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Nintendo planned to release the Pokémon Go Plus accessory at the end of this month. Today, however, the company announced that it will be pushed back to September.
Nintendo planned to release the Pokémon Go Plus accessory at the end of this month. Today, however, the company announced that it will be pushed back to September.
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The most extensive and best-known histories of African-American religion in America give short shrift to the role of African-American women in religion. In her exhaustive and monumental study, Collier-Thomas (Daughters of Thunder) allows the strong voices of women as diverse as Ida B. Wells Barnett, Sarah Jane Woodson Early (the first black woman to serve on a faculty of an American university), and Mary McLeod Bethune to articulate the causes of liberation and justice in a culture where their race and sex continually called into question their self-understanding. Collier-Thomas demonstrates the ways black women have woven their faith into their daily experience and played central roles in developing African-American religion, politics, and public culture. By examining the histories of various organizations such as the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church's Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, she shows how black women of faith created a network indispensable to the fight against racism, sexism, and poverty. Although her turgid and wooden prose and academic tone detract from the power of the book, Collier-Thomas's study nevertheless offers a magisterial survey of a too-long neglected topic. (Feb.)
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Collier-Thomas views the long struggle by black women for racial and gender equality through the lens of their strong religious faith and spirituality. She covers two centuries of black women's history, recalling clubs and organizations including Church Women United and the National Council of Negro Women. Black women's church clubs headed grassroots social, political, and educational reform movements, speaking out on issues from lynching to woman suffrage. They challenged the racism of white-led groups, from the Young Women's Christian Association to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and worked alongside national black organizations such as the NAACP for civil rights. Collier-Thomas highlights the famous—Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Mary McLeod Bethune—and the less well known, including Nannie Helen Burroughs, a leader in the National Baptist Convention Woman's Convention, and Julia Foote, a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She also explores issues within the church, including rampant sexism and black women's struggles with black theology and feminism. Photographs add to the value of this well-researched book. --Vanessa Bush


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Situated on the waterfront, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Ocean World and Crescent City Harbor. Beachfront Park and Del Norte County Historical Society are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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A 24-hour business center, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a 24-hour front desk, a computer station, and multilingual staff.
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A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. This Crescent City hotel also offers barbecue grills, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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|Thursday, September 10
|Simple output and decomposition - song - 10 point assignment
|Wednesday, September 9
|Thursday, September 17
|Output and loops. Drawing a complex figure.
|Wednesday, September 16
|Thursday, September 24
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|Wednesday, September 23
|Friday, October 2
|Conditional execution: rock, paper, scissors
|Wednesday, September 30
|Thursday, October 8
Using parameters, Strings, encrypting text. (Transposition Cipher)
|Wednesday, October 7
|Thursday, October 15
|While loops, Hangman
|Wednesday, October 14
|Thursday, October 22
File Processing - Home Field Advantage
|Wednesday, October 21
|Thursday, October 29
|Temperament sorter
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|Arrays and file processing, working with lots of data, decrypting encrypted text.
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|Thursday, November 19
|Two dimensional arrays, Connect 4
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|Wednesday, November 25
|Creating classes, Critters.
|Wednesday, November 25
|Thursday, December 3
|Arrays of Objects, Guitar Hero, No slip days may be used on assignment 12
General Assignment Requirements: Individual assignments are to be completed by you alone. You may not share code with other students or other programmers. Review the class policy on improper collaboration from the class syllabus and how this applies to individual assignments.
Follow the rules from this program hygiene guide.
Programs will be written in Java, using the Java SE Development Kit 7.0. See the software page for information on downloading and installing Java at home.
There will be 12 programming assignments.
Assignments are due by 11 pm on the due date.
You will have 6 free late (slip) days in 1 day units (1 second late to 24 hours late = 1 day) for the semester.
Assignments must compile and run with BlueJ in the GDC Microlab. You are free to use other IDEs, but if a program runs on your system, but not the grader we will arbitrate the matter using BlueJ in the UTCS microlab.
Assignments must be turned in via Canvas. You must turn in a file with the correct name and in the proper format. Usually this is the source code in a .java file. The assignment page will specify exactly what to turn in.
If you do not follow the instructions and specifications for assignments (name, where to turn in, file format) you cause extra work for the graders and myself. As a student and potential software developer you must follow instructions and specifications. When you do not meet your responsibilities as a student, it causes you to become a special case for the teaching staff. With over 200 students the TAs and undergrad proctors use scripts to streamline some aspects of grading. Not following the assignment instructions and specifications causes these scripts to fail and the graders must spend more time on your submission. The following penalties are in place because there must be consequences for failure to meet your responsibilities as a student. Please read this account of a student who has seen the issue from both sides.
