April 26, 2017

Daily Show Prep: Wednesday, April 26

ESPN Layoffs: List of Confirmed Fired Employees | Heavy.com

Wednesday is a somber day for many employees at ESPN.

ESPN Has To Change, Or Today’s Layoffs Are Just The Beginning

This morning, ESPN announced layoffs were coming, and it appears that people will be getting released throughout the day. Paradoxically, though, this comes right as interest in sports has never been higher. The problem isn’t that nobody wants sports; it’s that how ESPN, and televised sports in general, serve up sports is out of sync with how people want to consume them.

The Top 5 Reasons ESPN’s Ratings Are In Freefall

1. Cutting the cord

Donald Trump presents sweeping tax reform plan – Washington Times

It would reduce the number of tax brackets form the current seven to three, lowering the top tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. The other two new brackets would have a 25 percent and 10 percent rate.


Hour 2

Now moving into one of those ‘tiny houses’ is offensive — and has a name: ‘Poverty appropriation’ – TheBlaze

But according to a writer for a blog called the Establishment — “funded & run by women, striving to provide a platform for every voice” — the Tiny House Movement has become the offense of “poverty appropriation.”

China talks with European Space Agency about moon village | Daily Mail Online

China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human settlement on the moon.

WSJ – Pentagon Ramps Up Space Warfare Effort – 26 April 2017 – Military Legitimacy

The Pentagon is getting serious about gearing up for potential space combat.

About damn time they listened to me.

Freedom Caucus endorses revised ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill | TheHill

The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced it will back the GOP’s healthcare plan now that an amendment allowing states to opt out of key ObamaCare rules is included.


Hour 3

Simon the giant rabbit, destined to be world’s biggest, dies on United Airlines flight | Fox News

Scandal-hit United Airlines is facing a new PR disaster — after a valuable giant rabbit died mysteriously on one of its planes.

United Airlines Business Class Ad Pulled Tribeca Film Festival | Hollywood Reporter

Sources indicate it was a joint decision to pull the ad, which was meant to precede all screenings until the audience laughed at the spot, noting it seemed like a parody.

Wisconsin morning show sues pranksters | Daily Mail Online

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Why He’s Rejecting Net Neutrality Rules – Reason.com

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced plans today to roll back net neutrality rules put in place by the Obama administration in 2015.

Drugged driving eclipses drunken driving in tests of motorists killed in crashes – The Washington Post

For the first time, statistics show that drivers killed in crashes are more likely to be on drugs than drunk.

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