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KCBS All News
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on KCBS All News
"Measures on a slightly less aggressive time frame as well. So a lot of actions happening all at once. Real quick, just going to remind everyone that this is kcbs in depth. I'm Keith manconi. Today we are talking about what it's going to take to electrify the Bay Area's homes, getting some sparks of insight from Lucas Davis, he's a professor at UC Berkeley's high school of business, also speaking with Panama Bartholomew, executive director of the building decarbonization coalition. So as we said, a lot's going on. But since news has been percolating out about these possible new rules, residents have also been voicing concerns. In fact, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the ear districts public comments have drawn in well north of 500 letters and emails. Many in support of the changes we should say, but many coming from folks who are really worried about what it's going to mean for their homes and I want to go through some of those worries with you both right now and we'll see if we can come up with any answers to those concerns. I've got to hold this to go through. First up, people are worried about the cost of these new electric appliances. Just looking at the sticker price of these electric appliances. And I know it's a more complicated equation than that, but just looking at the sticker price alone, they are more expensive. Heat pumps, for example, will set you back a few thousand more dollars to buy and install than their gas counterparts. Panama Bartholomew, what do you say to residents who worry that when their gas appliances break, they're simply not going to be able to afford to replace them with the newer electric versions. Going back again to those comments at the chronicle reported on, some are worried this could actually force them out of their homes. And I should say upfront Keith that some of the members of our coalition are the manufacturers of gas equipment. The gas appliances as well as electric alternatives. And that's the good news here, is that most every manufacturer, the manufacturer's gas furnaces in this country and sells at a large scale, also manufacturers, heat pumps. And so that's going to be very helpful as we transition the supply chain over to a mainstreaming high efficiency electric appliances. And just a quick if you could maybe the 22nd explanation on what a heat pump is. Yeah, absolutely. So a heat pump is works a little bit like magic. It uses a refrigerant and a condenser in order to move heat from one location into another. You have a kind of technology like this in your refrigerator if you have a refrigerator on that uses a refrigerator and use of the refrigerant gas to be able to extract heat out of your refrigerator and put it out into your kitchen or wherever else you may have your refrigerator. And so that's one way to think about how we keep pump works, but a heat pump is incredibly efficient because you're basically just using electricity to run the condenser and to run potentially a fan in order to be able to move that heat or cool air around. And so they can come in at two to four times more efficient than the best in flask gas alternative for eating space or heating water. And so for an 8 track system for a heating ventilation air conditioning system sold here in California for a single-family home is about 15 to $20,000. That's the same cost for a heat pump installation that's going to provide those same benefits to you of heating and cooling your home, but heat pump water heater comes in right now installation about $4000. Let me pump a non heat pump water heater or gas water gear comes in about $3000. The good news is, with the federal inflation reduction act, we just got $2000 tax credits passed for the next ten years that are going to be eligible for people to be able to help to offset the costs of installing these appliances. There's some other programs that will be coming out from the state and then a federal government as well, but I'll hopefully be able to draw those down and I think we're going to be seeing a scenario where you're going to have high efficiency electric appliances actually coming in at a lower price than gas appliances due to all these programs. And we're talking about 6 years for when all of this is going to be said and done for these new regulations. If they are indeed passed in the Bay Area, do you think that that timeline that you're talking about is going to give folks enough time to get ready, these programs enough time to get online? That's the plan. I would say that we are not prepared for climate change and the impacts of climate change. We have a legacy regulatory structure, a legacy and energy infrastructure, and a legacy market for water heaters and air conditioning and furnaces. And so the transition is not going to be simple and straightforward. And we're going to have to work together to make it make it happen. But the plan is that by setting clear goals for when we're going to be phasing out the sale of gas appliances and then investing heavily in the supply chain and the workforce to be able to get there, that by the time these regulations go into effect, we will have gotten rid of some of the economic inefficiencies in this market. Speaking with Panama, Bartholomew, I want to bring a related worry to you. That is that some older homes don't have the correct electrical setup to support all these new electrical appliances. Talking here about electric panels in particular, apparently, and I'm no expert just quoting what I've read in the newspaper. Apparently, 200 amp panels are what a lot of folks recommend to that you need to go all electric in your home. Getting a retrofit of these is another large expense, can also be very time consuming, and the chronicle reports some are so worried about this, that they're calling for the new rules to include a carve out for homes with these older panels, Panama, Bartholomew. Let's start with the basics here for the non electricians among us. Why is this a consideration, how big of an issue do you see it as being? And what can be done to address it? Sure. So when you look at the appliances, you're going to be installing an electrifying your album, you have a heat pump water heater, a heat pump, some sort of an electric stove and probably an electric dryer. And each of those has an electrical draw that will require you to likely make upgrades to your house to bring new 220 Volt wiring to your appliances and can very likely
WLS-AM 890
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"In a damn thing theoretical about it. All right, so they've got our media politicians, The White House, educational institutions, they've advertised their plan for over a century now, communists around the globe. I mean, Mike, at least at least we have the sports world. I mean sports, we've always had athletes willing to call out truth to power, right? So, you know, thank the lord that we have sports institutions who are holding out. I mean, that's good to know, right? Wait, what is this? Oh, my just sent me this piece. I just got, he's like, damn, I'm sorry, I don't mean to fact check you on the air. San Francisco Chronicle. Benefits of the NBA China partnership. Well, there's the money. Mike, it's really, please, stop embarrassing me under your show. Can you just play the game for a bit? He can. He's like, I have a responsibility to our audience to tell the truth. So Dan, what you're telling us now is, for over a hundred years, communists around the world of the Chinese Soviet and Italian variety and all kinds of communists everywhere. Have called for a long march to institutions, and you've just provided the receipts that they're in our education, our media, sports, politics, the Senate, the house, and that sounds like that could be trouble. Yeah, yeah, I mean only if you're not a moron. It sounds like trouble to me. You see why the spy balloon stories, not about a spy balloon. You see why the Biden hiding is documents dealing with China is not really about documents. It's about something far bigger. But don't worry, folks. Don't sweat it. At least we have Hollywood. I mean, the entertainment world is powerful. People listen to these people. They may not be bright. They play make believe for a living, but people listen to them. So at least we've got that. I'll describe that at how they've been definitely holding out on the other side of the break. We'll be right back. Paid for by Christian care ministry. Let's be real, retirement is expensive. And inflation is making it even harder with the cost of everything going up from pet food to a dozen eggs. Wouldn't it be great if the cost of your healthcare could go down? Well, Medicare
Northwest Newsradio
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"To see some pandemic benefits with the food stamp program disappear under that snap program in the next few weeks. California SUV drivers could be opening their wallet for the state, Matt Matson explains. The San Francisco Chronicle reports a new bill would look into the possibility of charging fees based on vehicle weight. AB two 51 was introduced by Democrat Chris ward and would have the state's transportation commission look into how much a weight fee would cost. The goal is to use the funds for safety improvements on streets if approved it would be a while until the study is submitted, which would be the end of 2025, vehicle weight fees aren't uncommon in the U.S. as a number of states including Florida and New York require those charges. I'm at Matt and sen. 1214, time for an update on traffic from the high performance homes traffic center. Here's Kimi Klein. It looks like we're dealing with another first 70 self for his draw span openings, so we're starting to see some traffic build again around the first 70s south version both directions and also on Michigan street around there, but north film 5 is doing a lot better getting into and through downtown Seattle, but south on a 5 is seeing those sticky spots as you head south of north gate into the U district, and then again around Mercer street into the convention center, some minor delays on the east side, south and four O 5 right up the Kennedy Dell hill, and also some minor crowding in Renton on northbound 405s merge from northbound one 6 7. You could see some road work again today on highway three around pioneer way north poles over. Right now, things are moving pretty well throughout that area. I 5 is looking great around Olympia Tacoma, no problems in Everett or Marysville or anywhere north of there either that I can see right now. Your next northwest traffic at 1224. And the forecast sponsored by northwest crawlspace services were expecting a decent day of weather today and tomorrow actually there's a very slight chance of some showers, but looking outside right now, nothing really to
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"News radio 600 Coco. I'm ladonna Harvey. Some new details have emerged from a San Francisco committee about reparations for black residents to the tune of millions of dollars. The city's African American reparations advisory committee presented proposals to city leaders last month. The San Francisco Chronicle said on Tuesday, one proposal was a one time lump sum reparations payment of $5 million to each eligible person. San Diego city councilwoman Monica Montgomery steppe is a member of the California reparations task force. She joined San Diego's morning news to talk about the issue on a statewide level Good morning. Thank you for having me. All right, well, there is a lot of talk about reparations. So how would, first of all, how would someone qualify for compensation? Yes, so I want to go through some of the facts. I appreciate the intro. The California reparations task force I was established by the state legislature will be here in San Diego convening in San Diego on January 27th and 28th and the job of the task force is actually to study reparations and also to bring forth proposals to the state legislature. So there are nothing other than recommendations at this point. We have never come up with a $5 million amount. We talk about a lot more than compensation, even though compensation is a part of the conversation. So I think there are a lot of different efforts going on right now in the state of California and some across the nation. But I just want to make it clear that we will be in San Diego task force as full of people that live up and down the state of California, but we convene in different places a monthly. So you said compensation is part of it. What are the other elements of it? Yeah, so when we look at the UN, the United Nations definition of reparations because we know reparations is an international occurred international in the league. So for folks who have been harmed by systems. So we know that we use the United Nations definition and that has 5 different categories of reparations. One is rehabilitation that could look like free legal social or healthcare related services. One is the restitution. It could account for things like stolen land, one is satisfaction. That is more so like an apology or a symbolic form of reparations. And then there's also the guarantee of non repetition. So compensation is the 5th category of that. But there are so many different policy recommendations that we put forward in addition to hearing from our economic experts that we have come before the task force periodically. So the natural progression of something like this is if there is a decision on some sort of compensation or some sort of reparation as regards to black people, then there are other groups like Native Americans, people would say, you know, hey, they did not get a fair shake. And other minority groups that have not fared as well. So at what point does that then expand to include other people? Yeah, no, I definitely appreciate the question. I want to be clear that this task force came from AB 31 21 that was authored by doctor Shirley Weber. That does focus on folks who have descended from enslaved people in the United States of America. But when we look at America, we look at Japanese Americans, for example, who received $1.5 billion for internment after World War II. We looked at the Marshall plan that the United States passed to ensure that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were paid reparations. We look at Native Americans having received land and billions of dollars from various benefits and programs. And there could be more that folks need, but we have done this. And so we are concentrated on this specific population because that is the charge of the bill. But I think that there is, there is a lot of power in admitting when we have done wrong. No matter who we are, and so I think this is a part of that process. And as we go, we can figure things out. But reparations, the conversation is important. It's been something that has been put on the table at the national level through HR 40. There's still fighting to get a task force that we have now in California, but we're here in California, a very least we're having the discussion. That San Diego city councilwoman Monica Montgomery steppe, who is a member of the California reparations task force with San Diego's morning news. I'm ladonna Harvey. Coco real-time traffic sponsored by Wendy's hot and crispy fries, new accident reported north
