president and were subsequently introduced the phrase catch and kill the the inquirer facilitated one hundred and fifty thousand dollar payout. Two McDougal extensively to paired right column for a sister publication men's journal actually to ensure that store never saw the light of day during the election season separately, Jeff Bezos in January took to medium posted a platform. And basically said, hey, by the way, not only have I been having an extramarital affair with my girlfriend, but the inquirer is all over it. And Furthermore, I became aware that they're all over it. And they have been trying to blackmail me and extort me into issuing a statement saying that no way was this politically motivated because of their ties to President Trump, and they were threatening to publish very intimate. Photographs of me. I'm not. Gonna stand for it. Here's what I have to say. I mean, and it's worth just pausing and reflecting it at at Trump's ties to all of this. I mean, he's close to to the guy runs the magazine right Detroit. This is not in any way, an accident. David pecker, the determine the controlling executive at American media Inc. The parent company has long had ties with Donald Trump. They consider each other friends and Trump grew up in the sort of more. Hey and morass of tabloid news here in New York City doing business with Murdoch's New York Post doing business with the National Enquirer ensuring favorable coverage and trying to tamp down on negative coverage of him. Will you saw that play out on its pages with cover story after cover story reason questions about Hillary Clinton's morality Bill Clinton about her health, and you saw that about positive and sort of glowing coverage of Trump and also the lack of coverage of the kind of scandals that the inquire usually traffics in so the company is saying this is a business decision. But I mean, there's a report in the New Yorker that as recently as twenty seventeen company was thinking about how to actually. Expand its its portfolio of magazines. So I mean is is this the controversies that that really changed fortunes for them. Or is this story more complicated. Well, you could say both, you know, in twenty ten parent company declared, bankruptcy, there's significant debt surrounding and hanging over national enquirers parent company, but you can't separate this from the scandals the Washington Post in its reporting claims that the hedge fund manager who sort of controlling owner. Now of American media says that he's disgusted by what he's learned. The this is not really anything new for the inquirer. But don't forget the legal trouble. The inquirer has been in. You know, it got dragged into the investigation. Michael Cohen and others. It had to essentially negotiate with prosecutors in order to avoid prosecution, and indeed the bazo scandal may raise the legal stakes once more. I mean, we we've probably all joked at the grocery store checkout stand like looking at the health who would ever by the National Enquirer. When now it's like a more serious question. Who would by the national inquirer will you know in a in a straight world, you might say TMZ that digital gossip site. It's hard to. No, it's damage brand. It is a notable brands somebody made by as a play thing. Or there's been speculation. Jeff Bezos would wanna strangle it by it and put it out while different kinds of catch. Another chapter of the story. Yeah. In paris. David folkenflik. Thanks, david. You bet.
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New CBS Report Says Les Moonves Misled Investigators And Destroyed Evidence
"Support for this podcast and the following message. Come from internet essentials from Comcast. Connecting more than six million low income people to low cost high speed internet at home. So students are ready for homework class graduation and more. Now, they're ready for anything the former head of CBS less moon. Viz stepped down from his post in September. After multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and assault. Now, he is accused of trying to cover it up. A report from lawyers hired by CBS says move as destroyed evidence and misled investigators he was supposed to walk away from the company with a hundred and twenty million dollars in severance pay. But if the allegations are true CBS could take that money away or joined now by NPR media. Correspondent David Folkenflik who's been covering this? Thanks for being here. David morning ritual. So destroying evidence misleading. Investigators those are big claims. What more do we know? Well, it's not good CBS board hired two major law firms. To look at this this draft report of teen by the New York Times, what they say that he, you know. This big media magnate, the last of the great Hollywood chieftains in some ways, you know, behaved like somebody screaming to protect themselves from indictment that he lied to the investigators for the law firms that he deleted taxonomy of techniques change with the manager of woman over the course of potato last year, a who had alleged that moon visited tried to essentially course, a sexual act from her a two decades ago when she was inspiring actress, and you know, to give you some sense of the scope that we're talking about not only did those things, but in small way, he was asked to hand over digital devices that the investigators could look at instead of handing over his own ipad. He handed over that of his son. So there are now new allegations against last move as right? What can