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Rule change may contain Chinese power in badminton
Korean badminton players Kim Ha-na, right, and Jeong Kyung-eun are headed to Rio de Janeiro this summer to make up for the disqualification from the last Olympics in 2012 when they were mired in a scandal. [NEWSIS]
SEOUL, South Korea - Badminton at the Rio Olympics will try to shake off multiple scandals and adapt to a rule change many consider to be an attempt to curb Chinese dominance.
Seen as backyard fun by many Americans, the sport is serious business for millions in Asia and parts of Europe, where throngs of people pack stadiums to watch players who are household names.
It's less popular in Brazil, and that has some players worried about what's in store for them.
Those who tune in will see an appealing blend of power, speed and agility, with long rallies that can seem like video games as the shuttle whizzes back and forth across the net and players stretch like gymnasts to parry smashes that can reach speeds well above 100 miles per hour.
Badminton has been rocked by scandals in recent years and its players and fans are hoping the Olympics will provide a chance for it to move on.
At the 2012 games in London, two South Korean women's doubles teams along with a Chinese and an Indonesian team were disqualified for trying to lose early matches so they could get better draws in the knockout round.
Two of the disgraced South Koreans, Kim Ha-na and Jeong Kyung-eun, made the Olympics team for Rio. "Time has passed and I've moved on and grown up," Kim said recently. "Although I still have bad memories, I will never make the same mistake again."
The current No. 1 men's singles player, Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, served an eight-month ban for doping. Lee said he took an anti-inflammatory drug inadvertently. A panel later determined that he had been negligent and had not intended to cheat.
A gambling scandal, meanwhile, has hurt the chances of the recently improved Japanese men's team. Kento Momota, a young star who had been ranked No. 2 in the world, was banned from the Olympics after admitting to gambling at an illegal casino in Japan.
China won gold in all five badminton events in 2012, and many top Chinese will again be contenders.
But competition in Rio is likely to be more open after an Olympic rule change that limits countries to two singles entrants in each event. Each country could previously enter three, something that benefited China's deep field of talent.
Even without the change, however, the rest of the world has been gaining on China.
The current top men's and women's singles players are non-Chinese - Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei and Carolina Marin of Spain - although both the No. 2 and No. 3 players are Chinese.
China's Lin Dan, considered by many the greatest men's player of all time, will be going for his third consecutive singles gold.
Lin won at home in Beijing in 2008 and again in London in 2012, both times against his top rival and perhaps the second greatest player of his era, Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei, who is now considered the top gold medal contender.
Lin, currently ranked No. 3, is no longer the top-ranked player, not even in China, as he has been eclipsed by world champion Chen Long, currently No. 2 worldwide.
Both Lin and Lee are old by badminton standards: Lin is 32 and Lee is 33.
Still, Lin combines a powerful attack and agile defense with subtle net play, and many fans are hoping to see a dramatic rematch between Lin and Lee.
Brazil, however, is not a traditional badminton power and so there is some worry about fan support and the arena's layout.
Lin Dan, who is used to huge, adoring crowds and grand badminton arenas, commented on what he considered the venue's small size after playing a test event there last year.
Air drifts and currents are also worries when playing top-level badminton in a place that's not used to it. Drifts can play a major, detrimental part in a game by changing the direction and speed of the shuttle, which is conical, made of 16 goose feathers stuck to a leather-covered round cork and weighs only about 5 grams.
Major drift culprits include air conditioning and the opening and closing of doors and windows.
To be fair, there were drift complaints even at the Olympics in England, where the modern version of the game was developed in the 19th century. To try to compensate for any drifts, players change ends during matches.

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The phone line went dead
Andrea Becker East Jerusalem, Palestine 2 April 2002
The phone line went dead. The land line. Cut. The battery on her mobile phone went dead hours ago; she hasn't had electricity for two days. Before the lines cut we could tell her where the tanks are in Ramallah. Where they tanks were moving. Ask her how much food she had left, how long her supplies might last. She could call other people in Ramallah, and find out where the Israeli troops were. The loud noises, the shelling, how close is it? What has been hit? Where are they?
She can't leave her house, she does know that there are snipers outside.
We had told her that the Israeli army had announced that this invasion could take weeks. Months. But now the lines are dead, no electricity, no information. The tanks are storming around, the shelling is still loud around her, yet-
She doesn't know that the water in some areas has been cut by the Israeli invasion troops. We can't tell her to fill anything she has with water. It could be days, weeks. But maybe her water has already been cut. Maybe she had a couple of water bottles in the fridge, perhaps not.
She doesn't know that the troops are coming into her area of Ramallah now. That they are going house to house, pulling people out. We can't stay on the phone and talk her through what she should say, what she should do. How she should repeat over and over again, as the soldiers bang or shoot or break
her door down - that she is a woman, alone in the house, and has no weapons. I am a woman, I am alone, and I have no weapons. Do not hurt me. Do not hurt me.
We can't tell her that no matter how scared, she has to stay near the door as they come in, and be there when they enter. Be visible. Don't hide, it might be worse.
But it has now been over two hours since the lines cut. One hour since the reports of the Israeli soldiers going house to house in her area of Ramallah, one hour since we found out that another friend's house has been taken over and occupied. Just down the street.
And now, we are the ones who don't know what is going on, how she is. If she has water, if she has food, and – when the soldiers stormed into her house - if she said the right thing.
Note: this entry was originally composed the second day of the siege, but the insecurity, water and electricity cuts, as well as house searches, are unfortunately still very current - AB
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The Less You Know About Iceland, The More Powerful The Experience Is — The Reykjavik Grapevine
The Less You Know About Iceland, The More Powerful The Experience Is
An interview with photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson
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Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson is one of Iceland's best photographers, acclaimed for his unique pictures of Iceland and Icelanders. I sat down with him in his studio in downtown Reykjavík. It's beginning to smell of autumn and the leaves are starting to shiver on their branches, never forgetting their cruel fate. But forget the leaves, remember the photographs.
Why, I ask Sigurgeir, did you start taking photos?
"It started as a hobby in school," Sigurgeir says, "I was taking pictures of my friends. I was a drummer in a band and later a manager. I was asked to take some photos for an album cover and I kind of started a career as a rock photographer."
Sigurgeir went on in the world of photography and studied, first in Iceland, then in Stockholm and later in San Diego. He was one of the local pioneers of commercial photography and worked in advertising for many years, he says. "In Iceland you have to be very versatile, you can't focus on just one kind of photography. When I was working for the advertising business I had to take photos of food, cars, fashion—everything. We were very ambitious, if the project was taking photos of a can of beans, we would do everything we could to make it good."
When he's not pleasing a customer, however, Sigurgeir says he has more freedom to do what he feels is right. "Things won't turn out well if you're always chasing other people's taste," he says.
While he is no longer a rock photographer, there is a certain music in his photos. He explains: "There is music in the photos, but I don't always choose what music it is. Different kinds of music can control where I stop my car and go out to take photos. I think Mahler was composing his Fifth Symphony when his publisher approached him, wanting to talk about the landscape around him. Mahler answered briefly that he could find all this landscape in his music."
Lost in Iceland
Sigurgeir is best known for his landscape photography today. His book 'Landscapes,' published in 1998, was a breakthrough in local landscape photography.
"At first I thought landscape photography was cheap, I looked down on that kind of photography," Sigurgeir says. He was nevertheless commissioned, mostly because of his advertising experience, to take photos for a calendar for one of Iceland's biggest firms. He did that for nine years, and that's when his passion for Icelandic landscape was born.
Following 'Landscapes,' he published his most famous book, 'Lost In Iceland,' which radically changed the way Iceland was promoted abroad. "It was unheard of to promote Iceland with a dark photo full of rain! I think I'm getting closer to the experience of tourists visiting Iceland. We must not get over-touristic. People come to Iceland to get to know themselves through Iceland and the circumstances are often challenging."
Sigurgeir says this experience is changing. "I remember when I first came to Dettifoss waterfall. You had to walk narrow paths to get close to it and it somehow helped you experience the greatness. It's a different experience now when you drive a paved road all the way down," he says.
"I have travelled a lot and one thing that makes Iceland so special is that you don't have to drive for hours before you see the next spectacular place. It has a special dimension, a unique horizon and diversity you learn to appreciate when you travel in parts of the world."