It's All Journalism
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on It's All Journalism
"Manner. I remember the San Francisco Chronicle used to have a thing that they would do. If there was like a broken fire hydrant or like a hole in the huge pothole, they would take a picture of it, they'd publish the address, and they published the telephone number of the person you needed to contact. To get that taken care of. Yeah, we're not that quite that direct, but it's the same idea. Yeah, I guess so call this guy. It's probably make this his most important thing. Yeah. It's another example of me stealing something that worked in the past that for some reason nobody does anymore. Just making it work again. But because it worked back then, and the things that caused those papers and things to go away had really nothing to do particularly with this approach or this model, it was more because of what we've been talking about. The advertising in trying to demand was never the problem. People love local news and they always have. Anyway, this has been a great conversation. I'm going to want to check in with you at some point. This is actually now before I duck out, let me ask you one more thing. If I wanted to become a subscriber or somebody wanted to become a subscriber, what do they need to do? They could go to downtown Albuquerque news dot com and fill out the form. How much does it cost me to get a month's worth of these fine newsletter? It's ten bucks a month or a hundred bucks a year. Wow. Wow. That's not too bad. No. And if you got no overhead. And you've got staff members or your family, which to be honest, the first paper I worked at part time was a family owned operation, which I found to be a very stressful place to work. When there was not for the family. No, no. One half of the family doesn't talk to the other half for some reason. It's very difficult to get those deadlines done. Anyway, Peter this is great. Again, it is the downtown Albuquerque news, right? Downtown Albuquerque, yes. Can't get any simpler than that.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Free State of Florida
"So I was telling you in 2020 while Newsom who would dine in restaurants while shutting down restaurants. And get away with it because who's going to call them on it. The Soviet type Los Angeles Times. Who's going to call him on it, the Sacramento bee, San Francisco Chronicle? You shut down restaurants and then go to one, unmasked. Didn't have any effect, I wonder if he lost 5 votes because of the lie that he lived. It's not hypocrisy. It's infinitely worse than hypocrisy. Anyway, while he was ruining restaurants and ruining freedom in California, they were open in Florida. So I got up to take a picture and a restaurant that I was dining at. Or at which I was dining. And somebody looked at me, did not know who I was. And said, are you from California? They immediately inferred why I was taking a picture. There's nothing to photograph people eating. The person immediately put two and two together. You must come from California. That's sick state. And here you are in a healthy state. And you wanted photographic proof when you go back home to California.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
'Two (But Not Three) Cheers for Colonialism'
"Several years ago, I wrote an article, it was initially published in the chronicle of higher education, subsequently in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was called two cheers for colonialism. And I kind of stole the title for more of a crystal who once wrote a book called two cheers for capitalism. And it's significantly two cheers and not three, because I can see that the motives of the colonialists were to sort of take advantage of the countries that they subdued and ruled. I'm not claiming that colonialism to that degree was benign in its motive. But what I am going to claim is that colonialism, although it was harsh for some of the people or many of the people who lived under it, nevertheless proved beneficial for its descendants. Now today, if you go around India, yeah, in the universities you're going to find a few people who are basically well similar to here, they've been sort of brainwashed into this kind of reflexive, everything western is bad, you know, hey, hey, Ho, Ho, western cultures got to go all this kind of nonsense. But the typical Indian does not feel this way. The typical Indian today very different than the typical Indian of my youth. Basically recognizes that India is in many ways better off because of colonialism that if India had never had, let's say India had not had any western influence at all. Until the 20th century. India would be a latecomer to a western technology, India would be a latecomer to principles of human dignity, human rights, separation of powers, checks and balances, western courts of law, India has all that. The English language, the best writers in the world today come not from Britain per se, but they often come from the far flung colonies of Great Britain people who are natives, people who come from places like Trinidad and places like India who have learned the English language in a sense as one of the legacies of colonialism.
WABE 90.1 FM
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"This is here and now and yes Robin young is on our way back to the host chair next week but in advance of her return she sent this conversation with Steve almond longtime here and now contributor who's out with his first novel the San Francisco Chronicle says it is worth the three decade wait Steve almond has explored candy he's for it pro football over time he turned against it He's reported as a journalist talk creative writing published essays and short stories co hosted the podcast dear sugars with Cheryl strayed but yes this is his first novel and it starts in somewhat familiar territory a 13 year old American born daughter of undocumented Honduran immigrants befriends a wealthy white classmate when their partnered in a school science project in 1980 Sacramento But then hold on to your hats we're off on an examination of scorpions pedophiles and outlaw Mormon polygamy cult and Nancy Reagan and her faith in astrology The book is sprawling the San Francisco Chronicle also says Steve puts tightrope walkers to shame and the way he weaves the many strands it's a page Turner I sprinted through it in a day and it's already optioned as a TV series The title is all the secrets of the world as a Honduran grandmother whispers the scorpion hunts while the rest of us dream That's why he knows all the secrets of the world Steve joins us now and Steve now we know why this took so long Three decades is that true Yeah Well right I stuffed everything into it Actually the three decades it was probably bubbling around my subconscious and a lot of the events that pop up kind of came from my subconscious but most of those 30 years truth be told I was writing a series of wretched novels that ended up failing miserably Well and this it takes you on a carpet ride why scorpions Well there's an easy answer which is when I was a 21 or 22 year old reporter I was taken out into the desert by a couple of zoologists corps who revealed to me you know they asked me to close my eyes were out and desert that looks absolutely empty They turned on this ultraviolet lamp and suddenly the oceanic sand was alight with what looked like thousands of little glow in the dark toys and then those toys started to move and I realized my God those are scorpions So I'd never seen them up close I had no idea they fluoresce But the more that I came to learn about them even though we view them as very alien and frightening as a species I thought actually scorpions are a lot like human beings They're so exquisitely sensitive They have these hairs all over their bodies and they can feel register the vibrations of a single grain of sand moving like ten yards away And I thought you know when I'm around my family or people I really love that's how sensitive I am You know I pick up on that vibe it kind of exquisitely and scorpions are also trapped in the same dilemma as my heroine Lorena They want to remain invisible but there's a part of them that instinctually becomes visible and causes them danger Well I just want to jump in She's the Honduran American 13 year old when we first meet her who does just want to be invisible in class but she's very smart She has a science teacher who is prodding her but how did you know so much about young girls You're an empath and you're always have supported women and female authors I mean that's part of who you are But was there any fear of telling the internal thinking of young girls Well you're always whenever you write outside your experience you're always running a risk but I have to say that most of the time I've spent over those 30 years I was writing terrible novels and kind of female spaces My family is a female space mostly female the classrooms that I work in the dear sugars podcast that I did those were realms in which men were really the slim minority I also think that teenagers of whatever stripe are a little bit like those scorpions They're so sensitive to everything It's like they're wearing their skin on the outside having a couple of them at home I can tell you that firsthand I really feel like it's the job of the novelist especially to imagine themselves into all the characters When I get to a police officer or a Scorpio or Lorena or Nancy Reagan Right If you had said to me ten years ago you know you're going to write a novel in Nancy Reagan's going to be an important figure and you're going to feel sympathy for her I would have said you're crazy Okay let's talk about the reagans because you set this in a very particular time in the 1980s So the year after president Ronald Reagan took office survived an assassination attempt he's the former actor former governor of California He was adored by supporters for his tax cuts detractors say those cuts led to the inequity that we're now seeing Tell us about this time Well if I lived it I'm a child of the 80s So Lorena has to walk into the stallworth mansion The wealthy white family Right exactly And sort of glow under their gaze and check out how they live So I loved the.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Is an app that lets you put dibs on any road for you Right Well I mean the thing is is like if you happen to see roadkill and you're like oh I can't pick that up because my car is already filled with dead bodies I need to drop them off perfect that one You can put dibs on it And then you know you can get it Bring it home clean it cook it up and bring it to the very last potluck you'll ever be invited to Wow Is it safe to eat roadkill Yeah You didn't burst the gallbladder that ruined me Isn't that right Yeah And so you order it's an app right It's sort of like seamless but it's life less Yeah exactly Okay Yeah very much The state was able to develop the app after receiving funding from a vulture capitalist He something tells me this is not going to be taking away business from Postmates Or Grubhub I just have a feeling that someone who's like you know what I'm really in the mood for Mac and cheese right now It's not going to be like I know This is Wyoming Nobody over the age of 5 and Wyoming has ever been in the mood for Mac and cheese I think If you can't kill it with a car I don't want to eat it Helen Helen a recent column in the San Francisco Chronicle raised an important question Is it a good idea to do what to your friends after you host them at a dinner party Make them take leftovers No Hug them I need a hint Well I think everybody agrees that it would be absolutely beyond the pale to include a service charge Charge them a fee for having dinner at your house Yes give them a bill Or something Yes So the chronicle laid out the story of one amber Nelson a Los Angeles podcaster Who was recently invited to a dinner party and at the end of the night the host gave her a bill for $20 No Yes And amber brought wine Really No but did she bring bad wine Well that maybe it was a penalty is what you're saying Yeah Possible Supermarket like $5 shard or something We don't know Amber amber amber paid it She later wanted to go back over to her friend's house to ask what the whole deal was but she couldn't get a reservation Did the friend disclose before like when the invites went out Well I had a feeling no I have a feeling that she did not do that because if she had done that no one would have showed up at the dinner party Yeah that's black I know That's crazy By the way if you're curious she served penne alla vodka That's even worse That's pasta It's just pasta with tomato sauce and some vodka in it There's nothing special And did amber tip Well no but she did get a punch in her friend's house card in her wallet So just after 9 more dinner parties she gets.
