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again. I will add more shortly. –lambert
Bird Song of the Day
The Changeable Hawk-Eagle. (I confess I’ve been choosing these eagles because of their names, but their songs have been really various.)
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example.
Still upward movement.
“Pentagon push has more US servicemembers getting vaccinated” [FOX News]. “Now 71% of troops surveyed say they have gotten the vaccine or plan to do so. Only 39% of active-duty spouses say they plan to get vaccinated – which could be a problem as hundreds of thousands of troops and their families plan to move to new bases this summer. If the 600,000 troops and their families don’t get vaccinated before their
Associated Press Defends Firing of New Reporter, Says Social Media Rules ‘Keep Our Journalists Safe’
AP journalists “cannot take sides in public forums,” a rep for the news service told TheWrap
Lindsey Ellefson | May 21, 2021 @ 9:11 AM
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The Associated Press on Friday defended its social media guidelines amid a firestorm over the firing of a young journalist for her posts.
A representative for the organization told TheWrap, “The Associated Press covers conflicts all over the world. Our social media guidelines exist to ensure AP’s ability to cover the news accurately and impartially, and to keep our journalists safe. Every AP journalist around the world has the responsibility to adhere to our news values and social media policy.”
Emily Wilder, a 2020 graduate of Stanford University, was fired from her Associated Press job over past social media posts related to Israel.
This is what more mature leftists have been telling the young left on social media for some time now: Cancel culture is a weapon first and foremost against the genuine left. The Editor
Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.
Two weeks later, she was unceremoniously fired by the news outlet after conservatives resurfaced old social media posts that drew attention from Republicans as prominent as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. In Wilder s eyes, her firing is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture.
Reporters Defend Recent Grad Who Was Fired After Conservatives Maligned Her College Activism
“This was a result of the campaign against me,” Wilder told The Washington Post. “To me, it feels like AP folded to the ridiculous demands and cheap bullying of organizations and individuals.”
ByKavish Harjai
Published on 5/21/2021 at 1:50 PM
The Associated Press fired recent Stanford University grad Emily Wilder on May 21, 2021, following outrage from conservatives and right-wing media over her past pro-Palestine activism. | Getty Images
The Associated Press fired recent Stanford University grad Emily Wilder on May 21, 2021, following outrage from conservatives and right-wing media over her past pro-Palestine activism. | Getty Images