you tell us about? What has recently come out? Right. Well, I we should say they they reached a eleven of the seventeen women who have made allegations that he sexually harassed them or worse. And they say they found them credible that they weren't able to prove it, but they found out some other things they allege in this draft report that at least four times. Or he secured forgive me, this a CD folks, but oral sex from a CBS employees that is his subordinates in ways that they called a transactional. And this is a quote, they say they're circumstance that sound transactional. Improper the extent. There was no hint of any relationship romance arrest property, especially given what we know about his history of more or less forced oral sex with women with whom he has had no ongoing relationship, and I want to insert here that his lawyer maintains that all of the sexual contact. He has had with CBS employees of wise has been consensual. But Furthermore, the investigators said there's an employee suspected on call a subordinate. Was essentially there so that he could have oral sex on demand. And this is again, something where his lawyer says all sexual contact was consensual. He's not denying that sexual contact Kurd. In addition aboard member of Arnold copen was told before joining the board that by woman who said that choose therapist who said that Moonves has had sexually assaulted her. And he didn't inform the rest of the board. He still took the board position and upon learning of two instances, or at least one instance where women alleged sexual harassment severe sexual harassment the communications she for CBS longtime Gil Schwartz drafted resignation letter. But when we invest didn't decide to resign. He didn't tell board members or do anything else about it. Wow. What has health as mean for moon visas future? I mean, just in the short term is it gonna keep severance packet. It seems very unlikely that the board would be able to to grant him those one hundred twenty million dollars as part of his severance. But it's also reflective of a culture where there was seemed to be no accountability were governance itself seems to fail at CBS not just on the part of invests. All right NPR's, David Folkenflik on this story this morning. Thanks so much, David. We appreciate it. You bet.
All Things Considered
Hamas and Israel ceasefire talks
"Not also the dipping unemployment rate has made it harder for some manufacturers to fill open jobs. There are very few employees available to hire right now and those that don't have jobs either don't want them or are not hire those stories after this news. Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Jim hawk in south western. Virginia residents of one hundred fifty homes remain evacuated as thority check out a rain-swollen damn to Mitchell Lindbergh's director. Of water resources says the dam is currently stable but he's asking, people who were evacuated to stay out of their. Homes until there's dry weather we want to get past this weather, system is coming up before we allow people to return to their homes but once we get past. That, and determine the dam is safe we will prevail out of an abundance of caution we will be providing a twenty four hour seven day a week continuous monitoring of the dam just. To. Be sure that it's safe out of an abundance of potion again the college lake dam began overflowing Thursday when heavy rain swept through the region. In Gaza the Islamic group HAMAs says it's holding high level talks about a possible cease fire with Israel NPR's Daniel estrin says it's aimed at ending months of Violence HAMAs says it's holding a major meeting of its. Political leadership in Gaza including some leaders who are based in other parts of the region indicating the seriousness of. The talks a HAMAs website says Egypt has brokered efforts to reach, a ceasefire with Israel it's also attempting a reconciliation. Between HAMAs and the rival Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank, and trying to ease Gaza's humanitarian crisis which includes water and electricity shortages Israeli officials said Prime Minister. Benjamin, Netanyahu cancelled a trip abroad he's reportedly discussing the talks with his cabinet Sunday meanwhile there were renewed Palestinian protests at, the fence separating Gaza and Israel Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops. Killed. At least one Palestinian Daniel estrin NPR news Jerusalem A federal judge in New York. City has dismissed to lawsuits against Fox. News channel over its botched coverage of the death of a young, Democratic Party staffer named Seth, rich as NPR's David. Folkenflik reports, the judge said the plaintiffs failed the state of valid. Legal claim FOX's story alleged that, an FBI, source and a private investigator working on the case had found evidence Richard been linked to the leaking of Democratic Party emails during the two thousand sixteen presidential campaign and suggested his death might. Be related to the, leaks the private investigator is rod Wheeler he'd been hired. By Dallas investment manager intent on rebutting official findings that Russia had the emails hacked to help candidate Donald Trump Wheeler sued saying FOX, put words in his mouth FOX. Withdrew the story, after an, outcry the, judge said Wheeler could. Not avoid his own role in quote perpetuating a. Politically, motivated story not having any basis in fact the judge dismissed the second lawsuit by, Seth, rich parents they intend to appeal David