WABE 90.1 FM
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Is an app that lets you put dibs on an erosion you see Right Well I mean the thing is is like if you happen to see road kill and you're like oh I can't pick that up because my car is already filled with dead bodies I need to drop them off perfect that one You can put dibs on it And then you know you can get it Bring it home clean it cook it up and bring it to the very last potluck you'll ever be invited to Wow Yeah Is it safe to eat roadkill Yeah If you didn't burst the gallbladder that ruined me Isn't that right Yeah And so you order it's an app right It's sort of like seamless but it's life less Yeah exactly Okay Yeah very much The state was able to develop the app after receiving funding from a vulture capitalist He something tells me this is not going to be taking away business from Postmates I just grub hub I just have a feeling that someone who's like you know what I'm really in the mood for Mac and cheese right now It's not going to be like I know This is Wyoming Nobody over the age of 5 and Wyoming has ever been in the mood for Mac and cheese I think If you can't kill it with a car I don't want to eat it Helen Helen a recent column in the San Francisco Chronicle raised an important question Is it a good idea to do what to your friends after you host them at a dinner party Make them take leftovers No Hug them I need a hint Well I think everybody agrees that it would be absolutely beyond the pale to include a service charge Charge them a fee for having dinner at your house Yes give them a bill Essentially Yes So the chronicle laid out the story of one amber Nelson a Los Angeles podcaster Who was recently invited to a dinner party and at the end of the night the host gave her a bill for $20 No Yes And amber brought wine Really No but did she bring bad wine Did she Well that maybe it was a penalty is what you're saying Yeah You brought supermarket like $5 shard or something We don't know Amber amber amber paid it She later wanted to go back over to her friend's house to ask what the whole deal was but she couldn't get a reservation Did the friend disclose before like when the invites went out Well I had a feeling no I have a feeling that she did not do that because if she had done that no one would have showed up at the dinner party Yeah that's black I know It's crazy By the way if you're curious she served penne alla vodka That's even worse That's pasta It's just pasta with tomato sauce and some vodka and it's nothing special And it did amber tip Well no but she did get a punch in her friend's house card in her wallet so just after 9 more dinner parties she gets a discount on the paid parking outside Displays of a fiction and all good intentions why don't you just send me Don't forget to always someday I know you will coming up it's lightning fill in the blank but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme If you'd.
The Larry Elder Show
Here's How Much California's Recall Candidates Spent per Vote
"This is an article that came out in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Headline, here's how much California's recall candidates spent per vote. Now, John Cox is a Republican who ran against Gavin Newsom when Gavin Newsom was first got elected. And John Cox is a very, very wealthy man. He put in $10 million of his own money. And based on the number of votes he got. He spent $36 in 80 cents per vote. He got 4.1% of the vote, by the way. Then you've got Gavin Newsom. Excuse me, then you have Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner got 1% of the vote. And based on the amount of money Caitlyn Jenner raised and spent, each vote costs $14 31 cents.
Journalism.co.uk podcast
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Journalism.co.uk podcast
"Alexes. Sos service is free. And he would prefer to keep it that way though. He's not against inserting subscription fee. Which some allows you to do if it meant. It could keep it running. But now that's not an option to needs to think about because it's grown funded to give you an idea of what he sends out. He does these sanitation schedules about seven or eight. Am every day which outlines the cleanings also known sweeps in the city for the day this can directly displays homeless people and result in having their belongings destroyed sir. It's pretty vital information for these people to know when and where this is going to happen. This information is available via email but again it's just not as convenient as tex-mex people so lexus. Just related to them. He's also been sending out vaccine information on where people can get their jobs and that has been met with positive feedback. There's other applications to in sending out links to useful and relevant stories and having to lay communication with subscribers other stories around hostile architecture in the uk we bought frequently call this anti homeless architecture like spikes on the parcel benches. you can't lie down on. He has in fact received photos from subscribers on examples that he can use in his reporting and all of this is done privately now online. Sign up just yet instead. He's.
Journalism.co.uk podcast
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Journalism.co.uk podcast
"Potentially that person could do it as well We also have some folks on our engagement team who are intended to to be specialized on engagement initiatives and so perhaps one of them could. So i think all of these are possibilities in. It's just a matter of who's there and how we're gonna handle it in the moment on that note. How exactly does the what for work at the moment. What seems to be the best way of a purchase for me. It's been kind of having to just keep at the top of my mind or maybe in the middle of my mind is to today tax day and yesterday was definitely a tax day today will definitely be tax day when i wanna send one and then it's waiting for the right moment when we have that sort of one good nugget of information that i know they will want and then sending the text as soon as as soon as we have that in and potentially appointing them to more coverage on the site. If i feel that people are gonna really want that and trying to be very cognizant of not forcing them into a lake you. That's not what this is about. We want for the text to be the forum where they're where they're engaging with things but of course sometimes. There's a need for going to the site where there might be an interactive map or you know a whole a whole day's worth of coverage right so so typically what would you put a message usually. It's good morning from the san francisco chronicle or good afternoon in that. It's you know yesterday. I think it was the calendar. Fire is getting very very close to to. South lake tahoe. Twenty two thousand people or whatever it was have been told to evacuate it. We have reporters there We have photos on our site and if you want to follow all of the latest updates than please go here So i think what. I haven't done a while that i should do in that. I probably will do today. As part of the message is asked for their questions and concerns. I think it's important to get those pumps in regularly when.
Journalism.co.uk podcast
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Journalism.co.uk podcast
"And we'll see you there start with san francisco. Chronicle a news organization founded way back in eighteen sixty five. It covers primarily the san francisco bay area of northern california california experiences a wildfire season between july november when haunt dry winds almost frequent..
Giants Splash
Giants' Scouting Director Michael Holmes Comments on MLB Draft
"I'm john shea national baseball writer of the san francisco chronicle and it's a perfect time to welcome the giant scouting director michael holmes to break down the players. He selected in the three years. He ran the giants drafts. Who's looking good. What's up with the top guys taken in this year's draft. And how does the giants versatility at the big league level. Translate undrafted so michael scouting director of the giants after a long time. Stints with the oakland as you've been with farhan zaidi. The past three years leading the drafts. And there've been some intriguing draft draft. So far i mean you had the full forty in two thousand nineteen and then because a code you only had five picks in the twenty twenty draft and then this year twenty six and the draft was wrecked during the all star break held in denver so every year is a little bit different for you in a wondering. How how you adjust from year to year and Because the game has changed and everyone has to change with the game. But how how did that. Make your job different. Well i think this year was an insecure navigate just because One coup the challenge of cova players over the last calendar year. Not having played as much Not as many reps at bats innings on the mound Us not maybe being able to build some of the history. We've we've been able to in the past with some of the players But i i thought it was a whole art. Staff overcame those obstacles. You know really well and we were able to able to get a lot of looks on on the players that we had interest in. I also think it a challenge of the draft being pushed back from date standpoint You know having the introduction of mlb combine was a new a new twist to the draft. Which i thought went really well. And they'll be a really nice job putting that on putting together Thought we got a lot of benefits from being there intending
What A Day
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on What A Day
"They really wanna make sure that they have a thing locked down. Because enter. promo is a brilliant political tactician. And he'll find a way to out maneuver both politically and legally and they're scared of that. Quite frankly yeah. That is quite scary. Yeah and you know this whole end. Game was cuomo whether it's through impeachment resignation. Or somehow him trying to find a way to last through the end of the term all of it just kind of seems inconceivable given how long this man has been around. I was assuming that andrew cuomo. It's going to be the governor for the rest of my life. What does he do after this. If he is not governor. What else can he possibly do. I don't know which just goes to show how much power he has been able to consolidate during his time as the chief executive. It's just this really sort of bizarre situation. Because either he resigns or he goes down in history as the second governor of new york to ever be impeached either way. It's a stain on his legacy. We're gonna check on where things stand next week but that is the latest for now. It's friday watch squad for today's subject. We are talking about the pitfalls of restaurant food that is purely satirical the san francisco chronicle article yesterday about a vietnamese spot called lily which created an excessively indulgent quote number. One douchebag fried rice as a joke and then they watched in horror as it became their most popular dish. Of course the seventy two dollar plate featured wag you beef rooney caviar black truffle trimmings engine dory egg yolks while it was only supposed to be on the menu for two weeks but took off in popularity. Last year was influencers correctly. Deducing that it was the exact type of item that would get you. Ten thousand likes on your posts. A small bright upon ear dot com. We all gotta do. We gotta do. The restaurant eventually found the resolve to remove the rice from the menu forever posting june forever..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Republicans Aim at GOP Base in 1st California Recall Debate
"We want to move onto a brand new topic. Our friend hugh hewitt was on vacation but he was actually on a working vacation last night because he. He hosted a debate between the various challenges. To gavin newsom in california's gubernatorial recall election. A number of people were on stage. None of them were named jane fonda. Wayne i'm actually a little surprised that jane funded didn't accept the invitation. Yes one hundred and forty two year. Old Viet cong candidate was not on the stage last night. Did you see the san francisco. Chronicle article jane fonda was considering jumping into the into the race because she was worried. That gavin newsom wasn't going to be able to defeat the recall i. That's the thing about the democratic party is kind of. They're kind of putting older eggs into gavin newsom basket right if he goes down. There's really not a lot of democrats that are kind of running as that's a hard campaign to run right now. Say no to the recall. But if you do vote for me instead yeah i mean. It's really an untenable yet. Some you get some some low level democrats that are running in this because they need some name recognition for later on down the road or they're looking at new figuring he's vulnerable and there should be some democrats in the mix goes down democrat. Statewide that is that is trying to seize the opportunity and saying let's toss him overboard but let's hang onto the state. There's there's really nobody high profile making that case. Well in that case jane punish a jumped in i mean she's only eighty three years old. That's still younger than jerry. Brown wasn't his last nine. Feinstein dianne feinstein. So that was that was a little music but no jane fonda was on the stage last night he would love that actually but This debate that was carried by thirteen fox affiliates all around the great state of california and hugh promise to run an officiant and and respectful debate. And i did it. But but dwayne you did didn't how how did it turn out. It was as advertised. They really didn't attack each other much. They pretty much kept their focus. On on gavin newsom and they were all asked very smart intelligent questions.