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Assignments grades are not scaled to effort or time spent working on them. (You may spend a large amount of time working on an assignment and still lose many points because your program is not correct.) The programs are not graded on a strictly linear scale. Points will be deducted for incorrect output, failed test cases, poor style, poor efficiency, lack of necessary comments, convoluted algorithms, lack of student provided test cases, lack of answers to questions regarding the assignment, and other reasons deemed appropriate by the instructor.
Assignments will be checked for plagiarism and copying using Moss. You may discuss high level design issues with your fellow students, but sharing algorithms or code or obtaining solutions from another source constitutes academic dishonesty and will result in an F for the course. Review the class policy on cheating.
The teaching staff will grade, comment, return, and post the grade for an assignment within 6 days. A grade can only be disputed within the following 5 days. (This isn't a weekend bazaar. If there is an error in your grade you have one week to contact your grader. We won't go back at the end of the term to look at an assignment from early in the term.)
Please do not ask for a regrade lightly. Your grade could in fact go down as a result of the regrade. Do not quibble over a few points. Regrades are for serious issues. In the past the vast majority of regrades have resulted in no change in the grade or a lower grade.
Please contact your TA if you assignment is not graded in a timely and accurate fashion.
All grade disputes must be made in writing by email to the grader with supporting evidence and will result in the entire assignment being re-graded which may result in a lower grade.
Some of the the assignments may be done in pairs using a technique called pair programming (Read the paper on pair programming to understand how the technique works.). If you work with a partner they must be in the same discussion section as you.
One solution will be turned in for the pair. Once you start working with one partner on an assignment you may not switch partners. If you do not wish to work with a partner after starting on an assignment you must both complete it individually. If you start working on an assignment with another person and decide to finish as individuals, you must both start from scratch. You may not re-pair after starting the assignment with someone else. If you took CS312 previously and worked with a partner then or are working with a partner now, you must start programming assignments from scratch. When working on pair programming assignments you are expected to spend 80% of your time on the assignment working with your partner, together at one computer, taking terms typing, and navigating.


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The Washington Post's Erik Wemple wrote that Fox News host Sean Hannity's refusal to report negative news stories about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump -- including Melania Trump's plagiarized speech -- should disqualify him from anchoring the network's coverage of the Republican National Convention.
Hannity has used his Fox News primetime show to defend Trump numerous times including backing him when media have called out Trump's racist attacks, his delayed contributions to veterans, his unprecedented refusal to release his tax returns, his debunked conspiracy theories, various widely-criticized policy proposals, and for inflaming rhetoric at his campaign rallies. Media have criticized Hannity's "unapologetic advocacy" for Trump, to which Hannity responded by asserting on his radio show, "I am not a journalist, I'm a talk show host."
In a July 19 Washington Post article, Wemple wrote that while CNN and MSNBC reported that Melania Trump plagiarized parts of her convention-headlining speech, Hannity instead issued "pom-pom deployment," "raving about Trump." Hannity's refusal to report bad news about Trump, Wemple wrote, makes him "the wrong guy for the anchor chair" during the convention. From Wemple's article:
About 20 minutes after midnight, MSNBC anchors Brian Williams and Rachel Maddow announced a wee-hours breaking story. "We've had a remarkable turn of events," said Maddow. "This started on social media. People on Twitter first started circulating some eyebrow-raising claims about Melania Trump's speech this evening. That led us . . . to go dig up the archival material and check these claims, and it does appear that there are some unusual similarities, some unusual, very tight parallels between Melania Trump's speech tonight and Michelle Obama's speech in a similar position in the 2008 nominating convention for her husband, Barack Obama."
Around that time, Fox News's Sean Hannity was raving about Trump. "First of all, she's an amazing woman ... smart, charming, kind nice."
And so it went for the next half-hour. CNN and MSNBC went into cable-news monofocus, breaking down the issue in all of its particulars: Who wrote the speech? How did this happen? What are the implications?
Fox News viewers might not have known what was happening, because of Hannity. He was busy with non-Trump-speech-purloining material, including a chat with two mothers whose sons were killed by illegal immigrants and a panel on race. Signing off from his program, Hannity proclaimed that it had been a "great first night." Such pom-pom deployment is what you might expect from Hannity, who is a self-professed Donald Trump supporter. So much so that he once orchestrated a round of applause from a live audience for Donald Trump's proposal to ban entry by Muslims into the United States. Ever a transportation helper, Hannity flew Newt Gingrich to Indiana to meet with Trump as part of the vice-presidential interview process, according to CNN.
When bad news is breaking on the Trump campaign, in other words, Hannity is the wrong guy for the anchor chair.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple called out Fox News host Sean Hannity for ignoring clear conflict of interest rules by furnishing a private jet for Donald Trump vice presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. Wemple explained that Hannity's actions creates a "helpful case in point" for "anyone wishing to make the case that Fox News serves as an organ of the Republican Party."