This is a quality that he says we must not lose. "Icelandic tourism is quite greedy at the moment. I can't imagine the experience of travelling around Iceland in a bus for ten days listening to a guide talking all day in the speakers, telling you how Iceland is. You don't have to tell people anything about Iceland. Iceland is an experience that happens. The less you know about Iceland, the more powerful the experience is."
Who are Icelanders?
In 2004, Sigurgeir teamed up with writer Unnur Jökulsdóttir to make the wonderful portrait book, 'Icelanders.' In this book, Sigurgeir and Unnur documented lives and opinions of Icelanders all around Iceland.
"Many people were surprised that we were going around Iceland taking photographs and interviewing people that they thought were odd," Sigurgeir says. "We didn't find the people odd; they were really close to nature and maybe a little eccentric. It was remarkable, the strong opinions that many of the people we met had. They weren't holding their thoughts back."
"This was a book that was quite a surprise for many people, including our publishers," Sigurgeir says and smiles. Originally 4000 copies of the book were printed, but 25,000 copies have since been sold.
Most recently, Sigurgeir published a book he calls 'Iceland—A Small World,' which is quite literally small. In fact, it fits easily in your pocket. He came up with the title after visiting Disney World and hearing the "It's A Small World" song.
And in some ways, he says, Iceland is like being in another world, like Disney World in another dimension. "This is how I experience Iceland. I think Iceland is a world of its own. You can see so many elements in this small world," he says.
"I tried to fill the book with photos to match what I was thinking. It was when I found this photo of a house in Hofsós, a house my wife told me to photograph, that everything clicked. It's a happy and unusual photo that shows independent people, two families living in one house, and they don't imitate each other; they keep their own style. This photo fits the title perfectly, as it could be a doll-house."
You could say that the book has grown though, because Sigurgeir has since then also published a larger version. "I must admit that I wanted to see the photos in a bigger book," Sigurgeir says. "It has come as a surprise that many people actually buy both versions."
Back to the studio. It is in an old house in the centre of Reykjavík. The walls show some of the highlights from Sigurgeir's career. We talk about the photographer's point of view.
"A photo freezes the moment, stops the time, and all of a sudden you have taken the picture out of a bigger context," Sigurgeir says. "No photo is really true. You just see what the photographer wanted you to see. There is a photo by Diane Arbus of a little boy with a hand grenade in his hands and he's terrified. I have seen all twelve photos from this sequence and the other photos don't say anything, they're lifeless. There is just this one photo that shows this deep feeling that is so magnificently powerful."
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After 34 Straight Final Fours, Billy Packer Hasn't Attended A Basketball Game in 10 Years!
Musically it's "One Shining Moment." Vocally, it's Billy Packer. Through six U. S. presidential administrations, first on NBC and later on CBS, Billy presided over 34 straight NCAA titles, a network television record for coverage of consecutive team championships, pro or college.
If I pretended that I was Vin Scully introducing the protagonist with lyrical elegance, I might begin, "Billy Packer, whose name will always remind you of the Final Four."
He voiced the March Madness soundtrack from 1975, starting with John Wooden's last title, and ended it in 2008 with the championship game won by Kansas in overtime.
His captured every crown with spice and blunt frankness. In his last semi-finals' broadcast, when Kansas opened a 26-point first half lead on North Carolina, he went with his gut and spewed, "This game is over." CBS executives likely cringed, particularly when the Heels cut the lead to four before succumbing to the Jayhawks.
Fans' criticism of him, of which there was plenty, didn't temper Billy's observations. He never sugarcoated how he felt, served as the game's cheerleader, concocted flowery sayings or promoted signature captions. He was Billy, not very emotional, sentimental or warm and fuzzy.
Packer never enjoyed the groundswell of love that a Madden or Vitale did. An economics major at Wake Forest, Billy saw things as black or white. Rarely were things vague.
A constituency of viewers said Billy rooted for ACC teams or that he whined too much. Packer called the jeering of fans a badge of honor. Still, aficionados generally recognized that Billy was a keen observer and astute student of the game. He studied its intricacies and understood its strategic depth. For that matter, former Connecticut coach, straight shooting Jim Calhoun, said that he listened to Packer for analysis.
But ten years ago, Packer left with no fanfare.
Although he says that he knew he was leaving before the 2007-08 season and told CBS so , he didn't get the grand send-off of a Keith Jackson, Verne Lundquist or even Mike Patrick. Nor do I get the feeling that he wanted the limelight. But once word of his departure was out during the summer of 2008, many readers' comments in the New York Times were essentially, good riddance.
Catching up with him recently I can assure you that he's as sharp and opinionated today as he was in his prime. His word retrieval and name retention are unhesitatingly instantaneous; sounding more like a forty something year-old than 78 which he recently turned. Mention a year and he unflinchingly repeats history with the assured command of an army soldier; name, rank and serial number,.
Packer's mind strikes me as compartmentalized. If something wasn't done to his liking and he couldn't do anything about it, he moved on and didn't hold grudges. When he hung up his announcing cleats, he distanced himself emotionally from basketball, a game that was part of his life for 60 years. Billy did so with resolve; seeking new challenges; whether business, politics or issues of idiosyncratic interest.
I saw him in a Seattle hotel lobby on April 1, 1984, the day between the national semi-finals and the title game between Georgetown and Houston. He was always very approachable so I gently asked him how he's spending the off-day. "I wonder about real estate here. This city is beautiful." I don't know whether Billy invested then or not. If he did, he was prescient. Seattle has erupted.
Eleven years later when the Final Four returned to the Emerald City, he attended a practice where Oklahoma State's Big Country Reeves broke a backboard. Billy rushed to the littered area of the floor and picked up shards of glass with his bare hands. Asked why, he told a colleague that if Reeves makes it big, the scraps will be valuable. Billy stuffed the smithereens of glass in his pockets! Ouch!
Since his last telecast in 2008, Packer says he hasn't attended a basketball game, nor has he watched one in its entirety. He still lives in the Carolinas where he studies business opportunities with the same detail as in years past when he prepared for broadcasts with imperturbable zeal.
Even the most prosperous of business people make bad deals and years ago, Packer did. But this one included a prominent color analyst as his partner. Word was that both men were apparently misled by a third party. Billy had the money to satisfy the bank loan. The other analyst said he didn't. Billy told the analyst that he'll lay out the dough in full. Pay it back in installments, he told him. Packer wasn't obligated to step up but did. In time, he made Billy whole. To this day, the analyst is grateful. Packer didn't go around bragging about what he did. It was the analyst who pays Packer unsought praise when Billy's name is raised.
Packer never embraced technology. No PC, email or Smartphone. I asked him if he has passwords and he says, "What's that?" His old-school cellphone is programmed for outbound calls only. He's not enamored with today's political correctness either. But before you rush to conclusions, Packer did the unpopular in mainstream North Carolina in the 1960s. As an assistant basketball coach at Wake Forest, he recruited African Americans. The ACC had few at the time and even so, letters from racist fans weren't in short supply.
Flash forward, decades later, CBS held groundbreaking sensitivity training for its sports staffers. The network brought in an outside trainer to lead the session. After she introduced herself and was about to begin her lecture, Packer raised his hand to voice an objection. He was displeased that the trainer didn't prepare a syllabus or a list of dos and don'ts. Packer was never afraid to ask tough questions.
Trying to track him down, I reached out to Wake Forest where as a star guard he helped lead the Deacons to the 1962 Final Four. I was told by an official in the athletic office that Packer estranged himself from the school in the 1980s. Eons ago, I was told, he helped recruit Charlie Davis, the second African-American at Wake. Davis was later hired by the school at Packer's suggestion but was eventually fired. Packer felt strongly that Davis was done an injustice and helped him file a grievance. After the case was settled, he demanded that Wake remove him from its coveted Hall of Fame.
When I tracked Billy down, we covered a lot of ground which I'll outline in the next few days. He worked with many star-studded play-by-play announcers beginning with Ray Scott and Curt Gowdy and continuing with Dick Enberg, Gary Bender, Brent Musburger and Jim Nantz.
More to follow on the colorful Billy Packer!
