Facebook launched Thursday FB Newswire, billed as an online trove of real-time information for journalists and newsrooms to mine while reporting on events or crafting stories.
In partnership with News Corp-owned Storyful, FB Newswire aggregates newsworthy content shared publicly at the social network, including original pictures, videos, and comments posted by “people on the front lines of major events” such as protests, elections and sports matches.
“News is finding a bigger audience on Facebook than ever before,” Facebook director of global media partnership Andy Mitchell said in a blog post. “Journalists and media organizations have become an integral part of Facebook.”
The California-based social network has been ramping up features for real-time sharing and communicating in a challenge to Twitter, which has become a globally used platform for instantly sharing information about current events.
FB Newswire can be reached at facebook.com/FBNewswire and at Twitter account @FBNewswire.
It’s not enough that Governor Chris Christie is not going to make a full contribution to the state’s public worker pension system, despite promising to do so as a result of his signing the pension and benefits bill in 2011. And it’s also not enough that he continues to blame public workers for the state’s economic and fiscal messes.
It’s far too much, though, for him to blame cuts in cancer research and other programs on the fact that the state’s pension obligation would take too much money out of the budget. Yes, it’s politics. Yes, it’s a tactic to deflect interest and attention away fro the George Washington Bridge scandal, and yes, it’s not beneath a man who will say anything to become 2016-relevant again. But this kind of class warfare is disgraceful.
Blaming public workers and asking them to pay more for their pensions, which would take money out of the economy at a time when he should be stimulating it, continues Christie’s consistent failures on the economy. He could instead be asking the wealthy to pay more to help bail out the state. He could have approved the third railroad tunnel between New York and New Jersey, which would have provided jobs and a needed infrastructure project. He could have raised the nation’s lowest gasoline tax, which not only would have provided funds but would have sent a message that it’s time for New Jersey’s drivers to economize for the environment.
But no. New Jerseyans are stuck with a governor who hasn’t a clue about how to successfully grow an economy and invest in education. All he has is a surplus of bluster, and that we don’t need.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Steven Colbert explores the “love” of country as professed by Sean Hannity of Fox News. I mean come on, anyone professing their love for anything this much must be looked upon as suspect, like he’s trying too hard, like he’s trying to hide his true intentions.
Oh, and this was from 2008, when a Republican was still in office. His love for country seems to be on hold now that a Democrat is charge.
Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy has come out along with actor Liam Neeson to support keeping New York City’s famous horse-drawn carriages as Mayor Bill De Blasio seeks to ban the industry.
Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni took their young daughter Giulia in one of the carriages for a ride through Central Park on Wednesday.
When asked if he thinks the carriages should stay, Sarkozy offered up an enthusiastic ‘yes’, the New York Daily News reports.
You all know the story that the New York Times broke, a brand new story that showed Cliven Bundy to be an in your face racist. Fox News, as I’m sure you know, has been defending Bundy from day one, with multiple interviews on the so-called “news” network and promoting his story as if he’s the second coming of Christ. But since the Times story broke, Fox News has avoided the story like it’s the plague.
Today, Fox tried to avoid Bundy and continue their usual talking points sharing any and all stories about Obama and what they think are Obama’s failures. They had a panel and a topic – The Keystone Pipeline and the fact that Obama is not working fast enough to approve the darn thing.
Among the panelists was Joe Trippi, a non apologetic Democrat who, after making his statement on the Pipeline tried to throw in a comparison to the racist Cliven Bundy, but before he could finish his statement, the Fox Host was tripping all over herself trying to keep the story from getting out to their Fox audience.
Trippi pointed out that delays in approving the pipeline were connected to a court case in Nebraska.
“And the same people, by the way, who argue about Bundy ranch that the feds are coming in…” was all that Trippi could say before being cut off by Carlson.
“Alright, let’s not bring that into this discussion,” she said reflexively. “I don’t want to bring that into this discussion!”
At that point, she turned to the conservative guest to get the segment back on track.
Bet you’ve never seen something like this before. Only Jimmy Fallon from The Tonight Show can come up with such originality.
Fallon asked people their opinion about a topic of the day – in this case, equal pay. But he didn’t allow them to just answer the question, no, that would be too easy. Fallon asked the participants to dance their answers.
I’m beginning to think that people call into his CBN show with made up scenarios just to hear what Pat Robertson would say.
In the latest episode of What Would Pat Robertson Say Next, a viewer shared his problem. His wife was not putting out. The viewer was obviously concerned about his relationship with his wife and wanted some help from Robertson – Sidenote: I’ll say that was the viewer’s first mistake, thinking the 400 year old Robertson could tell him on what to do to arouse his wife sexually.
Robertson however, had an answer, and I’m almost shocked he didn’t blame Obama for the man’s problems. He did however, blame the woman for probably being molested as a child and told the man that if his wife is not giving it to him, then that is grounds for divorce!
I don’t know what’s wrong with your wife, whether she’s got some psychological problems, whether she was molested as a child . . .She really wants intimacy. . . but at the same time she doesn’t want to come together and consummate. That’s grounds for divorce.”
And now it’s all coming together. If you were wondering why Fox News and Republican leaders like Rick Perry were so adamant in their support for the land stealing, law breaking rancher from Nevada, maybe this little nugget from the New York Times could explain their undying support.
In an interview with the Times, Cliven Bundy explained a few things that allowed us to see exactly who the man is and why his appeal with right-wingers is so strong.
One of those identifiers is his vast knowledge of the “negros” and his willingness to share that knowledge with the rest of the world.
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
Court records show that Bundy owes around $1 million dollars in fees to the government for illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands. Despite being warned to remove his cattle and pay the fines, Bundy continued grazing on the lands for another 20 years without paying what he owed, and today he has extended his illegal grazing to include even more federally owned lands.
In other words, Bundy is a taker, a moocher who is robbing taxpaying Americans and making huge profits along the way. He is a law breaker who is fattening his wallet on the government’s dime. But still, he has the nerve to broadcast his dumb stereotype about an entire group of people, insinuating that black people sit on their porch all day, waiting for their government handouts. You know, the same underlying message Fox News push in their media outlets, the same message Congressional Republicans include in their policies – be afraid of the lazy black people coming to take your staff!
Now we see why they agree with Bundy’s law-breaking ways. Birds of a feather I guess…
It’s official. Jody Foster and her girlfriend are married.
The 51-year-old Oscar winner wed girlfriend Alexandra Hedison over the weekend, Foster’s publicist confirmed Wednesday. Jennifer Allen offered no other details.
E! was the first to report that Foster tied the knot with Hedison, a 44-year-old photographer based in Los Angeles.
It’s the first marriage for Foster, who came out publicly in a rambling, heartfelt speech at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards, where she accepted lifetime achievement honors.
How can we as a nation move forward, when our leaders are siding with criminals instead of the law as interpreted by our courts.
It is okay if Sean Hannity on Fox News insist that Cliven Bundy is correct in refusing to obey multiple court orders, but when Republican governors take that very same position, then the criminals have won.
Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry is now convinced that taking up arms against government employees trying to enforce a court order, is the right thing to do.
In a recent interview on Fox News, Rick Perry said that Cliven Bundy were force into picking up arms against BLM workers because the Bureau of Land Management were acting outside the law. Yes, the same law that authorized them through a court order to take the steps they took when they began confiscating Bundy’s cattle.
Said Perry;
Well, here’s here’s the bigger issue…I have a problem with the federal government putting citizens in the position of having to feel like they have to use force to deal with their own government. That’s the bigger issue.
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