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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley slammed the media for widely dismissing the recent revelations of the unmasking requests of former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
In a column published on Sunday, Turley pointed out the “unsettling” details surrounding the declassified list of top Obama officials, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who had requested Flynn’s name to be revealed from his conversations with the Russian ambassador in the final weeks of the Obama administration, which followed the “chilling details” of released transcripts showing that the most prominent figures who pushed the Russian collusion narrative admitted to investigators that they never saw evidence that the Trump campaign worked with the Kremlin during the 2016 election.
“There is very little question that the response by the media to such a story would have been overwhelming if George Bush and his administration had targeted the Obama campaign figures with secret surveillance,” Turley wrote. “That story would have been encompassing if it was learned that there was no direct evidence to justify the investigation and that the underlying allegation of Russian collusion was ultimately found to lack a credible basis… But the motives of Obama administration officials are apparently not to be questioned.”
Turley, the constitutional scholar who is widely known for his congressional testimony opposing President Trump’s impeachment during the Ukraine scandal, pointed out how the media “universally mocked” Trump in 2016 for claiming that the Obama administration placed campaign officials under surveillance, saying “that statement was later proven to be true,” referencing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants that were issued against Trump campaign officials like former advisor Carter Page.
“Yet none of this matters as the media remains fully invested in the original false allegations of collusion. If Obama administration officials were to be questioned now, the coverage and judgment of the media may be placed into question, as even this latest disclosure from the investigation of the unmasking request of Biden will not alter the media narrative,” Turley continued.
He then explained the significance of unmasking American citizens from surveillance of foreigners but noted that the “importance of this privacy protection is being dismissed by media figures,” citing MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell who suggested that anyone sounding the alarm on the Flynn revelations is “gaslighting.”
“The media portrayed both Obama and Biden as uninvolved. But now we know they both actively followed the investigation,” Turley wrote. “Yet none of this matters. A Democratic administration using a secret court to investigate the opposing political campaign does not matter to many in Congress or in the media anyway. An investigation continuing despite the lack of credible information supporting collusion does not matter to them either. A president and a vice president who take personal interest in the surveillance of their political opponents also does not matter.”
He argued, “There was a time, however, when all of this did matter. There was once a time when this would be viewed as the story of the century, including the unmasking of Biden himself in this investigation. But these are not those times, and this cannot be the story. Russian collusion is the story and, as Biden stressed, the rest is just a diversion. It is up to the public to decide who has been ultimately unmasked by the Flynn investigation.”
While fielding a question about gun violence during a CNN Town Hall appearance, presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris called out Congress for the lack of gun control legislation.
And she even suggested “harsh” means to encourage Congress to introduce a new bill.Harris started her discussion about gun reform by saying: “You can be in favor of the second amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around communities that can kill babies and police officers.”
Harris shamed Congress for not introducing a bill following a 2011 assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords was shot in the head and 6 innocent bystanders were fatally shot.
Harris slammed Giffords colleagues, saying: “The people who work with her every day, who know her – you know, we have colleagues. We know them. We know their children. We break bread. We share holiday moments with them. The people who knew her didn’t act.”
Senator Harris became even more impassioned while discussing the inaction by congress following the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that took the lives of 20 children between the ages 6 and 7.
She said: “I think somebody should have required all those members of Congress to go in a room, in a locked room, no press, nobody else, and look at the autopsy photographs of those babies. And then you vote your conscience.”
Senator Harris’s response resonated with many viewers, with one person tweeting: “Truly blown away by the answer that Kamala Harris just gave on gun violence.”
San Francisco’s new district attorney, Kamala Harris, right, receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George, left, during inauguration ceremonies Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004, in San Francisco. In the center is Harris’ mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, who holds a copy of “The Bill of Rights.” Harris, a political novice and career prosecutor, became San Francisco’s chief law enforcer Thursday and California’s first district attorney of Indian and black descent. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who as a prosecutor once specialized in child sexual assault cases addresses the Domestic Human Trafficking symposium in Los Angeles, Friday, April, 25, 2014. According to a 2005 International Labour Organization paper, human trafficking, or sexual servitude and forced labor, brings in about $32 billion annually, making it the second most profitable criminal enterprise after illegal arms trafficking. The vast majority of those trafficked are women and children, from all milieus of society. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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While there was not a direct response to Senator Harris’s statements, in 2018 the National Rifle Association’s CEO Wayne LaPierre suggested armed guards instead of gun control to curb the problem, saying: “Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don’t harden our schools and protect our kids.”
Regardless, Senator Harris made it abundantly clear who she holds accountable for the continued gun violence plaguing our great nation.
“We’re not waiting for a tragedy. We have seen the worst human tragedies we can imagine. So what’s missing? What’s missing is people in the United States Congress to have the courage to act the right way,” she said.
The Town Hall took place Monday in Des Moines, Iowa, and was broadcast live by CNN.