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Published March 12, 2018 By David J. Halberstam
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I first saw Charlie Davis play at The RUCKER TOURNAMENT and met him in 1997 at Wake Forest when LIU played Villanova in the NCAA opening round he appeared pleasantly I was excited to meet him.I covered Lew Alcindor's last game inHS for the NY
The reference to Charlie Davis, who later played professional ball, brought back memories. He played at Brooklyn Tech HS (All-City) and I was at a game versus my alma mater, Erasmus Hall, when Davis set the Erasmus gym record of 57 points (in a 32 minute game!).
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Death of Ronald Greene
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In Ronald Greene's death, a mother's defiant quest for truth
By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERGDecember 23, 2021 GMT
Mona Hardin holds the boxed ashes of her son, Ronald Greene, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Hardin is haunted by the body-camera images of her son being punched, stunned and dragged by Louisiana State Police. She holds tightly to her son's cremated remains and says she won't be able to put him to rest until she gets justice. After a more than two-year federal probe, still none of the officers involved has been charged. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mona Hardin has cherished her son's cremated remains since the day they arrived at her doorstep in a FedEx box. She pulls them into bed with her when she's too bereft to get up and talks to her "Ronnie" every day to keep him apprised of her journey for justice.
Ronald Greene's remains are a raw and constant reminder to his mother of the Black man's fatal confrontation with the Louisiana State Police more than two years ago.
Over and over, Hardin sees her son's lifeless body on a funeral home gurney, his face so battered she almost didn't recognize him. She recalls her doubts about the troopers' initial account that he died in a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase.
And she relives the horror of finally watching the long-withheld body-camera video of what really happened along a dark, rural road in 2019 — white troopers stunning, punching and dragging her son by his ankle shackles as he pleaded for mercy and wailed, "I'm your brother! I'm scared! I'm scared!"
"He died in such a ... horrific, nasty, evil way," Hardin told The Associated Press in an interview near her Orlando-area home. "And I'm so mad when I think about it. They took joy in killing him."
The police, she said, acted as if they had something to prove. "That they could just beat a man to death. Kill him, just let him suffer, see him spit up blood. ... And then, cover it up."
With measured intensity, locked jaw and icy stare, the diminutive 70-year-old is on a mission and she won't give Greene's ashes a proper burial until she gets it done: Justice for a death that exposes what she calls "organized crime" by the state police and the "monster of racism that lays deep in Louisiana."
Hardin recoils at the pattern of police misconduct that's emerged since her quest began. Indeed, Greene is not the only Black motorist abused in recent years by Louisiana's premier law enforcement agency. An Associated Press investigation identified at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. And by the state police's own count, 67% of troopers' uses of force in recent years targeted Black people.
Bringing attention to Greene's case has become Hardin's reason for being — a commitment she made to ensure his voice is heard. But it has often been a frustrating journey. More than two years into a federal civil rights investigation into Greene's death, still none of the officers involved in his arrest has been criminally charged.
Hardin has watched as a Minneapolis officer was convicted of murdering George Floyd, who died more than a year after her son. And she was in a Georgia courtroom as guilty verdicts were announced in the vigilante killing of Ahmaud Arbery, wondering how much longer she must wait for her own day in court.
And while federal prosecutors appear poised to seek charges, they have left Hardin in the dark for months about their shifting timetable as their probe has expanded to look into whether state brass obstructed justice to protect troopers who abused Greene.
Along the way, Hardin says her repeated trips to Washington, D.C., and Baton Rouge have been met with what she perceived as empty promises from officials, institutional wagon-circling and indifference.
Hardin has had to endure her son's assailants staying on the job, unpunished for months, the then-head of the state police defending Greene's deadly arrest as "awful but lawful" before abruptly retiring, and the body camera video staying hidden from the public for more than two years before the AP obtained and published it this spring.
All of it has deepened her family's pain, she said, while making a mockery of the criminal justice system.
"I've been wandering around in a cloud of confusion just wondering: What does it take for the state of Louisiana to recognize the murder of a man?" Hardin told Louisiana state lawmakers in a hearing this month. "What does it take to get answers?"
'TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT'
Ronald Greene died a man in transition. He recently had moved back to Louisiana after a troubled stint in Florida, was pursuing a new career driving trucks and dreaming of opening a rehabilitation center to help people fight addiction, a demon he knew all too well.
Friends and family remember him as energetic, generous and charming, with a wide grin that women found irresistible. The 49-year-old loved to dance, volunteered as a member of the Freemasons brotherhood and overcame life-threatening challenges such as mouth cancer.
When people would ask how he was doing, Greene would often respond with boundless optimism and a familiar retort: "We're winning."
But as often as Greene repeated those words, they weren't always true.
He bounced back again and again from a decades-long battle with drugs and stints in jail for mostly minor crimes. He maintained an affable attitude those close to him recognized even during his violent death, calling out "I'm your brother!" as troopers stunned and beat him.
"He was resilient," said Terrance Key, a childhood friend. "Even when he was down, he was smiling."
Greene was born into an Army family at Fort Meade, Maryland, and lived in Colorado and California before moving to Bastrop, Louisiana, at 12, after Hardin divorced his father.
He was a good student, friends and family recalled, excelling at baseball and football and playing tuba in the school band. But he and his younger brother also struggled to adjust to Louisiana and the changed position in life that came with their mother's job at Walmart.
"We went from having things to not having things," Hardin said. "The people, the neighborhoods, it was a total, total difference from where we were in California."
The first troubling incident came a couple years later when he and his brother were arrested for stealing from a vending machine. Hardin, despite her pleas for mercy, said a judge sent her boys to a juvenile detention facility in New Orleans.
Greene completed a GED while locked up and went on to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge, where he studied architectural drafting but never graduated, his family said. They believe he was first exposed to drugs there.
After leaving college, Greene settled in Florida, where Hardin had moved, got married and opened a barber shop in Orlando. But he continued to struggle with cocaine, was divorced in 2007 and the shop eventually closed.
"He would always get clean, like for a long time, then it would somehow come back in the picture," Greene's sister, Alana Wilson, said of his drug use.
During these years, Greene repeatedly landed in jail for drug and other nonviolent crimes that his family believes were largely to support his addiction. He served one year on a two-year prison sentence for grand theft and burglary of an unoccupied building. But court records also suggest he attracted extra attention from the police.
Twice Greene was pulled over on a bicycle. In 2005, Florida state police gave him a ticket for riding without lights after sunset. In 2010, he allegedly ran a stop sign. A report from sheriff's deputies says Greene gave a false name, threw his bike, hitting one of them in the knee and ran. A deputy caught up with Greene and tackled him, getting hit by Greene's elbow in the process. According to the report, Greene stopped resisting after two "knee strikes" and later explained to officers that he had been on a "three-day crack binge."
By 2016, Greene had gone through incarceration, rehab programs, chemotherapy and surgery to reconstruct his teeth and palate after mouth cancer. He'd been released early from prison and wanted to make a change.
"My transition has been a tough one but I have made great accomplishments," Greene wrote to a judge the next year, seeking to have his driver's license restored.
Not long after that, Greene drove his cherished sports car back to Louisiana and reconnected with a teenage sweetheart, Joycelen Wade, who said he hadn't fully kicked his addiction but was doing better, landing a job in construction, later renting his own apartment and making plans to get a commercial trucking license.
"The purpose of his life changed," Key said. "Ron was just trying to figure it out."
Friends said he lifted weights regularly, attended church and was trying to help others who were struggling.
Once when Greene gave $100 to a homeless man, Wade protested that it was more than he could afford. She recalled him replying, "I've been there."
'DOESN'T ADD UP'
Not long before midnight on May 10, 2019, Greene was driving near the University of Louisiana at Monroe when a trooper attempted to pull him over for a traffic violation. Greene, who an autopsy would show had cocaine in his system, sped away, leading troopers on a chase that topped speeds of 115 mph along rural highways south of the Arkansas border. It ended with troopers converging on Greene's SUV, beating him, jolting him with stun guns and leaving him handcuffed and prone for several minutes.
One trooper, Kory York, could be seen on body-camera video putting his foot on Greene's back to force him to stay down and then briefly dragging him facedown by his ankle shackles. Another, Chris Hollingsworth, struck Greene in the head several times with a flashlight, and was later captured on his squad car video boasting he "beat the ever-living f--- out of him."
