An Italian Winter Olympics broadcaster who was on the mic for the opening ceremony before the Milan Cortina Games began last week faced immense backlash and a strike call for numerous blunders during the show. RaiSport director Paolo Petrecca had a night to forget after misidentifying singer Mariah Carey, mistaking the Olympics’ chief as the […]
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President Donald Trump‘s administration is poised to walk back an Obama-era greenhouse gas finding that serves as a lynchpin for justifying climate regulations across the country on Wednesday. The 2009 “endangerment finding” identifies six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose “a threat to public health and welfare.” That harm finding was then used […]
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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and film director Paul Thomas Anderson requested Monday that the “Melania” documentary remove a song they asserted was used without Greenwood’s permission. A statement from Greenwood’s representative claimed that the film used his song “Barbara Rose” without consulting Greenwood. “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from ‘Phantom […]
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Lifestyle icon Martha Stewart complained on Saturday about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in her town, lamenting that it feels like living in a dystopian regime. Stewart told USA Today that while she normally considers herself “an extremely optimistic person,” she is nonetheless “feeling a little bit down” regarding President Donald Trump’s immigration raids. […]
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Readers will always read, and news junkies will always find and especially read news. Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market. That reality does not, however, guarantee any platform the loyalty of a subscriber. “Journalism is a craft, not a profession,” the late Michael […]
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