Washington — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection to his past political fundraising while working in the private sector, three people familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
The investigation follows a report by The Washington Post last year that alleged DeJoy’s employees at New Breed Logistics, the North Carolina-based company where he served as CEO, were pressured to make campaign donations or attend fundraisers for GOP candidates and then were reimbursed for their contributions through bonuses. Former President Trump selected DeJoy to lead the U.S. Postal Service last May, and he had been a major donor to Republican candidates, including the former president’s campaign.
The Washington Post first reported the FBI’s investigation into DeJoy, and his spokesman, Mark Corallo, confirmed the probe.
“Mr. DeJoy has learned that the Department of Justice is investigating campaign contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector,” Corallo said in a statement. “He has always been scrupulous in his adherence to the campaign contribution laws and has never knowingly violated them.”
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on August 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill.
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DeJoy’s tenure as postmaster general has been rocky, marked by his decision in 2020 to implement a series of operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service that led to mail delays. Democrats accused DeJoy of working to hinder the agency in the run-up to the presidential election, which brought a flood of mail-in ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Facing pushback from the public and Capitol Hill, DeJoy halted the changes, put in place to cut costs at the Postal Service, until after the November election.
But the postmaster general’s troubles extended to his work in the private sector following the Post’s report in September about the alleged practice of reimbursing his employees for political contributions.
The Democratic-led House Oversight and Reform committee launched an investigation into DeJoy and the reported scheme. Its chair, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, claimed he “could face criminal exposure” for the practice and for lying to Congress under oath if the accusations are true.
Corallo said DeJoy has “fully cooperated with and answered the questions posed by Congress regarding these matters.”
“The same is true of the Postal Service Inspector General’s inquiry which after a thorough investigation gave Mr. DeJoy a clean bill of health on his disclosure and divestment issues,” he said. “He expects nothing less in this latest matter and he intends to work with DOJ toward swiftly resolving it.”
DeJoy denied repaying his employees at New Breed Logistics for donations to GOP candidates during testimony before the House Oversight panel in August and called the suggestion by Congressman Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, that he did so an “outrageous claim.”
“I’m fully aware of legal campaign contributions, and I resent the assertion,” DeJoy said. “What are you accusing me of?”
Still, a slew of Democratic lawmakers have called for DeJoy to resign.
Congressman Ted Lieu of California told CBS News that while he would like more facts to come to light, DeJoy should step down. A former prosecutor, Lieu said he knows “that when you open up an investigation on one topic, It could lead to other topics as well.”
“In August 2020, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and I sent a letter asking for an investigation into Louis DeJoy for a number of possible criminal violations and as sometimes is the case, if they do an investigation, it may lead to other additional possible criminal acts,” Lieu said. “And it appears that what happened is, you had employees of Louis Dejoy make contributions to candidates and then based on what the employees said they will get reimbursed through higher bonuses and that is a straw donor scheme. It’s illegal under the federal code and punishment includes both fines and jail time.”
Asked whether DeJoy should step down, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at Thursday’s White House press briefing that she will “leave the investigation and the process” to the Justice Department.
Officials said they recovered human remains and debris that includes women’s clothing and bedsheets from a Texas bay where a cargo jetliner operating for Amazon crashed minutes before it was set to arrive in Houston.
Federal aviation officials were investigating the scene around Trinity Bay near Anahuac on Saturday where the three crewmembers on board Atlas Air Flight 3591 were feared lost.
“Knowing what I saw, I don’t believe anyone could have survived it,” said Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne, who described the scene as “total devastation.” He said recovery efforts would resume Sunday.
“Knowing what I saw, I don’t believe anyone could have survived it.”
— Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne
Local and federal officials gather at a staging area during the investigation of a plane crash in Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
The twin-engine Boeing 767 contracted by Amazon plunged from the sky minutes before it was expected to arrive at George Bush International Airport, the Houston Chronicle reported. The aircraft was part of the Amazon Prime Air Fleet and was traveling from Miami to Houston. It had been at Ontario International Airport in California earlier in the day, the Press-Enterprise of Riverside reported.
Witnesses said they heard the plane sputtering before it “went in nose first” around 12:40 p.m., leaving a half-mile of debris along the shallow bay.
The Federal Aviation Administration lost contact with the airliner when it was 30 miles southeast of the airport, according to the paper.
“I would venture to say that it’s probably going to be mechanical,” Hawthorne said of a possible cause.
In a statement, Amazon said its “thoughts and prayers are with the flight crew, their families and friends along with the entire team at Atlas Air during this terrible tragedy. We appreciate the first responders who worked urgently to provide support.”
A helicopter flies overhead as emergency personnel work the scene of a plane crash site in Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Multiple agencies responded to the crash site. The shallow bay and surrounding marsh present challenges for responders, said Brian Ligon, a spokesman for the city of Mont Belvieu.
“I’ve been out there on a boat a few times where you’re basically boating on dry sand and then just a few feet from there it’s super deep,” Ligon said.
The Coast Guard dispatched boats and at least one helicopter to assist in recovery efforts. The National Transportation Safety Board is heading the investigation.