Hundreds of miles away, in central Florida, Hardin said she "felt in my soul something was wrong with Ronnie."
Those fears were confirmed when her daughter called her early that morning in a panic, saying Greene had been in a crash and "didn't make it." Wilson said a state trooper told her by telephone that her brother "was in a car accident, hit a tree, went through the windshield and died on impact."
"My legs went out from under me," Hardin said.
Within hours, Hardin was exploring funeral arrangements even as she processed the troubling — and shifting — information from authorities. Loved ones arriving at the hospital in West Monroe became even more suspicious after seeing the deep bruises on Greene's face and cuts on his head.
"It didn't look like what they said," Wade said.
Even the emergency room physician doubted the account of Greene's death from the moment he arrived dead at the hospital, bruised and bloodied with two stun-gun prongs still protruding from his backside. "Does not add up," Dr. Omokhuale Omokhodion wrote.
The crash claim became even less plausible to Greene's family when they saw his vehicle, which had only minor damage. The airbags had not even deployed.
"Everything started to make sense," Wilson said. "This man didn't die from a car accident."
'I HAD TO SEE MY SON TAKE HIS LAST BREATH'
Hardin's anguish would only deepen in the months that followed as she searched the internet, trying to connect the dots in the absence of information and an avalanche of excuses.
Hardin's first ray of hope came when a civil rights law firm in Philadelphia agreed to take her case and filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit just before the first anniversary of Greene's death.
She returned to Louisiana in October 2020 for a private family viewing of the body-camera video in Baton Rouge arranged by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Hardin said she was "in a trance" as she watched the footage of her son's beating for the first time.
"I had to see my son take his last breath," she said. "I felt it."
Whatever happens with the Greene case, Hardin says she will be denied full justice. Hollingsworth, the trooper who struck Greene in the head with a flashlight, died in a single-vehicle crash last year hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the arrest. He was still buried with full state police honors.
Hardin still has not fully grieved the loss of her son and draws strength from a sorority of other mothers from similar cases, including Arbery's, who can relate to the days when her sadness prevents her from getting out of bed or even running errands.
"In the end, you just end up being part of a big nightmare," she said. "But that was my commitment. I won't fail him."
Bleiberg reported from Monroe, La. Video journalist Allen G. Breed contributed to this report.


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This is, of course, election season, and we're hearing plenty of heated arguments from politicians. But here's a question. Is framing an argument with passion the most effective way to persuade your listeners? There is some new research suggesting that it is not the best way to explain this finding. We're joined by NPR social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam. Hey, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hey, David.
GREENE: So passion not effective. I've got to hear this.
VEDANTAM: Well, often it's not effective, and here's why, David. When we get passionate about making an argument, it's usually because we very clearly see the justice of our cause. So a patriotic Republican, for example, might get passionate about the threat of ISIS because the Republican sees ISIS as being a threat to the integrity of the country. A Democrat might passionate about an argument about fairness because a Democrat says this reflects the concerns that he or she has about income inequality. The problem is that the arguments that we make are the arguments that usually convince people who are like us. They don't speak the language of our opponents, and when you think about it, the only people you need to persuade are the ones who don't agree with you.
GREENE: Well, Shankar - I mean, we don't want to over-generalize. I mean, you would have a lot of Conservatives who would say they care deeply about equality and fairness. You would have a lot of people on the left who say they care deeply, deeply about national security, obviously. Right? I mean, it's...
VEDANTAM: ...I think that's absolutely fair, David, but there is research data that shows that in general, these are the frameworks that Liberals and Conservatives have when they actually are not thinking about it very carefully and not poll-testing their answers. Liberals tend to care much more about fairness and protecting people from harm. Conservatives tend to think much more about loyalty and patriotism.
GREENE: Gotcha (ph). OK, well, what you're really talking about here is a politician's ability to win over someone who does not agree with him or her. So what exactly is the evidence that passion plays sort of a role that is not helpful if someone's doing that?
VEDANTAM: So the data comes from Matthew Feinberg at the University of Toronto, and along with Robb Willer, they find that both Liberals and Conservatives tend to fall back on the moral frameworks of their own side when making arguments. When the researchers asked Liberals and Conservatives to make arguments - for example, they asked Conservatives to formulate arguments about why English should be the official language of the United States, overwhelmingly, Conservatives used the argument that having a united country meant speaking the same language. Very few appealed to a liberal moral framework by saying, for example, when people speak English, they are less likely to face racism.
The same thing happened with Liberals on the subject of gay marriage. Instead of painting same-sex marriage as a patriotic issue, most Liberals framed their support for same-sex marriage using arguments about fairness. Now it should be no surprise that when Liberals and Conservatives actually used arguments that spoke to their opponent's moral framework, they were actually far more likely to persuade their opponent.
GREENE: So I guess the lesson here if you're a politician and you're trying to sort of whip up a lot of emotion in your base - I mean, people who, you know, are sort of - tend to agree with you, you just want to get them to turn out to the polls, you can be passionate. But maybe think about your strategy and what you're doing if you're trying to win over swing voters or people on the other side.
VEDANTAM: Right. So we've known for a very long time that the messages that politicians give during primaries are very different than the messages they deliver during the general election. And it reflects what we're seeing here, which is that when you're trying to rile up your own side, speaking to them in your shared moral language makes perfect sense. When you're appealing to a general election electorate, you want to make sure that you're including people whose moral frameworks do not coincide with yours. Here's the interesting thing, David. Both Liberals and Conservatives seem to recognize, when they're put on the spot, that framing an argument using their opponent's moral language makes the argument stronger. And yet, when they're actually asked to do it, most of the time they forget to do it. The moral of the story, I think, is if you want to win political arguments the next time you're sitting down at a family debate, stop for a second and ask yourself - what is the moral framework of the person whom I am arguing with? And frame your argument using that person's moral framework.
GREENE: Shankar, thanks as always.
VEDANTAM: Thanks, David.
GREENE: That's NPR's Shankar Vedantam. He joins us regularly on the program to talk about social science research, and he's also the host of the new podcast, Hidden Brain.


The average person checks their smartphone almost 150 times each day. If you think that's hard to believe, try this: Worldwide, there are more smartphones being activated every second than babies being born. A number of those smartphone users are patients and visitors from within your community, all of whom have preferred devices between Apple®, Android®, Blackberry® and Windows® options. And don't forget about all of the tablet variations, either.There's a distinct difference between websites optimized for mobile devices and those that aren't. Sites optimized for smartphones and tablets are much easier to use on those devices than a desktop site that isn't. Among mobile users, more than 60 percent are likely to leave if they don't find what they're looking for right away on a mobile site and 74 percent are more likely to return to that site in the future if it is optimized for mobile viewing.The trick has been figuring out how to make Web pages fit the dimension and screen resolution for each device. Enter Responsive Web design, or RWD, a new innovation that helps Web content fit onto whichever screen that views it.
Smartphones and tablets have become popular because of how much they ease day-to-day tasks. Communication via email, instant message and social networks are their primary draw, but mobile devices also make traditional errands more efficient, things like arranging appointments and making bill payments. Can your patients and clients do those things on your website, too? More importantly, can they do those things on your website with their chosen mobile devices?
Mobile applications, or apps, use capabilities specific to a phone or mobile device (like GPS or camera) to help a program function.
Mobile templates, as the name suggests, are quick and easy layouts that push or pull site content to fit the screen of whichever device is accessing it.
Mobile websites require a modified URL and show less aesthetic content in order to meet the most important needs of a mobile visitor.
Then there's RWD, which creates a webpage that automatically and seamlessly meets the screen dimensions and resolutions of whichever device your clients are using. Responsive Web design stands out from the other options; it is so effective that it has become Google's® recommended configuration.
What's the main demographic of your target audience? Younger people tend to be more tech savvy than older generations so the younger your audience, the more likely they are to have smartphones and tablets they'll use to access your site.
What are people using your website for? Basic analytics tools like Google® Analytics can help you see how site visitors are behaving once they get to your page. If they're flooding your page to use only one functionality, like accessing your hours of operation or driving directions, RWD probably isn't the right answer for you.
Responsive Web design is an option that takes slightly longer to develop (and more financial resources) up front, but it's reliable and saves you from site maintenance down the road.
Hang door signs behind appointment or patient room doors that picture your new site on a mobile device.
