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To: Mrjns who wrote (90146)	8/29/2018 9:00:51 AM
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TYTDEATHWATCH->Young Turks Slashes Staff, Drops Entertainment Programming Layoffs come just two months after some of the channel’s most senior on-air talent including Nomiki Konst and Hannah Cranston were let go Jon Levine \| August 28, 2018 @ 4:27 PMLast Updated: August 28, 2018 @ 5:13 PM YouTube The Young Turks slashed more staff this week and ended a number of their non-political programs, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to TheWrap on Tuesday. Among the shows hit were “What The Flick” co-hosted by TheWrap reviews editor Alonso Duralde, “Pop Trigger,” and “Nerd Alert.” The company declined to say how many employees were affected, but a different individual with knowledge of situation tells TheWrap that at least 15 people were affected in the latest layoffs, and that since June the company has let approximately 25 people go. According to the individual, morale is low as the have layoffs affected studio employees such as editors, crew and members of TYT’s publishing team, as well as entertainment hosts and producers. The latest cuts come less than two months after the network ousted some of the channel’s most senior on-air talent including Nomiki Konst and Hannah Cranston. Also Read: Young Turks Network Sheds Senior Employees in Staff Shakeup Reps for the company at Sunshine Sachs declined to provide a statement to TheWrap, instead directing us to a statement it provided to the website Tubefilter about the layoffs. “TYT Network made programming changes that resulted in retiring entertainment shows in order to double down and focus on being the Home of Progressives. These entertainment shows had a great run and we will miss them. We want to thank every host and producer, past and present, for their hard work and dedication,” the statement to Tubefilter read. “At TYT, the Home of Progressives, we are energized by our renewed focus on the news and politics coverage that has dominated the network. It is more important now than ever to channel our resources and hold the establishment accountable.” “A statement from TYT on this is public. We won’t have further comment,” said a spokesperson. “Tubefilter covered.” The cutbacks are the latest bad news for a company that was flying high just one year ago. In August, 2017 the Young Turks raised $20 million in a round of funding led by Hollywood mogul, Jeffrey Katzenberg. Since that time, the company has been rocked not only by cutbacks, but also scandals including revelations about old blog posts from founder Cenk Uygur in which he said women were genetically “flawed” because they didn’t want to have sex with him enough. He later apologized for his comments, telling TheWrap they no longer reflect his views and that he made them while he was a “conservative.” Cenk’s nephew Hasan Piker also drew fire for old videos of his short lived series “bro tip” which aimed to teach men how to pick up women. Among the comments in the segment was Piker’s advice that, “It’s time to separate her from her herd, meaning her crowd of girlfriends who are going to do their best to c—block you because they’re fat and lonely.” thewrap.com

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President Trump Taunts Florida Democrats for Nominating Socialist Andrew Gillum President Donald Trump celebrated Wednesday that the Republican nominee for Florida governor was facing a radical socialist in the election. “Not only did Congressman Ron DeSantis easily win the Republican Primary, but his opponent in November is his biggest dream,” Trump marveled on Twitter. “A failed Socialist Mayor named Andrew Gillum who has allowed crime & many other problems to flourish in his city.” Gillum surprised the Democrat establishment in Flordia with a primary victory. He was endorsed by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and ran on a platform of universal health care, a $15 an hour minimum wage, abolishing ICE, and repealing Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” gun defense law. “This is not what Florida wants or needs!” Trump wrote on Twitter. ...

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WSJ: Five Republican Senators Met With Sessions, Urged Him Not to Quit - WHY DID SESSIONS INVITE THE MOST ANTI-TRUMP SENATORS? GOOGLE THEIR NAMES WITH TRUMP AND THEY ALL HAVE NASTY THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE PRESIDENT, AND HIS POLICIES. TILLIS HAS SOME PRO-MUELLER STORIES. NewsMax - Wall Street Journal ^ \| 29 August 2018 \| Jason Devaney Five Republican senators had breakfast with Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week and encouraged him to not resign despite constant pressure from President Donald Trump. According to The Wall Street Journal, >>>Sessions invited<<< Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and John Kennedy of Louisiana to dine with him last Thursday morning at the Department of Justice. The meeting took place in Sessions' dining room and included a lengthy discussion about Trump's repeated attacks on him. The senators, according to the Journal, urged Sessions to keep doing what he's...