The Associated Press and Fox News reporter Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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(CNN)After a day of attacks from commentators on the right, the White House announced Wednesday night that it planned to nominate three judges for the California seats on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
President Donald Trump, at a rally in Panama City, Florida on Wednesday night, mocked some of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. His targets included Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. (May 9) AP, AP
President Donald Trump was tickled Wednesday when an audience member at a Florida rally suggested shooting migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump was bemoaning the legal protections afforded migrants and espousing the need for a border wall when he asked rhetorically, “How do you stop these people?”
“Shoot them!” someone shouted from the Panama City Beach crowd, according to multiple news media reports.
The remark drew a chuckle from the president, who then shook his head, pointed in the audience member’s direction and said, “Only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement.”
“Only in the Panhandle,” he repeated to laughs and cheers from the crowd.
Prior to the interruption, Trump had mentioned “border security people” who he said are not permitted to use weapons on the migrants.
“I mean, when you have 15,000 people marching up, and you have hundreds and hundreds of people, and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great – and don’t forget, we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons. We can’t. Other countries do. We can’t. I would never do that,” he said.
During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity in March, Trump said the threat of deadly force is a “very effective” way to deter migrants, but said the U.S. “can’t do it.”
“We need to defend our country. You have people pouring in,” he told Hannity. “Now, we’re capturing these people, we’re getting them. But we don’t do like other countries. Other countries stand there with machine guns ready to fire. We can’t do that and I wouldn’t want to do that.”
Authorities in Wyoming planned to announce on Tuesday how they believe Gabby Petito was killed.
The Teton county coroner, Brent Blue, was scheduled to announce the findings of Petito’s autopsy at an early afternoon news conference.
The body of Petito, 22, was found on 19 September near an undeveloped camping area in remote northern Wyoming along the border of Grand Teton national park. Blue previously classified Petito’s death as a homicide – meaning her death was caused by another person – but did not disclose how she was killed pending further autopsy results.
Petito had been on a cross-country trip with her fiance, Brian Laundrie. She was reported missing on 11 September by her parents after she did not respond to calls and texts for several days while the couple visited parks in the west.
Laundrie is considered a person of interest in her disappearance and remains unaccounted for.
The search for Laundrie has generated a frenzy, with TV personalities like Duane Chapman, known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, and longtime America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh working to track him down.
The case has led to renewed calls for greater attention to cases involving missing Indigenous women and other people of color, with some commentators describing intense coverage of Petito’s disappearance as “missing white woman syndrome”.
Petito and Laundrie posted online about their trip in a white Ford Transit van converted into a camper. They got into a physical altercation on 12 August in Moab, Utah, that led to a police stop which ended with officers deciding to separate the quarreling couple for a night. No charges were filed, and no serious injuries were reported.
Investigators have searched for Laundrie in Florida and also and searched his parents’ home in North Port, about 35 miles south of Sarasota.
Federal officials in Wyoming last month charged Laundrie with unauthorized use of a debit card, alleging he used a Capital One Bank card and someone’s personal identification number to make unauthorized withdrawals or charges worth more than $1,000 during the period in which Petito went missing. They did not say who the card belonged to.
En reiteradas ocasiones, se escuchan los consejos de especialistas del contenido que se publica en Facebook. Una australiana de 23 años fue grabada sin que lo sepa mientras bailaba junto a sus amigas en el baño de un bar con un bote de basura en su cabeza y mostrando sus senos. El video le ha cambiándo la vida.
El hecho ocurrió hace unos días y la joven no sabía que la estaban filmando pero, a las pocas horas, el video fue subido a Facebook y casi de inmediato se viralizó.
Cientos de usuarios compartieron las imágenes y la joven, quien ha preferido mantenerse en el anonimato, contó que vive una pesadilla desde ese instante.
“He sido humillada en todo Australia. El video se extendió rápidamente. Ha destrozado mi vida y la de mis amigas, no entiendo cómo alguien puede hacer esto. Hay que tener mucho cuidado con lo que se sube a redes sociales”, aseguró la agraviada a canal 9 News.
Además, pidió perdón por la forma cómo actuó. “Estaba convencida de que las puertas estaban cerradas y no lo hicimos para que nos viera nadie”, explicó.
El bar Botánica ha prohibido el ingreso de la joven y de sus amigas al local y ella anunció que tomará acciones legales contra las personas que subieron el video en redes sociales.
Bennett noted that “it took the Governor 24 hours and significant backlash to allow for a truly independent investigation” after she went public with her allegations Saturday in a New York Times article.
“These are not the actions of someone who simply feels misunderstood; they are the actions of an individual who wields his power to avoid justice,” Bennett said.
Cuomo over the weekend first suggested the allegations by Bennett and Boylan be investigated by a former federal judge who previously worked with the governor’s top advisor.
Cuomo then pivoted, with his office suggesting that James and Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who heads the state’s highest court, jointly oversee the probe.