NBC Nightly News
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on NBC Nightly News
"All probability the president telling americans who expect more restrictions after internal. Cdc documents warn. The war has changed due to the surging delta varied and at vaccinated can spread the virus to when infected r. u. four mandating a vaccine on a federal level. You know that's something that i think. The administration is looking into something that i think. We're looking to see approval from the vaccine. The cdc director leader clear. Fine her comments tweeting there will be no nationwide mandate cases have spiked in almost every state averaging more than seventy thousand infections a day a sixty two percent increase from the previous week florida. Hit a record. Twenty one thousand six hundred eighty three cases friday the most since the start of the pandemic patients are showing up sick today in last week and unfortunately this is going to continue for at least another. Six weeks and healthcare workers are also getting sick. The san francisco chronicle reporting dozens of staff members at two hospitals in the city have tested positive in the past six weeks most were vaccinated to slow the spread. Rules are tightening across the country washington. Dc now requiring mass endures even for those fully vaccinated this weekend in chicago in addition to prove a vaccine or a negative cova test. Thousands flocking to lollapalooza. We'll need to mask up at indoor venues while a new orleans. Mass mandates are back as louisiana joins a list of top states with new infections. What we're saying now. You really need that mask on period and here in new york city the priority is still to boost vaccination numbers for.
Warriors Off-Court
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Warriors Off-Court
"This episode is brought to you by the nba. From the squeak of shoes on the hardwood to the tips of their fingers. It's mesmerizing dance of jaw-dropping downs heartbreaking blocks and mind-blowing steals. It's the most fantastic athletes in the world. Who make your heart beat out of your chest and make you want to jump into the screen and be right on the court with them. That's the nba. That's game don't miss the nba playoffs going on now. Welcome to warriors off court. The san francisco chronicle's nba podcast. I'm your host connor laterna. Oh did they joined by west. Goldberg host of the popular locked on warriors. Podcast during our conversation we went through the chronicles nba draft matchmaker..
Animal Spirits Podcast
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on Animal Spirits Podcast
"What do we do that information. I don't know. I think you're fighter. Do you think this is the thing that stays though where we have this software class of stocks. That are just always going to be very highly valued. Probably not all right now. You're saying it's different this time now. It's possible that there's so many more of these software stocks now so member in twenty twenty. We were like our private businesses going to recover from this like. Where's the funding going to come from. Well actually turns out that private markets on fire. Total fees hit seventeen point nine billion in the first half of the year the highest since records began in two thousand private equity firms had their busiest six months since records began four decades. This from the f. T. by the way striking deals worth more than five hundred billion dollars helping to propel mergers and acquisitions to an alter my hand up here go ahead and patting myself on the back lately for being right about like the real estate stuff. I have been wrong for years about private equity. Like i said like five years ago all these institutions that are going into private equity are gonna regret it. The valuations are higher turns out having trillions of dollars go into an asset class that is levered up and even if it's just beta if it's levered up it's still going to do okay so i thought that it was like some of the private equity stuff even when i got that stuff from my dominates that it just seemed like he was overcrowded. As long as there's money flowing in people willing to do deals in these private equity firms have to do deals and they're using leverage to juicy deals a little better the returns are probably gonna be okay so anyway credit me. I was wrong there. Big time i think private equity funds have probably as a whole done just fine even if you took the s and p five hundred at leverage on it you made out okay all before we get to this real estate. I just want to mention. It's possible that you missed it. Better than i had a conversation with the ceo of groundfloor. We released it on monday. So the friday episodes are going to be released on monday. Going forward and i think you could probably tell that if you did hear the conversation. It's not exactly what we thought it was going into it so maybe our bad for not doing great research but that was very interesting. We thought that they were lending money to like. Whatever go listen to it. It was very interesting. Yes i think as an investment opportunity. We've already gotten a ton of emails about it. Saying he'd be guess thought about this. What about this. We've gotten some emails from people who said their use the platform to invest on. I think kind of going in blind to some of those is actually not a bad thing for us all. Because i feel like we're learning on the go as our listeners. True so we're new wheels on purpose for those different by the gift where the teluk stuns water. That's you that's this okay all right. The san francisco chronicle had this story about people from california moving to austin and they talk about austin's median home price search thirty five percent in may compared to a year earlier up to a record high of over five hundred and sixty grand total sales. Were up fifty five percent but their point is all. These people are coming to california. That's a high number obviously over half a million dollars for home but all these people are coming to california where their average home prices like a million dollars so for them. They're saying that like they're interviewing all these realtors in one of these guys saying that like if it's an attractive house will see thirty to fifty offers. Californians tend to win every time in just when he says they understand this game better than texans. But it's like no they don't they just have more money. That's the game and then a toll brothers. Ceo said the pricing power of austin which is number one in the country is driven by california plain and simple. The phenomenon is fascinating. We've never seen a migration like this. So austin is now. I guess had like a twenty percent jumping population since two thousand nineteen. It's like the tenth biggest city in the world. Almost sorry in the country. This is another thing. That's probably going to happen eventually. But the pandemic whatever pulled forward. So i wrote about this early. Pin down the air conditioning effect how in the sixties all these people migrated south because of air conditioning that totally changed population in voting patterns. And all this stuff because more people could move to the south because we came more bearable. The remote work thing seems to me like that is going to be something similar where you have these up and coming. Cities awesome obviously is huge now but all these places in north carolina or tennessee or wherever georgia where people are moving to because of this and then moving out of the big cities i think like the migration from this. The reverberations are going to be held for years to come this. Don't you think that that's where the remote work stuff is going to have. The biggest impact is like just migration patterns for cities. Yes if you weren't tied down to family. Would you consider moving from new york ever if you had this remote work opportunity. Oh absolutely they think that there has to be tons of people in new york. We're transplants and weren't born there like you are. That are like wait a minute. I'm outta here absolutely. That's why everyone on your neighborhood is selling by the way i feel like every week you have somebody neighborhood selling their house. So there's four corner houses near me. Three of the four are for sale or salt through to the floor for sale. Actually do you think that. Are they trying to one up each other with price every time another one comes on market. Actually one sneaky person. They listed there's below they listed for whatever it was lower number to try to drive up bidding war it work. I don't know okay. They just listed a week or so ago but yeah no..
AP News Radio
US Court Says 'Ghost Gun' Plans Can Be Posted Online
"A federal appeals court in San Francisco's ruled that designs for three D. printed ghost guns can be posted online without approval from the state department a divided panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals reinstated a trump administration order that ghost guns could be taken off the munitions watch list that require state department approval before that type of weapon could be exported twenty two states and the district of Columbia has sued the administration last year but according to the San Francisco Chronicle the appellate panel found federal law prohibits courts from overruling state department decisions on the munitions list the lone dissenting judge Robert Whaley argues making ghost guns more accessible presents a serious threat to public safety noting that type of weapon has been linked to several mass shootings I'm Jackie Quinn
KGO 810
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on KGO 810
"I'm had Thurston. I'm gonna jump right into it with David Lazarus. David Lazarus is an award winning business writer. By the way, I was just gonna introduce him as a business writer of the L A Times. But then I looked him up and it says Award winning, so I thought we'd include that he's an award winning business writer of the L. A Times specializing in consumer affairs. She's also Ah former talk show host right here on KGO Radio. He's a former columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. And he's Guy who can put things usually into terms that even I can understand. So I'm so happy. He's with us to talk about the game. Stop game. David Lazarus. Thanks for being with us this afternoon. Thanks for having me. I'm so happy to have you. Thank you. So I wanted you to help us understand? Game stock because game stop. Excuse me, You know, my kids went there all the time when they were younger, and they bought games. They sold games there. It was a great place for them, but it's sitting in a mall. We know that the you know it wasn't doing well in business. So most of us Really don't understand the stock market and we certainly don't understand what happened. Games stop. It seems like there were a bunch of amateur investors who didn't like that other investors were buying short. Is that it? There's a couple of things going on. First of all, the stock market is not the economy, so the fact that they now is up about 500 points today. That's not a reflection of the fact that last year the economy was in its worst place since 1946. So there's that disconnect. But when it comes to what's going on with Gamestop and such is Gamestop, you can always look at AMC. The movie theater chain BlackBerry. Yeah, they used to make phone. Even American airlines. There's a whole bunch of what's known as What's out there, And what a short is. Typically, a hedge fund is an investor who is gambling that a stock is going to go down. And in a nutshell, the way you short a stock is, you're going to borrow the stock at a high level from your brokerage. You then sell it off, and then you watch the stock go down, and then once it goes down, you buy it at the lower level. Give it back to the brokerage from which you borrowed it and you pocket the difference. Okay, that's shorting stocks. Now what's going on here is Thousands of bay traders and others to mischief makers all gathered on reddit the social media platform and started saying, Let's stick it to the hedge funds, and so they started buying up game stop to push the stock higher. Then there's no fundamentals that that value this I mean, if you noted Gamestop is a brick and mortar seller of video games, and even though video game sales are at record highs. It's all online. Nobody goes to the mall anymore. So it's not a good play and to give you some sense of game stops evaluation. Ah, year ago, this stock was it $4 a share. I'm looking right now. It's trading at over $250 a share earlier today, it was near $500 a share game stops. Doc, he's up 1700%. Since the beginning of this year, it has created more than $2 billion in new wealth for investors. This is completely insane, and what's going on is this Reddit crowd is basically lighting torches and getting pitchforks and forcing the hedge funds which had bought high and hope tow. Watch the stock go down. Well, now they have tow cover their short position because the stock of going in the opposite direction. So the hedge funds are losing a ton of money. These reddit types they're laughing their You know whats off and it's crazy. Now, Here's what I want Everybody listening to keep in mind. This is Speculation. It's not investing. It is speculation which is a form of gambling. You don't want to go anywhere near this. This is not a place you want to play more over a lot of analysts right now saying that when you see speculate activity like this That's outside about stock market bubble, and that should be a red flag to anybody who looks back in their rear view mirror and says, Oh, yeah pets dot com. Okay. I understand. Ah, lot of that. There's a lot I still don't quite understand. So let's say that I'm gonna buy short that. I think that a stock is gonna come down. How much time do I have? Before I have to pay the difference because the valuations actually gone up. Not a lot. You can't just ride it out. For a few years. Every brokerage firm might have its own rules. But the bottom line is you're gonna have to cover your short position more sooner than later. So as the stock starts going way, way up as it is now, in the case of game stop, then anyone who was gambling that it was going to go down now have to cover that position, and every time one of these hedge funds now have to cover their short positions. What are they doing? They're buying the stock, and that pushes it even higher. Now you're in this psycho. Now They're just going completely bananas for no good reason whatsoever. Thing that is so frustrating is it's not like suddenly, game stock is doing this great business and that it's worth that much money. It's just the idea that people are playing a game with the stock value. So the people who caused this the Reddick people who did this in order to stick it to Hedge funds. Are they actually making money off of this? You know it was interesting about this is some of these folks, especially the ones who got in early on this movement they bought in the game stop. Then they watch this stock going artificially higher. The smart ones all started selling out, but then they kept calling on other people to do the same. Those people are all buying in at this crazy high level now to maintain the momentum. This is what's known his financial terms as the greater fool theory. In other words, you're going to profit because some other schmuck is gonna come along and be the greater fool and that's what's going on. And so anybody who thinks that that sounds like good clean fun. I want a piece of this. You're the greater fool. So so you don't wanna be that guy. You want to be the guy who stands on the side of the road going And look a car crash. Glad I'm not in that. You know, it sounds an awful like a novel Lot like a pyramid scheme. You know it is and it isn't what it is, is basically gaming the market and it's not illegal to do this. But what it really speaks to is the fact that there are all sorts of MCA nations that can be done that will make the market fly in the face of reason. Now it takes a mob mentality like we're seeing on Reddit to really pull off something like this, and that's why you don't see this every day. But the mere fact that social media enable this That's something and a lot of analysts are saying this changes the picture..
