#Paul Farhi

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#december 2022 #2022 #articles #cbs #Andres Triay #Pat Milton #Margaret Brennan #Christina Ruffini #Steven Portnoy #Arden Farhi #prisoner exchange #brittney griner #russia #viktor bout #(i swear this felt like the only article i could find that wasn't more about paul whelan)

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Well, perhaps he can clear up at least one tiny mystery of several decades standing: What exactly is McCartney's maddening lyric in "Live and Let Die"? Is it, "In this ever-changing world in which we live in"? Or "in which we're living"? McCartney considers and seems genuinely puzzled. "Yeah, good question," he says. "It's kind of ambivalent, isn't it? . . . Um . . . I think it's 'in which we're living.'" He starts to sing to himself: "'In this ever changing world. . .' It's funny. There's too many 'ins.' I'm not sure. I'd have to have actually look. I don't think about the lyric when I sing it. I think it's 'in which we're living.' 'In which we're living.' Or it could be 'in which we live in.' And that's kind of, sort of, wronger but cuter. That's kind of interesting. 'In which we live in.' In which we live in! I think it's 'In which we're living.' " Ah, thanks, mate. Clears things right up.

– Paul Farhi Interviews Former Beatle Paul McCartney on Past and Future Music (July, 2009)

#paul mccartney #fiona.docx #reader hes hilarious #paul #ref #09

[comeonamericawakeup]

Local iournalism's "ever-deteriorating financial condition" has left small-town newspapers vulnerable to official intimidation, said Paul Farhi. When faced with potentially unflattering investigatory news stories, corrupt public officials often "bully the press because they believe they can get away with it." Too often, they do.

Their strong-arm tactics occasionally make national headlines, such as when the Marion, Kan., police chief ordered a raid of the newsroom of the Marion County Record and the home of its publisher last August, which so upset the 98-year-old co-owner she died the next day. In another recent case, an Alabama county district attorney charged a reporter and the publisher of the Atmore News with violating a state secrecy law. Most of the roughly 1,000 reports of arrests, intimidation, and physical attacks on local journalists since 2017 have flown under the radar. Small-town weeklies struggling to survive are "easy prey for opportunistic or aggressive elected officials," because they don't "have pockets deep enough for a prolonged legal battle." This has a chilling effect on investigatory and watchdog journalism. "The true cost of media intimidation" often consists of "stories never pursued."

MARCH 22, 2024

#vote blue #us politics

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January 30, 2024

By Paul Farhi

(The Atlantic) -- For a few hours last Tuesday, the entire news business seemed to be collapsing all at once. Journalists at Time magazine and National Geographic announced that they had been laid off. Unionized employees at magazines owned by Condé Nast staged a one-day strike to protest imminent cuts. By far the grimmest news was from the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper west of the Washington, D.C., area. After weeks of rumors, the paper announced that it was cutting 115 people, more than 20 percent of its newsroom.

The Times was once a pillar of the American media establishment, celebrated in David Halberstam’s classic media study, The Powers That Be. Now it has become a national exemplar of what the journalist Margaret Sullivan calls the “ghosting” of the news—the gradual withering of news-gathering muscle as once-proud publications become shadows of their old selves. The biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong looked like a savior when he bought the Times from its cost-cutting corporate parent in 2018. For a few years, he was; Soon-Shiong invested about $1 billion, by his count, to build up the depleted organization. But he turned out to have his limits. Facing mounting losses, in June last year the Times dropped 74 people from its newsroom. Last week’s even bigger blow was foreshadowed by managerial turmoil: Three top editors, including the executive editor Kevin Merida, resigned just before the news came down. “I won’t fault him for being unwilling to write checks,” Matt Pearce, a Times reporter who is head of the newspaper’s union, told me, referring to Soon-Shiong. But, he added, “we don’t seem to have a clear theory of the case as a business. We need to execute on a strategy. And we don’t have one.” (Soon-Shiong declined to comment for this article.)

