As Fox News legitimises race-hate theories, US lawmaker pleads for Murdochs to act
Its “war on woke” acts instead to legitimise and amplify views and opinions that are radicalising an extremist right. Carlson has been criticised for promoting the right-wing conspiracy trope “Great Replacement Theory” which argues that elites want to “replace” white Americans — “legacy Americans”, Carlson calls them — with sometimes Jewish, sometimes non-white migrants. Carlson, he said, wasn’t talking about white replacement. Like US Republicans who have picked up the Fox version of the theory, Carlson has been eager to stress that it’s not about race, saying the nation should work toward a “colour-blind meritocracy”. Critics aren’t having it, recognising the danger that a powerful voice like Fox has in amplifying racism.
Source:Fox News
May 18, 2022 16:28 UTC
MSNBC’s Katy Tur: ‘Tamer Version’ of ‘White Nationalism’ Is ‘Pretty Mainstream’ in GOP
MSNBC anchor Katy Tur claimed on Tuesday that there is a “tamer version” of “white nationalism” that is “now pretty mainstream in the Republican Party.”Interviewing University of Buffalo official Henry Lewis Taylor Jr., who is Black, on Katy Tur Reports, Tur asked for his reaction to President Joe Biden visiting Buffalo on Tuesday, just days after a shooting on Saturday at the Tops Friendly Markets, where Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 people and wounded three others. “I wonder what you thought of President [Joe] Biden today, knowing that in some respects his hands are tied on the issue, at least of guns. There’s not enough support in Congress for gun legislation. Republicans are not widely in favor of it, so it can’t pass,” said Tur. The president labeled the shooting as domestic terrorism.
Source:New York Times
May 18, 2022 16:24 UTC
Europe is still confused about how to pay its Russian gas bills
London (CNN Business) Europe can't make up its mind on how to pay for Russia natural gas imports that continue to fuel homes, businesses and power stations. The confusion centers on the logistics of the payments themselves. Several European gas buyers have been preparing to work around the Kremlin's demand that gas bills be paid in rubles, rather than the euros or dollars stipulated in contracts. According to Russia's new payment mechanism, buyers in "unfriendly" countries must open two accounts at Gazprombank — one in euros and the second in rubles, from which payments for the gas would be made. But on Tuesday, the European Commission said companies opening an account in Russia's Gazprombank to allow their payments to be converted into rubles would fall foul of EU sanctions.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 16:22 UTC
Chris Wallace to Host Sunday Primetime Show for CNN and HBO Max as Chris Licht Previews Rebooted News Network
Chris Wallace is coming to primetime, as CNN CEO Chris Licht previews his vision for the future of the news channel. Wallace’s show will be part of a new “CNN Sunday” programming block, which will also include a longform journalism series. Discovery upfront Wednesday morning by Licht, who also announced some other changes coming to CNN. For starters, Licht said that CNN will “reimagine” CNN’s morning show, leveraging the network’s journalists and correspondents. He landed at CNN+, where he interviewed guests like Bob Iger and Jen Psaki in a longform interview format.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 16:22 UTC
Upfront Dispatches: Zaslav and Oprah Bet on CNN, Lizzo Can’t Be Censored
Exactly 366 days after closing a blockbuster deal to marry Warner Bros. and Discovery, David Zaslav took the upfront stage Wednesday morning for the first time as CEO of the newly merged media behemoth. “There is no news organization in the world like CNN,” he said, praising the company’s news-gathering skills and comparative lack of opinion programming. But that’s not what Warner Bros. She noted that Warner Bros. produced her film debut, The Color Purple, referred to Zaslav as “Mr. Z” and, in one of the morning’s many callbacks to the past, even acknowledged the difficulty of launching her cable network over a decade ago.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 16:13 UTC
Chris Licht Presents at Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront; Chris Wallace Moves to Sundays on CNN and HBO Max
Chris Licht made his first public appearance as CNN chairman and CEO at the Warner Bros. The most significant announcement was that the now-defunct CNN+ interview-style show Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? At CNN+, Who’s Talking? will return to production this fall with episodes on HBO Max and on our CNN linear channel on Sunday evenings. on HBO Max and CNN, Wallace will remain a CNN anchor.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 16:06 UTC
For Pain Relief, Try These 2 Expert-Recommended Magic Items
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Source:Huffington Post
May 18, 2022 15:59 UTC
Former Fox News reporter suggests putting network’s hosts in jail after Buffalo shooting
Carl Cameron, often called "Campaign Carl," spent two decades at Fox News and was interviewed on Tuesday by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. Wallace played clips of Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. "I mean, obviously a mass shooter is responsible for the violence and the heinous acts that the mass shooter committed," Wallace noted. "It is also true that the ideology left in the mass shooter's screen mirrors the ideology championed by Tucker Carlson." "The president acknowledged that it's time to actually start doing things and maybe taking some names and putting people in jail," he said.
