Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
The Trump administration is mandating that any studies or data from scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency undergo review by political appointees before they can be released to the public. It said scientific studies should eventually be communicated to the public, the media and Congress ?uncompromised by political or other interference?. The EPA?s 14-page scientific integrity document, enacted during the Obama administration, describes how scientific studies were to be conducted and reviewed in the agency. Former EPA staffers said on Wednesday the restrictions imposed under Trump far exceed the practices of past administrations. ?Scientific studies would be reviewed at the level of a branch or a division or laboratory,? said Gray, now professor of public health at George Washington University.
?We have to spray gasoline on North Korea, and let the North Korean people set fire to it.?Thae, 54, has said publicly that dissatisfaction with Kim prompted him to flee his post. Thae has said more North Korean diplomats are waiting in Europe to defect to South Korea. North and South Korea are technically still at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. North Korea?s elite is outwardly expressing its discontent towards Kim Jong-un and his government as more outside information trickles into the isolated nation, the country?s former deputy ambassador to London has said. Thae Yong-ho defected to South Korea in August last year and since December has been speaking to media and appearing on television to discuss his defection and his life as a North Korean envoy.
In addition to Duca?s gaslight story, Teen Vogue reports that a series on the Standing Rock pipeline protests, ?Ask a Native American Girl,? generated more than 8 million views on Facebook. It received widespread praise, including from veteran broadcaster Dan Rather, who described Teen Vogue as one of journalism?s ?surprising new sources of serious reporting? on his Facebook page after reading Duca?s dispatch. In a forceful commentary, Duca argued that Trump, through dissembling and contradictory claims, was responsible for undermining democracy. So then there?s no accountability.?Duca owes her growing reputation to a piece she wrote in December entitled ?Donald Trump is gaslighting America?. ?Donald Trump proved the old guard in the party or in the media weren?t enough to stop him.
Donald Trump and Aung San Suu Kyi have more in common than you might think. After all, Ms Suu Kyi is still new in office and constitutionally does not control the army or police. Now Ms Suu Kyi is in power, things are rather different. The problem is that Ms Suu Kyi could stop the inflammatory propaganda. "Verification challengesThe problem for Ms Suu Kyi is that it is more than just rumours.