Folkenflik NPR news New, York On Wall Street Friday stocks closed, up after a solid jobs, report the s&p five. Hundred index, gained thirteen points the Dow climbed one hundred thirty six. The NASDAQ composite up nine points, this is, NPR news Houston's police chief says. A man accused of killing one of former President George h.w Bush doctors killed himself when confronted by police, authorities say sixty two year old Joseph James Pappas died from a single self inflicted shot. Friday morning he'd been the subject of an intense manhunt since July twentieth the pro football. Hall of fame in canton Ohio will. Enshrine eight new members on Saturday from member station w. k. SU Kabeer body I reports it's a class that's. Generated interest both on and off the field wide receiver Terrell Owens will not, be in canton for, this year ceremony citing a perceived lack of respect for having to wait till his third year of eligibility Ray Lewis Welby there. Honored for an impressive seventeen seasons with the Baltimore Ravens but during his career he also pleaded guilty to obstruction of Justice in connection with the. Stabbing deaths of two men during a Super Bowl after party the senior committee this year selected. Jerry Kramer who played for the Green. Bay Packers team that won the. First two Super Bowls Robert doctor doom Brazil rounding out this year's class are linebacker Brian. Urlacher receiver Randy moss defensive back Brian. Dawkins and executive Bobby Beth for NPR news I'm Kabeer Bhatia in canton Ohio eight places in Portugal broke local. Temperature records Friday as a wave of heat from North Africa swept across the, Iberian peninsula forecasters are, predicting the scorching temperatures could get even worse over the weekend temperatures built to one hundred thirteen degrees Friday and many inland areas. Of Portugal and we're expected the top one hundred sixteen degrees in some places on Saturday I'm Jim hawk NPR news in Washington Support for. NPR comes from the Lemelson foundation committed to improving lives through invention in the US and in developing countries and working to inspire and enable the next, generation of inventors more information is available at Lemelson dot org and the Robert. Wood Johnson foundation at RWJF dot org.
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New York brings internal charges against officer in Garner chokehold death
"Comcast forced a bidding war the new frontier is the British-based satellite TV giant sky FOX's at the tail end. Of a years. Long process to acquire the sixty one percent of the firm it does not already own and would, be poised to convey that to Disney in the sale Comcast launched a bidding war for the sixty one percent of, sky to and it's still on the hunt David Folkenflik NPR news Stocks finished lower across the board on Wall. Street today the. Dow dropped one hundred thirty four points the NASDAQ lost twenty nine points the SNP fell eleven points, or, four tenths of a percent this is NPR, news and this is WNYC in. New York I'm David I forty nine buildings have been evacuated and their occupants will have to find, other places to sleep for the. Next couple of nights due. To this morning's steam pipe explosion in Manhattan's flatiron district mayor de Blasios census Bastos was found. In the pipes enclosure and then it will probably take a couple of days to decontaminate the buildings closest. To the blast site Brief exposure is. Not a. Problem through the air but if this material is in a building if it's on clothing that is a real concern we do not want anything that might cause repeated exposure five people sustained. Minor injuries the stretch of Fifth Avenue between nineteen and twenty second, is expected to stay close to pedestrian bike and motor vehicle traffic for the next few days as well The board charge of investigating police misconduct in New York City is. Moving forward with charges against the officer who apply, to fatal chokehold to Stanton island man Eric, garner four years ago, the civilian complaint review board. Says it was informed this morning that the federal government, has released, its hold on. The investigation into NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo the board says it has been ready to prosecute Pantaleo and is now in the process of formerly filing charges against him The town of Babylon on. Long Island has acquired eight properties destroyed in hurricane sandy, and intends to leave them as open space w. s. h. us Terry Sheridan, reports the parcels of land near the water on Venetian promenade and Granada Parkway in Lyndon Hurst well bought by the town as part of the state's enhanced buyout program under the program the properties are needed. To be forever undeveloped Babylon's waterway supervisor Brian satanic says two of the. Properties will be incorporated into an adjacent park the other six, properties are along one of our creek. And that's an opportunity where we'll looking into letting it go back to nature but we're going to help the state bought all the properties from the, original, owners for just over two, million dollars and removed all structures and debris before selling them to the town for a nominal fee New York City's largest solar power system. Is now open on Stanton island nine thousand panels will generate four million kilowatts for Fordham university and it's prep school in the Bronx The state government and con Edison helped finance the project it is part. Of governor Cuomo's plan to generate fifty percent of.