Place table tents on cafeteria tables with a QR code that drives them to the site and a coupon for their next purchase at the cafeteria.
Ask lobby greeters and administrative staff to make a friendly mention of the new site by handing out Post-it® Notes shaped like cell phones.
If relevant, encourage patients to register for online bill payment with either a phone or tablet sleeve.
Bottom line: Mobile matters. Of the mobile options, RWD is becoming the most recommended and user-friendly. Responsive Web design is an opportunity to connect with your patients, visitors and the people that care about them. It's also an opportunity to show that you care about them, too.
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"Our species, it seems, is intelligent enough to understand the damage it is causing to the world in which we also evolved, but incapable of co-operating to protect the resources on which we all depend." In review of book on invertebrates in TLS of Jan. 11, 2019, by Anne Magurran.
The book is Spineless:The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone. by Juli Berwald. Available in the U.S.


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Welcome to "the greatest advancement in the fan experience since the invention of the 24-hour sports channel."
- Carla Sertin
The rematch of Super Bowl 50 begins, the Panthers and Broncos take the field, and frenzied cheers hang in the air. Fellow fans fill the stadium as you take your seat on the 50-yard line. Except you're actually sitting on your couch, and the only other living being in the room is your dog. That's the power of virtual reality (VR). Technology experts dubbed 2016 "the year of VR," and so far we've seen people rescue cats stuck on top of skyscrapers and fail at surviving a zombie apocalypse. But the sports industry isn't just watching from the sidelines – the NBA, NFL, and MLB are all working with VR in many capacities. "It brings the in-venue experience to fans anywhere in the world," says Max Grodnick, a business developer at VR sports broadcasting company NextVR."That's revolutionary." But beyond offering you a great seat, VR offers even more revolutionary innovation. Consider the five ways VR is changing sports for fans and athletes.
Virtual reality is an immersive experience that has the potential to captivate sports fans (photo credit: Jasmine Purdie).
1. The Best Seat at Every Game
NextVR has partnered with the NBA and Fox Sports to broadcast events in 360 video – they even broadcast them live. Grodnick believes that VR sports won't replace gameday at the stadium, but it's the next best thing. "The fact that fans can virtually attend any event from the comfort of their living room will be the greatest advancement in the fan experience since the invention of the 24-hour sports channel," Grodnick says. Not only can it be viewed from your living room, but it can be viewed from living rooms across the world.
But the main benefit of VR sports is its immersive nature. "VR allows for a more 'real' experience than what we can perceive in a 2D environment," says Julian Gill, a marketing associate at VokeVR. VokeVR is another key player in VR sports, and broadcasted the 2016 NCAA Final Four in VR. VR sports broadcasting also gives fans views that are normally inaccessible – like sitting on top of the basketball hoop or in the corner of a boxing ring.People within the VR sports broadcasting industry believe it will have a large impact on how fans watch sports games, but it's still a new field. NextVR's biggest obstacle is a lack of a substantial audience. Since it's a relatively new medium, VR is less accessible than TV, and many potential consumers don't know that it exists. The hardware is also an issue. Thanks to first-generation headsets, kinks such as low screen resolution still need to be worked out. Think about it this way: compare the first iPhone to smartphones today. The first iPhone gave birth to the 24-hour workday and made everyone a professional photographer, but definitely needed improvements (cracked screen anyone?). So do VR headsets.
2. Behind Home Plate
This film rig is used to capture sports experiences in VR (photo courtesy of Voke VR).
Gameday delivers excitement — the crowds, hot dogs, and, of course, the game. But Fenway Park wants to add even more to that experience. They created three dugout-themed areas with VR headsets, which provide fans with a behind-the-scenes look at the Red Sox. The debut video features the team during spring training, giving fans a different way to follow their favorite players. Instead of simply impacting where people watch the game, VR also will impact how fans watch the game in the stadium, and the kind of content they access. And because of its ability to make fans feel like they've been transported to another place, the kind of sports shows and videos we see may change.
3. Sports Without Borders
VR apps let you to carry VR sports with you everywhere you go. The Eurosport VR app allows fans to engage with content on and off the field. Users can watch Novak Djokovic train, tag along with professionals on the ski slopes, or experience an athlete pole vaulting right over them. Eurosport offers the most in-depth sports VR app, but others are trying to create new experiences too. LikeLive is creating a virtual space where users can sit together and watch the game in VR. So someone in New York could sit with their friend in Colorado and watch the game together. One of the main criticisms of VR sports has been the lack of social interaction between fans (who wants to go to a game by themselves?). LikeLive tries to tackle that problem and make VR sports a social space that transcends geographical boundaries.
4. New Money for Old Leagues
VR isn't just fun; it's also big business. Grodnick notes that VR sports broadcasting has created an entirely new revenue stream for sports leagues, and they're eager to capitalize on it. Because VR is accessible from anywhere in the world, they have an infinite number of virtual seats to fill. Still, it would be difficult to replace the actual experience of being in the stadium. "There's still nothing like actually being there cheering alongside other fans," Grodnick says. "This is the next best thing." While that would expand audiences, it will also present new challenges. "As professional leagues like the Premier League (British soccer), the NBA, MLB, and others expand their audiences beyond their own country's borders, those leagues have to figure out ways to engage with those new fans," Gill says. The immersive and interactive nature of VR also lends itself to sponsorship and advertising. While VR advertising remains in its infancy, many companies are experimenting with it. Coca-Cola, for example, created a VR experience for the World Cup that allowed viewers to go through Brazil's Maracanã Stadium, moving from the locker room out onto the field to play.
5. Athletic Supporters
Virtual reality can be used to train all levels of athletes (photo credit: Jasmine Purdie).
While Grodnick believes that VR sports will have the biggest impact on the fan experience, he admits that it can be helpful for athletes as well. Being able to go back into a game and review your moves is a step forward in athletics training. In 2015, teams like the New England Patriots, the Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco 49ers partnered with StriVR to use VR during training camp. Teams also use VR to film a game or practice in 360 video, and using a VR headset, quarterbacks and other players can feel like they're back in the game and see what they did right or wrong.
"Anytime you give an athlete or a coach a competitive edge, they will be on board and find a way to squeeze every ounce of value out of it."
University teams are getting in on VR athletics training as well. The Syracuse University football team uses EON Sports for its training. The EON Sports VR app, called SideKiq, creates a virtual environment where the quarterback has to make decisions in real time, like choosing a receiver for a pass. While the fans may not notice this innovation, it could impact how the game is played. Brendan Reilly, EON Sports' CEO, says that players' reported improved decision-making skills after using their technology. While these training techniques have been adopted mostly by football teams, baseball teams also are starting to use VR. Despite the increase in use as a training tool, VR's impact remains small thanks to lack of accessibility and the price of VR headsets. Reilly says that EON Sports plans to make the app more mobile and realistic, ultimately creating a seamless experience. "We will continue to see it become more interactive and involve more real life scenarios," he says. Even in its initial stages, Reilly says that VR training tools have been met with enthusiasm from athletes and coaches alike. "Anytime you give an athlete or a coach a competitive edge, they will be on board and find a way to squeeze every ounce of value out of it," he added.
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Enniscrone Golf Club is located on the scenic West Coast of Ireland in County Sligo. Known for having some of the largest dunes in Ireland, the club is situated on a promontory that juts into Killala Bay at the mouth of the River Moy Estuary. This provides Enniscrone with one of the most beautiful settings for the uncompromised playing characteristics of Irish links golf.
Since the club's founding in 1918, its fathers dreamed of expanding their nine-hole course onto Ireland's most spectacular links land. The dream was realized in 1974, and today Enniscrone Golf Club offers 27 holes of links golf. Here, we believe, you'll experience some of the best Irish links golf on the Dunes course, or a more serene round on the Eddie Hackett-and Donald Steel designed nine-hole, 3,367 yard, Scurmore Course.
Our featured course, The Dunes, is a 7,033 yard, par 73, championship links course, often a venue for National and Golfing Union of Ireland's top amateur events. The Dunes evolved from Eddie Hackett's original 18-hole design. The traditional links layout was reconfigured to include six new holes in the seaside dunes. Renowned architect Donald Steel designed the six new holes, and The Dunes was further refined to include four men's tee boxes to suit golfers at all handicap levels.
