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https://www.europesays.com/people/205630/ Anna Wintour Wanted the Bezos Back. But She Might Settle for the Clooneys #2027 #Amazon #AnnaWintour #Bezos #Galliano #GallianoAndCostumeInstitute #JeffBezos #JeffBezosAre #JohnGalliano #Lauren #LaurenSánchezBezos #TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #Wintour
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Jeff Bezos makes the implicit explicit in memo to Washington Post staff
Mega billionaire Jeff Bezos made news yesterday
by formally announcing the parameters of the Washington Post opinion section in clear ideological terms,
making explicit what has long been implicit in corporate mediaand, like then-New York Times opinion editor James Bennet did seven years ago when he said that the New York Times was
“pro-capitalism,”
effectively doing my job for me.⭐️“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars:
personal liberties and free markets,”
the Amazon founder and executive chairman wrote in an open letter to Post employees.“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
As I wrote in 2018 when Times opinion editor James Bennet said in a closed-door meeting with staffers that the Times was a “pro-capitalism” newspaper,
“Media criticism is, more often than not, a practice of inference:
seeing patterns and inferring from those patterns the political make-up of media.Occasionally, however, decision-makers from major media outlets come right out and openly declare their ideology.”
Bezos has done us a favor by removing the mystery and inference and cheeky “open debate” pretense from the process of inferring the ideological perimeters of corporate media and laid it all out bare.
Obviously this dictate is, in theory, limited to the opinion section, not the news section,
but those working on the other side of the firewall will no doubt take a hearty hint
––if they didn’t the last time Bezos explicitly interfered in the opinion output of the paper.The fact is that, compared to peer outlets, the Washington Post’s current national labor coverage, while by no means aggressively anti-capitalist, is robust and generally favorable to workers.
Reporters such as #Lauren #Kaori #Gurley
and #Jeff #Stein
and columnist #Perry #Bacon #Jr. have done excellent work
highlighting the plight of Amazon employees and those on the business end of US sanctions,
often in direct contradiction to Bezos’ bottom line and ideological preferences.While the Post’s local metro coverage, as I’ve documented, has often doubled as an Amazon lobbying front,
its national coverage has often remained independent of the billionaire’s direct control.Indeed, the Post’s newly anointed chief economics reporter #Jeff #Stein publicly criticized his boss yesterday morning,
writing on social media:
“Bezos declaration Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today
– makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage,
but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”
https://therealnews.com/jeff-bezos-makes-the-implicit-explicit-in-memo-to-washington-post-staff -
“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
(4/4)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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"At the end of March 2022 - when the Ministry of Social Development began regularly reporting these numbers - 285 people in 117 Hastings households were living in emergency accommodation.
At the end of September 2023, that was down to 66 people in 39 households - a 77 percent drop.
Officials put the success down to the district's place-based housing strategy, which was introduced as a pilot in 2019."
#Lauren Crimp, 2023
Wow! Good effort #Heretaunga!
