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Fox News Drops Glenn Beck's Show; Government Shutdown Coverage
Aired April 10, 2011 - 11:00 ET
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Glenn Beck has been a white hot cultural phenomenon, one who, in the end, burned too brightly. Even by the opinionated standards of Fox News, Beck became too incendiary, too radioactive, which is why the network is dropping his show. Did the dark conspiracy theories turn off the audience? And can he retain his influence without the cable platform? As I watched this week's beltway cable battle, covered almost like a demolition derby, I wondered when the press would get around to the human impact of a government shutdown. Did the importance of these cutbacks get lost in the breathless rush to Friday's late-night deal? Plus, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks likens sports bloggers to paparazzi and says maybe he'll kick them out of his locker room and provide his own information directly to the fans. We'll go one-on-one with Mark Cuban. I'm Howard Kurtz. This is RELIABLE SOURCES. . The ratings were simply remarkable. Nobody draws 2.5, 3 million people on cable news at 5:00 in the afternoon, but Glenn Beck did. Yes, his numbers were down 40 percent, and yes, more than 400 advertisers had fled. But the reason he and Roger Ailes' network are getting a divorce has to do with the question of independence. Beck's brand was threatening to overshadow Fox, much to the consternation of the journalists there. And Beck increasingly wanted to build his own brand without interference. Here's how he gave viewers the news. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS: When I took this job, I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me. Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life." If you've watched this program and you really -- I ask you at times, hear me -- you know what I believe is coming. If you watch tonight's show, I believe you know that I believe we're heading into deep and treacherous waters. I will continue to tell the story, and I'm going to be showing you other ways for us to connect, but I have other things to do. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: So, what are the lessons of this television breakup? Joining us now, Amy Holmes, co-host of the radio show "America's Morning News"; David Zurawik, TV and media critic for "The Baltimore Sun"; and Bill Press, host of radio's nationally syndicated "Bill Press Show." David Zurawik, did Glenn Beck, standing at that blackboard every day, spinning those conspiracy theories, did he do himself in? DAVID ZURAWIK, TELEVISION CRITIC, "THE BALTIMORE SUN": Oh, I think he absolutely did himself in. And I'll tell you what, in a way, it's interesting to see the marketplace function. You can have that audience and yet not have advertisers in the way. But here's how he did himself in, Howie. He went too far with -- remember back in October of 2009, when he went on the Van after -- he went after Van Jones? KURTZ: Van Jones, White House official. ZURAWIK: When he started saying send me everything you have on members of the Obama White House, and then Keith Olbermann said send me everything you have on Beck, that was a toxic climate for talk radio -- for talk television. KURTZ: The beginning of the end maybe. ZURAWIK: And that was too much. KURTZ: But let me ask Amy Holmes. Beck had this huge audience, he was very successful. In my view, he became radioactive at times. Did he go too far? How do you attribute this demise? AMY HOLMES, CO-ANCHOR, "AMERICA'S MORNING NEWS": well, I saw that there was certainly the conspiracy side of "The Glenn Beck Show," but there was also the tutorial side. I mean, Glenn Beck was a person who was putting on scholars and researchers from conservative think tanks, not the media-accepted Brookings Institution. But I think that Glenn Beck was a force of nature, and oftentimes, forces of nature are feared, they have to be explained. He attracted all of his attention. And all of these viewers, I would have to surmise -- I don't know this, but him not being able to keep that show was in part because he wasn't following orders from Roger Ailes. KURTZ: Well, clearly, there was tension from the two sides. And a hurricane is also a force of nature, but eventually it goes out to sea. Bill Press, you said on this program just a few months ago, Glenn Beck was a ticking time bomb. What made him explode? BILL PRESS, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: A couple of things. First, I've got to say, the first lesson I learned in television, it doesn't matter how big -- I saw it in L.A. when I started -- it doesn't matter how big you are, how popular you are. Your days can be numbered. I mean, you can go and nobody will miss you. And I think that's what happened to Glenn Beck. What made him explode I think is building on what some of the other stuff -- I think he had this messianic complex. I really think he started to take himself too seriously. He thought he had a God- given mission. He talked -- he became very televangelistic. He talked about this mission. He talked about -- KURTZ: Some people like that. PRESS: Well, I think it's OK from Rick Warren. I think it's OK from Pat Robertson. I don't think you want -- Roger Ailes didn't want it at 5:00. HOLMES: But, I mean, if you were to compare Glenn Beck to many of the folks on MSNBC, Ed Schultz, he certainly is activist, he has a message, one that he believes needs to get out there into the public conversation. Lawrence O'Donnell declares himself to be a socialist. Well, a lot of people would say moving America to a social democracy is far more dangerous than going after some low-level functionary at the White House. PRESS: Wait. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but, you know, Howie used the word "incendiary," or toxic, whatever you want to call it, or radioactive. When you say that the Japan earthquake was God punishing the people of Japan, or the Democratic uprisings in Egypt, or some conspiracy between American liberals and Islamic fundamentalists -- (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: Hold on. ZURAWIK: What Bill is saying is really -- he's back to, really, Father Coughlin and that brand of extreme right-wing radio talk. KURTZ: Since we're all citing examples, let me play a few of his greatest hits for the audience and we'll pick it up on the other side. