CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media and for the struggling network
CNN said in court papers that Young’s case amounts to “defamation by implication” and that he hadn’t actually been accused of nefarious acts. The initial story he complained about didn’t even mention Young until three minutes in, CNN lawyer David Axelrod argued on Tuesday.
Quincy Jones: Chicago-born Black music and film icon born and lived in penury, sometimes eating rats for supper then rose to stardom
Over the course of 91 years, Quincy Jones did pretty much everything you could do in the entertainment industry. He was a musician, arranger, composer, solo artist, record company executive, mogul, entrepreneur and a producer not just of music but of films and TV – and, as was noted in Chris Heath’s extraordinary, headline-grabbing 2018 profile piece Quincy Jones Has a Story About That, he had known everyone. “The ghetto Gump”, as he called himself, referring to Forrest, was the thread that linked Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis to Dr Dre and the Weekend; a musician who’d appeared with Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse, Count Basie and Bono, Nat King Cole and Young Thug; the man who had a credit on Sinatra At the Sands and Harry’s House by Harry Styles.
Zuckerberg dumps fact-checkers after CHD asks Supreme Court to hear censorship case against Facebook
ather than turning to third parties to fact-check posts, Meta will use a “Community Notes model” in which social (media) users themselves decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, said Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan in a statement.
After helping Trump win US presidency, Elon Must worries Europe with support for far-right extremism
Elon Musk has inserted himself into politics in Germany, which is headed for a February 23 election after center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-party coalition government collapsed.
US says Sudan rebel force has committed genocide, imposes sanctions on its generals
The sanctions announced by the US include several businesses based in the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, including one handling gold likely smuggled out of Sudan.
US Africa Command says it killed a senior al-Shabaab leader in targeted Somali airstrike
In January 6 post on its website Africom said that on December 24 “in coordination with the federal government of Somalia, US Africa Command conducted a precision airstrike approximately 10km southwest of Quyno Barrow that resulted in the death of senior al-Shabaab leader, Mohamed Mire and another al-Shabaab militant.”
US Congress certifies Trump election victory with Harris presiding in total contrast of January 6, 2020 chaos
Four years ago, then-Vice President Mike Pence had to preside over Biden’s victory. In 2001, then-Vice President Al Gore had the same dubious distinction following a bitter battle between him and George W. Bush that ended so close that the US Supreme Court ultimately had to put a stop to the legal challenges, leading to Bush being declared the winner.
Small businesses worry Trump’s next regime will be corrupt, controlled by crooks and the little guy is guaranteed losses
Take Trump’s promised tariff war. Under the new round of tariffs, economists warned, only the biggest businesses – those with the connections to flatter Trump and the resources to hire lobbyists – will be the big winners.
As president, Jimmy Carter once regretted ‘our country ignored Africa’ and went on to become first US leader visit the continent
Cold War tensions drew Carter’s attention to the continent as the US and Soviet Union competed for influence. But Carter also drew on the missionary traditions of his Baptist faith and the racial injustice he witnessed in his homeland in the US South.
Independence of American media queried again after cartoon critical of media owners kowtowing to Trump is spiked
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists issued a statement on Saturday accusing the Post of “political cowardice” and asking other cartoonists to post Telnaes’ sketch with the hashtag #StandWithAnn in a show of solidarity.
