Weekly News Haul 10.29.21
Collected Stories For Later Discussions
from Saturday and Sunday 10.30 and 10.31
Columnist Nicolas Kristof leaving NYT to run for governor of Oregon: A Farewell to Readers, With Hope
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/sunday/nick-kristof-farewell.html?referringSource=articleShare
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CBS Sunday Morning special on nightmares and dreams.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/this-week-on-sunday-morning-october-31-2021/
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(from Week ending Friday 10.20.21)
Biden spending plan updates, from The New York Times, Thursday evening, October 28, 2021:
Biden Implores Democrats to Embrace $1.85 Trillion Climate and Safety Net Plan
“President Biden went to the Capitol to lobby for the revised package, telling Democrats in private, ‘We badly need a vote.’ The plan leaves out several major proposals, including paid family leave and lowering drug costs.”
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confronting racist history
From The Charlotte Observer, on historically accurate re-envisioning of former enslaving plantations of the Confederacy by looking at comparable sites across the South: “Latta Plantation’s future? The next step involves a field trip.”
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article255327541.html
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accountability in the January 6 Capitol riots
On the breaking Rolling Stone story revealing insider coordination between January 6 Capital riot planner/participants and named Republican lawmakers as well as the former President’s chief of staff, here’s an excerpt from political-historian Heather Cox Richardson’s October 25 "Letters from an American”
“I had planned to post a picture tonight, but this evening Rolling Stonedropped an exclusive, blockbuster story from reporter Hunter Walker that demands attention.
The story says that two sources who are talking to the January 6th committee about planning the January rallies in Washington, D.C., have talked to Rolling Stone as well. They say they worked with congressional lawmakers and White House officials to plan rallies both in Washington, D.C., and around the country. They deny that they intended to storm the Capitol and imply they got used, which points to the sources being from within Women for America First, the organization that sponsored a bus tour and rallies around the country before heading to Washington for January 6.
They allegedly named Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), as people with whom they planned. They also claim that Gosar promised them a blanket presidential pardon, although they do not say for what.
From the White House team, they singled out then–chief of staff Mark Meadows. ‘Meadows was 100 percent made aware of what was going on,’ one of the sources said.”
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Here’s the full Rolling Stone piece: “Two Jan. 6 Planners Cooperate With Committee, Name MAGA Congress Members.”
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And regarding North Carolina’s own Congressman named in the debacle, here’s an editorial from The Charlotte Observer - “What was Rep. Cawthorn’s role in the Jan. 6 events?”
the evolving business model and crises of funding journalism
A new approach to funding needed local journalism? From The Charlotte Observer, “Help Charlotte Observer with Report for America donations”
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?
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And for those of us who love the podcast medium, here’s a great one from reader, psychotherapist and friend Linda Bird from Lake Norman:
“McKay Coppins: Our Democracy Needs Busy, Bustling Newsrooms”
The Bulwark Podcast
Increasing polarization, misinformation, and the erosion of public trust can be traced to the death of newspapers. Why is a secretive hedge fund hollowing out local newsrooms? The Atlantic's McKay Coppins joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast. Special Guest: McKay Coppins.
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bulwark-podcast/id1447684472?i=1000539672394
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following up on Facebook…
The Washington Post “Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/facebook-angry-emoji-algorithm/
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and profiling a future shrinkwrap subject whose work and depth perspectives I value..
Here’s an interesting read from The New Yorker, “Brene Brown’s Empire of Emotion.” (Will note here that the slightly snarky headline makes her sound contrived. Having read and attended or followed her lectures for years, I think this is unfair. I’ll save further commentary on this for later!🦋💙)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/brene-browns-empire-of-emotion
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More to come in News Notebook!