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BECK: We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution. There are three powers that you will see really emerge. One, a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe. The real answer is the Nazis were using early American progressive tactics. And that's not my opinion. That's historic fact. Fine the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash-landing, because this plane is coming down because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: David Zurawik, let me pick up the metaphor here. (LAUGHTER) KURTZ: Get your seatbelts strapped on. There's little question that he was forced out. Why do you think Fox pulled the plug at this point? ZURAWIK: Well, you know, Fox has this tension. You know, they're really pushing the Bret Baier image in saying we are a news -- and they behaved really well on midterm election night. But there's this tension between that vision of who they are and what Glenn Beck did. And for all of the good things they tried to do as a journalistic -- presenting themselves as a journalistic institution, he shredded it with that kind of talk every day at 5:00. Howie, that really is crazy, apocalyptic, extreme right-wing radio talk. It has no place on television. And we've never had that before. That's the scary thing about it. KURTZ: All right. Well, it may have no place on television, but obviously some people tuned in. Now, you might say the liberal media targeted Beck. The liberal advocacy group Media Matters certainly had a campaign against him. HOLMES: Of course. KURTZ: But Roger Ailes told me some months ago that he asked Beck in a friendly way to tone things down. HOLMES: Sure. And you know what? Roger Ailes is the boss. And generally, you are supposed to do what the boss says. And if you don't, then you don't get to keep your show. But you can string together sound bite after sound bite from MSNBC of their primetime -- PRESS: Oh, come on. Nothing like that. Nothing like t hat. HOLMES: -- lineup. Ed Schultz; you have "Worst Person in the World" when Keith Olbermann was on. You have, as I said, Lawrence O'Donnell declaring himself to be a socialist, which he has every right to do, but it is extreme. PRESS: There's nothing to compare to that. But look, let's face it -- again, I come back -- look at Bill O'Reilly. OK? Only Glenn Beck could make Bill O'Reilly look like a statesman. Bill O'Reilly knows, Rush Limbaugh knows. Twenty-five years, they know there are some limits. Beck is such a megalomaniac, that he thought he could say anything, and he thought he didn't need Fox. Well, we'll find out. KURTZ: Let me pick up on Amy's point about MSNBC. Now, I don't put Keith Olbermann in the same category as Beck at all. His MSNBC show, agree with it, disagree with it, was a very well-researched program. But he also became increasingly opinionated. He also clashed with his bosses. And he also left. ZURAWIK: Howie, he was the guy who said -- right after the episode I cited in October, he did the same thing Beck did. He said, give me all the dirt you have on -- and on Roger Ailes, too. I mean, it was so personal. This is not what you're doing on cable television. No. Let me say this in the middle of these two, because it's true. And this is like, which carcinogen do you want in your water? Which one in the public? Look, Olbermann, all of the others on MSNBC, O'Donnell, they are just as bad in one way. But in another way, Beck was worse. Here's how Beck was worse. (CROSSTALK) ZURAWIK: Beck understood the fault lines in our sort of history and moral consciousness. And he went with the Nazi stuff. And when he tried to appropriate the moral authority of Martin Luther King with that rally, he went right out things that are important to groups like African-Americans and Jews, and he would offend you in your face and not care. Olbermann didn't do that. I'll say that for Olbermann. HOLMES: He had Alveda King at his rally standing by his side, who agrees with his message and is the niece of Martin Luther King. KURTZ: Hold on. Hold on. Here's Beck talking about -- PRESS: Oh, please. Come on. KURTZ: Here's Beck talking about -- and he apologized for this -- how liberal Judaism -- excuse me, reform Judaism was like radical Islam. I have got to push back on this, though. You say that some of the people at MSNBC, just as bad. Now, they may be as opinionated, they may be as strident, they may occasionally be irresponsible. But they are not trafficking conspiracy theories, they're not making things up. ZURAWIK: No. Howie, I'm saying they didn't go there. That's the difference. They didn't go where he did in the case of Jewish identity. PRESS: They're not calling people Nazis. They don't go in this anti-Semitic rant that he did about George Soros. They don't call the president of the United States a racist. ZURAWIK: Exactly what I said. But -- PRESS: Let me telling you something -- wait a minute. There are strong opinions on MSNBC, and they're paid to give their strong opinions. But they don't go over the line the way Glenn Beck did with all of the stuff that Howie just said. ZURAWIK: I agree with that part of it, Bill. HOLMES: The conspiracy theory about Fox News being some sort of blight on American political discourse, you hear that on MSNBC all the time. And unlike MSNBC, Fox was not presenting Glenn Beck as a journalist. They did not have him moderating political debates as MSNBC. MSNBC has far more of a tension between their opinion and their journalism than Fox does. PRESS: Wait. I just want to make it clear. OK? Roger Ailes fired Glenn Beck. You can't blame MSNBC. You can't blame Media Matters. You can't blame Bill Press. We clashed as well. Roger Ailes knew he was toxic for that network. And you know what else? I'm telling you, I'll bet you that the other hosts went to Roger Ailes and said you've got to get this loon off this air, he's making us all look bad. KURTZ: I want to tell you before I ask my last question to Zurawik, I will tell you that a lot of journalists at Fox News feared that Glenn Beck was becoming the face of the network. And a lot of the executives felt he was an unguided missiles. And at the same time, Beck didn't actually work at Fox. In other words, he only showed up to do the show. He had his own production which is going to continue. He's got his syndicated radio show. He gives speeches. He's got a Web site called "The Blaze," which sets me up for this question: How much more influence will he continue to have without that Fox platform? I mean, he's still got quite a following. ZURAWIK: Howie, he will have influence. There's no doubt about it. And he has all this source of revenue, and probably the Fox money wasn't that important. But when you go to radio -- and also, his Web site was useful to people on the left for a while with the NPR thing. But he's going to be marginalized in a way. HOLMES: I disagree with that. ZURAWIK: He will, because it's a difference of being on television, and we have a history. We have a history of right-wing extreme radio talk. KURTZ: You disagree because? HOLMES: Because of Rush Limbaugh. Let's look at Rush Limbaugh and his influence. It is profound on American politics and American discourse. Radio as a medium, as you know, Bill Press, that it's very intimate, you're talking directly to your listener in a way that oftentimes on TV you're not. PRESS: Fox -- he needs Fox more than Fox needs him. KURTZ: All right. Got to get a break. When we come back, Glenn Beck isn't the only big-name broadcaster moving on. What legacy will Katie Couric leave at CBS? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: We talked on this program last week about Katie Couric, very likely to leave the "CBS Evening News" when her contract expires in June. The AP reporting this week that it's definite. It's certainly moving in that direction. David Zurawik, many of your fellow TV writers reduced it to this: Katie Couric failed because she was paid $15 million a year and the CBS broadcast remained in third place. Is that fair? ZURAWIK: It's not the total story. I believe she failed. I believe, by any standard, you judge this as a failure. But I believe she failed -- and this is going to sound harsh, but she didn't work hard enough. About three months ago, I wrote a piece saying -- when they changed the morning show -- said, they have got to change the evening news. It's dead in the water, it's a step behind everybody. Look at how Diane Sawyer energized ABC's evening news. She has her star. She brings -- KURTZ: What about the fact that the "CBS Evening News' won numerous awards? Katie Couric is in Iraq this week. Is that really a fear wrap? ZURAWIK: Yes, it is fair, because when she took the job, she said, I don't want to be traveling just to stand in front of some foreign backdrop, blah, blah, blah. She was a reluctant traveler at first. She just simply -- you know, I saw a quote about her and I heard this from somebody at CBS, said that Katie Couric works hardest around contract time. That's a harsh thing to say, but that's what they're saying there, Howie. KURTZ: I'm going to disagree with that, David. (INAUDIBLE) I'm going to disagree. But let me ask Amy Holmes. So much media hype in 2006 about her being the first woman. Now, with Diane Sawyer at ABC, that seems less important. HOLMES: Right. I think it was a real breakthrough, and for a lot of young women to see that they could be up there sitting at that table with the big boys, that it's not just a lineup of older white gentleman. No offense there. KURTZ: But it also heightened the hype machine. HOLMES: It did. And I think, too, that CBS made a mistake in putting so much hype behind Katie Couric's move to CBS, bringing her from an outside organization, a morning show, which a lot of people regard as infotainment, putting her on there, that she was sort of set up then to meet such high expectations. ABC did not make that same mistake with Diane Sawyer. KURTZ: Right. And Katie, she's acknowledged that she changed too many elements of the broadcast early on, that evening news audiences are very -- they're all creatures of habit. And it's hard to grow that audience, especially since overall network newscast audiences are shrinking. PRESS: No. Exactly. Look, she didn't get the ratings, so she lost the job. But let me tell you, I think she's a huge talent. I think she's the best interviewer in television. I will be forever grateful for her interview with Sarah Palin. And I think she'll be bigger outside the evening news than she was on the evening news. I think that constrained her. I think she'll have maybe an afternoon show, maybe back on the morning show. She's a huge talent. She's not going away. KURTZ: She will have some kind of syndicated show, and she may still have a role in a news division, whether it's at CBS or elsewhere. Before we go to the tease, I wanted to mention that "The Atlantic's" Clare Gillis and three other journalists are still being detained in Libya. They were taken into detention by the government on Tuesday. "The Atlantic" editor saying today that no diplomat, no independent journalists have been able to see them, even though the Gadhafi regime has promised they would be released. So I want to keep that our on radar screen as we await hopefully a satisfactory outcome of that situation. Bill Press, David Zurawik, Amy Holmes, thanks for stopping by this morning. Coming up in the second part of RELIABLE SOURCES, the shutdown story. Are the media too focused on political maneuvering rather than the human impact of these budget cuts. Plus, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on why he's ready to kick sports bloggers out of his locker room. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Now that the threats have subsided and the countdown clocks have been turned off, the media are trying to assess who won and who lost in the great shutdown scare of 2011. The budget maneuvering was serious business that led to nearly $40 billion in spending cuts, but much of the coverage seemed like ESPN at the Olympics -- all about the games. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: Shutdown showdown. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shutdown showdown. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a race against the clock right now. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The clock is ticking towards a government shutdown. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Countdown to shutdown. DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: I can tell you that a source here at the White House says that they are more optimistic now than they were four hours ago that a deal will get done. RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: And the latest news we are hearing from Chuck Todd, NBC's Chuck Todd, that there is a deal on the table right now. CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS: Lawmakers have said now that they reached a deal, both on the Democratic and Republican side, to keep the government open. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Joining is now to examine how this budgetary battle was reported, Julie Mason, White House correspondent for Politico; Matt Lewis, senior contributor at "The Daily Caller"; and Ari Berman, contributing writer for "The Nation" magazine and author of "Hurting Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics." Ari Berman, was this covered mainly as a bit of a political circus? ARI BERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER, "THE NATION": Absolutely. It was really a bizarre world last week with these -- as you said, these countdown clocks and everything. KURTZ: That was hours ago. BERMAN: I know. It's hard to forget at this point. There was all this news about no news, which was really kind of astonishing. And then, it was all about who was up, who was down, who would win politically, who would get blamed for a shutdown, as opposed to what the effect of these cuts would actually be. KURTZ: There were so many news conferences staged for the cameras, that I wonder when they had time to negotiate. Wasn't it kind of like the fourth quarter of a basketball game? And did we really need those countdown clocks? MATT LEWIS, SR. CONTRIBUTOR, "THE DAILY CALLER": Yes. I think this is good news, because you're right, the media hyped this, they played it like, at worst, a sporting event, at best, an election with a deadline. And a deadline did this make story. KURTZ: Sure. LEWIS: But that's good. I'll tell you why. Because budget stuff is tedious. And most Americans would not tune in or be interested in a CR. But what the media did in ginning it up for ratings is actually make it something that people were interested in. Then you delve in deeper, you start to learn about the budget. So, ultimately, I think it's a win. KURTZ: So Matt Lewis endorses the SportsCenter approach. But after all the focus on the political maneuvering, Julie