The decline of the legacy news media has been playing out for decades, exacerbated most recently by the advent of the internet and the explosion of digital platforms, especially the ad-revenue-gobbling tech giants Google and Meta. Even when the ad-supported model of journalism still worked, the history of American media was punctuated by periods of dramatic expansion and contraction, often coinciding with the arrival of new technologies. The latest round of cuts, however, represents a grim new milestone. The Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, NPR, Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among others, have shed hundreds of journalists over the past year. (Disclosure: I’m one of them. In December, I took a buyout from The Washington Post.)No corner of national media seems unaffected. Even Condé Nast’s The New Yorker magazine, heretofore seemingly impervious, announced a numerically insignificant but symbolically freighted staff cut in December. All told, job losses among print-, digital-, and broadcast-news organizations grew by nearly 50 percent during 2023, according to the consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

#journalism #United States #Los ANgeles Times #Time magazine #National Geographic #Condé Nast #The New Yorker #The Denver Post #The Atlantic

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Regalo bombones domicilio

Está bien dar regalos de Navidad como cestas, queso, joyas, impresiones artísticas, jarrones, novelas y productos para la salud y la belleza. Pero durante la temporada navideña, si hay algo que todos anhelan, es chocolate de alta calidad, por eso siempre incluyo un poco en mis regalos.

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Después de todo, después de que se haya comido el almuerzo y todos se hayan sentado en el sofá para ver la televisión el día de Navidad, a todos nos gusta un pedacito de chocolate para mantener vivo el espíritu navideño.

Las 19 mejores canastas de regalos navideños disponibles este año se enumeran a continuación.

Y este año, como siempre, puedes encontrar una gran cantidad de deliciosas opciones de chocolate. No puede equivocarse con Pierre Marcolini, Farhi o Green & Black para una caja familiar confiable. Nuestros lugares favoritos para golosinas artesanales que son perfectas para rellenar medias son Yard, Brik y Cartografie Chocolate. Hay algo para todos los amantes del chocolate entre los troncos navideños de Paul, los brownies de buzón de Exploding Bakery y las degustaciones virtuales de Melt London.

Encontramos cestas de regalo veganas, chocolate con CBD y barras para salvar la selva tropical. Si está buscando el chocolate navideño ideal, siga leyendo...

El regalo navideño más delicioso es el Sombrero de Papá Noel de Chocolate con Leche Läderach Barry. Come una barra de chocolate con leche con sombrero de Papá Noel de Barry's. Barry the Saint Bernard, relleno con la mejor gianduja de avellanas, es una delicia de chocolate apta para la temporada navideña. Decorado para la temporada navideña con los mejores chocolates blancos y con leche suiza y un sombrero de Papá Noel rojo mazapán.

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Nolte: Atlantic Contributor Wants Taxpayers to Save Media from ‘Extinction Level Event’ https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/01/30/nolte-atlantic-contributor-wants-taxpayers-save-media-extinction-level-event/

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Which Journalists Are the 'Professionals'?

By: Tim Graham Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi is the most recent example of a journalist who sounds like his own colleagues are the “professionals” and the writers without the classic Old Media branding are the “non-pros,” people who don’t have standards. Farhi began by tweeting: “Someone invented the phrase ‘citizen journalism’ a few years ago to describe amateurs doing the work of…

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#LIBERAL MEDIA

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Full fascist Trump condemned after treason rant against NBC and MSNBC

Paul Farhi, media reporter for the Washington Post, pointed to Trump’s symbiotic relationship with outlets he professes to hate, given that only last week Trump was “the featured interview guest last week on Meet the Press, the signature Sunday morning news program on … NBC”

Juliette Kayyem: “To view each of Trump’s calls to violence in isolation – ‘he attacked Milley’ or ‘he attacked NBC’ or ‘he attacked the jury, the prosecutor, the judge’ – is to miss his overall plan to introduce violence as a natural extension of our democratic disagreement.”

#fascism #trump #republicans #Republican #nbc #msnbc #comcast #treason #meet the press

[otiskeene]

The AI Revolution: Solidus AI Tech Announces New High Performance Data Center

Led by visionary Paul Farhi, Solidus AI Tech is disrupting the AI landscape through the integration of blockchain technology. Their state-of-the-art data center in Bucharest drives B2B solutions while their AI-powered innovations in healthcare, transportation, and beyond are set to transform industries. Partnering with CertiK ensures their smart contracts' resilience and protection, solidifying Solidus AI Tech's position as the highest-rated unreleased project.