In true links fashion, the course layout is 'nine out' and 'nine back' to the clubhouse. Each golf hole follows the natural contours of the land. It challenges golfers of all abilities, their imaginations, demanding the use of every club in the bag. At Enniscrone, the wind, true links lies and firm elevated greens reward those who can hold a line, hit fairways and execute 'bump and run' shots.
The scenery of The Dunes is second to none. Twelve of the Dunes 18 holes wind through the tallest, shaggy dunes on the coast. A sense of isolation and tranquility surrounds you, along with tall marram grass roughs. The last four finishing holes are exhilarating and border the Atlantic Ocean. Dozens of our reviews attest to our surrounding beauty. However, we are fond of the UK's Top 100 Golf Course Review; "Enniscrone really is a breathtaking course with a serious challenge attached."
Being endowed with spectacular land comes with some responsibility. Our membership's emphasis has always been on golf, and we are proud to have hosted top Irish amateur events. However, our pride in our golf heritage is second only to retaining the natural qualities of the Dunes course's links land. This is why Enniscrone is a member of the Sports Turf Research Institute – to sustain the natural balance between the course and surrounding land. With this in mind, we can state with confidence; our visitors will experience true Irish links golf on a grand scale for decades to come.
We are fortunate to offer you a Championship venue, and we think you'll experience golf as Tom Coyne describes Irish links golf, but on a grander scale: "unapologetic, unpretentious and wonderfully unrefined, authentic and irresistible". If you play The Dunes, we assure you our mighty dunes will forever be part of your memories, and The Dunes may join your list of favourite courses in the world.


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'Capeman' Outdoors, Starring the City
By Ben Brantley
Could it be that the Capeman — who for 12 long years has been wandering like a Flying Dutchman through the imaginations of many a New York theatergoer — has finally found his natural home? The title character from "The Capeman," Paul Simon's musical retelling of a street-gang murder from 1959, seemed anything but at home when he showed up on Broadway in 1998 in a big, stultifying musical that seemed both overdirected and directionless. You had seldom seen a man or a show look so damned uncomfortable, and uncomfortably damned.
Yet on Monday night, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the fictional reincarnation of Salvador Agrón, who as a teenager became immortalized in the tabloids as the knife-wielding Capeman, appeared to be utterly in his element. Make that elements. The rains were falling on the capacity crowd that had gathered for the last of three Public Theater concert performances of a no-frills "Capeman," which had a brief, brutal life of 68 performances as an $11 million musical on Broadway.
Ticket holders huddled in dripping throngs under dripping trees for nearly an hour after the show was supposed to have started. Everyone was polite, but the tensions that arise when many New Yorkers are held in enforced close proximity could be sensed beneath the surface like a silent snarl.
This discomfort turned out to be a poetically appropriate prologue to what followed: a sung narration of New York history rendered as a myth that considers urban violence and spiritual transcendence. What about that curtain of rain that was still visible when we took our seats around 8:45? ("Maybe it's an effect," said one man down the row from me, squinting and looking hopeful.)
Hey, this is the show that repeatedly reminds us that "time is an ocean of endless tears." As for the preponderance of umbrellas and plastic ponchos that became de rigueur accessories for many in the audience, it's worth noting that umbrellas and capes become important talismanic symbols in this show.
O.K., enough of the spiritual semiotics, although these visual correspondences between a show and its environment do feed into the appeal of this particular performance. "The Capeman," which features a book and lyrics by Mr. Simon and the poet Derek Walcott, had registered as a calcified museum piece when it was staged at the mammoth Marquis Theater, with big sets and video projections that made the actors look like afterthoughts.
But in the park, as staged (and radically streamlined) by Diane Paulus ("Hair"), the show felt like an organic part of a New York tradition of tale-telling, of how accounts of tragic events in an overcrowded city are passed around and passed down until they become urban legends. As one of the characters in the musical, the mother of a murdered boy, says, "This city makes a cartoon of a crime."
In this case the final effect was more like a broadsheet ballad retracing violent events that once captured a public's ghoulish imagination, or a bloodstained blues-folk song like "Stagger Lee." As a story, "Capeman" — with its no-fault fatalism and archetypal characters — has both the strengths and limitations of that form.
Mr. Simon's score speaks in other and myriad musical tongues — salsa, doo-wop, ecclesiastic hymns — to express the colliding cultures that shaped, trapped and redeemed Salvador, who as an adolescent came to New York from rural Puerto Rico with his mother, Esmeralda. Creators of this version of "The Capeman" have referred to it as an oratorio. Most of the spoken dialogue has been jettisoned, as have several subplots, and there is a clearer focus on recurring musical motifs.
But oratorio brings to mind singers in robes behind music stands. And this "Capeman" rarely seemed to stop moving, unlike its Broadway predecessor. (Sergio Trujillo is the choreographer.) The story ran, undulated and salsa-stepped in a fairly straight line through Salvador's story of damnation and redemption in an intermissionless 90 minutes (as opposed to the two full acts with intermission it required on Broadway.) It has also been refocused to make Esmeralda (Natascia Diaz) its emotional center.
Under the musical direction of Oscar Hernandez (who served the same function for the Broadway version), the score seemed truly to emanate from the city itself in a way it hadn't at the Marquis. The sirens from the streets, the barking dogs, the planes overhead: these all melded into a scrappy, percussive counterpoint to Mr. Simon's summoning of a city that is always an unexpected symphony of fractured calls and responses.
And when the young Salvador (Anthony Lee Medina, whose older self was played by the leading-man-handsome Ivan Hernandez) took his girl to "my hiding place in Central Park," it seemed especially felicitous. So did his description of a city lighted by candles. And the interruption of that love scene by the young leader of the Vampires gang, which would open the door for Salvador's fall into perdition, felt like a weave in the same fabric. New York is always part fairyland, part house of horrors. And a "satin summer night," as Salvador sings, can be torn to shreds before you know it.
This is not the place to reassess the autonomous strengths and weaknesses of "The Capeman" as a work of art. In introductory remarks Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director, called the production "a little workshop concert." He stressed that what we would be seeing was "just a sketch, just a thought" of how it might be more fully reconceived.
Still, it's hard to imagine this sustained folk ballad of a show ever having a more suitable and enriching context than that provided by one rainy Monday night in Central Park.


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Positive GDP Forced Narrative Shift At MRC So It Could Still Blame Biden
We've documented how the Media Research Center rushed to declare that U.S. was in a full-blown recession -- largely so it could push right-wing narratives by blaming President Biden for it -- and attacked anyone to dared to suggest that two straight quarters of a (slightly) negative gross domestic product is not the only possbile definiton of what a recession is (and it even found a way to blame George Soros as well). Kevin Tober was still harping on the negative GDP numberds in a Sept. 29 post:
On Thursday morning, The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released their third and final revision on the nation's GDP growth for the second quarter and it wasn't good. The BEA found that the economy shrank 0.6 percent for the second straight quarter which means the United States economy is in a recession. Knowing this news is bad for the Biden administration and the Democrat Party [sic], the evening newscasts made sure to cover it up.
ABC's World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News both ignored the news entirely, while CBS Evening News allowed a scant 22 seconds to the story while avoiding the word "recession" or tying Biden and his disastrous economic policies to this in any way.
While CBS at least covered the negative GDP growth revision, ABC & NBC decided Queen Elizabeth's autopsy report showing she died of old age, or Ginni Thomas's beliefs on the validity of the 2020 elections were more important than the nation's economy.
Tober offered no evidence that network newscasts have ever covered GDP revisions. Curtis Houck whined in a post the next day:
Amid their non-Hurricane Ian coverage on Friday, NBC's Today and the 3rd Hour of Today returned to a recent liberal media trend in defending the Biden administration by dismissing the reality that the country's in a recession. This time, they wondered if it "matter[s] when everything you buy everyday is more expensive" and "it doesn't feel good out there."
Of course, nowhere in either news show did the Biden administration come up or be assigned blame.
Of course, neither Tober nor Houck provided any evidence that specifically links any Biden policy to the decline in GDP.