NewsRadio KFBK
"san francisco chronicle" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Never be bored of work again. Visit CHP made for more dot com Going more or begin the application process. Traffic on the tens, every 10 minutes mornings and afternoons news 93.1 kfbk. We are right in the heart of this storm front. So we're looking to date tonight. Tomorrow. Maybe even in this Saturday a little bit. We're gonna have rain in the valley and snow in the high country And that's the way it looks now as we head into the weekend, Okay, news from your neighborhood right now. Albert Parnell. Would he have you? Was coming out the eureka time standards. So a new fire station is planned in Fortuna in a public comment period is now open on the environmental impact that addresses the project that is going to be on a eight anchor parcel of land that's owned by the Fortuna Fire Protection District. Thank you very much appreciate that San Francisco Chronicle this morning one third of San Francisco schools now getting a new name in the coming months. Controversial decision by the school board to rename 44 schools. Well, I mean, I guess they have solved all problems in San Francisco's then get to that. So there are a lot of people are coming out and saying you, You haven't figured out how you're gonna get kids back in the classroom and you're talking about what's what the name of the school is. Well, one of those people saying that is the mayor of Sacra of San Francisco, London, breathe breathe. She has sent something to this school board saying, Come on, guys. But let's think about our priorities here. The priority is to get schools back over the kids back in school. You can't worry about this stuff. But let's table it for them. Oh, I didn't know London Breed was on board with that she is she wants to get kids back in school. Very telling across the board anyway. That's out of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, folks who get the shot and folks who don't and did you know that jealousy is developing. Oh, yeah. It's driving a lot of the vaccine tourism we're saying Yep. The whole thing more on that coming up in a couple of minutes. Give me my traffic reports traffic on the tens, every 10 minutes all the way home. It's a word that no traffic conditions. Another fire reported stay connected. KFBK. Afternoon news with Kitty O'Neil Sacramento's news be 3.1. Yeah, Okay, This is these days everyone's making do with less. But with Walmart family Mobile, Less is more for less than 25 bucks a month get unlimited talk and text with two.
John and Ken on Demand
California now ranks dead last in administering COVID-19 vaccines
"Okay bloomberg updated It's numbers Ten minutes ago two fifty five. Pm pacific time and california is fiftieth again according to the bloomberg numbers which they say they get from the cdc and other government websites. California has four point seven million doses that have reached the state but we've only injected one point eight million of them so we have almost three million doses by their count on the shelf. Of course as we have learned in the last twenty four hours california's reporting system is so screwed up that nobody knows if any numbers are accurate. There are mess finally a lot of media sacramento bee also going to time. San francisco chronicle have been sort of digging into the story. What they're finding out is really freaking confusing. Which being stake could be worse than this. I doubt it's better considering all the incompetence going on but for the moment We are in fiftieth place. Only thirty eight percent of available vaccines have been injected We're falling farther behind all the other states and a number of territories or independent countries that we provide health care services to islands out in the pacific We're just ahead of american samoa.
John McGinness
'I am not afraid of the gas chamber': Codebreakers solve old Zodiac Killer cipher
"From the notorious Zodiac killer has been solved. The so called 3 40 cipher was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 Code breaker, David or in, Jack says the cipher says, I hope you're all having lots of fun trying to catch me. I'm not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise all the sooner. Now I have enough slaves to work for me. The Zodiac killer is is credited credited with with killing killing five five people people in in the the late late 19 19 sixties. sixties. But But the the suspect's suspect's identity identity is is still still unknown. unknown. FBI FBI where where May May the the FBI FBI continues continues to to investigate. investigate.
Eddie and Rocky
'I am not afraid of the gas chamber': Codebreakers solve old Zodiac Killer cipher in San Francisco
"Been solved. My private citizens looking into puzzles were laid out by the Zodiac killer so many years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area a B C's Alex Stone in California in an online video, a group of code breakers in the U. S. Belgium, an Australia say they have cracked the Zodiac killers. 3 40 cipher. The cipher was sent 51 years ago to the San Francisco Chronicle. I am not afraid the cipher does not identify the Zodiac killer has many had hoped. It says. I hope you're having lots of fun trying to catch me. I am not afraid of the gas chamber. The FBI says it is aware the cipher has been solved in the Zodiac killer remains an open case. Alex Stone ABC News He was radio
America's First News
California lawmakers violate their own COVID-19 rules
"California's governor who violated rules aimed at controlling the spread of the Corona virus, right a bare minimum the spirit of rules and they tell others to follow. San Francisco mayor London Breed dined at a posh Napa Valley restaurant the day after Governor Newsome was there. Also, a San Jose Mayor Sam Ricardo, who has now apologized, went to his parent's house for Thanksgiving. And in L, A county supervisor dined outdoors hours after voting to ban outdoor dining. All three were on the hot seat Tuesday this after various reports that they violated rules. The San Francisco Chronicle reporting breed joined seven others at the three Michelin starred French Laundry on November 7th to celebrate a socialite's 60th birthday and his
Morning Edition
In a first, San Francisco DA charges on-duty cop with homicide
"San Francisco District attorney Chase of Boudin's decision to charge an officer with homicide in a police shooting was rare. And tougher charges haven't been ruled out Quds Erica Cruise, Guevara has more manslaughter charges against former officer Christopher Samayoa for his role in the 2017 shooting of Kita O'Neill. Are believed to be the first homicide charges in a use of force case in the city's modern history. Jurors will be asked to convict Samayoa voluntary or involuntary manslaughter for his role in the shooting, which took place during a police chase. Bodine told the San Francisco Chronicle that a murder charge isn't off the table. Mohsen Old is an attorney representing O'Neal's family. They don't want to overcharge because the likelihood of getting a conviction is lower. But then if you under charge You know, the communities looking old says the statute of limitations were closing in on the manslaughter
The Afternoon News with Kitty O'Neal
‘Keep your guard up’: Top California health official gives Thanksgiving guidelines, explains travel advisory
"Cases of coronavirus continuing to rise at an alarming rate. California health officials making new recommendations to curb the spread of the virus. Scapa CASE Might Blunt Has this report. Eric upon epidemiologists and deputy director of the California Department of Public Health Center for Infectious Diseases, says the state's cove in 19 positivity rate has risen to 4% when you compare that to a couple weeks ago on October 29 Our test positivity rate is one point higher a point higher than two weeks ago. Pon says. Hospitalizations and ICU rates have also increased by more than 30% in the same time period. But with the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching California health officials are concerned those numbers will go even higher, overwhelming hospitals with newly infected patients in Sacramento County health director Dr Peter Beale Anson says the number of cases tripled since Halloween. And he's worried that Thanksgiving Day could lead to an even bigger surge. Single day that I'm most worried about in the entire year of 2020 is Thanksgiving Day, for obvious reasons. It was gonna be wanted. Everybody gathers people coming from out of town Beale instances, local hospitals are currently able to handle search capacity, but that could change if there's a significant increase in a short period of time. However, for the first time this year, he says, there's a light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccine on the way for this Thanksgiving in for this Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanza, etcetera. Just do it the way we've been doing for the last eight or nine months. Do it meant by your household. Just your own family. It will be a credit kind of India well may not be accredited Christmas and Thanksgiving may be more fun than usual, but you have to do it on Lee. One time state guidelines for Thanksgiving Day recommend limiting gatherings to no more than 90 minutes, keeping it to members of your own household and staying outdoors as much as possible. Spite state guidelines, which limit all private gatherings to no more than three households, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Governor Gavin Newsom and his family attended a birthday party without least 12 people for multiple households. Last Friday, Newsome later issued a statement saying he should have model better behavior. Earlier today, the California Department of Public Health also issued a travel advisory stating that people entering the state or returning home should self quarantine for 14 days. California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr Mark Galli says Californians must remain vigilant
Kentuckiana's Saturday Morning News
Over a century ago, masks were controversial during the 1918 flu pandemic
"CBS News is Anthony Mason took a look back recently at the way masks were handled more than a century ago. That, of course, during the 2018 flu pandemic, also in the fall and found many similarities to today. Fascinating look from Anthony. In the fall of 1918. As Americans across the country were celebrating victory in World War, One of the masks on returning troops showed we were losing another war against the so called Spanish flu even a century ago, masks were controversial. Yes, And for so many of the same reasons they are today. Nancy Toms is a history professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook at its worst in 1918. How bad did the pandemic get really, really bad? He referred to it as the Big one among historians of medicine. 675,000 Americans would die nearly a third of them in a single month. The Red Cross spread the slogan Where a mask Save your Life. And nurses began to make them for the public way. We're looking at two masks God's masks that were used in the 1918 pandemic. Here in California, there in the collection of the Oakland Museum, Erin Dina Delgaudio is associate curator. That pretty transparent, right? It wasn't an ideal material, but it was definitely better than not wearing anything. Back in 1918. This was one of the centers in the fight against the pandemic. Yes, indeed. This is Henry Street settlement and its founder, Lillian Walk, played a critical role in organizing the pandemic response in New York City masks were never officially mandated on the East Coast, Nancy Tom says. But other health rules were often aggressively enforced. There were spitting raids, even though by Pelo Yes, there was a definite effort to up the ante in prosecuting. They called them sanitary infractions. The US outbreak had started on a Kansas Army base on the campaign to stop it. Was tied to the war effort. So wearing a mask became a patriotic just Yes. If you refused to wear a mask, you could be called a slacker. What did that mean? A slacker was not quite like a traitor. But it was someone who was dragging their patriotic feet. San Francisco was the first city to actually mandate masks. Yes. 10% of the population was infected between 1918 and 1919. In just a day, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. 100 people were charged with disturbing the peace or failing toe wear masks. Their sentence. 10 days in prison or a $5 fine about $80 today, and then here in San Francisco, there was an anti mask league that farmed in early January. So the chairman was this woman named Mrs Harrington. She was a suffragist. She was a lawyer. He put out a call in the the San San Francisco Francisco Chronicle Chronicle asking asking for for her her fellow fellow citizens citizens who who objected objected to to this this mass mass mandate mandate as as Really Really similar similar to to the the arguments arguments now. now. Actually, Actually, they they argue the ordinance was unconstitutional and that masks had not been proven effective. Some 2000 people turned out for a rally at the Dreamland skate rink. Other cities would mandate masks, including Denver, Seattle, Oakland, Sacramento and Phoenix. They were met with resistance to one major difference. It wasn't political. Then they're wass disagreement between the various politicians about which businesses should get closed down. But The decision to mask or not to mass never became identified with a specific political party.
