On Jan. 5, a student tweeted to the Twitter account, @FCPSMaryland, asking schools to close “tammarow.”
Nash wrote in response from the school Twitter feed: “But then how would you learn how to spell ‘tomorrow?’ :)”
The response from Nash’s FCPS tweet garnered more than 1,000 retweets and 1,000 likes and she became the subject of a hashtag, #KatiefromFCPS. And later #freekatie also appeared in students’ Twitter feeds after a report from local TV station WHAG-TV that Twitter access had been taken away from her.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to be extradited to the U.S. if President Obama grants whistle-blower Chelsea Manning clemency before his term ends on Jan. 20, the organization has said.
“If the United States government said, ‘We are going to pardon Manning for those offenses,’ I think it makes it that much tougher to then say, ‘we’re going to drop the hammer on the person that published that information,’” former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree told Fox News. He served in the role from 2007-2009.
A growing chorus of health and policy experts are lashing out at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for its continued classification of marijuana as a dangerous substance like heroin.
Saying students are being taught hatred at public expenses, a Republican lawmaker from Flagstaff is proposing new limits on what and how schools, colleges and universities can teach.
Firearms generate extremely high impulse sound levels. Recreational firearm users should use noise suppression devices. Using a combination of ear-level protection and muzzle suppressor devices would produce the greatest noise reduction.
There are now more than 50 House Democrats — 52, at last count — who have declared that they will not attend the inauguration on Capitol Hill this week. The number rose sharply after Trump tweeted Saturdaythat Lewis (D) is “all talk, talk, talk” and should “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities.”
Members of U.S. law enforcement will deploy countermeasures to prevent a large truck attack, such as those that killed dozens in Nice, France and Berlin last year, from happening during the inauguration of Donald Trump as president.
Oh my. Donald Trump and campaign tried to respond to attacks on its diversity by making that a priority, putting small businessman Bruce LeVell in charge of those efforts.
Canadian property management company Mengfa International leased retail space near Vancouver Harbor in Vancouver, B.C., just a few miles north of the Washington state border, to Moby Dick Restaurant in 2015. A consortium of business owners around the space prohibited the restaurant from opening, according to a lawsuit brought by Mengfa.
While I was on vacation, The Atlantic ran an article full of confirmation bias, myths, and general falsehoods. Mostly about Elkhart, IN and the US economy in general. However, my name came up in the article. I wrote a response here debunking a lot of the nonsense in The Atlantic.
What was blatantly transparent was that The Atlantic’s Alana Semuels was misrepresenting what one of my listeners said about President Obama. Here’s the pertinent paragraph:
I’ve been in media long enough to know when someone is lying by omission to present people they disagree with as utterly feeble-minded. There’s no way a listener of my show, who is asked why they don’t like Obama, says his Army/Navy game attendance record first. Nor do they linger on the lapel pin. Both are extremely minor issues that aren’t in the forefront of the minds of Obama critics.
When I returned from vacation I brought this article up, and that I had suspicions The Atlantic cherry picked quotes from my listener. Eventually Andi Ermis (spelled correctly) reached out, and I interviewed her this week. As it turns out, Andi not only gave other answers as to why she wasn’t an Obama fan (Obamacare was the first thing she said), but the quotes about the football game and lapel pin weren’t even her quotes. They were quotes from another person being interviewed at the same time. She was quoted accurately about the Carrier deal.
This blatant dishonesty by The Atlantic’s Alana Semuels is the reason most Americans don’t trust the media. They manufacture false narratives to demonize those they disagree with instead of simply reporting the truth.
If the media is ever to regain its credibility, and live up to the foundational principles of journalism, people like Alana Semuels need to be swept aside, and run out of the industry altogether.