Read More - https://www.techdogs.com/tech-news/business-wire/the-ai-revolution-solidus-ai-tech-announces-new-high-performance-data-center

#Solidus AI #Blockchain Technology

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All presidents avoid reporters, but Biden may achieve a record in dodging the press

This caricature of Joe Biden, by Flickr user DonkeyHotey, was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the U.S. Secretary of Defense's Flickr photostream. (Credit: flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/)

There’s nothing new about presidents avoiding the press. Bill Clinton was in a major scandal – based in large part on getting caught in a deception during a media interview – and successfully outsourced his White House press briefings to legal counsel to avoid having his press secretary or himself trapped by tough media questioning. Barack Obama campaigned on being the most transparent president in history and then prosecuted reporters as criminals. But well into the third year of Joe Biden’s presidency, he has held fewer press conferences than any president in recent memory.

There’s a reason that Biden – and all the other presidents – want to avoid the press: While democracy may demand such accountability from a president, press conferences definitely are risky for them.

Avoidance becomes the norm

It took Biden until late March 2021 to hold his first press conference, more than two months after his inauguration – the longest a new president had gone without holding a press conference in 100 years.

During Biden’s first year in office, he held a total of 10 press conferences. Most of those featured him reading prepared remarks and then leaving without taking questions from reporters. When he does take questions, he tends to call on only preselected reporters from – in his own words – “a list I’ve been given.”

As a scholar of political communication and public relations, I have found through my research that public figures such as celebrities and sports stars in the age of social media are no longer concerned with answering reporters’ questions, holding press conferences or giving interviews.

Why should LeBron James care about reporters when he can share his unfiltered opinions freely and instantly with his 146 million Instagram followers and his 53 million Twitter followers?

Donald Trump brought this perspective to the country’s highest office, tweeting about the presidency and ignoring and insulting reporters to their faces. While Biden doesn’t trash the press the way Trump did, he hardly speaks to the public.

The White House press secretary routinely refuses to answer reporters’ questions. Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote in January 2023 that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly responded to questions about classified documents found in Biden’s home and former office “by essentially not responding.”

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Fox News settles

Fox News settles defamation lawsuit with Dominion for $787.5 million (washingtonpost.com) 18 April 2023, 6pm Eastern By Jeremy Barr, Elahe Izadi, Patrick Marley, Amy B Wang, Azi Paybarah and Matthew Brown

WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday for $787.5 million, according to an attorney for the voting technology company, representing a stunning conclusion to one of the most-watched media trials in decades. The judge dismissed jurors just hours after they had been selected. Dominion sued for $1.6 billion over allegations that Fox defamed the voting company by either knowingly or recklessly airing false claims tying voting machines to a conspiracy to undermine the 2020 presidential election. Some of Fox’s biggest stars and executives were expected to testify in the trial that was expected to test the limits of U.S. libel law...

$787.5 million defamation settlement is among the highest ever (washingtonpost.com) By Paul Farhi

Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems may be the largest ever in a defamation case, although it’s difficult to know for certain because settlements are often confidential.

The highest known defamation settlement before this involved the Walt Disney Co. paying $177 million to a South Dakota meat processor in 2017 to settle the company’s claim that Disney-owned ABC News had defamed it in a 2012 news report by calling one of its meat products “pink slime.” However, Disney disclosed only what it paid to settle the case; its insurers did not reveal if they paid more.

The Fox-Dominion settlement was “the highest defamation settlement that I can recall,” attorney Charles Harder said Tuesday, noting the confidentiality of some agreements. As the lawyer for Hulk Hogan in his 2015 case against Gawker Media, Harder helped the pro wrestler win a $140 million judgment and force Gawker into bankruptcy.

The settlement with Dominion was characteristic of Fox and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, who has a history of paying settlements to make accusations of misconduct go away before they reach trial. Fox is known to have paid $750 million in settlements over the past 13 years — not counting the whopping bill it just agreed to today....