MSNBC Morning Joe
The World Shudders as President Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19
"The president announced on twitter just before one o'clock this morning that he and the first lady tested positive for covid nineteen. Last night. He posted quote we will begin our quarantine and recovery process. Immediately, we will get through this together the first lady tweeted in part we are feeling good and postponed all upcoming engagements. We know the president traveled to Bedminster yesterday for a fundraiser senior administration officials would not address. If he is symptomatic, we're told he will work from the White House residence. This news comes after it was revealed that senior White House aide and a member of the president's inner. Circle, Hope Hicks had tested positive for the virus. A source tells NBC, News Hicks Tested Negative on Wednesday. Morning we're told she began showing minor symptoms Wednesday evening and was quarantined on air. Force. One on the way back from the president's campaign rally in Minnesota her positive text test came back yesterday morning. Here is the president on Fox News last night discussing Hicks just hours before announcing his own diagnosis. She tested positive. She's a hard worker. A lot of masks. Sushi's wears masks a lot, but she tested positive. That I just went out with a test I'll see what you know because we spent a lot of time in the first lady just went out with a test also, but it's very, very hard when you. With people from the military of law enforcement and they come over to you and they. They want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job. You get close and things happen I was surprised to hear with hope, but she's a very warm person with them and. She knows there's a risk, but she's a young. Obviously significant breaking news. Beginning of October. For somebody different reasons the the functioning of America's government. The political campaign that We've all been following a nation now for so long. And obviously the personal story here the president's being the first lady's wellbeing hope Hicks Wellbeing and health and all those. That they may have been in contact with WHO could be affected by this to obviously. Our thoughts and our prayers are with them Willie. This is how the newspapers are handling. This news. New York Post President? Has. Cova. The Daily News in fact it with, of course, a picture of the president the first lady. The Los Angeles Times this morning trump tests positive for coronavirus the MINNESOTA. Star. Tribune. Trump has virus president first lady test. Positive San Francisco. Chronicle trump says he has the virus and the sun trump tests positive for coronavirus obviously Willie newspapers in across. I was just going to say across the world. Here's a picture of the president with the prime. Minister of Britain who also had the coronavirus had a very difficult fight with the New York Times of course, trump has positive for covid nineteen and the world shudders obviously. The impact of. United States president having a disease that has killed over two hundred thousand in this country a million worldwide. Obviously is going to cause the markets to shudder because our allies decider and the. Time, said will cause the world shudder. No question our I echo what you said that our thoughts and our prayers and our hearts are with the trump family right now with hope Hicks and anyone in the White House because we don't know how far this ripples out yet will be tasked obviously across the White House to see if anyone else has this. Because as you said, the president held his rally hosts had to be quarantined on the flight home from Minnesota yesterday. He was at a debate with Joe Biden obviously, they were far apart on Tuesday night Kaley mcenaney, the White House press secretary was with hope picks a great deal this week she gave a briefing yesterday without a mask on in that room. When you stop and look at all the people who may have come in contact with where the source of this is including by the way the Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett who's been spending a lot of time with White House handlers and she's been shepherded around Capitol Hill to meet with senators ahead of her confirmation hearing so. This is this is a serious as it gets especially when you consider that Donald Trump is seventy, four year old man we know more than eighty percent of the deaths in this country have come from people sixty five and older. So we're certainly sending our best to the
Mac Minutes
Episode 85, Apple updates to macOS Catalina 10.15.6 and launches new audio and news features - burst 1
"In this episode, we will discuss the recently released Mac Os. Catalina ten point fifteen point six update which introduces local news audio features in the Apple News along with improving the security and reliability of your Mac. This update, which is now available for downloading introduces several new features for Apple News and Apple News plus including audio stories of some of the most read feature stories from Apple News plus a daily audio news briefing hosted by Apple News Editors and curated local news collections, beginning in five cities and regions and expanding to more areas in the future. Apple News is also adding more top local and regional news outlets for readers and subscribers including the Charlotte Observer, the Miami Herald and the news in observer, which is located in Raleigh. North Carolina. Lauren Kern editor in chief of Apple News said the following about the new features. Apple News showcases so much great journalism and we're excited to help bring it to life in new ways with Apple News. Plus audio stories and a new Daily News Show Apple News today. We also greatly value are many local news. Partners are new local news feature highlights work for readers who live and are interested in those communities finished Kern. Let's delve deeper into some of the new features. Apple announced including Apple News plus audio stories. Beginning with the update Apple News will produce about twenty audio stories a week across a wide range of interests. Narrated by professional voice actors these are audio versions of some of the best feature reporting and long form pieces published by esquire essence. Fast Company G Q New York magazine sports illustrated. Time Vanity Fair Vo wired and more and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal audio stories are now available to Apple News plus subscribers in the US. 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Tom Sullivan
California gets 11,000 new coronavirus cases in 1 day
"Positive Corona virus cases have surged past previous daily highs with over 10,000 cases in a single day. Tuesday's data shows 10,532 new cases of covered 19 in the state, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The previous record for the day with the highest number of new cases with last Thursday at 9870 cases statewide. There are now over 346,000 confirmed cases of covered 19
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
Journalists of Color
"Before the interviews I wanNA share my theory. For why all of this exploded for journalists of Color Right now? It goes back a few years. So many of us went from covering the first black president to covering Donald Trump. And ever, since trump came down that escalator, announcing his campaign back in Twenty fifteen, when he denounced Mexicans as drug traffickers rapist. When he was that he would build a wall at the border and that Mexico will pay for it. Those journalists were told to avoid using words like racist or lie to describe some of trump's worse behavior. That kind of self censorship, especially on race for a lot of us, it became untenable after we had to cover the death of George Floyd and report on that video of a black man, being choked to death for eight minutes. On top of that we are now dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, which is laying bare racial inequities across this country. And Corinthian has given a lot of us time to sit and think. Notice what's going on in the world and in our lives and in our newsrooms? You have black journalists and other journalists of color who think of themselves as truth seekers in the same way that their white colleagues, too, but very often when they tell the truth about racism when they tell the truth about. Bright, white supremacy. They're labeled as activist. Highs! They dared to bring their blackness across the newsroom threshold. PSORIATIC McDonald's has been thinking a lot about race and the news. So I asked her as a black journalist in this moment. What does she want to see change so I would say what I want is actual structural change within newsroom leadership? I do not want the equivalent of painting black lives matter on a street in yellow letters, but in a newsroom. It's visible. By that doesn't really solve anything when it comes to pay discrepancies between. White male journalists and black female journalist who do the same job have the same level of experience and one is making thirty thousand dollars a year more than the other. The other thing is that. You cannot have. Newsroom leadership that is completely made up of six Cheddar straight white men. Even. Under straight white women. Zicklin or gender straight Whiteman that power needs to be distributed more equitably. You know the other thing died. I want to see I wanNA see US cover. Race honestly. right? Race isn't just something that black people, experience or something that non white experience, attempting that everyone experience and says and so. There needs to be a baseline of literacy rate when it comes to how we talk about race with an America how it operates within American history, and how that informs. President and what world. News media has played in that way. We have to consider that. The last time that we had a pandemic, the nineteen eighteen flu pandemic. We need to recognize that. The paper of record in Chicago the Chicago Tribune. Is Basically scapegoating black people who are fleeing the American south, basically saying Oh half a million darkies are basically invading Chicago. If that's objectivity as not the kind of objectivity that I want to participate in them. Yeah, yeah, I WANNA get personal a little bit You ended up being quoted in New York Times. Article about this reckoning talking about how you didn't have a great time at the Washington Post. You've tweeted about your experience as a black woman in newsrooms. What does this reckoning meant for you? And what have you been trying to get off your chest and this moment about your experience? In some of the newsroom's that we've been talking about my hope for this reckoning. is that. There is not one more class of you know young. Ernest! Twenty two year old coming out of journalism school I'm who basically have to go through this really damaging gauntlet. We're constantly sort of questioning yourself and your own worth and I think there are a lot of really talented journalists who have been driven from the field. Because at some point, they feel like they have to make a choice between their own mental health. Or being journalist. And they just self-preservation and I cannot blame them. and that is really a shame, because think about the people that those journalists now think about the stories that they could have told. The access they could have had picked the access to walk into certain spaces at their white colleagues cannot exactly and you know one of the ways, and this is not the only way that this is important, but one of the ways that this is important is. We need them to trust us. Our job is to tell their stories and to tell them accurately and to tell them fairly. And if people are are always getting pushed out the folks who might actually be able to empathize with them who know where they're coming from right I? There's a quote from their lake when I fall where she basically expresses the you know, she's probably the only person who covered public housing who's actually lived in public housing? That, yeah, that is. Expertise right that is. Valuable knowledge so I just I want us to be able to practice our profession with humanity. Yeah, and also it's like in this moment where it seems like more than ever before. At least in my lifetime, there is such a deficit of trust. Americans don't trust institutions. They don't trust journalism. They don't trust facts. Worst argument about whether or not mask can prevent the spread of Corona virus like in this environment if newsrooms don't act in fix some of this stuff. is going