In a July 14 column, Wemple wrote that "Hannity apparently considers himself exempt from conflict-of-interest rules binding on the rest of the industry" because he is a "talk show" host. Wemple noted that despite Hannity assertions, Hannity is not exempt from those rules "as long as his employer continues to bill his program" as part of "Fox News." Wemple concluded, "Anyone wishing to make that case that Fox News serves as an organ of the Republican Party just found a helpful case in point":
Here come CNN's Dana Bash and Dylan Byers with an authentic media-oriented exclusive: Newt Gingrich, a vice-presidential short-lister for Donald Trump's campaign, flew out to Indianapolis on a private jet furnished by Fox News host Sean Hannity, the CNNers report. The purpose of the trip, which took place on Wednesday morning, was a meeting with Trump himself.
Hannity's colleagues, of course, know full well that when you work for a news outlet, favors for friends who double as possible vice presidents are the entire organization's business. Having previously protested that he's a "talk show" host, Hannity apparently considers himself exempt from conflict-of-interest rules binding on the rest of the industry. He's not, at least not as long as his employer continues to bill his program as depicted below. Focus on the red circle added to the screenshot:
See? It says "Fox News," not "Fox Corrupt and Conflicted Talk Shows." Anyone wishing to make that case that Fox News serves as an organ of the Republican Party just found a helpful case in point.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple highlighted how Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and chairman and CEO Roger Ailes have defended each other during scandals, with O'Reilly defending Ailes against sexual harassment allegations by former Fox host Gretchen Carlson.
In 2015, Media Matters reported on numerous inconsistent and false stories told by O'Reilly, including his claim that he witnessed a "firefight" in El Salvador and that he heard a shotgun blast that killed a figure in the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Veteran war reporters asserted that his misleading reports that he covered a riot where "many were killed" during the 1982 Falklands War violated "Journalism 101." O'Reilly responded to these allegations by claiming that Fox News was under attack for political reasons.
In a July 13 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, O'Reilly called Ailes "a target" and called Carlson's lawsuit -- which alleged that Ailes suggested that Carlson have a "sexual relationship" with him and made "frequent sexually-charged comments" -- a "frivolous lawsuit."
Wemple explained that Ailes similarly defended O'Reilly against allegations that he "either embellished or told falsehoods or outright lied about various reporting exploits" uncovered by Media Matters and Mother Jones. As O'Reilly's past statements were being scrutinized, Ailes issued a statement that he "and all senior management are in full support of Bill O'Reilly":
[O'Reilly] was saddened by the misfortune of the true victim here: "I've worked for Roger Ailes for 20 years. Best boss I've ever had. Straight shooter. Always honest with me. And I believe that over the years — he's been in the business for 50 years — 95 percent of the people who have worked for Roger Ailes would say exactly the same thing I just told you," said O'Reilly, leaving unanswered just what that other 5 percent might say. "In this country, every famous, powerful or wealthy person is a target. You're a target," he said to Meyers. "I'm a target. Anytime somebody could come out and sue us, attack us, go to the press or anything like that. Until America — and that's a deplorable situation….adopts the English system of civil law whereby if you file a frivolous lawsuit and you lose, the judge has a right to make you pay all court costs. Until we adopt that very fair proposition, we're going to have this out-of-control tabloid society that is tremendously destructive. I stand behind Roger 100 percent."
It was just last year that O'Reilly's own career appeared in doubt, as outlets like Mother Jones (disclosure: the wife of the Erik Wemple Blog works there as a staff writer) and Media Matters, among others, documented how O'Reilly had either embellished or told falsehoods or outright lied about various reporting exploits from his extensive career in journalism. The King of Cable News, it turned out, had a knack for placing himself closer to the action than his peers and colleagues recollected. The discrepancies were substantive, serial and damaging.
Not within Fox News, however. Whereas other network bosses might have fired up an internal investigation and declared that we take these allegations seriously, Ailes plied a different course. "Fox News Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes and all senior management are in full support of Bill O'Reilly," asserted a statement from the network. Behind such defiance — not to mention angry and absurd denials by O'Reilly himself — the network waited out the siege. Media reporters eventually moved on to other topics. O'Reilly stayed in his seat, thanks to Ailes.
Now, on late-night television, he returns the favor. This is loyalty, Fox News style.
Several media outlets falsely reported that the final report released by Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi contained "new information," when in fact all of the "key findings" in the report had been previously reported. Committee Republicans reportedly released "embargoed 'exclusives'" strategically to manipulate reporters into presenting details in the releases as new information.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple highlighted that, among the various ethical concerns with CNN's hiring of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, an ongoing defamation lawsuit involving Trump and Lewandowski could pose "another conflict of interest" for CNN's new hire. Wemple wrote that Lewandowski's hiring has "reduced" CNN to a "pitiful reality" in which they must warn viewers "that everything they're about to hear is fatally compromised."