In one way, this is impressive -- seriously, that is one massive settlement. There are several very small countries that don’t have a GNP that large, I think.

On the other hand, it would have been nice to see Fox get publicly raked over the coals even more than it has for this mess. It would also have been interesting -- though possibly in a somewhat horrifying way -- to see what the limits of libel and defamation law dictate. After all, Fox News staff did repeat statements -- on air -- that they flatly knew to be untrue. The question would be, was there actual malice involved? And it would not be difficult, given the facts currently out there, to think that a jury would actually go that direction. For that matter, the more conservative of the Supreme Court have been just itching to loosen libel and defamation law and make it easier to sue and win; would they have done so with a case involving their favorite conservative megaphone? You have to think it would have made a few of them just a bit twitchy.

I am astonished that Fox News will not have to acknowledge on-air that it lied. You’d think that Dominion would have pushed to go to trial to force that, given that the statements made on-air are what’s at issue. I wonder why they didn’t?

Also worth noting: a company called Smartmatic, which also does voting machines, has a lawsuit pending against Fox News for $2.7 billion. (theguardian.com) Give this precedent, one suspects that Fox will settle again. It will be fascinating to see what that settlement and its terms winds up being.

I also wonder what Fox pays for its libel insurance. I mean, counting today’s settlement, they are known to have paid approximately $1.5 BILLION in settlements, according to the Post. At a certain point, it does seem like most companies who insure that sort of thing would say, “Yo, dawg, we’re out. You’re on your own for the next one. This is too rich for our blood.” One suspects that they have premiums commensurate with the demonstrated risks, at least.

#fox news #dominion voting systems #smartmatic #lawsuit #libel #libel law #defamation #defamation law #defamation lawsuit

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NBC retracts Paul Pelosi’s flawed story that fueled conspiracy theories

NBC retracts Paul Pelosi’s flawed story that fueled conspiracy theories

Media The folks at the network said the “Today” report was based on “unreliable” information from a source that was not named in the story. The home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi in San Francisco. Jeff Chiu/AP By Paul Farhi, Washington Post November 5, 2022 | 2:24 p.m. NBC News reporter Miguel Almaguer got what seemed like a scoop Friday on an intruder’s attack…

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“... Henry Miller, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, said Oz had “either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both.” They cited a “Dr. Oz Show” episode in 2011 in which investigators claimed apple juice contained unsafe levels of arsenic. The Food and Drug Administration disputed the findings and said the report was misleading. (Asked about Oz’s latest coronavirus comments, Miller replied, “Sorry, but I have better things to do — like cleaning my fingernails — than watching Oz or discussing him.”)

#FireDrOz #sean hannity #fox news #coronavirus response #COVID-19 #hydroxychloroquine #stay the fuck home #wapo #the washington post #paul farhi #elahe izadi #dr. anthony s. fauci #medicine

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April 2005 L’Uomo Vogue photos Satoshi Saikusa fashion editor Giovanna Battaglia

#l'uomo vogue #satoshi saikusa #giovanna battaglia #paul smith #2005 #2000s #polo ralph lauren #ghirardelli #moschino #nicole farhi #missoni #burberry #coast weber ahaus #z zegna #daniele alessandrini #alessandro dell'acqua

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The American mainstream media is throwing a classic tantrum over President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. We've got the hastily-assembled pieces telling the story of what happened in elaborate detail, "hard-hitting" interviews, thousands of op-eds, and cable news coverage so obsessive and breathless that even MSNBC barely interrupted Afghanistan coverage to mention that a Trump-supporting terrorist with an apparent truck bomb was threatening to blow up the Capitol building on Thursday. (Conservative white terrorists don't really count, it seems.)

At a White House press conference Friday, reporters pressed Biden with highly unusual aggressiveness. The American mainstream press, particular its television outlets, just can't quit the forever war.