to create more mistrust in the media and these news outlets will become less relevant in a moment in which I would argue. They are needed more than ever before. Yes, and you know the thing is is and I've said this repeatedly at that American journalism does have a credibility crisis. The the credibility crisis that we have I think. Actually bears a lot of similarities to. Our current sort of Voter disenfranchisement problem. Being. In Journalism, we have not spent enough time. with the very same folks who are often disenfranchised when it comes to media coverage as well right. And when we think about the press and freedom of the press is an instrument of democracy we have to think about. enfranchising everyone, we have to think about making sure that they do find us credible. The folks. If they look at the newspaper, even look at a website or they listen to the radio and their conclusion is. That these entities are not telling the truth about them in their lives and held their lives are. For them yeah for them. That's a credibility issue for us. Yeah we can fix. It failed them. That means that. We have to develop far better relationships with folks who have historically been shunned or shut out of district of media coverage are only allowed to participate in very limited ways. You know I still very much believe in that adage, the journalism exist to comfort the afflicted and afflict comfortable. Thanks again to riot, not at McDonald's the culture writer for the undefeated and also this year. She was nominated a pilot sir. My mind. I wanted to hear from other journalists of color about their newsroom experiences. And they wrote in. Here if you, my name is Lavi Cima Guy side. I'm a naturalized citizen who came to this country as a young child. I worked at a bare he a newspaper for a long time and have fond memories of my time there. I had mostly white editors, and in fact, I've only had one non white supervisor in my over two decades in journalism. My name is John. Sepulvado, I mixed. I have Mexican Irish indigenous and Black Ancestry I worked in public media for fifteen years. There are tons of horror stories. There was the white woman editor who asked me if I like dog-fighting because she quote hurt. Might People like dogfighting? There was another white woman editor told me to smile more around the office because I quote have dark features and those dark features, scared herself and other white women around the office. One time a headline I, wrote for one of my own stories, led to a newsroom wide, meeting an emotional one, where a bunch of US had to persuade top editors to let us call the president's racism what it is! The most frustrating part was that I and others had to explain to our colleagues. Why our voices were important. And partly because they reflected the communities we covered. argued. Repeat, a thousand more stories like that. But at. A point I realized. That no matter what I did no matter how good I was no matter how hard I worked. I would always be seen. As something that is not. White. And my mobile was the leave the industry. All right time for a break. When we come back, we will hear from Latina, trailblazer who refused to leave the news business. Instead. She started her own media company to tell the stories that she wanted to tell. Hey another reminder asking you all to fill out that survey for us. Okay, it is anonymous. It is short and the link for it is NPR DOT org slash I B. A. M. Survey. All one word I BAM SURVEY NPR DOT Org. Slash IBM. Filled out I'll be really happy if he do thanks. This message comes from NPR sponsor discover. Sometimes, food is more than just food. It's an integral part of the community so this year discoveries, giving five million dollars to support black owned restaurants to places like Rodney Scott Barbecue in Charleston post office spies Birmingham back in the day bakery, and Savannah and hundreds more places in your local community all across the country. Learn how you can show your support at discover dot com. Whenever you face a choice. It helps to think like an economist and this week on Planet Lenny Summer. School will start off our course in economics within workout for your brain how to decide what something newly costs for? Planet money from, NPR. People still find it really interesting salmon like I'm like no. No I. I was the first Latina in the newsroom at NPR ever to step foot. WHO WASN'T CLEANING IT? That was me right that that was that. Was this Latina? That is Maria. She's had a long career in media, not just here NPR but also at CNN NPS in two thousand ten. She founded her own company for total media. And she has a memoir. It's called once. I was you that comes out in September, but most of you probably know Maria. As the host of a very long running public radio show turned podcast from NPR and through media. It's like new USA mighty. Hossack Latino USA has been around since the early nineties. It is attributed by NPR. which is why you hear NPR in the credits, but that will be changing USA is moving. As distributor. It means nothing's GonNa Change for you. Our listener that our audience is going to get way way way bigger. We're very excited. Announcement might have been confusing for listeners, but don't worry like. She said you'll still be able to hear the show. But the Journal of Color, especially in public radio that move meant that NPR was losing a hugely influential show dedicated to covering Latino stories in the US. And from its founding NPR has been well bad on race. More than seventy percent of NPR's newsroom is white and of the sources you here on NPR's air, those voices they are more than eighty percent white. People of Color who work in public media? We have been saying for years. Fix this including Maria Hosa. We're asking the question. Are you listening? Are you hearing? And that his own ready a power dynamic that is wrong. This notion is the assumption that they the they will always have the power I. Ask Maria what Latino USA leaving NPR means for this network, but I I asked her about blazing trails. One could see your path to be one of color who found her own company as a shining success, but one could also see your path as proving that the conventional spaces in media can accommodate of voice like you the way they should you know like. I'm so proud of what you're doing, but also the fact that you have to make your own production company shows at the NPR's and the PBS's and the CNN in many ways. Don't get it and can't help people like you tell the stories that you need to tell. I was thinking about that as I was thinking about our interview Sam because. My husband calls me Aguirre, a warrior, and then as I was thinking about our conversation, Sam. I was like well. That's great i. like that, but you know what I don't want. Journalists of color to have to be warriors at into order to be able to work as To work as journalists of Contians, who can bring their entire cells into the news room? Who are going to be seen who are going to not only be seen and heard but actually. Put into positions of power to be the ones who are listening and making the decisions about. Yeah, we want that story on the front page and the headline is going to say that exactly. I want you you know everyone has been using it. Everyone's been going to twitter sharing their reckoning story, the slight the knocked in that promotion. The being told you can't do this do that. Give me one of your reckoning stories from your career when I when I come to this country, I'm born in Mexico. My whole family's born in Mexico. We're raised on south side of Chicago. You know sixties and seventies, but as Mexican immigrants we also understood the essential nature of journalism and American independent journalism and so. My father was watching. Meet the press every Sunday and we were watching the today show and we watched sixty minutes, and because of the fact that it was so American in holding people accountable and I was like that's what journalism is so long. Story Short is many years later actually a decade ago go to sixty minutes when I'm out of work and needed a job actually and. They basically like look, can you Can you come back and talk to us? When one of the old white guys get secret is really and I, said and I just remember like. Like am I supposed to laugh? It's funny. Is that a joke as being? and. As we do in the media's people of Color, 'cause we're really good at laughing things off. Like. Yeah. Banter you know the the the the the we're so smart. On. Exactly Racism! Exactly. And I got into the subway at fifty ninth street onto my apartment in Harlem and I cried on the train. and. I was just like, but I am not. You know I'm knocking to let this take me down. And that was the moment that I decided to create food. Media Winds Rams history. Takes over Latino, USA. And Expands Latino USA grows the show and let the USA's audience twenty seven years in. Is in a continual upward trajectory. You love to see it. As I. Want to ask more about what needs to happen. We are in this moment now. Where so many journalists coming forward with their stories? But it's still unclear what newsroom leaders will actually do to fix this stuff you have been on all sides of media for profit nonprofit. Give me like a checklist of the big three or four things that mass media should do right now to effectively respond to the issues raised in this reckoning. Feel like this is a moment to be having that difficult conversation, which is pushing this reckoning that we're talking about to another level. I'm going. Give you an example, Sam it brings me joy, it brings me no joy to have to ask white men in senior editorial positions how they consider my role as a Mexican immigrant woman journalist. In relation to a president who insults every single one of those things that I do? And and And basis a lot of that on his white supremacy. Which is very challenging word to even use in our newsrooms right, but yeah. I don't feel comfortable saying it. I want you to feel uncomfortable having to answer that question. Because his white supremacy does not impact you in the way, it impacts me, and I am a journalist just like you. I am an equal journalist just like you so now. You helped me to figure out. Harmon handle that because that that impacts our might quote unquote objectively, you have to be able to recognize that you do not have an ownership of activity or an ownership of the media or an ownership of public media, or it's not yours to share yeah. Did any of the issues we've discussed about. In diversity and Unfair situations that journals of have to deal within this industry. Did those factor into your business decision. To leave NPR ex. Look I've had you know NPR's my family? IF NPR calls I'm going to say when you I was absolutely and Bureau Sam he's my family. You know we hung out once, but he's. He's my brother. Because we're digesting PR so NPR's my family Mi. Familia was my first job. But You know I started a company. And I have a team of very savvy business and media executives journalists. And when they said look, we have an opportunity here in in a competitive marketplace A. Somebody PR X.. Who wants to really go big? Yeah, I will say you know they are all of these. Underground email channels and slack channels and discussion boards were journalists of color are coming together to talk about all these issues and there's been a lot of chatter about your show. What says about NPR yeah? Why am I so disconnected? Oh my God. I thought I. Thought I was like connected because I'm on twitter and I got a fat. And what folks have been saying? People who love your show Oh my goodness. They're saying well. This speaks to the larger problems. NPR has always had with content may for people of Color. They don't market it enough. They don't support it enough. You have these program. Directors at various stations put a show like yours on at not great hours. This is the stuff that people are saying. Do you I mean like to the extent that you can elaborate on it, you know. Did you feel like NPR? Neglected or didn't promote enough your type of show. So of these issues at play with the race and diversity in space like NPR. Again. Let New USA right now is growing an audience at kind of extraordinary numbers I think we're one of the few public radio programs or previously distributed by NPR. That is growing an audience at these numbers. And so the fact that. We made this decision. Says everything about. WHAT NPR. Kind of thinks. About letting USA. Now having said that I don't know you know I. Don't know the internal finances at NPR. Maybe