James refused to share oversight. And the governor’s office, dealing with a growing political backlash to both the allegations and his machinations seeking to control the investigation, agreed to ask the attorney general to handle the probe.
Bennett said that in coming forward with her account “I fully expected to be attacked by those who reflexively question the honesty or motivation of those who report sexual harassment. I am not deterred by these voices.”
She also said that, “Coming forward was an excruciating decision. I decided to share my story because I had faith that I would be supported and believed. This is often not the case.”
“Sharing my experience was only possible because of past survivors who stood up and told their stories. I hope that my story helps other survivors feel like they can stand in their truth.”
CNBC has requested comment from Cuomo’s office.
A referral letter by Cuomo’s office to James on Monday granted her request to have the claims by Bennett and Boylan be investigated by a private attorney or attorneys deputized by the attorney general.
The letter from Cuomo’s special counsel, Beth Garvey, said that the findings of that investigation “will be disclosed in a public report.”
The letter also said that “due to the nature of this review” the governor’s office will not approve or be sent weekly reports which are normally expected under the state law authorizing the attorney general to deputize outside lawyers for such a probe.
“All New York State employees have been directed to cooperate fully with this review,” Garvey wrote in the letter, which James released.
“I will serve as point of contact for any witness interviews or document production for the Executive Chamber and will connect you with appropriate counsel in any other agency or entity for any documents or witnesses necessary for the review,” Garvey wrote.
Bennett, 25, told the Times in an article published Saturday that the 63-year-old Cuomo had asked her questions including whether she “had ever been with an older man,” whether she was monogamous in her relationships and other personal questions that made her feel uncomfortable.
Boylan has said that Cuomo once kissed her without her consent, and jokingly suggested playing strip poker on an official flight.
Cuomo has denied the 36-year-old Boylan’s claims.
But in a statement released Saturday, the governor did not dispute Bennett’s claims of what he had said.
“I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm. I spend most of my life at work and colleagues are often also personal friends,” Cuomo said that day.
“At work sometimes I think I am being playful and make jokes that I think are funny. I do, on occasion, tease people in what I think is a good natured way,” the governor said.
“I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended. I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.”
Cuomo also said, “To be clear I never inappropriately touched anybody and I never propositioned anybody and I never intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable, but these are allegations that New Yorkers deserve answers to.”
ÚN|Emen – Jean Carlos Manzano.- Los usuarios del cupo Cadivi electrónico para compras por internet están a la espera de la activación de 2014 para hacer compras de tecnología, medicinas y pagos de turismo, reveló una consulta realizada por este medio a través de las redes sociales.
A la pregunta ¿para qué está esperando ud la renovación del cupo Cadivi electrónico? la mayoría respondió que espera adquirir celulares, televisores, computadoras e incluso medicinas, así como pagos de estadía en el extranjero.
La Comisión de Administración de Divisas ( Cadivi ) anunció a finales de 2013 que la renovación se haría automáticamente los primeros días del año 2014, sin embargo, esto todavía no ha ocurrido.
Los bancos han comunicado a sus clientes que están a la espera de que Cadivi les remita la lista con los tarjetahabientes que no presentan sobregiros u otros problemas para proceder a la reactivación.
Algunos de los usuarios que respondieron a la consulta señalan que es una oportunidad para protegerse de la inflación o adquirir bienes que escasean en el país.
Es el caso de Anny Pérez García, quien dijo en Facebook lo usará “para comprar algo que me es útil y que aquí en Venezuela vale un realero”
Por su parte, Robinson Marriaga, comentó que lo usará para “comprar ropa y cosas necesarias en mi hogar”
En tanto otros usuarios como Elsa Rodríguez y Rafael señalan que será para comprar medicinas y pagar seguro médico.
In the last year, Univision Noticias has gone through a process of digital transformation to shape its approach to online video, as a Spanish-language TV network whose aim is to “empower and inform the latino community in the United States”.
Selymar Colón, managing editor and senior director for digital at Univision, told attendees at the WAN-IFRA International Newsroom Summit in London today (23 November) that, considering its TV legacy, the broadcaster’s aim was to improve on how it produced and delivered video for online.
Between January and September 2016, Univision Noticias acquired more than 1.1 billion video views across its own website and social media platforms, and Colón said one of the biggest changes in its digital video strategy was to find the suitable pace and workflows before the newsroom started experimenting with formats.
Univision Noticias identified four ‘rhythms’ to approach online video, which she outlined as breaking news, social video, TV content and craft video – these help determine the team’s take on stories.
However, it is often the case that all four can apply to the same story, as it happened with the organisation’s video coverage of the Orlando nightclub shooting in June.
Univision Noticias started with a breaking news video on its website at 2am, showing survivors leaving the club. It then dipped into social video with a Facebook Live of news anchor Jorge Ramos on his way to Orlando, who gave viewers the latest updates before arriving at the scene, where the key moments were broadcast on TV for several hours.
