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AP Photo/Anthony Izaguirre Staff at the New York Daily News said they are “mortified” after the paper allowed a political campaign to run a mock front page ad that made it seem like the paper had endorsed the candidate. Democrat Alex Bores, who is running in New York’s 12th congressional district primary, is pictured in the controversial mock front page ad with the faux headline, “Taking on the Powerful and Standing Up For Us!” and a call to action: “Send a Fighter to Washington.” While the words “paid political advertisement” are written at the top of the ad, they appear in a much smaller font than that of the mock headline and call to action. A disclosure at the very bottom of the spread states that it was paid for by the pro-AI Jobs and Democracy PAC, published in an even tinier font. The X account for the Daily News’ unionized staff, @NYDNUnion, shared a post expressing the staff’s dismay at the front page spread. “This looks like an endorsement, but its not — the wood of the Daily News should not be for sale! Our staff was mortified to wake up to a front page covered by a deceptive political ad for two days straight,” the post reads. In the post, the staff goes on to slam Heath Freeman and his investment firm. Freeman is the President and Managing Director at Alden Global Capital, which owns the Daily News, having acquired the paper through its $633 million acquisition of the Tribune Publishing chain in 2021. “Shame on Heath Freeman and Alden for selling our good name for a buck,” the Daily News Union wrote. The move has also been widely slammed online, with LA Times media reporter Stephen Battaglio blasting the paper’s lack of standards via social media. “I know standards are now gone,” Battaglio wrote on X. “But a faux front page ad for a candidate? Not good @NYDailyNews.”The post NY Daily News Staff ‘Mortified’ at Paper Running ‘Deceptive’ Faux Front Page Political Endorsement: ‘Selling Our Good Name for a Buck’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - US official says JD Vance made ‘great progress’ in Iran talks, calls...
FIRST ON FOX: A U.S. official involved with the U.S.-Iran peace negotiations said that Vice President JD Vance made "great progress" in the talks, adding that "foreign propaganda" spread a falsehood that the prime minister of Qatar snubbed Vance.The U.S. official told Fox News Digital that Iranian state media originated reports of Vance being snubbed by the Qatari prime minister and Iranian leadership threatening to walk away from the negotiating table."The vice president and the U.S. delegation departed Switzerland today after making great progress and engaging in historic talks that lasted well into the late hours over the weekend," a U.S. official present at the talks told Fox News Digital. "The negotiations set the framework for continued talks so that the unmatched efforts of the president can lead to a deal that’s best for the American people.""Those parroting foreign propaganda serve no one except the bad faith actors that want to derail negotiations," the official added.IRAN'S UNPRECEDENTED 'WHOLE-REGIME' DELEGATION AT US DEAL TALKS SIGNALS ONE GOAL: EXPERTAs Vance and White House officials deliberated a peace agreement at the Bürgenstock resort on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, a CBS poll on Sunday showed that an overwhelming 78% of Americans say that the conflict between the U.S. and Iran should come to an end.Reports from Iranian state media created confusion about the progress of the peace talks in Switzerland, with critics alleging the Qataris snubbed Vance after Qatar's prime minister and chief negotiator, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, walked past Vance and warmly greeted Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif instead. "The U.S. delegation had just spent hours with the Qataris and there was no need to re-greet someone having just spent hours with," a U.S. official said. "The decision to give statements together before the meeting was done impromptu, which is why it wasn't a staged greeting."TRUMP AGAIN SAYS DEAL IS CLOSE, THEN CONFIRMS A LAST-MINUTE AGREEMENT WITH IRAN, BUT DETAILS STILL SECRETIn an interview today with Qatar’s official media outlet, Al Jazeera, Al Thani denied snubbing Vance, saying he had just spent hours with Vance and hadn’t yet greeted Sharif. He blamed the media for misrepresenting the encounter. "And they just made the issue too big," he said.Prospects of a peace agreement have already shown signs of life in the U.S., even without a final deal. The New York Times reported oil prices dipping on Monday amid expectations Vance would secure peace during… [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - Chamber CEO Scinta on 3-hour meeting with mayor and getting La Crosse “open fo...
La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Sam Scinta on his “Lord of the Rings”-length meeting with the mayor, the business climate in the community right now, and that port initiative announced last week. Listen live weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Find the pod on Spotify, Apple Podcast or here. Tune in on the WIZM app or on air at 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska) We began though with just a quick “What does the Chamber do?” as Scinta has been leading it now for the past nine months. Next, we talked about — what is more of a long game — the new Northern Grain Belts Ports Initiative and what it means for leveraging local waterways. After that, we spent the final half of the show deep diving into La Crosse Mayor Shaundel Washington-Spivey’s three-hour meeting with Chamber members last week. We break down what the meeting entailed and the “homework” to come out of it — like the push for a city administrator, a business concierge, zoning changes, and historic preservation reform. We wrap up looking at how La Crosse is faring right now when it comes to the overall business climate, why our unique transit hub gives us a leg up on Madison, and the Chamber’s possible future plans for a quarterly “La Crosse is Open for Business” series. The post Chamber CEO Scinta on 3-hour meeting with mayor and getting La Crosse “open for business” appeared first on WIZM 92.3FM 106.7FM 1410AM. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - First drug to delay onset of type 1 diabetes made available on NHS
The immunotherpay can give children and adults three extra years before they need to use insulin. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - How 100 Romanian hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-...For four days, dozens of Romanian hospitals went offline, as cyber-experts sought to defeat the hackers. [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago
- Chuck Todd Says the ‘Only Reason’ People Think Obama Is Liberal ‘Is Becaus...
Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said the “only reason” that people think former President Barack Obama is liberal is “because he’s Black.” Todd claimed Obama “radicalized the far right” in an appearance on Monday’s episode of the So What podcast with host Chris Cillizza. “The far right viewed Obama as some left winger when Obama was basically a degree more liberal than Bill Clinton,” Todd said. Cillizza agreed, calling Obama “temperamentally a moderate,” though “probably liberal on policy.” However, Todd pushed back on the latter. “What policy was he that liberal on, Chris?” he asked. “It’s one of the biggest—” Cillizza cut him off to offer up his own explanation with a chuckle: “It’s because he was Black.” “Thank you, the only reason people think he was liberal is because he’s Black,” Todd said. “Like it’s this, he governed more closely to George W. Bush than Donald Trump.” Todd was critical of Obama throughout his presidency. In 2014, after Obama announced he would not consider any executive action on immigration until after midterms, he joined Todd on Meet the Press for a grilling. “What do you tell the person that’s going to get deported before the election, that this decision was essentially made in your hopes of saving a Democratic Senate?” Todd pressed. “It looks like election year politics.”’ Last month, Cillizza and Todd came under fire when White House Communications Director Steven Cheung accused them of racism following remarks the two made on The Chuck ToddCast. “Is he a real person?” Todd said of Cheung. “If you told me Steven Cheung were like a creation of AI… I just don’t believe he actually exists. I don’t think I’ve ever physically seen him.” He added, “He’s so over-the-top. No actual human being with 10 seconds of political training would behave this way.” Watch above via X.The post Chuck Todd Says the ‘Only Reason’ People Think Obama Is Liberal ‘Is Because He’s Black’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago
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