In another Sept. 30 post, Joseph Vazquez hyped "the economy's poor performance under Biden," adding that "following new third estimate data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showing that U.S. GDP contracted for the second straight quarter in a row to meet the technical definition of a recession, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 550 points on Thursday; the S&P 500 dropped 2.4 percent and the Nasdaq sank 3 percent." Vazquez cited only partisan right-wing sources like the New York Post and the Washington Examiner as purported proof that Biden was to blame.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the MRC's narrative manufacturing plant: GDP increased in the third quarter. That blew up the MRC's narrative, so it was forced to reverse direction. An Oct. 27 post by Tober demanded that we look beyond the numbers to argue that the GDP growth doesn't actually mean anything:
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released the third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) numbers which reportedly showed that the United States economy grew 2.6 percent in the third quarter. Predictably the three evening news networks hyped the supposedly good news for their friends in the Biden administration and ignored the real reason for the positive economic growth despite the two past quarters being negative. The 3rd quarter numbers were almost entirely due to U.S. trade exports, not due to the health of the economy at large.
World News Tonight anchor David Muir began carrying water for the Biden administration and embattled Democrats running in this year's midterm elections by spinning the seemingly good numbers: "President Biden in Syracuse, New York, celebrating the new numbers on the economy today," Muir noted.
Hyping the numbers, Muir went on to report that "the gross domestic product, of course, a measure of goods and services produced increasing 2.6 percent this last quarter." Later on in the segment, he spoke to correspondent Terry Moran and gushed that "these were encouraging GDP numbers today."
Tober made sure to praise his favorite cable news channel for making the partisan narrative flip-flop along with the MRC:
Back in reality, on Fox News Channel's Special Report, Jacqui Heinrich told viewers the truth about the state of the economy: "At first glance, today's GDP Report suggests the U.S. Economy is turning around after two consecutive quarters of negative growth," Heinrich prefaced. "But a closer look shows the 2.6 percent growth was driven by fluctuations in international trade, not reflecting the underlying health of the economy and increased government spending."
Tober didn't explain why it suddenly became "reality" to look beyond the GDP numbers when it had criticized those who previously did so.
Despite having to explain away that inconenient number, the MRC continued to cling to the old narrative as well. A Nov. 1 post by Jeffrey Clark huffed that "the U.S. entered a recession roughly three months ago. A July Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) report revealed that GDP fell for a second quarter in a row, which meets the definition of a recession, according to American Institute for Economic Research economist Phillip Magness."Clark rehashed the obsolete talking point again in a Nov. 14 post:
For the "past century," as economist Phillip Magness explained in August, a recession has primarily been defined as GDP falling for two consecutive quarters. That's precisely what happened in July, per a Bureau of Economic Analysis report, but President Joe Biden's media cronies have been crusading to redefine the meaning of the word "recession" in an attempt to stem political backlash from President Joe Biden's economic disaster.
In both posts, Clark censored the fact that GDP increased in the most recent quarter -- which would have undermined his narrative. And narrative is more important than the truth at the MRC.
WND Trots Out Anti-Google Reseracher Again
What's a good sign that you're a right-wing hack who likes to peddle dubious claims and outright falsehoods and wants to get your views out without having to answer challenging questions about them? You choose to sit down for an interview with WorldNetDaily.
Which brings us to anti-Google obsessive Robert Epstein. WND has been a fan of his (as has the Media Research Center) because he fed the right-wing anti-"big tech" narrative by accusing Google of skewing search results toward Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election through some highly dubious "research." Since pushing falselhoods about election fraud (along with COVID vaccine misinformation) is the WND's main function these days, it needs to keep up that narrative. So WND's Art Moore did an interview for a Nov. 4 article, making sure to play up Epstein's purported Democratic credentials (despite sounding just like a right-wing conspiracy theorist) under the headline "Democrat researcher: Google shifting votes in my party's favor":
Empirical research shows Google affected the outcome of the 2016 and 2020 elections in favor of Democrats, and the tech giant "has its digital thumb on the scale" of the current midterms, says Robert Epstein, a Democratic Party voter who was famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner's last PhD student at Harvard.
In a WND video interview (embedded below), Epstein contended, however, that his ever-growing, unique "Nielsen rating-type" system of monitoring Google's manipulation of search results provides the solid evidence needed to stop the Big Tech behemoth in its tracks.
In the meantime, he said, the novel "Brave New World" has come to life.
"This is power that's never existed before in human history. This is power that the worst dictators in history could have only dreamt of," Epstein told WND.
"But this is real. This is occurring now."
By the end of 2023, he plans to have a "massive monitoring system" – a "digital shield" – in place with at least 20,000 field agents across 50 states.
"We will be monitoring in real time, and we will be exposing every single anomaly that we find," he said, adding that "sunlight is the best disinfect."
At no point did Epstein say "my party" or even describe himself as an active Democrat -- that's just a false headline. Moore then moved on to pumping up Epstein's credentials:
Epstein, a research psychologist for four decades, has served in various editorial positions at Psychology Today magazine and Scientific American MIND. He's the author of 15 books and more than 300 scientific and mainstream articles on artificial intelligence and other topics. He currently is a research psychologist at the non-profit American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California. His work can be seen at MyGoogleResearch.com.
After that, it was more conspiracy-mongering:
Epstein doubts that lawmakers will make a serious attempt to take on Big Tech, with Democrats "lavishly" supplied with Google cash – 95% of Big Tech donations go to Democrats – and Republicans having a distaste for regulation.
In any case, regulation moves at a snail's pace, he said, arguing tech needs to be fought with tech, and his scientific evidence can be used in lawsuits.
"I'm in touch with some state AGs and some other officials who are champing at the bit," he said. "They're just waiting to use the kind of data that we are collecting to go after these people."
Then victimhood was added to the conspiracy mix:
The personal cost of his work – which he sees as an effort to preserve free and fair elections and ultimately the republic itself – has included the loss of friendships and some family members who "think I'm crazy." But he's also been warned that his safety is at risk.
After presenting his Google findings to the Senate in 2019 and drawing the attention of Hillary Clinton, Epstein gave a private briefing to state attorneys general. After the briefing, one of the state AGs took Epstein aside and shared his concern that Epstein might "die in an accident in the next few months."
Shortly after that, Epstein's wife was killed in a car accident under what he described as suspicious circumstances. A couple of months ago, there was a knife attack on a key staff member and her husband. And recently, a reporter told him of a conversation with a woman in Google's PR department who "screamed" at the reporter regarding Epstein.
The reporter told Epstein there were two things he learned from that interaction. One is that "you have their attention." And the second is, "I would take precautions."
Needless to say, Moore didn't seek substantiation of Epstein's claim, nor did he mention that Epstein's original anti-Google "research" has been discredited.
Morris Quiet After Red Wave Midterm Prediction Failed
We've noted how Newsmax pundit Dick Morris confidently predicted a red wave in the midterm elections, with Republicans seizing both the House and the Senate and Democrats losing all 60 close congressional races. Well, that didn't happen, making this yet another failed Morris prognostication. Perhaps he saw this a bit on election day, when he played the election-fraud card in a Nov. 8 Newsmax TV appearances:
Former adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Dick Morris, joined Newsmax on Election Day to weigh in with his take. Morris told Newsmax that it would be "horrific" if the election were to be "stolen" by election officials; alluding to Arizona's current secretary of state and Democratic candidate for governor, Katie Hobbs.
Speaking with "American Agenda" Tuesday, Morris said, "'It's deja-vu all over again,' as Yogi Berra said. Maricopa County, Philadelphia, that has a certain ring to it."
"It would be horrific if this election was lost or was stolen by election officials: particularly horrific when the democratic candidate for governor is the former secretary of state; to whatever extent anyone was at fault in 2020 in Arizona, it was Katie Hobbs, the democratic candidate for governor."
If Morris appeared on Newsmax TV elsewhere that night there's no record of it on the website; Newsmax didn't see to memorialize them with a stenography piece. But in a Nov. 9 appearance, Morris insisted there really was a red wave because Republicans didn't lose as badly as they could have:
The mainstream media is performing "ultimate acts of obfuscation" concerning Tuesday's midterm elections, but as the week moves on, it will be clear that there was a red wave, Dick Morris, the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" said on Newsmax Wednesday.
"This morning, they'll all tell you there was no red wave," Morris said on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "Wake them up tomorrow morning or the morning after, and they'll have to say maybe there was one because Republicans took the House and the Senate and came very close in a number of states and advanced their vote totals."