On June 23, CNN hired Lewandowski as a "salaried" political commentator days after he had been fired as Trump's campaign manager. CNN employees and other reporters immediately raised concerns both over potential ethical problems associated with Lewandowski's hiring and the way Lewandowski has aggressively handled the press in the past.
Wemple noted possible conflicts of interest in a June 24 Washington Post article writing that an ongoing defamation suit against Trump and Lewandowski by a Republican consultant could be another "possible [source] of taint" for CNN's arrangement. Wemple highlighted questions which have arisen about whether Trump is "footing the bill" for the both of them, noting how the "entanglement could inhibit Lewandowski's umpirely duty" to provide analysis about Trump. Wemple added that this concern, among several others, is forcing other CNN employees interviewing Lewandowski "to gore an interviewee not to bring accountability to a campaign, but rather to properly warn CNN viewers that everything they're about to hear is fatally compromised." Wemple ultimately wrote that "Trump is dragging down a network's standards before viewers' very eyes":
In his first appearance as a CNN contributor, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski showed an unsurprising reverence for his ex-boss. Appearing last night with host Erin Burnett, Lewandowski was careful to refer to "Mr. Trump," the proper honorific for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. He leveled no criticisms of the candidate. And he said this, too: "I am fully committed in my private time with my family and my friends and telling everybody that I know that Donald Trump is the only person that is going to save this country for my children and hopefully their children someday."
The hiring of Lewandowski, accordingly, has reduced CNN to this pitiful reality: A true journalist like Burnett is forced to gore an interviewee not to bring accountability to a campaign, but rather to properly warn CNN viewers that everything they're about to hear is fatally compromised. Trump is dragging down a network's standards before viewers' very eyes.
Yet there are other possible sources of taint for Lewandowski and his former boss. These two fellows worked together on a presidential campaign for a year, gathering some enemies along the way. One of them is Cheri Jacobus, a Republican consultant and PR adviser.
A defamation suit filed by Jacobus in New York County claims that those representations are false. It was the Trump camp, contends Jacobus's complaint, that wooed her. She's seeking $4 million in damages, just for starters.
Why mention this suit in the context of Lewandowski's work for CNN? Because both he and Trump are named as defendants in the civil action. And according to court documents, a single law firm — LaRocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Blaha — is representing both of these men. Defending a defamation suit can cost significant sums. This blog has asked the Trump campaign as well as Lewandowski how the pay arrangements are proceeding. Is Trump footing the bill? Is Lewandowski? Have there been any changes in how the costs are handled since Lewandowski left the campaign?
Inquiries to Lewandowski, the Trump campaign, CNN and the law firm haven't yet fetched a single response.
Little extrapolation is required to appreciate how this entanglement could inhibit Lewandowski's umpirely duty to call balls and strikes on CNN. If Trump is paying for legal representation, for instance, why would Lewandowski call a bunch of balls and imperil the arrangement?
Those considerations stand apart, of course, from another set of considerations: That Lewandowski, with a big assist from his boss, slimed someone who dared to criticize Trump — and comes away with the reward of a CNN contributor gig.
Washington Post's Erik Wemple lambasted Fox host Bill O'Reilly for excusing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's "racist" attacks on the federal judge presiding over the Trump University lawsuit.
O'Reilly used his primetime Fox show to call on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the judge presiding over lawsuits against the now-defunct Trump U., to "recuse himself," following Trump's statement that Curiel has "an absolute conflict" because of his Mexican heritage. Trump faced widespread backlash for his "racist" and "highly offensive" remarks, and media figures on MSNBC and CNN condemned Bill O'Reilly for defending Trump's "attack on the Constitution."
In a June 7th article, Wemple criticized O'Reilly for "following Trump into a racist abyss," by defending "Trump's argument that a judge cannot do his work because of his heritage — an argument that is bigoted, racist, misanthropic and dumb." From Wemple's article:
In Bill O'Reilly's world, friends excuse friends for being racist.
The King of Cable News is a good old pal of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. They've attended ballgames together. They've shared an untold number of vanilla milkshakes. They're so tight that O'Reilly at one point used his association with Trump to put rival Ted Cruz in his place. "I've known him for about 30 years. I think he's an honest man," said O'Reilly. Settled!
Reasonable people on both sides of this country's political divide have condemned Trump's argument that a judge cannot do his work because of his heritage — an argument that is bigoted, racist, misanthropic and dumb. O'Reilly is not one of those reasonable people. On his program last night, he attempted a a delicate rhetorical operation in which he called for Curiel's recusal from the case without repeating Trump's rationale word for word.