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Christopher Steele Reportedly Worked For Sanctioned Russian Oligarch 1:15 PM 08/29/2018 Chuck Ross \| Reporter Dossier author Christopher Steele worked as a subcontractor for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin, according to a new report Steele facilitated a meeting in September 2015 between Deripaska and DOJ official Bruce Ohr, according to The Hill Steele’s links to Deripaska have been one of the more puzzling aspects of the Trump-Russia probe Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump dossier, worked as a contractor for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and facilitated a meeting between the billionaire and Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr. Deripaska’s law firm hired Steele’s private intelligence group, Orbis Business Intelligence, in 2012 to conduct research for Deripaska as part of a lawsuit against the billionaire, according to The Hill. Steele, a former MI6 officer with experience in Moscow, also facilitated a meeting in September 2015 between Deripaska and Ohr, the Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier. FBI agents attended the meeting, which was aimed at getting Deripaska to provide information for organized crime investigations. cont... dailycaller.com

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This Angered Media the Most About Google Bias Report Journalist who wrote story on anti-Trump search results says it was the depiction of news sources as left wing that drew the hottest reactions lifezette.com By Brendan Kirby \| Wednesday, August 29, 2018 A journalist whose story on Google search results on President Donald Trump provoked a mini-firestorm said Wednesday that it was not the substance of the report, itself, that drew the most hostile reaction. Paula Bolyard, supervising editor at PJ Media, said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that it was her characterization of media organizations that appear most often in Trump searches as “liberal” news sources. “The thing they’re most angry about is that I used a chart to determine left- and right-wing sites from [journalist] Sharyl Attkisson. And they’re all left of center on Sharyl’s chart,” she said. “So, they’re outraged that their beloved New York Times is considered left of center. They’re outraged that CNN is considered left of center. They just cannot accept the fact that they are biased media outlets, and they’re furious about that. They’ve been fuming for two days about that,” Bolyard said. - MORE EVIDENCE OF LIBTARD DETACHMENT FROM REALITY. THEY THINK NY TIMES AND CNN ARE UNBIASED. Several news organizations questioned the integrity of Attkisson, a former CNN anchor who later covered national politics and government for CBS News and now has a syndicated news show, “Full Measure.” BuzzFeed noted that Attkisson included “sites that are not news outlets but peddlers of outright unproven conspiracy theories — such as Infowars” in the chart. It also reported that Attkisson linked to Infowars content. Associated Press technology reporter Barbara Ortutay described Attkisson as a “conservative blogger” and said her list “a little bit suspect.” For her part, Attkisson wrote on her website that she included BuzzFeed in the chart because it was a representation of the ideological leanings of “media” sites, not just news sites. She wrote that it falsely implies that Inforwars was a source for her chart. In fact, Attkisson wrote, she linked to a chart by the Infowars site run by talk radio host Alex Jones, along with charts produced by other organizations, so that people could see alternatives to the one she produced. Bolyard’s post over the weekend described a simple Google search for news on “Trump,” which produced 96 negative stories out of the first 100 shown. Not a single conservative-leaning news site came up on the first page, according to the report. The report was the apparent impetus for a Trump tweet on Tuesday complaining about “RIGGED” searches. White House adviser Larry Kudlow later told reporters that the president is “taking a look” at possible regulations. Google has said that its algorithm does not play politics and is designed to produce the results best-suited to what people want to see. “Certainly, they do blame it on the algorithm, completely,” Bolyard said.”There are well-known tactics you can do to make your website more visible to Google. And, you know, they say they don’t like ads. And they like to have a well-organized website, etc. “But you know when you look at it, the factors are so overwhelming … You have to wonder, are all the right-leaning sources bad websites, or they don’t have enough links or whatever? It stretches credulity to say that it’s just purely a business decision based on their algorithm.” Bolyard said she is sympathetic to the argument that companies like Google exert near-monopoly power and that regulation is justified. “However, I personally tend to lean more libertarian on tech issues, and I don’t like the idea of the government coming in and telling media platforms what they need to cover,” she said.