Both of the network's viewers are reportedly disheartened.
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VAIL, Colo. (AP) — A skier appears to have suffocated to death at a Colorado resort after he fell through an opening in a chairlift seat and became caught with his coat wrapped around his head and neck, officials said. Jason Varnish of Short Hills, New Jersey, died of positional asphyxia Thursday at Vail Mountain’s Blue Sky Basin area, according to Eagle County Coroner Kara Bettis.
Apparently, we should ban chairlifts, as they're proven killers.
On another note: how, exactly, does someone "suffocate to death"? Of course, it's an AP article, so they probably needed to take up some space. In the real world, the term "suffocate" would suffice.
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New Jersey Trump rally in Wildwood was YUGE. So big, in fact, that the venue was quickly filled to the brim, leaving some 165,000 people to tough it out around the arena. With that kind of crowd, police closed several streets in the area to parking in order to facilitate a relatively free flow of traffic. CBS News didn't think it applied to them. They were wrong.
Live and learn, guys....
Put that in the "OOPS!" file....
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Locally, the latest casualty is Portland Tribune, which has announced that it's cutting back its print edition to once a week, beginning next month. Beginning January 1, it's also paywalling its site.
In a letter to readers, Pamplin Media Group President Mark Garber said reducing the number of publication days "will save us money, it's not so much a retreat, but a shift in how we can best cover local news."
The print edition will - for now - continue to be free of charge at outlets in the city of Portland; suburban editions will cost $1 per copy. In essence, they want suburbanites to pay a buck to peruse printed ads, as those now constitute roughly half of the "newspaper's" content. It's unclear as to how they've come to think that this approach will keep them in business:
Advertising revenue for U.S. newspapers peaked in 2000 at $49.4 billion, according to the Pew Research Center. Since then it's fallen 70 percent to an estimated $14.3 billion.
Garber claims that Tribune publications continue to receive strong advertising support from local businesses. Alrighty, then.
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The Newsweek “journalist” who penned an inaccurate report about President Donald Trump allegedly frittering away his Thanksgiving break doing nothing substantive has reportedly been terminated, though her firing has in turn sparked a new controversy. The original controversy erupted after Newsweek published a report by Jessica Kwong early Thanksgiving morning titled, “How Is Trump Spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, Golfing And More.”
Some believe that "New-Speak" fired the wrong person:
The editor should be sacked. She is a grunt and they turned her into a scapegoat.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 1, 2019
She was assigned the story the week before Thanksgiving, but how could she be expected to "report" on event before the event itself has even occurred? Seems as though the blame was unevenly applied at NewSpeak.
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While putting together dinner this evening, KATU "news" came on the tube. They're really informative; tonight's nugget came from the geriatric "weatherman", who mentioned that a mix of rain and snow may "fall out of the sky" over the weekend. That's important to know, as most of us rubes would otherwise be staring at the ground while waiting for snow and rain to fall upward.
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Trump made a surprise stop at Walter Reed to get part of his annual checkup out of the way, and you know what that means:
This week, the businessman attended the third annual Flat Earth International Conference, held at an Embassy Suites hotel in suburban Dallas, Texas. Organizers told CNN that about 600 others went too.
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Well duh...of course he's critical; who would be happy after being shot twice?
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He's dead, and House Democratics are pissed because they weren't told of the impending raid prior to its occurrence. But why would they get advance notice? Maybe because they've demonstrated their lack of trustworthiness time and time again?
It has now been confirmed that, among those who the White House and Pentagon chose not to brief were San Fran Nan and Bug-Eyed Adam Schiff. The Democrat toady news media and Twitter Perpetual Outrage Mob are naturally going berserk over this revelation, but the truth is that it is completely justified, and very likely prevented news of the operation being leaked to the New York Times and CNN in advance. Russian leader Vladimir Putin and leaders of the Syrian government could be trusted to hold the information confidential, but not the Democrat leaders in the United States congress.
You can’t be trusted. Trump not telling you about the operation saved American lives.
— Cannadog (@6849_ft) October 27, 2019
That about covers it.
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