The coverage was rounded off with ‘Orlando gets its pulse back’, a mini-documentary Univision published a month after the event, featuring interviews with three survivors of the massacre.
“Once you have identified the right workflow for your newsroom and you know what your story is, then you can pick the format.”
Colón highlighted five formats that Univision Noticias has been focusing on:
Available in English and Spanish, the video showed what it’s like to live in the US both as a documented immigrant and an undocumented one, enabling viewers to choose which version of the story they wanted to watch.
“To do this, we shot exactly the same things with the same people for both versions, and the audience is the one who can choose what happens.
“It also means that you can probably get the same person to watch the same video three times, as at first they play around with it before exploring the two versions of the story.”
360-degree video
The US election gave Univision Noticias the occasion to produce 360-degree video, showing people the atmosphere inside the buildings where the presidential candidates were waiting for the results to come in and the reactions of Donald Trump aides and supporters when he won the vote in the state of Florida.
Mini-documentaries
In May, Univision Noticias produced ‘From undocumented immigrant to Harvard graduate’, a four-minute video showing snippets from a particularly important week in the life of Norma Torres, a young woman who was about to graduate from Harvard University.
As her mother was living as an undocumented immigrant in Texas, Torres flew to Houston to pick her up before they drove the 2,000 miles back to Cambridge so that her mother could attend the graduation ceremony.
Animations
“This format sets us apart from the TV content we produce on a daily basis, and it also allows us to play a little bit with the story,” Colón said.
“In this particular case, we found a woman who had actually suffered abuse while working on a ship and she agreed to talk to us, but didn’t want to show her face, so we recorded the interview with her and decided to illustrate her testimony.”
Drone journalism
In March, Univision Noticias sent a team to Bolivia to report on how the drying up of Lake Poopó, the country’s second largest lake, was affecting the life of the community living in a village that used to be located on the lake’s shores.
The broadcaster partnered with a local organisation in Bolivia to film and produce ‘Fishermen in the desert’, a four-minute video centred around drone footage of the area.
Website publishing vs social distribution
The next step after finding the right formats is to find out if they should live on your own platform or on social media, explained Colón.
On its website, Univision Noticias has focused on developing “franchises”, which are special series, exclusive interviews and regular programmes, such as a weekly interview in which an immigration lawyer answers one question about related issues.
As part of its social distribution strategy, the organisation’s approach to videos published on its website is to share a link to the content on social platforms, before uploading them as native videos 24 hours later.
Univision Noticias publishes video on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, tailoring its content according to the strengths of each platform.
“For me, social videos means we’re back to silent movies, as the majority of people on Facebook watch with the sound off and we’re competing with other elements in their newsfeed.”
For that reason, most of its videos on Facebook are “text-driven and feature illustrations”, while Facebook Live has worked both for “digital-first video and TV-style”, depending on the story.
“For huge events like the presidential debates or election night, we didn’t want to compete with TV on Facebook, so we connected the two and did some eight hours of programming on Facebook Live, gathering about 14 million video views in total.”
In 2017, Univision Noticias will focus more on a video format Colón called the ‘noon cast’, a newscast happening every day at 12pm in the newsroom, which is simultaneously broadcast on its website, Facebook Live and YouTube.
“On TV, this newscast would be 30 minutes with commercials, which is actually 22 minutes of programming.
“But for digital, you have to produce those 30 minutes because you can’t put in the same commercials, so in their place we will produce other types of content and it will be a different experience for each platform where people watch.”
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El reconocido periodista murió en la madrugada debido a una enfermedad que lo debilitaba.
El distinguido periodista Enrique Zileri, presidente del directorio de la revista Caretas, falleció esta madrugada. El hijo de Doris Gibson ya padecía una enfermedad que lo debilitaba, indicó nuestro director de noticias Raúl Vargas al informar de este hecho.
El periodista se convirtió casi en sinónimo del semanario fundado por su madre y Paco Igartua luego de asumir la codirección tras regresar de Europa. En la década del noventa asumió la dirección.
Zileri Gibson vivió y fue protagonista de los cambios en el país, siendo muchas veces castigado por sus posturas. “Es curioso, yo lo recuerdo casi como una cosa divertida. Mi primera deportación se produjo cuando llegaba a mi casa, un grupo de policías me intervino, se armó una pelea fenomenal”, recordó recientemente en el programa Peruanos en su salsa, con Raúl Vargas.
En 2007 pasó a la presidencia del directorio y dejó la dirección a su hijo Marco Zileri. Además de dirigir el importante medio, fue presidente del Instituto Internacional de la Prensa y presidente del Consejo de la Prensa Peruana.
Según lo informado, el velorio Zileri Gibson se realizará en estricto privado.
La presidenta del Consejo de Ministros, Ana Jara, lamentó este hecho a través de su cuenta de Twitter: “Conmoción al enterarme del fallecimiento del periodista Enrique Zileri, director de Caretas. Parte de la historia del país se va con él. Q.E.P.D.”.