"I think this is like 'The Hunt for Red October,'" Morris added. "This is a red wave rising."
His comments come after Ric Grenell told Newsmax that same-day ballots will deliver wins in vital Arizona GOP races, including the one for the U.S. Senate pitting GOP contender Blake Masters against incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly, who as of Tuesday afternoon was holding a five-point lead in the race.
The next TV appearance Newsmax sought to document came on Nov. 12, when Morris talked a lot more about Trump than about the midterms:
Former President Donald Trump won't only officially announce his 2024 presidential race Tuesday, but he'll surround himself with his "success stories" from the 2022 midterm races, Dick Morris, author of the bestselling "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" said on Newsmax Saturday.
"The Democrats are launching an anti-Trump disinformation campaign saying he lost everything, and he didn't," Morris said on Newsmax's "Saturday Report," adding that there are several GOP candidates who would not have won their senatorial races, including J.D. Vance in Ohio, Ted Budd in North Carolina, Markwayne Mullin in Oklahoma, Eric Schmitt in Missouri, and Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin.
He also said Kari Lake will likely pull out her win for governor in Arizona, once the ballots are counted, and she'll be part of his announcement celebration Tuesday to kick off a "very good, very strong campaign that, as I predicted in my book, will result in his big 2024 comeback."
Morris also played the bogus election-fraud card again:
Fewer than 1,000 votes now separate Laxalt and incumbent Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, and Morris pushed back at suggestions that the elections system in Nevada might simply be "dysfunctional.'
"It's dysfunctional in one direction, which is toward the Democrats," said Morris.
Morris continued the Trump suck-up work in a Nov. 14 appearance in which he insisted that Trump wasn't to blame for the red-wave failure due to his extremist candidates:
"Those who blame Trump for this, it's just wrong," Morris said during "American Agenda."
"Mitch McConnell, the [minority] leader of the senate, absolutely failed to fund the Republican Senate candidates who were backed by Trump. Anybody who won the primary, who is trump's endorsed candidate, was shut out of money from the Senate committee, or from McConnell's PAC. The Democrats spent an aggregated $360 million Republicans spent only $190 million in specific races," Morris added.
Morris said that Trump's endorsement picks won in nine of the 15 "tough" races, including Senator-elect JD Vance in Ohio, Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, and Rep. Ted Budd's GOP Senate win in North Carolina.
Morris apparently didn't reference his own failed midterm predictions.
That was followed by a Nov. 16 appearance in which Morris bragged that a GOP-controlled Senate will grind the Biden administration to a halt:
Dick Morris, author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," told Newsmax that a GOP-controlled House could stop President Joe Biden's agenda and investigate his White House.
During a Tuesday interview with John Bachman, the political insider pointed out that Republicans still won last week's midterm elections after garnering 53 million votes and beating Democrats by five points in the generic ballot.
"We took the House back. Of the 15 tough Senate races, we won nine of the 15. So, explain to me how this is a defeat," Morris stated, adding that with the lower chamber, Republicans can accomplish a litany of tasks that they sought to do.
"Once we have the House, we can stop him from passing bills, and we can get a gavel and investigate this cesspool of corruption that Joe Biden calls an administration," he continued. "We can put Hunter [Biden] under oath. We can put his people under oath. We can really get somewhere."
Meanwhile, Morris wrote no Newsmax columns explaining how he predicted so badly yet again.
CNS Nitpicks Biden Statements -- But Uncritically Promotes GOP Attacks
By contrast to its uncritical stenography of Republican attacks on Democrats before the midterm elections, CNS articles on Democrats who criticize Republicans -- and especially articles quoting President Biden -- tended to include criticism and fact-checking. It's something that, as we've noted, CNS rarely did to Donald Trump when he was president.
A good example of how this works is an Oct. 27 article by Susan Jones. First came the complaining:
Who's lying? Republicans are, according to President Joe Biden, who -- according to the Democrat-friendly New York Times -- "spins yarns that often unravel."
In a teleconference fund-raiser on Thursday, Biden said the midterm election is "not a referendum" on Democrat leadership -- "it's a choice," he insisted.
"And this is not your father's Republican Party," Biden said, according to the White House transcript.
When Biden noted the MAGA extremists "who were breaking down the doors — literally, the doors and the windows of the Congress and two cops ended up dying," Jones did a selective fact-check:
The only person killed on January 6 was a protester, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a police officer as she climbed through a window. Four other people died of natural causes, including one police officer.
The D.C. Medical Examiner says Capitol Police Office Brian Sicknick died of natural causes following the riot. And press reports say four police officers who were at the Capitol on January 6 committed suicide much later.
Jones ignored that the medical examiner looking into Sicknick's death said that "all that transpired played a role in his condition," or that at least two Capitol Police officers who died by suicide had their deaths declared to be in the line of duty.
Then came the whataboutism:
According to a New York Times article published on Oct. 10, 2022, "President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity."
The article adds that Biden's "stories" have been "repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to adopt someone else's life story as his own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw."
Funny how Jones suddenly considers the Times to be a credible source when it criticizes a Democrat -- even though doing so undermines the agenda of CNS and its Media Research Center parent to portray the Times and other outlets as having a hopelessly liberal bias.
In contrast to CNS' uncritically repeating GOP talking points attacking Democrats, Jones spent a Nov. 3 article whining about the attacks Biden issued against "extreme MAGA Republicans:
In a speech that bounced from warnings about political violence, to warnings about "autocrats," to warnings about election deniers, to warnings about "extreme MAGA Republicans" and to the premise that "democracy" is on the ballot, President Joe Biden seemed to be telling the country Wednesday night that unless they vote for Democrats, they can kiss the republic goodbye.
He echoed Abraham Lincoln; he slammed Donald Trump; and he urged Americans to prioritize "democracy" over "policy."
Biden also contradicted himself on the topic of voter suppression -- giving a nod to the "record" turnout in early voting, but also warning that "extreme MAGA Republicans" are "denying your right to vote."
"Once again we're seeing record turnout all over the country," Biden said in his speech.
Jones then whined that Biden invoked the Constitution and Abraham Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln also used the phrase in his First Inaugural Address, noting that "in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was 'to form a more perfect Union.'"
Lincoln was making the point that no state can lawfully get out of the Union -- "that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary..."
Biden also echoed Lincoln by saying, "What we're doing now is going to determine whether democracy will long endure."
(Speaking at Gettysburg in November 1863, President Lincoln said: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.")
Unlike with the attacks from Republicans CNS uncritically presented, Jones gave space to a Republican responding to Biden:
In response to Biden's partisan speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted: "President Biden is desperate to change the subject from inflation, crime, and open borders. Now he's claiming that democracy only works if his party wins. What nonsense. Americans aren't buying it. Ask how the last two years have affected your family, and then get out and vote!"
Jones used a Nov. 7 article to hype Biden's response to a question in which he called for "no more drilling" and replacing coal plants with wind and solar. She then blockquoted Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's "blistering response to Biden's remarks about coal," then added that "As with many of Biden's remarks, the White House tried to walk back the one about coal plants." We don't recall CNS ever promoting walkbacks of remarks made by Donald Trump. We've already noted how Craig Bannister used a diferent Nov. 7 article to criticize Biden denouncing the violent attack on Paul Pelosi by claiming that he was "ignoring times in recent years when prominent Democrats have been criticized" for glorifying violence.
Jones adopted a whining tone in reporting more remarks from Biden in a Nov. 8 article:
Speaking to a group of Democrat [sic] Party officials by teleconference Monday night, President Joe Biden explained what "being a Democrat is all about."
He said Democrats want "power" only to "help people," and he described the opposition as "some of the darkest forces we've ever seen in our history."
"You know, you guys represent everything that's good about our party, the reason why we got into politics in the first place," Biden told the Democrat National Committee [sic] National Finance Committee, according to the White House transcript:
Biden then quoted "my dad," as he does so often: "As my dad used to say, 'I don't expect the government to solve my problem, but I ex- — I just expect them to understand my problem.'"
Jones somehow refrained from adding her usual huffy commentary to what is supposed to be a "news" article. But she did so stealthily by deliberately getting the name of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee wrong. It's sad that CNS employs someone who deliberately misspells words to advance a political agenda.