We have personnel news for the Arkansas Travelers (Double-A; Texas League), Bowling Green Hot Rods (High-A; Sally League) and Fredericksburg Nationals (Single-A; Carolina League).
The 30th class of Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 honorees — men and women from around the state and a variety of industries who are shaping business, government and nonprofit work in Arkansas.
The media keep their pet issue brewing with the help of Cheney and Kinzinger.
The Liz Cheney melodrama in the House has been an ongoing feast of hysteria for one side. Despite all the insistence that right-wing media was screeching for her removal, it just was not the truth. Last night, as one example, following the vote to strip Cheney of her party position, Tucker Carlson did not even mention her. In fact, this muted right-wing focus was proven by none other than Brian Stelter, who thought he was insulting Fox News by displaying CNN’s obsession with the Cheney story, reporting on her over 300 times last week alone.
Jeff Christensen
This morning an official release came from NBC that it will not be broadcasting The Golden Globes telecast in 2022. The network made the announcement in the wake of a series of stories about the lack of diversity in the ranks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the controversial group behind the Golden Globes. As I wrote in February, they have an internal payola network that operates on a level seen by the likes of The Lincoln Project. But grift and industry favoritism has long been a tolerated vice with this outfit.
Things started going poorly on the eve of this year’s broadcast when the group was highlighted as having no black members whatsoever. This led to a string of reactions from numerous fronts in the entertainment complex. After some failed on-stage bandaid comments a call from within the HFPA was made to begin fixing the issues. However, a pair of prominent names brought in to repair things last month ended as both walked out on their commitment
One of the prominent papers in the state of Florida is South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and last Wednesday the paper offered up a piece from the Editorial Board that scorched DeSantis on a number of perceived aggressions. After referring to him as a “dictator” (a headline that was surreptitiously changed) the op-ed listed a number of examples of their charge, including opening the state for the citizens, removing lockdown restrictions on a local level, and signing a number of problematic bills.
Sure, nothing describes a tyrant better than granting people liberty and rolling back government mandates.
Then the next day saw the governor acting in a fashion that made the press lose their collective minds. DeSantis signed the voter integrity law during an appearance on the morning show Fox & Friends, and he did not announce this event to the press. Those journalists racing to the scene found the doors locked, forcing them to peer through windows to watch. The journalists howled over