“UN EJEMPLO DE BATALLA”
Raúl Vargas, director de Noticias de RPP Noticias, quien durante 15 años trabajó con Enrique Zileri, calificó la muerte de su colega como una “pérdida muy grande”, pero dijo que sin duda él será recordado como “uno de los grandes del periodismo peruano”.
“Enrique es en el periodismo un ejemplo de batalla, de lucidez y de honradez”, destacó.
Vargas Vega señaló que Enrique Zileri reunió varias condiciones propicias para el periodismo, tenía estudios en publicidad, gracias a lo que aplica en Caretas sus conocimientos de diagramación e implantó el sentido de “la fotografía de la noticia”.
“Él mismo era un gran reportero, muy cuidadoso en las cosas que hacía, se tomaba un largo tiempo cuando escribía notas, cambiaba y reflexionaba. Tenía mucho cuidado en que el periodismo no fuera de agresividad y de injusticia, muy valiente”, subrayó.
Raúl Vargas comentó que Zileri Gibson era algo renegón a la hora del cierre, pero “extraordinariamente humano, muy amable y muy gracioso”.
“El sentido del humor de Caretas en alta medida es el sentido del humor de Enrique Zileri”, comentó.
“Hay que recordarlo con una sonrisa, porque era de un gran talento”, concluyó el director de Noticias de RPP Noticias.
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I agree, Maggie. We have grown accustomed since Trump came on the national stage to extraordinary political moments. Even in that context, today sure feels like one of them. Michael Cohen, once one of Trump’s closest aides, rebuked him under oath before Congress, warned that he was a threat to American democracy and implicated a sitting president in criminal activity in his campaign for office.
WE ARE NOT THERE YET— As we enter the third year of the pandemic, my mind keeps flashing back to a trailer I saw last year for a widely panned Michael Bay movie, which portrays an unlikely dystopian pandemic future, but captures the feeling of helplessness and despair that so many — even those of us lucky enough to have access to vaccines and the privilege to social distance — feel right now with the country on the brink of an Omicron surge.
Last year, when I put together a 2021 pandemic guide, it seemed like this year would bring back a sense of normalcy. And in many ways it did: Kids headed back to classrooms, sports seasons resumed relatively routine schedules, families celebrated the holidays together, people got on planes and many workers went back to the office full time.
Yet more people have died this year than last year as the virus tore its way through largely unvaccinated pockets of the country killing older Americans at alarming rates. One out of every hundred Americans 65 and older have died from Covid.
These days, with hospitals so full they are refusing patients, it’s hard to see how this pandemic will ever end, so I reached out to several Nightly go-to experts to help me figure out what is actually ahead. Here are five predictions for 2022:
The U.S. will hit one million deaths in the spring.
Earlier this week the country hit 800,000 Covid deaths and is still recording about 1,300 deaths a day. Even if the Omicron death rate is lower, the overall infection rate will likely be higher, leading to another surge in deaths, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
“Omicron is starting to rival our most transmissible infectious agent of all: measles,” said Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine, who predicts the country will see a million deaths by the end of March.
Even folks who have gotten their booster dose are getting breakthrough infections, though they are largely spared from severe outcomes. But nearly 75 percent of the population has yet to receive a booster dose, and 40 percent of the U.S. population has yet to receive a single vaccine dose — leaving a vast number of Americans still deeply vulnerable to the worst of the crisis.
We will run out of room on our vaccination cards.
The mRNA vaccines are proving to be not as long lasting as we had hoped, said Hotez, who is working on a low-cost recombinant protein vaccine.
Even three doses may not be enough. “We haven’t hit the ceiling yet of how high we can get an immune response,” said Kirsten Lyke, a vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who has been studying Covid shots.
That means we will probably be getting another shot. It’s unclear whether future shots will be the same as the previous ones or reconfigured to better tackle new variants, and whether they will become annual rituals. Researchers are now working on a coronavirus shot that will protect against a broad range of coronaviruses as well as variants.
We will be talking about an Omega variant.
“We will go through the whole Greek alphabet,” said Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist and senior director of the system-wide special pathogens program at NYC Health + Hospitals. We may not hit the Greek alphabet’s last letter in 2022, but it won’t be a distant possibility.
As long as there are large unvaccinated pockets of the world, new variants will emerge, Hotez said. Less than 50 percent of the world’s population is vaccinated.
“Mother Nature has told us what she has in store for us,” Hotez said, who argues the U.S. has a responsibility to provide doses and combat global anti-vaccine messages. “If we fail to vaccinate the Southern hemisphere, she will get us.”
Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. We’ll have more on what to expect on Covid medicines and what “normal” might mean coming up. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at [email protected]. Or contact tonight’s author at [email protected], or on Twitter at @RenuRayasam.
We will talk less about social distancing and more about Covid drugs.
Instead, 2022 will bring new advancements in Covid therapeutics that won’t stop the spread or bend the curve, but could help cut infection mortality rates. The FDA is considering the approval of two antiviral pills — one from Pfizer and one from Merck/Ridgeback Biotherapeutics — that have the potential to drastically lower the chances of severe illness and death. The catch is that they have to be taken early, which will require widespread, cheap testing.
