THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - WENESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 🎆

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Terry Moran

ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran repeatedly grilled RNC spokesperson Paris Dennard Tuesday over whether he accepts that the 2020 presidential election was legitimate.

The subject comes up a lot, and was particularly relevant this week as the Liz Cheney saga unfolds. Moran started by asking Dennard, “Do you accept the results of the 2020 election as legitimate?”

Dennard started to say, “What I do not accept is the fact there are…”

“That’s not the question I asked,” Moran immediately said. “It’s a yes or no question. This is the test in the country right now. So just so our audience knows who you are, what side you’re on, do you accept the democratic processes as certified by each of the 50 sovereign states, 60 courts of law, and the people of the United States? Do you accept the election as legitimate?”

Dennard said every American seeing Biden in the White House right now accepts that he is president.

Moran loudly sighed and said, “That’s not a yes or no.”

“Is it a legitimate election under our Constitution and laws? Yes or no?” he asked.

All Dennard said was, “Joe Biden is the president. That is a statement of fact because that’s what he is.”

“You cannot affirm our own Constitution and laws working in this election,” a perplexed Moran said. “You cannot do that. Is that because you’re scared or because you don’t believe that our democracy actually worked last November?”

And yes, the grilling continued. A classic of true journalistic form.

MEDIA LOSER:
Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan has, once again, condemned Meghan Markle in a column for the Daily Mail, and this time it’s for her “ludicrously inappropriate” children’s book on father-child bonds.

Markle’s children book, titled The Bench, will explore “the special relationship between father and son, as seen through a mother’s eyes.”

“My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the makeup, as much as it does with mine,” Markle said in a statement. She clarified that the story is largely inspired by Prince Harry and his relationship with their son Archie, but Morgan has deemed the whole project an act of “gargantuan hypocrisy.”

“I laughed out loud when the news broke via her ecstatic publishers, and even louder when I read the accompanying gush-laden statements,” Morgan wrote in a Tuesday column, claiming Markle “ruthlessly disowned her father.”

“As for Harry,” Morgan continued. “He trashed his father Prince Charles in the same interview, moaning about how Daddy had stopped taking his calls or giving him cash, sounding like some needy spoiled brat teenager rather than a 36-year-old multi-millionaire doormat who ditched his family, country and duty because his chillingly controlling and ambitious wife wanted him to.”

Twitter users were quick to respond, torching Morgan for his “obsessive” and constant takes on Markle. "I’m not being funny... Meghan Markle needs a restraining order against piers Morgan," read one tweet. "Bruh...let it go," said another.

The roasting just continues and continues for Morgan.

The A-Block

‘Please Buy This Newspaper’

The New York Daily News is on the verge of being acquired by a hedge fund. On Wednesday, the paper published a stunning op-ed from one of its veteran reporters begging for someone to stop it.

In a shocking column, Larry McShane — a reporter who has been with the paper for 14 years — warned about the ramifications of the News’ pending acquisition by hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Calling the paper’s outlook under Alden “dire,” McShane pleaded for a local buyer to step up.

“Like any good tabloid headline, it’s simple, snappy and succinct: DAILY NEWS NEEDS NEW OWNER,” McShane wrote. “And not just any owner: a New York owner, someone who knows the city and embraces the paper’s 102-year legacy, who hears the voices of the five boroughs shouting from every page and our website. Someone who can treat the newspaper as a public trust, not simply as a property from which to squeeze every last bit of possible profit. The situation is dire.”

McShane went on to chronicle Alden’s decimation of newspapers in a number of major markets — including, most notably, the Denver Post.

“The stakes are clear,” McShane wrote... [KEEP READING]


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Must See Clip

Do I recommend hanging out with George Clooney? No. I do not.

George Clooney revealed his secret obsession with Brad Pitt in a funny ad to promote a new Omaze charity contest.

The sketch, titled “George Clooney: World’s Worst Pandemic Roommate,” sees the movie star crashing with a stranger named Byron after getting stuck at his house during the pandemic. As Byron puts it, “George Clooney swung by my house to pick up something he was buying from me on Craigslist and the stay-at-home order hit and he never left.” That item is revealed to be a Batman action figure.

It’s not long before Byron learns of Clooney’s many quirks – including an unhealthy fascination with Pitt.

Links We Like

Explaining Our Miraculous Flourishing, Despite Our Evolutionary Tendencies
- EMarian L. Tupy, Human Progress
I’m Concerned About Wokeness at My Child’s School
- Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer, The Atlantic
Supply Chains Are Our Most Critical Infrastructure
- Robert C. O'Brien, Bloomberg Quint
Sally Ride’s Enduring Legacy
- Kenneth Silber, Scientific American
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