Mason, in the last couple of days, when it looked like the government might shut down, at least for a few days, it was almost like journalists woke up and said, hey, soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are not going to get their paychecks to feed their families, which would have been an outrage. JULIE MASON, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, POLITICO: That's really true. But, you know, Howie, the thing is, every veteran journalist in Washington knew exactly how this was going to turn out. We were joking about it at the White House on Wednesday, saying, 11:00 p.m. on Friday, they're going to get a deal. But we all had to cover the story like it was a real thing. KURTZ: I wonder, you know, Ari, at the end of this, Democrats portrayed the Republicans as making the issue about ideology such as defunding Planned Parenthood. Do you think the press did enough to cover that side of the fight, as opposed to the winners, the losers, the countdown clock, and all of the theatrics surrounding it? BERMAN: Well, it was hard to cover because we didn't know what were part of these negotiations for so long. I mean, we kept talking about these cuts, these cuts, these agreements, so we didn't actually know it was in the agreement. And then it comes out at the last minute, well, is it really about Planned Parenthood? Which was just, if you think about it, an absolutely absurd reason not to have a budget deal because of $360 million that goes to family planning services. The Democrats, for one day, did a very good job of making that issue, but, of course, Republicans, in the end, got all the spending cuts pretty much that they wanted, and they changed the subject as a result. KURTZ: And I was going to make that precise point, Matt Lewis. The Democrats made a lot of concessions here, $38 billion in spending cuts. Yes, this is just a six-month budget, and the bigger battles lie ahead and all of that. We'll get to that if we have time. But it seemed the coverage didn't reflect, maybe because the Republicans didn't want to declare victory, that John Boehner and his troops really got a lot of what they wanted. LEWIS: I think they did. I think Republicans are ultimately the winners, and John Boehner comes out looking really good, like a statesman, like someone who got a lot for his base and yet still was able to compromise. But it could have been, I think, very bad for Republicans if the government did shut down because of the way media narratives were. You talked about the military -- the soldier who wouldn't have been paid, or the family who comes to the zoo from Omaha and can't get in. Those are very emotional and real -- it's easy to have a camera and show those stories. The stories that are hard to show are stories like about my 3-- month-old son who might have this debt in 30 years. In other words, the Republican story is abstract. The deficits, taxes in the future are abstract. The media narrative would have killed Republicans if it shut down. KURTZ: Well, I mean, 800,000 federal workers being forced to stay home, and national parks and museums closing, and not getting Social Security checks processed, all that is undeniable. It's not a media stunt. But I wonder if you think enough attention was paid to -- you know, we often talk about when conservatives say things like "You like," it gets a lot of attention. Here's Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter saying Republicans want to kill woman. And I didn't see a lot of outrage about that. And that's pretty hot rhetoric. LEWIS: Well, especially if you look at it in the context of where we've been. I was on your show, like, a month ago, and we were talking about the heated rhetoric and about the new tone that we should have in the wake of the Gabby Giffords thing. I mean, so all this talk about toning down the rhetoric, and here you have a Democrat using what I think is unacceptable political rhetoric for politics. KURTZ: Not necessarily hasn't been hot rhetoric on both sides. Julie Mason, President Obama, at first, for weeks, seemed rather disengaged, staying on the sidelines. Then, in the last few days, he started briefing reporters at 10:00 at night. Did the White House make an attempt to convince journalists that the president was really driving this process at the end? MASON: At the end. And really, this shows a real maturing of how the White House handles these political situations, because he got in at the very end and they inoculated him. If they come out with a deal, he gets the credit. If the deal breaks down, and the government shuts down, then it's not Obama's fault because he wasn't really involved. It was Congress' fault. KURTZ: Are you suggesting that that is reality or that this is a spin that the media happily swallowed? MASON: Oh, it's a complete spin. And the worst thing about this was -- is that when they did come out with a deal, the media was piling on saying this is great for Boehner, this is great for Obama, they worked it out, when really the entire situation was a failure of leadership. How did it get that far? KURTZ: Yes. Well, in part, because the Democrats didn't pass the budget last year when they controlled both houses, but also because of all the posturing that goes on. And I think we in the media kind of reward this in the sense that, you know, when somebody's holding out and making demands, and I will not let this pass, it can make for good television. Speaking of your point about abstract budgets, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan came out with his plan for next year's budget and beyond, $4.5 trillion in cuts over 10 years, changing Medicare into a voucher program. Did the press adequately point out that he would also cut taxes for those at the top of the scale by about $4 billion? You know, in other words, what kind of hearing did this get? BERMAN: Yes. No, and it's been interesting to me to watch Paul Ryan become the go-to deep thinker in the Republican Party. And really, this figure who's described as brave and courageous and bold and daring, when I think, really, what he's done is introduce a truly radical plan to gut the social safety net, to redistribute income upwards. I would say that's cruel, it's gimmicky. And the press has not done a good job thus far fact-checking Paul Ryan and looking at what his ideas -- (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: And most of the cuts come from people on the lower income end of the scale. But you have to say, the counter to that, Matt Lewis, as you know, is that even if it's journalists who are skeptical of his plan, or think it's never going to pass and never going to go on to tackle Medicare, then at least it's a serious plan. And where is the other side's plan? LEWIS: Absolutely. There's no easy way to cut $6.2 trillion out of the budget. And so -- KURTZ: Well, I mean, it becomes harder when you cut taxes by $4 trillion. LEWIS: Well, when you look at where most of the money needs to come from, it's from entitlements and national security or defense. Anyway, putting -- KURTZ: Should he be covered -- I've got a few seconds left. LEWIS: Sure. KURTZ: Should he be covered as a serious -- LEWIS: Absolutely. KURTZ: Yes. LEWIS: And President Obama will come out with another plan, I'm told, I guess this week. And so then there will be something to compare it to and we'll have that debate. KURTZ: We'll have an actual debate about the substance and the future and the entitlements in this country. And then you're all going to say that's going to be hard. MASON: No, I don't believe that. KURTZ: But it's important for to us cover it. Let me get a break here. And when we come back, why do the networks keep giving Donald trump a platform to push his birther conspiracy against Barack Obama? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Donald Trump, who claims to be considering a run for president, was back on TV this week -- CNN, NBC -- talking about his favorite issue. Here is he on "The Today Show." (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, CONSIDERING PRESIDENTIAL RUN: You know what? His grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya, and she was there and witnessed the birth. OK? He doesn't have a birth certificate, or he hasn't shown it. He has what's called a certificate of live birth. That is something that's easy to get. When you want a birth certificate, it's very hard to get. MEREDITH VIEIRA, "THE TODAY SHOW": But it's consider the equivalent -- TRUMP: Excuse me. Excuse me. It's not the equivalent. VIEIRA: Wait. Wait. In the state of Hawaii, they said they have seen this document. TRUMP: Meredith, it's not the equivalent. VIEIRA: It is evidence that he was born in the United States. That's good enough for them. Scholars have looked at it. TRUMP: A birth certificate is not even close. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Julie Mason, when it comes to this birther issue, Trump is peddling nonsense. Why do the networks keep putting him on to say the same thing? MASON: Well, networks have to fill time like everyone else, Howie. They can't always be smart shows like this one. But this is an interesting sideshow. The Republicans haven't gotten in, they're not mixing it up yet. And so this is just something fun to cover. Everyone knows it's crazy. KURTZ: CNN's Candy Crowley, in an interview that aired on this morning's "STATE OF THE UNION," repeatedly pressed Trump about this. She brought up the birth announcements in the newspapers. She showed that if you listen to the whole transcript of the grandmother, she said he was born in Hawaii. She called it a cynical play to get voters' attention. She did a good a job as I've seen, and yet I come back to this question, and I'll ask you, when other people have said Obama was not born in Hawaii, the media initially dismissed them others as fringe figures. Not so with Donald Trump. BERMAN: Well, he should be dismissed as a fringe figure, and they should stop having him on. I mean, he's entirely a media creation at this point. He's not a serious presidential candidate. He's saying these crazy things to get higher ratings for his reality TV show, "Celebrity Apprentice." They've shown that when the crazier the things he says, the higher the ratings go up for "Celebrity Apprentice." KURTZ: And are the people who are putting him on also interested in getting higher ratings? BERMAN: Absolutely. MASON: Of course. BERMAN: Absolutely. Both sides are culpable here. KURTZ: Trump is colorful. He's a big name. MASON: Sure, yes. KURTZ: You know, Trump goes up to second place in an NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll among Republicans, presidential preference. And journalists start hyperventilating about the guy. And then, suddenly -- and I don't understand -- I mean, he's an accomplished businessman -- he's had his ups and downs, he had the bankrupt casinos -- but why he's not running as a businessman, why he's running as a birther. LEWIS: Well, he does bring up other stuff like China. KURTZ: Sure. LEWIS: But the birther stuff gets focused on. I mean, for good reason. KURTZ: He spent 10 minutes talking about it with Candy Crowley this morning. LEWIS: Well, I didn't see the Candy interview, but let me say this -- first of all, I think some of the people who like him like him because we live in a politically correct culture. And that's why people like Charlie Sheen even get credit, even though he says crazy stuff. It's like, at least he's willing to say something. But, look, if you see trump -- I didn't see Candy's interview. KURTZ: I don't think Charlie Sheen is considering a White House bid. MASON: Not yet. LEWIS: I didn't see Candy's, but if you look at Trump, he steam rolls these other interviewers. He really does, because he is so brazen with it. And there's something to be said for that. Later, journalists go back and show that he's a kook in print because they can prove it, but on air, Trump actually usually wins the arguments. KURTZ: Well, he does make it difficult to get a word in edgewise, but I think Candy, in particular -- and I'm not saying this because she works on CNN -- did it on the air. She was obviously prepared for this. But again, what is the greater purpose that is served by giving this guy a platform -- it's not like he hasn't said it on "The View" and all these other shows -- for an argument that anybody who examines it says it just falls apart? This is not like an argument about EPA regulations. LEWIS: Right. Earlier, I talked about how the fact that the media was sort of ginning up the budget talk was good. This is an example of where it's bad. The media is ginning up this story, and it's not good the debate. BERMAN: And it goes to show you why the public doesn't think so highly of our profession. I mean, this is a case study right here that covers Donald Trump. KURTZ: There's a shocking assertion.. Matt Lewis, Ari Berman, Julie Mason, thanks for joining us. Up next, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wants to do an end run around sports bloggers and provide his earn online news to the fans. Plus, we'll ask why he hired Dan Rather. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Mark Cuban is one of the most provocative bloggers around. He also happens to own a basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks, and a television network, HDNet. So it caught my eye this week when Cuban wrote that maybe his NBA team should keep folks from ESPN.com, Yahoo.com, and other Web sites out of his locker room. Why? He writes, "I think we have finally reached a point where not only can we communicate any and all factual information from our players and team directly to our fans and customers as effectively as any big sports Web site, but I think we have also reached a point where our interests are no longer aligned." So, are sports teams now in a position to control more of their own media? To explore that question and talk about Cuban's television operation, I spoke to him earlier from Dallas. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Mark Cuban, welcome. MARK CUBAN, OWNER, DALLAS MAVERICKS: Thank you. Glad to be here. KURTZ: Now, you go charging down the court, you go right at these online guys from ESPN.com and Yahoo.com. You're comparing them to paparazzi. Why? CUBAN: Well, because their goal is not journalism. Their goal is to quickly satisfy the immediate cravings of their reading audience, and sometimes that's not necessarily aligned with the best interests of the Mavericks, my company. KURTZ: I got a chuckle when I read that you had written that the questions they ask, they do them as traffic-generating opportunities. But come on. Doesn't everybody want to build an audience? CUBAN: Oh, of course. But look, I'm not denying them the chance to do their business. They have right and opportunity to do that. But I don't have to condone it, I don't have to support it, and I don't have to enable it. You know, I don't want to hand a heroin junkie the needle, and in this particular case, giving them locker room access is pretty much the same thing. KURTZ: Well, you say they pursue rumors and that they're overly negative when the Mavericks lose. Whenever I'm in New York and the Knicks lose, I look at the New York tabloids and they're pretty negative too. But aren't they positive when your team wins? CUBAN: Yes. You know, look, I'm not trying to control what they say. You know, it's more a matter of defining credibility and trying to understand what the best moves are for the Mavericks. You know, we're in a transitioning media environment. Just over the past three years with, you know, the explosion of Facebook, the increase in use of Twitter, other real-time media opportunities, there are so many things that are changing, I'd be stupid not to continually survey and evaluate what's best for my business in terms of dealing with the online culture and consumers of media online. On the flip side, if you look at what has happened with the sports media as they cover sports teams, they've changed as well. You know, the goal is no longer journalism. They've had to respond to all these elements, Twitter and Facebook, and deal with the business impacts on their -- in their world. And so, they have to respond far more quickly, they do it with fewer filters, they don't look for first and second and third sources. They don't even look for sources. You have this twice-removed headline problem where something starts as a headline or something starts -- something is written as opinion by someone who is a reporter -- KURTZ: Right. CUBAN: -- but it's picked up as a quote that then turns into fact seven times removed. There's all these elements that I have to take into account because the world has changed. And so, you know, I'm not trying to dismiss them, but I'm trying to understand what the best business move is for me. KURTZ: Right. And this is true of political coverage as well. Everybody is under pressure to -- CUBAN: Exactly. KURTZ: -- to pile every 12 minutes. But it sounds a little but like, you know, this is a business, of course, that you want more control. That you would like to be providing the information about the Dallas Mavericks, and perhaps grabbing some of that audience share that otherwise would go to these other Web sites. CUBAN: Well, there's two elements there. There's control and there's market share. You know, I know I can't have control. This is the Internet. I mean, in this day and age, anybody can have a Twitter account, everybody has Facebook, everybody can have a blog, everybody can contribute via comments on any Web site whether it's "The Washington Post" or ESPN. So you can't control anything. And so, you have to first recognize that you have no control. Knowing that, on the other side of the coin, you also have to recognize all those tools that other people use to create commentary and opinion. I have access to those tools as well, but I have the additional benefit of having deeper access to the information because it's my company. So, depending on how I approach it, then I have unique opportunities. If I approach it like a traditional sports team, and really have heavy filters, then I'm at a disadvantage and it's probably not the right move. If I reduce or eliminate the filters, there's nothing that ESPN or any other venue can create, or Web site can create that I can't create. You know, particularly now, in this media environment, where there's so much turnover among reporters and journalists or headline mongers, however you want to define each individual person, you know, I have great opportunities to go out and hire them as well. So -- KURTZ: Right, but -- CUBAN: -- it's really a fundamental decision. KURTZ: But you're not extending this to the local newspapers and local television stations. You want them in your locker room. I'm sure there are times when you don't like what they report. CUBAN: Oh, of course. KURTZ: Why are they in a different category? Why are they in a different category? CUBAN: Well, of course. There's plenty of times that they're going to report negative things. And again, let me say very clearly, it's not that I don't like negative things, it's just, that's just part of the game. But the reason why television and print, in particular, are very different, is because their consumers may not consume online information. There's a segment of the population that, you know, they're not hardcore sports fans, they're not hardcore political junkies. They get -- you know, they're happy just to watch the evening news, just to read the morning newspaper to get the information they need to satisfy whatever desires they have about sports or politics, or whatever it may be. They only way I'm going to reach them is by dealing with the newspapers and television and, to a certain extent, radio folks as well. That's just the reality. Will that change over time? Probably, but today it is what it is. KURTZ: So, you know, you're not saying that when you, for example, get fined for saying things about referees, or the NBA takes issue with what you said, that that shouldn't be covered. You know that's going to be covered. CUBAN: Well, of course. KURTZ: Yes. CUBAN: Of course. Look, more often than not, I announce the fines before the league does. (LAUGHTER) KURTZ: Get out in front of the story. That works in every situation. CUBAN: No, it's great -- you know, I got fined one time for complaining via Twitter. Right? I complained about the refs, I knew I was going to get fined. But I didn't do it because I had a problem with the refs, I did it because I knew it would jack up the number of Twitter followers that I had. KURTZ: Wait, you're saying -- CUBAN: It was purely a business decision. KURTZ: How much did that -- was the fine? How much did that tweet cost you? CUBAN: The tweet cost me $25,000, and I added a good -- KURTZ: And you're saying that was a good investment? (LAUGHTER) CUBAN: Exactly. KURTZ: All right. CUBAN: Exactly. KURTZ: Now, are you just venting about, you know, what these online writers and columnists do, or are you really seriously considering muscling them out of your locker room? CUBAN: No, I'm -- you know, I wouldn't call it muscling. I think that's a little pejorative. But I'm certainly evaluating what my alternatives are, like any good business would. I mean, it really has been surprising to me that, because I wanted to make a change in how I interact with Internet