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Comcast, Israel and Sky FOX discussed on Morning Edition
"Made a splashy offer but Comcast forced a bidding war the new frontier. Is the British-based satellite TV giant. Sky FOX's at the tail end of a years long process to acquire the sixty one percent of, the firm it does not already own and would. Be poised to convey that to Disney in the sale Comcast launched a bidding war for. The sixty one percent of sky too and it's still, on the hunt David Folkenflik NPR news The Israeli parliament, passed a law defining Israel's identity as the nation state of. The Jewish people that's caused controversy with critics, arguing the law undermines equality for Israel's of the hats non-jewish citizens NPR's Daniel estrin. Has more much like a, constitutional amendment the law enshrines.
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AT&T, Justice Department await decision that could determine future of media
"This is morning edition from npr news good morning i'm david green and i'm rachel martin today may mark the beginning of some big changes in the american media industry a federal judge will hand down his decision on whether at and t is free to take over time warner time warner owns warner brothers studios and numerous cable channels at and t provides broadband and telephone services and also owns direct tv the justice department opposes this deal steve inskeep talked with npr's david folkenflik about what's at stake so why would the justice department be opposed the justice department has said that it's too big too big is too much that consumers are gonna be throttled by the idea of these it's almost two halves of the same industry the people who create the content the people who funneled to you getting together it's too much problems with it they want to protect the consumer that's the argument trump made that claim on the campaign trail and he also at times seemed to tie it to his critique of cnn which of course is one of time warner's major properties so the implied not quite explicit shit but heavily implied threat is that trump didn't like cnn's coverage and therefore he was going to go after cnn's corporate parent because they had this vulnerability they wanted approval for this merger that's right now to be fair the head of his antitrust unit is widely respected by lawyers on both sides of this case in both sides of this issue but even though the judge barred discussion of trump's statements on this it looms over the entire case with that said there is this real question right i mean the question of cnn or hp our tnt getting into my house over an at and t broadband connection and is that too much power in one place that's the issue.
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Ceo, Hasbro and Us discussed on NPR News Now
"He said was quote based primarily on speculation and conjecture it capped a good week for fox which named a new female ceo and reach settlements resolve eighteen accusations of bias and retaliation david folkenflik npr news new york one of childhood's most enduring sensory memories has been trademarked toy maker hasbro says the scent of playdoh now has an official registered trademark with the us patent and trademark office hasbro describes the scent of play doh as quote sweet slightly musky vanilla with light overtones of cherry combined with the smell of assaulted week based oh i'm louise schiavone npr news washington.
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Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor
"Nbc news is again at the center of a storm to women including a former nbc correspondent have accused retired anchor tom brokaw of sexually harassing them in the nineteen nineties and former today show host and curry said she warned nbc about matt lauer four years before his firing for sexual harassment and joy reed a host of on sister channel msnbc she's also in hot water for a past blog post that demeaned gay people she claims the comments were actually the work of hackers to frame her as a homophobe so let's dig in here let's bring an npr media correspondent david folkenflik david hey robin little disclosure here tom brokaw was a mentor of mine of sorts i subbed for jane pauley at nbc cohosted the today show with tom for years you know people are probably gonna this is probably going to feel familiar he was thought of as the salt of the earth from south dakota married his college sweetheart sweetheart and then we have this interview with a variety with former correspondent linda investor describing a time when brokaw invited himself to a hotel room where she was staying he took the same hand reach behind my head and tried to force me to kiss him i pulled back with all the strength i could muster and stood up and i said tom i do not want to do this with you david this is shocking to a lot of people tell us more about the allegations will veterans spoke with variety shell spoke with the washington post she said she was making these allegations public not because she wants every anything from it she's not gonna sue the networker sue brokaw but she claims that she has not seen the network address these issues seriously enough she said she wanted this to be known she said there were two instances in particular in which brokaw effectively sexually harassed her and that he sort of aggressively flirted with her on what's called the top line system it was kind of early rudimentary texting or email system within the network and she told friend about it at the time that's boca additionally with the washington post she provided samples of her diary from that era in the nineteen nineties and so there is you know seeming if not con.