Let's lay out this un-theoretical argument: With those words, O'Reilly is explicitly following Trump into a racist abyss, one where an upstanding federal judge stands accused, somehow, of political biases just because of his ancestry. In nearly a year of campaign-trail outrages, this is one of Trump's most sinister offenses — straight-up prejudice masquerading as highfalutin ethics. Ignorance of court precedent enters the mix as well. As Slate's Dahlia Lithwick wrote, "Despite multiple sad efforts to conflict out black and female judges in discrimination cases in the late 1970s and '80s—and more recent efforts to conflict out a gay judge in a marriage equality case—courts have consistently ruled judges are no more inherently biased if they are black, or female, or gay than they would be inherently fair if they were white, or male, or straight."
If only O'Reilly applied his own standards of ethical purity to his own work: What would he say about a journalist covering frequently and approvingly on a longtime pal? We may never know.
Next time O'Reilly wants a little insight on conflicts of interest, he should take to heart what his colleague Megyn Kelly said on her program last night: "You can't create a conflict of interest about a judge just by complaining about him."
Erik Wemple: This Is "More Corroboration That The Trump Campaign Is Running A Media-Obsessed, Substance-Averse Campaign"
Donald Trump's campaign has not asked The New York Times for a correction following its feature on Trump's behavior with women, according to The Washington Post's Erik Wemple.
Trump's campaign highly criticized a New York Times' feature, "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private," which highlighted multiple women who revealed "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct" from the Republican presidential frontrunner. Trump responded to the story, tweeting that the Times "lied" and wrote a "malicious & libelous story" on him. Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, told CNN's Chris Cuomo, "They need to do a retraction and they need to actually be fair, because they're destroying their paper."
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple wrote on May 20 that campaigns "that seek a retraction from a news organization generally lay out their case in writing," noting that "no such letter has issued from the Trump camp." Wemple continued that the campaign's public response and lack of an official request to the Times was "more corroboration that the Trump campaign is running a media-obsessed, substance-averse campaign":
Campaigns, celebrities, companies and institutions that seek a retraction from a news organization generally lay out their case in writing. Anyone in media is familiar with this species of communication — stern, scolding and sometimes nasty in tone, the letters explain the alleged lapses in reporting, the impact of the alleged lapses in reporting, and the request: A full retraction of the story's central thesis. Or something along those lines.
No such letter has issued from the Trump camp, according to the New York Times. "Since the story was published, we have not received any direct communication from the Trump people*. They did not seek a correction or initiate any other action," writes New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha in an email to the Erik Wemple Blog.
More corroboration that the Trump campaign is running a media-obsessed, substance-averse campaign. Were the Trump people authentically interested in securing a correction or retraction from the New York Times, they would have sent a letter and sought a meeting. Such an effort would have been a slog, for sure: The New York Times has stood by its story and even issued a statement rebuffing Brewer Lane's complaints. "Ms. Brewer Lane was quoted fairly, accurately and at length," noted the statement, in part. As this blog wrote this week, the Trump case against the women story was weak. Yet campaigns that put their gripes in written form can reap significant benefits, as the Clinton campaign demonstrated last summer in blasting the New York Times for its story about Hillary Clinton's email.
Perhaps Trump didn't have the time to muster a retraction request, after all. He may have been too busy calling into a CNN control room to orchestrate favorable media coverage.
*After this story was published, the New York Times sent a clarification of the circumstances: "A lawyer in Trump's office called [Executive Editor] Dean Baquet earlier this week. The lawyer did not seek a correction or dispute any facts or quotes in the story. The Times has received no formal requests for a correction or any other action." The headline was amended to account for this change.
Wemple: Kelly "Withheld Details Of Her Ordeal In A Performance That Assisted Trump With His General-Election Pivot"
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple highlighted the "downright scandalous" nature of Megyn Kelly's highly anticipated interview with Trump, noting that she held back details from her highly publicized spat with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in an effort to push her upcoming book – which will be available only after the general election in November.
Kelly's May 17 debut of Megyn Kelly Presents on the Fox Broadcasting Network was widely criticized for the lack of substance and the softball questions she lobbed at Trump. During the special, Kelly promoted her new book Settle For More, which she claimed will have more details about her experience with Trump.
After the interview, Wemple wrote that Kelly is entitled to deal with "Trump's Twitter offensive" on her own schedule, "unless that schedule…is dictated by a book launch." Wemple went on to describe her decision to withhold details as "unfortunate" and "scandalous" and to point out that the publishing company that gave her a multimillion-dollar contract, which is part of Fox News' parent company, News Corp, "appear poised to postpone the whole Kelly-Trump story until after the election."
What was missing from this interview was Kelly getting personal about what Trump had done to her. She came close with this question: "Have you given any thought in this position to the power that your messaging has on the lives of the people you target and the millions of people who take their cue from you?" Trump responded that he was indeed cognizant of his power.
Deference is generally appropriate in these situations — Kelly's ordeal at the hands of Trump's Twitter offensive is still pretty fresh, so she's entitled to deal with it on her own schedule. Unless that schedule…is dictated by a book launch. At the end of "Megyn Kelly Presents," the host said this: "In addition to the 'Kelly File,' I've been working on a project: A book which I'm unveiling right now. It's called 'Settle for More,'" said Kelly. In the book, continued Kelly, "For the first time, I'll speak openly about my year with Donald Trump. You can pre-order it now wherever books are sold."