reporting, that there's been such a big response to it. Because the media is changing so quickly. You know, people are basically saying, Mark, you ought to keep things the way it's always been during this Internet -- you know, during the last 15 years of the Internet generation, when, in reality, so much has changed it's literally crazy not to adapt to what's happening in the media and Internet landscape. And so, it's not that I'm trying to control, it's not that I'm trying to kick people out or muscle them out. What I'm trying to do is figure out the best model for communicating with our consumers, our fans, our customers, our prospects, like any good business would. KURTZ: I'm sure other teams will be watching your example as well if you make some progress on that front. Let me switch to one of your other companies, your television network, HDNet. CUBAN: Sure. KURTZ: Several years ago, you hired Dan Rather. This, of course, was after he had left or had been forced out of the CBS anchor chair after that story about President Bush and the National Guard, and a whole lot of -- you know, which CBS had to retract. Not a lot of people were looking to hire Dan Rather at that time. Why did you take him on, create a weekly show for him? CUBAN: Well, first, I'm a big Dan Rather fan. I mean, I love the work he had done. You know, I got to sit and talk to him. He's a walking encyclopedia. He, you know, personifies journalism. You know, his goal is always to try to do his best to get the story right, even, you know, as in the case of CBS, even if it cost him dearly. And those are the types of things I wanted to support. You know, whether it's "Dan Rather Reports," Tuesday night on HDNet, "World Report" both Emmy-awarding winning, I just -- it's a guilty pleasure of mine and probably, you know, a bias of mine that I want to see somebody go out there and really try to get the story right. You know, there's no filters on Dan in any of the stories he does. I watch them on TV just like everybody else. I don't ask to see them before he does them. You know, I don't ask what the topics are. I don't look to see if they impact our advertisers. I just want him to go out and do the story right. And there's other -- you know, I look at it as doing the right thing -- KURTZ: Right. CUBAN: -- and supporting journalism, and there's other projects that I'm doing as well. KURTZ: One thing that's happened is that media writers aren't reporting that much on Dan Rather, in part because they're not seeing many of these reports. You know, HDNet is in about 23 million homes, so he doesn't have the audience that he had before. CUBAN: Right. KURTZ: Is that a big disadvantage, even for as big a star as Dan Rather, to be in a somewhat limited, niche network? CUBAN: Well, yes and no. I mean, on one hand, you know, HDNet is the largest independently-owned network in the country. Well, let me qualify it -- with Bloomberg. The largest independently-owned that charges a subscriber fee. Bloomberg is actually the largest. And it's about that independence -- KURTZ: So you don't worry about ratings? You don't worry about ratings? CUBAN: Well, I mean, I care about people watching, but I get to make my own decision. I get to make all the programming decisions, you know. And, you know, Dan isn't going to get millions of people watching, he's getting hundreds of thousands of people watching every show. But, at the same time, because of digital media, because a lot of the shows get posted, at least segments get posted online, the audience grows and grows. And good work attracts an audience and good work attracts respect. KURTZ: As a basketball guy, you'll understand this. The clock is winding down. Let me sneak in one more question. CUBAN: Sure. KURTZ: You've criticized news in general, the news media, as too corporate and too ratings-driven. What do you mean by that? CUBAN: Well, you know, there's different ways to evaluate it, and really, defining it as "too ratings-driven" it really depends which medium we're talking about. But, you know, I think, you know, newspapers, as an example, I think they're really leaving a lot of money on the table by not recognizing that they're in a digital environment. You know, I'll -- let's look at the paywall example at "The New York Times." You know, that has a chance to be very, very successful if they go beyond just news and start incorporating movies, documentaries, video, and really adding value to their subscribers and what they paid, a la a Netflix. KURTZ: But does "too corporate" mean "too timid," in your view? CUBAN: I think too stayed. You know, I think -- yes, you know what? I think timid is a good word, Howard, because I think right now, there's so many -- all these companies, it's kind of like the HDNet thing. HDNet is me, right? I make all the decisions. If you go to look at Time Warner and their news departments, you know, NBC Universal, Comcast, CBS, all these -- Disney -- all these corporate news departments, people are afraid of whether or not they're going to be able to keep their jobs, and that impacts their decision making. KURTZ: Right. CUBAN: That impacts how they view things, which drives them to look at ratings first and quality second. KURTZ: There's the final horn. Our time has expired. Mark Cuban, thanks very much for joining us. CUBAN: Thank you, Howard. I really enjoyed it. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: I was probably a little overdressed during that conversation. Still to come, a network journalist gets too cozy with the FBI. And what happened after a radio host admitted that he slept with interns? The "Media Monitor," straight ahead. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Time now for our "Media Monitor." This would be hard to believe, but it's in a government document. It turns out the FBI had a mole at ABC News, a journalist who not only provided information, but gave up a confidential source. According to FBI records obtained by the Center for Public Integrity -- and I edited this story for "The Daily Beast" -- a veteran ABC reporter gave the bureau information right after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1985. That information, involving rumors that Iraq might have played a role in the bombing, which of course turned out to be untrue. A year later, the journalist who was listed in FBI files as a confidential informant, sat down with bureau officials and revealed that his information had come from a former CIA officer named Vince Cannistraro, who had become an ABC consultant. Cannistraro says he himself provided the uncorroborated information directly to the FBI. Now, there's a real danger when journalists get too close to law enforcement. I'll quote ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider on this subject. "It can create a perception of collusion between the government and the news organization. It would put journalists everywhere at risk if people believe that journalists are acting as government agents." Now, we were cautious and didn't identify the journalist, but one who fit the description and didn't return calls was producer Chris Isham, now the