“I do think relying on pharmaceutical interventions is going to miss the mark,” said Spencer Fox, associate director of the University of Texas Covid-19 Modeling Consortium. “There are things we can do to prevent transmission rather than trying to deal with repercussions of transmission.”
There will (hopefully) be a new normal.
If 2020 caught us by surprise, 2021 plunged us into either ignorance or despair. Some people ignored the virus completely. But others tried to live Covid-safe lives and failed. We planned masked Christmas parties that turned into holiday superspreading events. Broadway reopened and canceled shows. Many major companies scrapped return-to-office plans more than once.
2022 will hopefully be the year where people and policymakers get realistic and figure out how to live with endemic Covid.
“We are not back to square one,” Madad said. “Pandemics do end.”
That means figuring out policies and guidance that are more sustainable, she said. Some of those policies are straightforward — booster shots for long-term care residents should be an urgent priority, and more rapid, frequent testing. The Biden Administration has so far resisted sending tests directly to Americans. Others, like designing office and school policies or planning parties and trips, will be more complicated but vital as Covid waves go and come.
“Covid has really humbled us as society,” Fox said. “My new normal is planning things with a sense of flexibility.”
The vaccine had already proven to be less effective than its mRNA counterparts: the single shot was 71 percent effective against hospitalizations compared with 93 percent for Moderna and 88 percent for Pfizer, according to a CDC report.
All the bad news doesn’t mean that 16 million J&J recipients in the U.S. should panic — the clotting risk is limited to a three-week window after the initial shot. Plus they should just get a follow-up shot. And soon.
Plus, while J&J may produce fewer antibodies than the other two shots, it creates a better T-cell response, which is a different arm of immunity, Lyke said. There’s also data showing that J&J’s shot might have a more durable response — eight months compared to six months with mRNA vaccines — something that Lyke’s lab is currently studying. The shot is still available for people who are allergic to mRNA vaccines or who might not be comfortable with the new technology.
In any case, she points out, one and done was still better than zero. About 85 percent of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated, according to new research from Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare.
— Crackdown on China’s treatment of Muslim minority headed to Biden’s desk:The Senate today unanimously passed a bill to crack down on the Chinese government’s genocide targeting Uyghur Muslims, sending the measure to Biden’s desk for his signature. Despite the bill’s overwhelming support, it faced a long and complicated road to final passage as its co-authors, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), encountered obstacles from the White House and the private sector. The legislation briefly became intertwined with Democrats’ unrelated domestic agenda items, as well as a GOP-led blockade on foreign-policy nominations.
— Rep. Alan Lowenthal won’t seek reelection in 2022:Rep. Alan Lowenthal will not run for reelection, adding to a generational changing of the guard in California politics. The Long Beach Democrat said in a statement that he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, choosing instead to “pass the baton” and spend time with family. Lowenthal’s current seat is safely Democratic and will likely remain so even under new lines, though the latest iteration from the state’s independent redistricting commission eliminated one Southern California seat to account for slower population growth.
— More than 100 Marines kicked out of the service for refusing Covid vaccine: The Marine Corps has booted 103 of its members for refusing the Covid vaccine, the service announced today, even as all the military branches report that a vast majority of troops have gotten the shots. The news comes the same day the Army announced that it has relieved six leaders — including two commanding officers — over the issue, and that almost 4,000 active-duty soldiers have refused the vaccine.
— Chamber launches ads targeting Manchin, hoping to kill Build Back Better: Washington’s largest business lobby got the bipartisan infrastructure bill it wanted. Now it’s going in for the kill on the piece of Biden’s agenda that it doesn’t want — Democrats’ $1.7 trillion reconciliation bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is readying a multi-pronged ad blitz aimed at keeping the pressure on two of the bill’s key holdouts in the Senate, Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
Gen. Micael Bydén, the Swedish supreme commander, spoke to POLITICO today during a visit to Washington where he met with counterparts including Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nahal Toosi writes.
Russia’s menacing of Ukraine is top of mind for Sweden as well as neighboring countries. President Vladimir Putin has amassed nearly 100,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, which Moscow earlier invaded in 2014.
The U.S. and its European allies have warned Putin that Russia will face severe sanctions and other penalties should he attempt another incursion, and that they will not waver in their military support for Ukraine. Biden has indicated, however, that he won’t send American troops to directly fight in that ongoing war.
Enforcement of the agency’s decades-old rules requiring the pills to be physically handed out by a medical provider was suspended earlier this year following a lawsuit from the ACLU arguing that the risks of traveling to a doctor’s office during the Covid-19 pandemic outweighed any potential harms from having the drugs delivered. Now, the agency says it will move to make the looser distribution rules permanent.
Alexis McGill Johnson, the president & CEO of Planned Parenthood, called the decision “long overdue” and a “victory for public health and health equity.”