Source:Fox News
May 18, 2022 15:58 UTC
Could Gas Prices in Your State Reach $6? One Analyst Thinks So
Could Gas Prices in Your State Reach $6? But it’s not so far-fetched anymore, with U.S. gas prices surging in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, compounded by a growing imbalance between supply and demand. “It’s hard to get to $6,” Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, told CNN. “Before we get there, we would have significant demand destruction, not only here, but around the world.”See: POLL: Have Gas Prices Affected Your Driving Habits? Find: As Gas Prices Break Record Highs Again, Which States Are Paying the Most at the Pump?
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 15:54 UTC
Chris Wallace Talk Show Headed To HBO Max And CNN Sunday Night Slot; New CNN Boss Chris Licht Vows To “Challenge” Cable News Norms, Disrupt Mornings – Upfronts
Speaking at the Warner Bros Discovery upfront, new CNN boss Chris Licht delivered his most expansive public comments since taking over from Jeff Zucker, promising a morning show “disruptor” and a challenge to cable news norms. Licht also said Chris Wallace’s talk show, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, has gone back into production and will now stream on HBO Max and air Sunday nights on linear CNN. Wallace was one of several high-priced hires who joined CNN as it ramped up CNN+. Discovery Upfront: Deadline’s Complete CoverageRefocusing CNN on its straight-news roots is a strategy Licht and Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav have signaled in internal meetings in recent weeks. In a press release put out after Licht’s comments, CNN said Wallace will continue to serve as an anchor for CNN in addition to hosting his series.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 15:53 UTC
John Fetterman will win Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, CNN projects
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May 18, 2022 15:48 UTC
CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson says US racism a ‘white cultural problem’
The mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday in which a white gunman allegedly targeted black grocery shoppers shows that white Americans must do more “to come to terms with their own appeasement” of racism, according to a CNN reporter. Nia-Malika Henderson, who covers politics for the all-news cable network, said racism in America is a “white cultural problem.”She was speaking on Tuesday after President Biden traveled to western New York to visit the site of the shooting that killed 10 people. The alleged gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, cited the so-called “replacement theory” as a motive for the shootings. During an appearance on Tuesday’s “Inside Politics,” Henderson said racism was a “white cultural problem” and that white Americans ought to take the lead in combating prejudice. Henderson made the remarks on Tuesday during a broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics.” Corbis via Getty Images“It is really a white cultural problem that white Americans have to come to terms with.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 15:43 UTC
Chris Wallace to get new show on CNN
Executives at CNN plan to give anchor Chris Wallace a Sunday evening show on the network after its subscription-based streaming service, which he was previously hired to work for, was abruptly shuttered last month. Wallace left his longtime gig hosting “Fox News Sunday” late last year to join CNN as it launched the short-lived subscription-based streaming service CNN+. Wallace’s show on CNN+, “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” will now be available on HBO Max, the company said, with portions of the interviews he conducts with various newsmakers broadcast on CNN on Sunday evenings. Since CNN+ shuttering, questions have surrounded Wallace’s future and the editorial direction of CNN, which is now led by new president Chris Licht, who began in the role this month. “Part of the CNN brand is respectful, authentic and impactful interviews and one of the best interviewers in the business is Chris Wallace,” Licht said in an announcement sent by the network during Wednesday’s upfront presentation.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 15:39 UTC
Chris Wallace Will Lead New Show in CNN Sunday Block
Chris Wallace left a Sunday show on Fox News Channel to jump into the world of streaming at CNN. Wallace will take the reins of a new Sunday program on CNN, the network announced Wednesday during an upfront presentation for its parent company, Warner Bros. He will essentially reprise the program he had been doing for CNN+, a one-on-one talk program called “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” that will also appear on the company’s large HBO Max streaming service. Wallace will continue to serve as an anchor for CNN, which he joined in January 2022 after anchoring Fox News Sunday for nearly two decades. CNN declined to offer further comment on its programming plans, but observers acknowledge that its Sunday newsmagazine could be an ambitious but challenging effort.
Source:CNN
May 18, 2022 15:34 UTC
'MAYORKAS IS A MORON': Texas Rep. Gonzales Blasts Broken Border, 'We Want Policy Changes'
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) spoke with Fox & Friends about the crisis at the southern border; Gonzales says, to fix the border, we need serious policy changes —and that starts with the White House. Gonzales says it’s “100% an open border” and says we need to keep Title 42 in place. “Title 42 has to stay in place. You know, over half of those expulsions were due to Title 42,” he said. And it’s dangerous.”More than 230,000 migrant encounters were logged at the southern border in April —a DHS record.
Source:Fox News
May 18, 2022 15:29 UTC