As Judd Legum writes at Popular Information, big outlets have almost exclusively turned to critics of the Afghanistan withdrawal in their coverage, and in virtually every case people who supported the invasion and occupation. A public relations specialist told Popular Information that TV bookers were straight-up refusing to have anyone on who supports the decision to withdraw. Indeed, as Eric Alterman writes at The American Prospect, many people now being given a platform to hector Biden about his supposed failures were not only directly involved in the catastrophically bungled occupation but were revealed in The Washington Post's "Afghanistan Papers" to have blatantly lied to the public about how well it was going. The Post itself is not innocent either — a recent David Ignatius op-ed compared Biden's team ending a war to the infamous Vietnam-era "best and the brightest" who started one.

It goes without saying that until this outbreak of hysterics, the mainstream media had almost totally ignored Afghanistan for the last decade. Nobody except a handful of intemperate critics read the dozens of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reports showing the occupation was a cataclysmic disaster through and through. The main evening news programs on broadcast TV spent a grand total of five minutes combined on the country in 2020, and even before the pandemic barely more than that. As Jim Lobe writes at Responsible Statecraft, "the three networks devoted a total of only 362 minutes to Afghanistan in the preceding five years, or just two hours of coverage per network, or an average of only 24 minutes per network per year."

It seems the media thinks it's fine to flush trillions of dollars down the toilet and get hundreds of thousands of people killed in a spectacularly doomed occupation, so long as the brutality is relatively easy to ignore.

It's not immediately obvious what explains a bias that is this extreme and widespread. Probably a number of factors are to blame. There is typical imperial chauvinism — the belief in American exceptionalism not only in thinking it is best country on Earth, but also that it has the right and ability to meddle in other countries' affairs whenever it wants.

Then there is the fact that a large fraction of purportedly "neutral" reporters have decided to brand themselves as hysterically pro-Troop — a tendency that got much stronger after 9/11. Every Veteran's Day and Memorial Day, you see a lot of normally buttoned-down reporters posting maudlin Twitter threads or Facebook posts appreciating American soldiers for their Heroic Sacrifice. (A recurring joke in lefty Twitter is baiting these folks into retweeting pictures of non-soldiers — like Chapo Trap House co-host Felix Biederman — or war criminals.) Some reporters have gotten so deep into instinctive troop worship that they can question basic principles of democracy like civilian control of the military, seemingly without even noticing. Here's CNN's chief national security correspondent:

Too many times, I’ve witnessed the US military attempt to dutifully carry out difficult & dangerous missions left to them by the miscalculations of civilian leaders.

Then there is the instinctive desire to appear "neutral." Mainstream outlets were extremely uncomfortable with the fact that, during the Trump presidency, simply reporting the news meant criticizing Republicans virtually nonstop. Therefore, anytime a Democrat does something that seems even mildly objectionable, they perform shrieking outrage so as to demonstrate their nonpartisan bona fides.

Finally, there is the fact that wars are extremely profitable for a small group of elites with deep connections to the press. Much of the tens of billions of dollars in occupation money was gobbled up by corrupt defense contractors who turned in shoddy work or straight-up fleeced the taxpayer. These contractors have hired dozens of former military officers who then go on television without disclosing that they have a direct financial interest in the conflicts they invariably advocate prolonging. In 2008, David Barstow at The New York Times found dozens of instances of this; Laura Bassett at HuffPost found the same thing in 2010; the Public Accountability Initiative found the same thing again in 2013; Lee Fang at The Nation found the same thing again in 2014; Paul Farhi at The Washington Post found the same thing again in 2020; and The Intercept found the same thing yet again over the last few days. Troop worship means that corrupt former generals get to ignore fundamental journalistic ethics.

Luckily, there are some signs that the American people are more-or-less sympathetic with President Biden's argument that withdrawal was a painful necessity. Despite an entire week of foghorn blast jingoist propaganda on every channel, a recent poll still found that 62 percent of Americans think the war was not worth fighting. I suspect if Biden continues to defend his position, most voters will conclude he did what he had to do.

note that that’s down from 73% in april prior to the onslaught

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#on the Trump years #Michael Wolff Tells a Juicy Tale in His New Trump Book. But Should We Believe It? #author: Paul Farhi #Washington Post #Fire and Fury #article kinda makes Wolff sound a bit like Trump #but articulate #and without the knee-jerk insecurites #book's gonna be a bestseller methinks #article link