| Revamp Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott has just announced a new daytime programming line-up that will debut on Monday, January 18th. The most notable changes have news anchor Martha MacCallum moving from her 7 p.m. slot to hosting a dayside show at 3 p.m. Harris Faulkner will no longer host Outnumbered Overtime a 1 p.m., and will now host The Faulkner Focus at 11 a.m.
And that's not all...
Shake-up It’s lineup shuffling day at the major cable news networks. Less than an hour after Fox News announced a series of changes, CNN is following suit with a shakeup of its own. Via press release Monday morning, the network announced a number of new assignments for their top anchors and correspondents in Washington. Most notably, Jake Tapper’s daily afternoon show, The Lead, is expanding permanently to two hours. It will now air from 4-6 p.m., shortening Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room by an hour. And that is also not all...
A New Tweet Thesis
Twitter shares dropped significantly on Monday after the company permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account — prompting CNBC’s Jim Cramer to urge the platform to find a new attraction “very, very quickly.”
Cumulus Cowed Cumulus Media, the radio broadcasting company that's home to a number of major conservative talkers, is reportedly telling their hosts they'll be fired if they continue to spread baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Send Them to Gitmo
Meghan McCain said she wouldn’t be opposed if Trump supporters who invaded the U.S. Capitol were punished by being sent to Guantanamo Bay.
This is a pretty good question. Freshman House Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson (IA) is asking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to explain why a state-backed Chinese newspaper is showing up in congressional offices. “I did not request China Daily, nor did my staff,” Hinson wrote in a letter to Pelosi, noting she had discovered the paper in her office upon arriving in Congress. “I am appalled that this could happen,” Hinson added. “I write to insist you use the control you have as Speaker of the House of Representatives to stop the [Chinese Communist Party] from distributing its state-run publication within our hallowed halls.” China Daily, a propaganda organ of China’s Communist Party, distributes copies of its English-language version to members of Congress, and periodically draws attention for making wild claims backed by the Chinese government. Those have included its assertion this month that the Chinese “reeducation centers” holding millions of Uighurs have helped women to become more than “baby-making machines,” and its claim last year that AIDS “spread to the world” after it was “first discovered” in the United States.
Parler Censored?
Social media app Parler was removed from the Google Play and Apple App stores, the company’s email services and even legal services were discontinued, and, at midnight Pacific last night, Amazon Web Services removed Parler entirely after a warning period, effectively shutting the company down.
Many conservatives are loudly objecting on the grounds of free speech. A legitimate argument to make, but one should at least be aware of what was actually on the platform that triggered the take-down.
It's frankly shocking.
Parler Sues Parler on Monday filed suit against Amazon, alleging that it had violated antitrust laws and breached a contract between the companies by suddenly refusing to provide service and forcing the platform to go dark. “When Twitter announced two evenings ago that it was permanently banning President Donald Trump from its platform, conservative users began to flee Twitter en masse for Parler,” the company wrote in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle. “The exodus was so large that the next day, yesterday, Parler became the number one free app downloaded from Apple’s App Store.” “AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animus,” attorneys for Parler wrote. It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.” The company also accused Amazon of informing BuzzFeed of its decision far enough in advance that the website was able to publish a story about it before Amazon ever informed Parler.
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