No problem, right? If the book comes out in a couple of months, readers can get the full story detailing the impact of Trump's sexism on the life of one of American journalism's biggest names. They can then use the information to assist them at the voting booth! Oh, wait: The election is Nov. 8, and the publication date is Nov. 15.
It's unfortunate enough that Kelly apparently withheld details of her ordeal in a performance that assisted Trump with his general-election pivot. It's downright scandalous that Kelly, Fox News and the publishing company that gave her the multimillion dollar contract — HarperCollins, a unit of News Corp., part of the Fox News extended corporate family — appear poised to postpone the whole Kelly-Trump story until after the election.
Media figures criticized Fox News host Megyn Kelly for her "fluff" interview with Donald Trump during her Fox Broadcasting special, Megyn Kelly Presents.
Wemple: "Donald Trump Just Declared His Intent To Destroy American Democracy"
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple explained how Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's promise, that if elected president, he would change libel laws to sue media outlets that write negative stories about him is a "threat to American democracy" and a "logical extension" of Trump's attacks on the press.
During a February 26 press conference, Trump announced his intention to fight against unfavorable news coverage, pledging that if elected president, he would "open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money."
Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple pointed out that Trump's plan to attack media law is a "threat to American democracy" that he would definitely carry out given his rhetoric and treatment of reporters during his campaign:
An attack on media law is a logical extension of Trump's rhetoric, not to mention a threat to American democracy. After all, he has displayed a highly undemocratic annoyance with the idea that the media is independent. For months he has been attempting to get the cameras at his rallies to properly pan around the thronged arenas, the better to capture his out-of-control popularity, even when the camera operators' job is to stay on him. He has ridiculed reporter after reporter for reporting the facts of Trump's march through the GOP primaries. Whenever he has been busted out by investigative journalism, he has attacked the institutions that have compiled it.
Though Trump in his remarks issued no specifics -- he never does -- about the shortcomings of existing policy or the exact changes he'd make, he appears to be upset with the degree to which media outlets are protected by longstanding First Amendment law. And protected they are, especially when reporting on people like Donald Trump, the sort of person that libel law sees as "public figures." Media types can go after public figures with a great deal of aggressiveness because the law of the land sees those in the public eye as inviting scrutiny and thrusting themselves into the glare of accountability.
What's so comical and pathetic about Trump is how, as per usual, he speaks so loudly without knowing anything about the topic. Roll back the tape on one part of his riff: "I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money."
Trump wouldn't need to "open up our libel laws" in order to accomplish this end. As currently laid out, our libel laws enable him to do just that. In fact, the "actual malice" standard discussed above applies almost precisely to those instances when news outlets write "purposely negative and horrible and false articles."
Read carefully, in other words, Trump's words delivered a thundering endorsement of the status quo in libel jurisprudence. Surely he didn't mean as much -- if elected he would doubtless move ahead with this plan to make it harder for news outlets to call him out. Though for a guy who spends much of his day writing over-the-top slams of other public officials, maybe Trump should give thanks for the First Amendment.
Since announcing his candidacy, Trump has repeatedly attacked reporters that challenged him. In November, Trump was roundly criticized for mocking the disability of a New York Times reporter who helped debunk Trump's claim that "thousands" of Muslim-Americans celebrated in New York City after 9/11. In January, Trump called NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, "Little Katy, third-rate journalist" after she reported on Black Lives Matter protesters at his events. Trump has been criticized by reporters at his events for "overly aggressive" tactics, sequestering reporters until they pledge not to speak to his supporters. And Trump has even removed reporters from events for publishing articles and asking questions unfavorable to him.
MSNBC Hosts Were "Essentially Giving [Trump] A Pass" By Glossing Over His "Record Of Offenses And Outrages"
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple defended his criticism of MSNBC Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for their "puff session" interview with Donald Trump during the network's exclusive February 17 town hall with the Republican presidential candidate.
In a February 17 piece, Wemple criticized MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for not questioning "Trump's shameful record of racism, bigotry and rampant disrespect" during a one-hour presidential town hall that evening. Wemple asserted that "any hour-long session with Donald Trump that doesn't ask him about those obscenities is a puff session" and that the MSNBC duo's failure to challenge Trump was a "journalistic shortfall." Wemple joined a chorus of media critics calling out the "softball" treatment of Trump. After receiving direct criticism from Scarborough and Brzezinski, Wemple issued a satirical apology in which he reasserted that he stood "by every word of our review of the Scarborough-Brzezinski Trump town hall."