NPR's is is really facing a a real financial challenges that I'm not privy to. And so you know, but but when you're thinking about AH, show, that has this kind of. Audience Commitment There was a point not long ago. When one of your colleagues called me up, actually she works in. She's a Latina colleague at NPR in the newsroom, and she called me up and she said. Do you think that Latino USA has been this incredibly successful because of NPR or despite NPR. And no one had asked me that and I kind of like. ooh And I said well actually despite. Despite NPR, do you think you know 'cause? There are a lot of shows not produced by NPR. Distributed by NPR. Do, you think other shows like that in your same boat that were hosted by white people or felt to maybe India leadership more mainstream. Do you think they got more support than your show did pound for pound? Yeah How does that make you feel? Like I said, that's why. I didn't. See I've been feeling this for a long time, my love. News, so Gimme a word for the emotion. Well right now I'm glad that I'm with a partnership with Pr X.. That's not gonNA units not on the table so I'm like I'm looking to the future. That's why I'm like yeah I'm all about like? It's all about the dodge this morning, boxing teacher. was making us do the we've the. We've the constant, which by the way is really really hard, and that's just how I feel is a journalist of color in a survivor Mexican immigrant woman in this like it's always like whoo. Okay well and so. That stuff that you're saying like. How does it make me? That's rolled off me a long time ago, and it is a central part of what has moved me as a journalist as a woman of color in this country is that. Is like. Oh, you're going to try to silence me or tell me that I'm not objective or tell me that I have an agenda or tell me that is not going to be successful or tell me. Okay I might go home and cry. But I'm not GONNA give up. Thanks, again to Maria Hinojosa. She's the host of the Tino USA. We asked NPR for a response to what Maria told us and they gave us this statement. We have the highest respect and admiration for the Latino USA team and from Maria Hinojosa. We are proud. That Latino USA originated at NPR member station, K. U. T., and that since nineteen, ninety-four NPR has been the program's national distribution partner today, hundreds of NPR member stations bring the show to their listening communities. We are grateful. Maria entertain who are produced a consistently wonderful show and nurtured journalist who have gone on to work all over the public radio system. We are glad public radio listeners will continue to hear Latino. USA on their public radio stations across the nation. All right now. We're going to have a chat with someone who just began working with NPR Kelly. McBride NPR's newest public editor. I WanNa talk with her. About one particular part of this entire debate, the way in which we've been taught as journalists to do our jobs that most fundamental level leads to systemically racist outcomes. I am talking specifically about the idea of journalistic objectivity. This idea that reporters only report the facts. They keep themselves out of the story, and they eliminate all biased in their coverage. A lot of folks say well. That only works if you're man and straight. And White. I wanted to find out. Why are journalism so entrenched in objectivity and whether or not this standard is fair, so I went to one of the top journalism at experts in the country I am the senior vice president at the POYNTER institute. I am the chair of the Craig Newmark Center Ethics in leadership at the Poynter Institute and I am also the public editor for NPR that Kelly McBride. Kelly has advised newsrooms about difficult journalism ethics problems for years, so it made. Made, sense to begin by asking Kelly for her definition of objectivity in journalism, it really means that you will objectively pursue the facts in order to determine the truth, and there's all sorts of things that go into that right like there's how you frame the story how you identify who you're going to interview, and then really important is who else is involved in the story. So who edits it because that the the safety nets that are created in newsrooms are meant. To help an individual program against her own bias now the problem is if all the safety nets have the same biases that that doesn't happen right and that's. That's exactly what's been happier. Also objectivity has come to mean certain different things for different journalists. There are some. Who say well objectivity means that you have to. Pretend! That kind of you don't exist, and you have to just simply say what these powerful people are saying doing. You don't provide context you don't provide analysis. It's a kind of. Totally taking yourself all the way out of it to the point where you won't even tell people if you vote or not. And I think. This is the thing for me like there's so many different interpretations of what objectivity means, yet you know that's actually kind of a confederation of two different principals in journalism, so one is the principle of objectivity in this idea that that we are pursuing the truth in spite of our own biases, and that that we actually promised, swear to God that we're going to get it right because we have all these safeguards in place, even though they've failed numerous times in the past. But the other thing is is that in American journalism in particular? It was built on this business principle of aggregating A. Politically diverse audience, and then selling that audience to advertisers, so in in Europe you see much more you see much more of the journalism coming through a political lens because that's just how the business model grew up over there, but over here especially as in different markets, you went from multiple newspapers to a single newspaper. There was this motive that was really a business motive that you would bring in the entire political spectrum and if you were going to do that, you needed to convince that audience that you in the newsroom didn't have. Any particular biases it is refreshing to hear you as a leader in the industry acknowledged that some of this is about the principles and bedrocks of our journalism, and some of it's about business, and at the end of the day for whatever reason we have ended up with a definition of objectivity. That is as much about business as it is about telling the truth and I think what frustrates so many journalists, somebody younger journalists, journalists of color or women require journalists as at newsroom leaders are resistant to acknowledge that I read NPR's social media policy, and it's couched in terms of ethics and morality and idealism. But I also know that part of it is the bottom line is. Not Do anything of the public facing person at NPR. That would possibly damage NPR's revenue streams. And I mad. They don't just say that. Yeah? They don't mean to say that they. Don't I mean that's the thing is they? Don't. They really do believe, and I actually believe also that there is. That there is a line somewhere that we shouldn't cross, and maybe it is way up the continuum on just. If you're a political reporter. You can't help people who you're voting for. Maybe the line is all the way over there. Right, because of imagine that like if you were a political reporter in you were covering. Trump's campaign and you again. I'm voting for Biden though I was that guy. Did you tell people out loud. I didn't tell folks voting for in two thousand sixteen, and I wouldn't but I think gets. Those are the ones where I think everyone can agree, but there's there's there's other things like how much of me do I. Bring to a story when I'm covering police violence against black men. Am I allowed to say that's racist. Because I know what racism is experienced, it trust me and don't make me say racially tinged. Like those, and that's where it gets murkier well. You know you know where I. I experienced this. Yeah, so when gay marriage was was a hot hot issue, right? They were different cities or states that were making gay marriage legal. The Supreme Court hadn't yet decided in San Francisco the mayor of San Francisco. made it legal and a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle on a Saturday after weeks of covering it, the City Hall reporter went down and got a marriage license, and she was taken off the beat. Wow, and as in as an ethicist, right is a journalism ethicist. I was like wait a second. That can't be right. because. She was exercising in San Francisco. What was a legal right? You don't mean you didn't tell people who'd been divorced. They couldn't cover this issue because they'd you know somehow. Defiled the sanctity of marriage by? Getting divorced. So that was, that was where realized that you cannot penalize people for who they are. That's not fair. Yeah, because you end up with the only people that are untainted enough to do all the work are people who are only straight are people who are only men are people who have only gone to college and has a certain pedigree people who are an the deaths a problem, so bias is to right. It's just that we don't well. That's the thing, but these leaders aren't seeing those. Yeah, because they look just like them. I think now what is required to speak to the Syria. Systemic issues being raised in this reckoning. Going to have to be an acknowledgement that the movement toward writing these wrongs. It's going to be in some ways painful and you should do it anyway. From your conversations with newsroom leaders across the country. Do you think they're ready to accept that idea that this might hurt that? It might not just be. A statement and everyone shakes hands, and says sure good now now I mean nobody wants to voluntarily sign up for something painful. You do it because you know that what comes on the other side is worth head. There's individuals in every single newsroom who are part of the problem. Then somebody has to tell those people that if they want to keep their jobs, they have to stop being part of the problem, and that means that they're either going to have to be quiet. Or they're going to have to change or leave. Just leave well. That's I mean if they want to keep their job right like. Yeah and I've seen people. Who are these problem, people? I don't think I've ever seen any of them. Actually chain, but I've seen some of them. Learn to be quiet and let other people lead. And then they actually become the beneficiary. Of what comes after yeah. And then I. Think also so many lessons of me too I. Think are applicable to this meteoroid. Me To kind of work. Because a lot of folks were just literally canceled and they had to go, they were shamed. They were fired. And you said you can't be here anymore. And it was painful for them, and probably all the folks that liked them in love them but like. Sometimes, it's just that yeah. So my last question for you back to these two ideals that butt heads this idea of objectivity. But also this business idea of needing to be somewhat neutral to appeal to a large audience. And reworking probably reassessing, what objectively means a newsroom? What advice would you give to newsroom leaders? Writing up that next ethics guideline for their journalist about quote, Unquote Objectivity Post reckoning. Yeah, so this is where I'm supposed to come through with something really profound and I mean I. I am I. Am humble enough to say. That I don't have the answer yet. But I'm also arrogant enough to say that I believe after working through lots of really really hard ethics problems with newsrooms that I think we are going to find the answer and I think it's going to start by. Recognizing that there is a difference between. Revealing political bias. and. Revealing lived experience. And we need to start there and say your lived. Experience should not count as political bias. Thanks again to Kelly McBride joining us and thanks to everyone who, over the last week or so shared very very personal stories about life as a person of color in the newsroom. I heard from colleagues as well. And one thing one of those colleagues told me about all of this. She said so much of this work is convincing journalist. who think they've been doing it right for so long that maybe in some ways they've been doing it wrong. And then she said to me. This phrase really stuck with me, she said. How do you argue with the fish about the water there's. I. Don't know just yet how to do that. It's pretty difficult. It seems frustrating,
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