“This decision will remove a sometimes insurmountable barrier for patients seeking an abortion,” she said in a statement following the hearing.
The agency’s move is set to open a new front in the ongoing battle over abortion rights, with activists and lawmakers on the right pushing national and state restrictions on the pills while their counterparts on the left work to get information out about where people can obtain the drugs no matter where they live or what bans are enacted.
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Puigdemont ofreció una entrevista al corresponsal de la BBC Tom Burridge.
El presidente de la Generalitat de Cataluña, Carles Puigdemont, dijo a la BBC este martes que declararán la independencia de España “en cuestión de días”.
En su primera entrevista desde el controvertido referéndum del domingo pasado, Puigdemont aseguró que su gobierno”actuará a finales de esta semana o comienzos de la próxima”.
“Vamos a declarar la independencia 48 horas después de que se hagan oficiales todos los resultados que se están escrutando. Probablemente esto va a acabar cuando haya los votos del exterior y por tanto nos movemos entre el fin de semana e inicios de la semana que viene”, señaló Puigdemont en una conversación con el corresponsal de la BBC Tom Burridge.
La máxima autoridad del gobierno catalán habló con la BBC momentos antes de que el rey Felipe VI hiciera una declaración institucional en la que acusó a las autoridades autonómicas catalanas de haber actuado con una “deslealtad inadmisible” hacia el Estado español.
Consultado acerca de qué haría si el gobierno de España, que preside Mariano Rajoy, interviene para tomar el control del gobierno catalán, afirmó que “sería un error que cambiaría todo”.
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Miles de personas salieron a manifestar en Cataluña este martes en contra de la actuación que los cuerpos policiales tuvieron el día del referéndum.
“Va a ser otro error de esta cadena de errores. Después de cada error hemos salido más reforzados. Hoy estamos más cerca de la independencia que hace un mes y no solo porque avanzamos en el calendario que teníamos fijado, sino porque a cada semana y a cada error hemos acumulado más fuerza social, más mayoría en Cataluña que no acepta esta situación”, dijo.
“La intervención de la autonomía, el arresto de los miembros del gobierno o mi arresto. Esto puede ser el error definitivo”, agregó.
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Puigdemont aseguró que Rajoy cometería un error si intenta tomar el control sobre el gobierno de Cataluña.
Puigdemont calificó como “muy decepcionante” la reacción de la Unión Europea a la actuación de las autoridades policiales españolas, señaladas de cometer excesos violentos en sus esfuerzos por evitar la realización de la consulta.
De igual modo, se mostró en desacuerdo con la declaración hecha el lunes pasado por la Comisión Europea asegurando que los sucesos en Cataluña son un asunto interno de España.
Puigdemont reveló que e la actualidad no hay contactos entre el gobierno de Rajoy y la Generalitat de Cataluña.
Tensiones
El referéndum sobre la independencia de Cataluña fue organizado por las autoridades autonómicas pese a que el Tribunal Constitucional de España lo había declarado ilegal.
El gobierno de Rajoy realizó un gran despliegue policial para evitar la consulta y durante esa jornada la actuación policial dejó un saldo de más de 800 heridos.
Miles de personas se concentraron en Barcelona en rechazo a la actuación policial durante el referéndum
Pese a ello, unos 2,3 millones de personas (cerca del 40% de la población con derecho al voto) participaron en la votación, según cifras de los organizadores, quienes aseguraron que 90% de los votantes respaldaron la propuesta de independizarse de España.
En protesta por la actuación policial del domingo, este martes se realizó un “paro general” en Cataluña, en cuyas principales ciudades se produjeron manifestaciones multitudinarias.
En Barcelona, más de 700.000 personas salieron a las calles, según cifras de la policía local citadas por AFP.
En la capital catalana hubo también más de 50 cortes de calles, lo que generó grandes atascos en el tráfico.
El metro trabajó a 25% de su capacidad en horas punta y grandes atracciones turísticas como el templo de la Sagrada Familia permanecieron cerradas.
Fractura
Este martes, el rey de España, Felipe VI, fijó posición por primera vez desde el referéndum catalán del domingo.
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Felipe VI acusó de deslealtad a las autoridades catalanas que impulsaron el referéndum.
En una declaración institucional, el monarca criticó duramente a las autoridades regionales catalanas acusándolas de actuar con una “deslealtad inadmisible” y de haber “pretendido quebrar la unidad de España y la soberanía nacional”.
“Hoy la sociedad catalana está fracturada y enfrentada”, señaló y advirtió que, como consecuencia de este proceso, incluso se puede poner en riesgo la estabilidad económica y social de Cataluña y de toda España.
El jefe de Estado español consideró que la situación planteada es “de extrema gravedad”, por lo que “es responsabilidad de los legítimos poderes del Estado asegurar el orden constitucional y el normal funcionamiento de las instituciones, la vigencia del Estado de Derecho y el autogobierno de Cataluña, basado en la Constitución y en su Estatuto de Autonomía”.
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