All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures – “Fake news from greater need for profit than doing the job correctly!”

I would qualify these photos as war porn. I say that because too many publishers couldn’t bother with the larger context or even the basic facts when they had the news cycle to contend with and these macabre and sensational photos to display. Instead, these suddenly employable four-year-old photos and their hasty circulation serve as an indictment of spectacle — just like the news and the pictures of the near nuclear-scale “mother of all bombs” did a few weeks back — when the corrosive war in Afghanistan remains otherwise invisible.

Source: Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures

Where Anti-Tax Fervor Means ‘All Services Will Cease’ – The New York Times – AKA: When “Up Yours!” means we all fall down…

The divisions over the library remain raw. Terry Bean, 54, a construction manager who was working on his daughter’s house on a recent morning in Roseburg, voted for the library tax, and said that “no” voters just saw another tax, not an institution at risk.There is conservative, said Mr. Bean, flicking a cigarette butt into the bed of his pickup truck, and then there is community. And people got them confused.The library, he said, was something a person could use — for computers, if not for books — even if that person didn’t have a dime, and he still respects that.

TV Titan Requires Its Stations to Air Segments That Roil Its Staff – The New York Times

During the election campaign last year, it sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery. More recently, Sinclair asked stations to run a short segment in which Scott Livingston, the company’s vice president for news, accused the national news media of publishing “fake news stories.”

How Russian Media Photographed a Closed Meeting With Trump – The New York Times

Later, at the White House, Mr. Lavrov met President Trump for what was supposed to be a private meeting, with no reporters or cameras allowed into the Oval Office, save for official photographers from each government. Afterward, the Russian state news agency, Tass, published pictures of Mr. Trump and Mr. Lavrov grinning broadly, alongside the Russian ambassador to Washington, Sergey I. Kislyak.White House officials were furious, saying their Russian counterparts had tricked them. The point of barring the news media, a senior official said, was to prevent the publication of images of a meeting that was, at a minimum, badly timed, given that Mr. Trump had just fired the director of the agency investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia.

Trump says Xi Jinping told him that Chinese history goes back ‘8,000 years’: Shanghaiist – China claims 5,000 years – #LoserTrump inflates history.

As has been pointed out countless times before, this is completely false. China’s undervaluation of its currency came to an end long before Trump even descended down the escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his candidacy. Yet during his campaign, he regularly bashed China for hurting American manufacturers by manipulating its currency, vowing that on his first day in office, he would declare China a currency manipulator.

Source: Trump says Xi Jinping told him that Chinese history goes back ‘8,000 years’: Shanghaiist

Donald Trump Lashes Out at “No-Talent” Stephen Colbert In Media Rant | Hollywood Reporter #LoserTrump cannot control tantrums or truth.

“I do watch Fox in the morning, and their ratings have gone through the roof because everyone knows I’m watching Fox,” claimed Trump. “But they’re pleasant. And if I do something wrong they report on it. I don’t mean they — if I do something wrong. But it’s really, honestly it’s the most accurate.”Trump turned his disdain to Cuomo, who went toe-to-toe with his counselor Kellyanne Conway just yesterday.”He’s like a boiler ready to explode, the level of hatred,” said Trump. “And … the entire CNN platform is that way.”It was then Lemon’s turn to be bashed.”This Don Lemon, who’s perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting, Don Lemon at night it’s like — sometimes they’ll have a guest who by mistake will say something good. And they’ll start screaming, we’re going to commercial,” said Trump. “They cut him off. Remember? I’ve seen things where by mistake somebody they bring in a guest and it turns out to be a positive. And they go, I mean they get just killed. The level of hatred.” Still, despite his loathing for CNN, Trump did compliment contributor and supporter Jeffrey Lord.”Poor Jeffrey Lord. I love Jeffrey Lord. But sometimes he’s sitting there with eight unknown killers that nobody ever heard of,” Trump told Time. “And CNN actually is not doing nearly as well as others. They’re all doing well because of me.”Later in the day on Thursday, Trump went back and found a tweet from Rosie O’Donnell from last year in which she called for FBI director James Comey to be fired. Trump quoted her tweet, saying “We finally agree on something Rosie.”

Source: Donald Trump Lashes Out at “No-Talent” Stephen Colbert In Media Rant | Hollywood Reporter

Dear immigrant and muslim mamas: your sacrifices & struggles don’t go unnoticed

My immigrant mama has been mistreated, harassed, and discriminated against so many times that she began to internalize it. She apologizes for her imperfect English. When in public, she speaks only when spoken to. She worries for herself and for her family and has nightmares about her deportation and our separation. Even when she doesn’t say it, I can tell she feels isolated and alone in this country. Loss has defined the last twenty years of her life. And before now, I have never once acknowledged her wounds or accepted the invitation to understand her pain. My Mamas Day card will be both an apology and a love letter for the strongest warrior I know.It’ll say: It’s harder than ever to be an immigrant mama. Eres mi heroe.

Source: Dear immigrant and muslim mamas: your sacrifices & struggles don’t go unnoticed

Kremlin tweets during closed-door Oval Office meeting with Trump – CBS News #TraitorTrump #PutinPuppet

The Russian-sourced pictures are the only public record of the meetings as of this writing, largely because members of the White House press pool — who are charged to report on the president’s whereabouts and what happens inside the White House — were not allowed into the meeting Wednesday morning. No photos were taken by the White House press of the president’s meeting with Lavrov and with Russian Envoy Sergey Kislyak.Twitter accounts held by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Embassy provided a running commentary of highlights from Lavrov’s Washington visit, including Lavrov’s jibes with reporter’s at the State Department regarding FBI Director James Comey’s firing.

Source: Kremlin tweets during closed-door Oval Office meeting with Trump – CBS News