On the February 21 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, Wemple again doubled-down on his criticism of the MSNBC hosts, saying that "it's the media's role" to keep bringing up Trump's "record of offenses and outrages of racist, and sexist, and bigoted nature":
BRIAN STELTER (HOST): The campaign trail wars have nothing on the cable news wars. The latest example, dueling town halls. CNN airing a town hall with three GOP candidates while MSNBC set up an hour-long town hall with Donald Trump moderated by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Now, Scarborough was criticized for some of the questions in his town hall. Let me show you one of the examples here. This is from Erik Wemple of The Washington Post. He said that "MSNBC and Morning Joe hosts let Trump skate on bigotry and racism." Well, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post joins me now in Washington. Erik, I want you to respond to Scarborough because, as you and I both know, he's been the subject of media coverage, including here at CNN, describing a -- maybe a cozy relationship with Donald Trump. He's been defending himself and dismissing those criticisms. Let's take a look at what he said about you on his show the other day.
So he says he's being tough on Trump. You said he let Trump "skate."
ERIK WEMPLE: Right, I mean, I think that there -- it's one of these great Washington situations where both sides can sort of claim, "hey, look at this question, look at at that question." My point here Brian is sort of a larger one, and that is if you allow Donald Trump -- if you engage him only on like say Social Security, Iraq, and the issues, and how he's going to unite the Republican Party, you're essentially giving him a a pass. You're allowing him into the polite company of a presidential election. Where I think that there's a bigger issue here, and that is that he has compiled this record of offenses and outrages of racist, and sexist, and bigoted nature. And I think that if you have an hour to spend with him, and you don't talk about any of that, a lot of it came in 2015 -- I think that some media people have moved on. But I think Donald Trump has never apologized for any of his outrages. He's never made amends, he's never adequately explained any of it. And I don't think that it's the media's role to sort of let that go by the wayside. I think it's the media's role to keep bringing that up. Now, The Huffington Post has this footer that they attach to every story on Donald Trump where they recite all his various outrages and they link to supporting documentation.
Media outlets called out MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for their performance moderating a town hall with Donald Trump, stating the hosts "went easy on the frontrunner" and calling the event "disgraceful," and a "big fat waste."
Washington Post's Erik Wemple pointed out the irony in how "accusations of media bias," a ploy often used by Fox to boost "its own ratings" and undermine criticisms against conservatives, are what Donald Trump claims is motivating his boycott of Thursday's GOP primary debate.
During a January 26 press conference GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump announced that he will not participate in Thursday night's Fox News-hosted GOP presidential primary debate, because of alleged bias against him by Fox News host and debate moderator, Megyn Kelly.
Fox has given Trump over 24 hours of free airtime since May, significantly more than his fellow GOP candidates and has furnished several of the talking points Trump uses on the campaign trail. However, the network has stood by Kelly and several Fox News figures have attacked Trump over his decision to pull out of the debate.
Despite the massive amount of coverage given to Trump's campaign, Trump still maintains there is a bias against him, using a tactic Fox News helped create. As The Washington Post's Erik Wemple wrote in a January 26 blog post, Trump's accusations of media bias against him mirror the "great conservative tradition" of accusing the media of an anti-Republican bias. According to Wemple, Trump has taken advantage of the media bias trope to deflect "just about anything that has been critical of him", and now, he is using this narrative against the network that helped create it, making "the ironies here circular." (emphasis original):
Tempting though it is to game out the PR and political calculations between Fox News and Trump, there's something bigger going down here. Momentous, even: The right-wing penchant for nonstop media criticism is swerving across the median, zigzagging around the road, about to wrap itself around that oak tree around the curve. Like other planks of the conservative canon -- e.g., foreign-policy hawkishness -- it has been invoked and ultimately abused by Trump. Such that it can no longer stand on its own.
See any good -- or bad -- conservative politician on the stump, and listen for the broadsides against the liberal mainstream media. They don't give Republicans a chance; they distort things; they give weight to trivial stories that harm conservatives and ignore big stories that favor them -- it's a viewpoint that stretches back at least to a seminal anti-MSM speech by Spiro Agnew in 1969.
Into this tradition of media criticism stomped Trump's presidential campaign. Whereas previous practitioners of the critique looked for quite specific signs of bias in the media, Trump has found bias or misconduct in just about anything that has been critical of him. He has railed against Politico for pointing out various truths; he has railed against CNN and just about every other broadcaster for the bias of not showing the full extent of his crowds; he has ripped pundits -- and Post columnists -- such as Charles Krauthammer and George F. Will for reasons that haven't stuck with the Erik Wemple Blog; he has gone back and forth on whether Chuck Todd of NBC News is a nice guy; and so on.
All of which tees up the Kelly thing. "Megyn Kelly's really biased against me," said Trump in an Instagram video. "She knows that, I know that, everybody knows that. Do you really think she can be fair at a debate?" (Bold text added to highlight another clumsy Trump effort to co-opt a great conservative tradition.)
