NYT's David Brooks writes about the age of the strong man in his latest op-ed:
Over the past few years especially, we have entered the age of strong men. We are leaving the age of Obama, Cameron and Merkel and entering the age of Putin, Erdogan, el-Sisi, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump...
...According to a study published in The Journal of Democracy, the share of young Americans who say it is absolutely important to live in a democratic country has dropped from 91 percent in the 1930s to 57 percent today.
Google is planning to put an ad blocker in its Chrome web browser, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The blocker would filter out ads that are deemed intrusive based on standards that have been mapped out by a third-party group called the Coalition for Better Ads, which includes some of the biggest advertising heavyweights, like Facebook, Google, Group M, Procter and Gamble and The Washington Post.
Why it matters: If Google decides to move forward with implementing the technology, one of the biggest advertising-funded companies would get to decide through one of its own products which ads can be viewed.
President Trump is calling out the NYT again, this time for a misleading tweet about the New England Patriots White House visit.
In one sentence: The NYT sports account tweeted pics of the Patriots visits from 2015 and 2017, only to have the Patriots themselves point out the Times was making an unfair comparison, as staff were positioned differently in the two different shots.
After Bill O'Reilly's firing from Fox News yesterday, the former host stands to receive an exit payout of up to $25 million — the equivalent of one year of his salary — from the network, per the NYT.
O'Reilly signed a new deal with Fox News through the 2020 election earlier this year, but the network was already aware of his percolating sexual harassment scandal. The new contract allowed Fox News to cut ties with O'Reilly if new harassment allegations came to light and limited a potential exit payout to a year's worth of his salary.
[T]he Jake Tapper WTF Face [is] that unique look through which he transmits his seeming disbelief and outrage... There is the JTWTFF that is a mere frown ... a hood over his downward-turning, disappointed eyes... My favorite Jake Tapper WTF Face is the one where his eyebrows arch but also corrugate into small bowl-shaped caterpillars...
Tapper allows an incredulousness, and maybe even a smidge of disgust, to sneak on through. In those moments, when he augments the standard newsman persona to include his own come-off-it realness, he has a way of embodying all of us.
