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Your audience is filled with Republicans. The Democratic convention is underway. How to cover it?
Read full article: Your audience is filled with Republicans. The Democratic convention is underway. How to cover it?The Democratic convention presents Fox News Channel with a delicate challenge — how to cover a party suddenly enthused about its election chances when much of its audience has a different political view.
Model Amber Rose becomes face of the Republican push to attract more minority voters at RNC
Read full article: Model Amber Rose becomes face of the Republican push to attract more minority voters at RNCDuring the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, there has been a major push to attract minority voters, along with other groups that often don’t vote Republican.
Conservative Koch network disavows critical race theory bans
Read full article: Conservative Koch network disavows critical race theory bansA prominent backer of Republican causes and candidates is notably absent from the conservative political groups backing efforts to ban in schools what they call critical race theory.
Networks cut away from Trump's White House address
Read full article: Networks cut away from Trump's White House addressNEW YORK – ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him. Trump was more subdued Thursday, yet offered a litany of complaints about “suppression” polls, mail-in voting and fraud that he never specified. Cordes said there is no indication of a substantive number of illegal votes cast, and said Trump's reference to votes arriving late was “another falsehood.”MSNBC cut away from Trump to anchor Brian Williams. “There are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of.”After ABC ended its coverage, the network’s White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, also said there was no evidence of illegal votes. But especially in this election.”While CNN kept Trump on the air, a chyron displayed under him said, “Without any evidence, Trump says he's being cheated.”Anchor Jake Tapper looked weary when it was over.
'Speak up!' — 'Sesame Street' tackles racism in TV special
Read full article: 'Speak up!' — 'Sesame Street' tackles racism in TV specialNEW YORK – “Sesame Street" has always pressed for inclusion. Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street” — will later this month air the half-hour anti-racist special "The Power of We” and hopes families will watch together. The special defines racism for younger viewers and shows how it can be hurtful. “Sesame Street,” which last year celebrated its 50th anniversary, has a history of explaining the world to children, tackling everything from foster care to substance abuse. The latest special comes on the heels of “Sesame Street” contributing to “Coming Together: Standing Up To Racism,” a CNN town hall special in June hosted by Van Jones and Erica Hill.
Convention-covering networks challenged by competing stories
Read full article: Convention-covering networks challenged by competing storiesRepublicans decided the show must go on and, for the most part, television networks followed. The convention is taking place in the shadow of huge stories that are happening right now, CNN's Anderson Cooper said. Networks, after giving extensive coverage to the Democrats last week, are cognizant of being fair to the Republicans. The president has been showing up every night, the president could talk about it. But former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, also a CNN contributor, said Republicans were there to try and reelect President Trump and that has to continue to remain their focus.
Warrant: Jacksonville man confessed to neighbor after mother shot dead
Read full article: Warrant: Jacksonville man confessed to neighbor after mother shot deadJACKSONVILLE, Fla. Moments after a 45-year-old nurse was shot to death outside her Jacksonville home, her son knocked on a neighbors door and offered a chilling confession, the neighbor told police. I have done a bad thing, the neighbor recalled hearing Michael McPherson say. I killed mom.The unnamed neighbor told homicide detectives investigating the February killing that he tried to keep McPherson from leaving, but the 21-year-old hopped into his SUV and drove away in a hurry. RELATED: Jacksonville man charged with murder in mothers slayingThose allegations were detailed in the arrest warrant for McPherson, now 22, who was transported to Jacksonville earlier this month to await trial in the murder of his mother, Stacey McPherson-Dillon. Multiple people told police the young man was familiar with guns and was known to carry them.
Coronavirus upends conventions, changes TV coverage
Read full article: Coronavirus upends conventions, changes TV coverageLOS ANGELES The Democratic and Republican conventions will lack for crowds but not television coverage. The Democratic meeting will be virtual, with Biden planning to make his acceptance speech from Wilmington, Delaware. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC plan an hour of nightly coverage of the conventions at 10 p.m. EDT. CNN's commentators for the Democratic meeting include Van Jones, Jennifer Granholm, Andrew Yang, and Scott Jennings. Commentary for the Republican convention will be handled by Rick Santorum, David Urban, Amanda Carpenter and Granholm.
Antebellum brings racial justice call to reopened theaters
Read full article: Antebellum brings racial justice call to reopened theatersThis image released by Lionsgate shows co-writer/directors Christopher Renz, left, and Gerard Bush on the set of "Antebellum." Filmmakers Bush and Renz planned to release their feature-length debut film, Antebellum, in the spring of 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic exploded internationally. In Antebellum, Mone gives moviegoers a modern Black heroine who takes charge of her own liberation without a male-dominated cavalry. Their path to feature-length films with a racial justice message has been a long time coming, Bush and Renz said. Even as they anticipate finding box office success with Antebellum, Bush and Renz are already at work on their second feature-length script, under a newly formed production company, Gloaming Pictures.
Coast Guard officer-terror suspect sentenced for guns, drugs
Read full article: Coast Guard officer-terror suspect sentenced for guns, drugsThe severity of Hasson’s sentence hinged on two starkly divergent explanations for the cache of weapons seized from his Maryland home and the disturbing material found on his computer at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington. “Any semblance of hate, bigotry or advocacy of violence has no place in our Coast Guard,” said Adm. Karl Schultz, the guard's commandant, in an emailed news release. They have called Hasson a domestic terrorist and self-described white nationalist, intent on carrying out mass killings. Defense lawyers dispute that their client has any “sincerely held” extremist, racist or white nationalist views. They described him as an avid firearms collector and disaster “prepper” who stockpiles survivalist gear for "doomsday-type scenarios.”Hasson worked at Coast Guard headquarters on a program to acquire advanced new cutters for the agency.