The ironies here are circular. Over the years, Fox News has boosted its own ratings by frequently airing accusations of media bias. Now its ratings -- at least for Thursday night's debate -- stand to suffer over just such an accusation. Everyone tunes in to see just how Trump will bring out the worst in those who surround him. And the National Review got tossed from hosting a February debate because it dared to exercise its prerogative as an opinion journal to editorialize against Trump.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple highlighted how Fox News' coverage of Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi "is promoting the Bay movie for its potential to revive Benghazi as a problem for Clinton" during her presidential run, and how the network, in doing so, is "acting as an advocacy organization."
Fox News has hyped 13 Hours repeatedly, claiming that the film would "raise a lot of questions" about the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic post and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi. In addition to using the movie to push the debunked "stand down order" myth, Fox has argued that Bay's film could "pose a threat" to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Fox's Andrea Tantaros argued, "if anyone sees this movie ... and then goes on to vote for Hillary Clinton, they're a criminal." Prime-time host Megyn Kelly, during a segment that pushed multiple Benghazi myths, said the movie "reintroduces Benghazi as a potential campaign issue that cannot be helpful to Mrs. Clinton." Kelly also attacked Wemple for a blog post that called out Kelly and her network's "obsession" with the Benghazi attacks and their potential political implications for Clinton.
In a January 19 piece for The Washington Post's Erik Wemple blog, Wemple explained again how 13 Hours "is giving the network a do-over opportunity" to "attempt to elevate the flick as a political watershed" and "revive Benghazi as a problem for Clinton." Wemple noted that by "rooting for the movie to tilt the contemporary political debate," Fox has failed at "acting as a news organization, which reports events as they arise." Wemple concluded that any movie that negatively highlighted the Obama administration "could surely bank on similar excitement from the country's No. 1 cable news outfit":
On her program, [Megyn] Kelly criticized the Erik Wemple Blog for a Jan. 5 post we'd written about the love affair of Fox News with the new Michael Bay movie "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi." That movie is based on a book of similar title written by Boston University professor Mitchell Zuckoff and a team of security operators who were on the ground on the night of the tragic Benghazi, Libya, attacks of Sept. 11, 2012. The book carried a number of revelations -- including the claim of the security contractors that they were told to "stand down" before rushing to assist personnel at the besieged U.S. diplomatic outpost -- that made news upon its publication in 2014. Fox News was particularly aggressive in promoting the book.
"13 Hours" the movie is giving the network a do-over opportunity. The network is frequently running clips of the movie, interviewing the security operators -- particularly Mark "Oz" Geist, Kris "Tanto" Paronto and John "Tig" Tiegen -- and otherwise attempting to elevate the flick as a political watershed. On her Jan. 4 program, Kelly herself led into an interview with this trio by saying, "Breaking tonight a 'Kelly File' exclusive on the gripping new film that may pose a threat to Hillary Clinton's hopes for the White House." There was really nothing "breaking" that night -- just a rehash of the same news threads that had been aired at the time of the book's release.
On her program last night, Kelly disagreed with that point of view. "Wemple of the Washington Post seems to have an issue," said the host in a segment with Fox Newsers Chris Stirewalt and Howard Kurtz. "We did that interview with those three heroes and the feedback we received from the viewers was extraordinary. They wanted to know more. They wanted to know how they could help these guys. They couldn't wait to see this movie. Wemple has a different reaction, which was, '[dismissive sound effect] What did we learn that was new?' I've got news for you, Erik Wemple. You go and you sit through '13 Hours.' You sit there, white-knuckled. When you can't move at the end of it, and a tear comes to your eye, unless you're not human. And you tell me whether this is going to have no impact on the story of Benghazi, which is relevant in this 2016 presidential campaign."
Now to the heart of Kelly's criticism. She demands, "And you tell me whether this is going to have no impact on the story of Benghazi, which is relevant in this 2016 presidential campaign." We have no opinion or projection on whether or not the "13 Hours" movie will have an impact on the ongoing presidential race, nor whether it should have such an impact. Our point is narrower: That Fox News, even after hyping the bona fide revelations in the book version of "13 Hours," is promoting the Bay movie for its potential to revive Benghazi as a problem for Clinton. In so doing, Fox News isn't acting as a news organization, which reports events as they arise; it's acting as an advocacy organization, verily rooting for the movie to tilt the contemporary political debate. If Bay could only produce a Hollywood reenactment of Obamacare's lowest moments or of the failures of the president's Islamic State policy, he could surely bank on similar excitement from the country's No. 1 cable news outfit.


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Dylan Jobe has left Incognito to form Lightbox Interactive, according to this Kotaku report.
Incognito was founded in 1999 by Scott Campbell and David Jaffe: both left in 2007 to form Eat Sleep Play.
Lightbox's first project is being rumoured as a Warhawk-in-space thing for Sony.
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