Washington bureau chief for CBS. After Gawker named Isham as the FBI mole, he said in a statement, "The suggestion that I was an informant for the FBI is outrageous and untrue. In the heat of the Oklahoma City bombing, it would not be unusual for me or any other journalist to run information by a source within the FBI for conformation or to notify authorities about a pending terrorist attack." "But at no time did I compromise a confidence source with the FBI or anyone else. Mr. Cannistraro was not a confidential source, but rather a colleague -- a paid consultant to ABC News." That statement leaves a number of questions unanswered. It sounds like Isham is saying he may well have cooperated with the FBI, but didn't do anything wrong. He is welcome on this program if he'd like to try to clear this up. Controversial radio hosts have a way of talking themselves out of a job. The latest example, Jay Severin, who was fired this week by Boston's WTTK. He was talking about a sexual harassment case against the chairman of the company American Apparel and called the two former female employees who brought the suit "whores" and "liars." OK. That's pretty bad. Then Severin announced that he had sex with interns. Then he said this: "Those girls that got to sleep with me got to know their boss better. They got to go on trips. I don't think of myself as a monster or strange in any way because of that. All I was was a young man who was the boss and I did it because I could." The odd thing is Severin had said much worse. He was suspended a couple of years ago for calling Mexican immigrants "primitives" and "leeches." And sleeping with interns you supervise is pretty pathetic. But talking about it years later, didn't David Letterman do the same thing, not to mention Bill Clinton? Talk radio stations hire hosts to build an audience by saying outrageous things. Then they act shocked when they go too far. Maybe Severin was canned because his ratings were down. Finally, Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid "News of the World" has admitted wrongdoing in that phone-hacking scandal and offered to settle with actress Sienna Miller and other victims in the case. The paper today calling its conduct unacceptable. Maybe now the tabloid can apologize to "The New York Times" for saying its investigation of this outrage was meant only to tarnish its corporate rival, Murdoch. Well, that's it for this edition of RELIABLE SOURCES. I'm Howard Kurtz. Join us next Sunday morning, 11:00 a.m. Eastern, for another critical look at the media. "STATE OF THE UNION" with Candy Crowley begins right now.


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http://mmajunkie.com As a reminder, Spike TV tonight offers a full slate of UFC programming, including a new episode of "The Ultimate Fighter 13" that's followed by the debuts of "Countdown to UFC 130" and "In the Moment: Rampage Jackson"
"TUF 13" airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT, "In the Moment" debuts at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and the "Countdown" show airs at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.
The latter two focus on Saturday's UFC 130 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
"Countdown to UFC 130" replays air on Spike TV on Thursday at 3 p.m. ET/PT and Saturday at 6 p.m. ET/PT. (Versus and HDNet also air the half-hour special throughout the week.)
"In the Moment" replays air on Spike TV on Thursday at 12:30 a.m. ET/PT and Friday at 1:30 a.m. ET/PT.
In addition to the Jackson vs. Matt Hamill UFC 130 pay-per-view headliner, the "Countdown" show focuses on a co-main event between ex-champ Frank
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The "In the Moment" special follows Jackson's pre-fight preparations, told from his point of view with no narration.
The official UFC 130 card includes:
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- Matt Hamill vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
- Frank Mir vs. Roy Nelson
- Travis Browne vs. Stefan Struve
- Jorge Santiago vs. Brian Stann
- Thiago Alves vs. Rick Story
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- Demetrious Johnson vs. Miguel Torres
- Tim Boetsch vs. Kendall Grove
- Bart Palaszewski vs. Gleison Tibau
- Chris Cariaso vs. Michael McDonald
- Renan Barao vs. Cole Escovedo
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It's not often you get to play around with giant prototype military tow trucks, but then again, you don't get to drive robotic tanks every day either. The RG33L MRRMV is a platform modified version of the now in theater MRAP, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle. Basically a big-ass truck with a V-shaped blast force dissipating hull. This particular model is equipped with all the goodies necessary to go out and drag home up to forty tons of disabled vehicle.The extending boom crane can is capable of deadlifting twenty two tons.
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A pregnant woman and her 2 year old daughter have been killed after an Israeli airstrike caused their house to collapse in the Gaza strip early Sunday morning.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza said the woman, Nour Rasmi Hassan, was five months pregnant at the time of her death. Her daughter Rahaf Yahya Hassan was also killed, and three other family members were injured when their house was damaged from the airstrike near the al-Maslakh mosque in southern Gaza City.
The Israel Air Force had struck targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was launched at southern Israel from the enclave. It was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system in an area south of Ashkelon and no injuries were reported.
According to a statement from the Israeli army, Israeli forces responded to Gaza's rocket with airstrikes on "two Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip."
The Israeli army hold Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the region, despite much of the rocket fire being claimed by smaller militant groups operating in Gaza.
Earlier Saturday, however, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned Israel that following a string of "war crimes", Palestinians "will defend themselves by any means possible."
The latest rocket exchange comes amid escalating violence in the Gaza Strip, with further clashes erupting between Israeli soldiers and protesters on the border of east Bureij in the central Gaza Strip this morning.
On Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian boys, Marwan Barbakh, 13, and Khalil Othman, 15, at a rally east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The previous day, Israeli soldiers killed seven Palestinians protesting along the border separating the territory from Israel.
With eleven Palestinians killed in Gaza since Friday the Jordanian parliament Saturday accused Israel of "state terrorism" against the Palestinian people.
"The Israeli enemy, sapping the rights of the Palestinians on their own lands... and over their holy places, is exercising state terrorism before the eyes of the whole world," the parliament said in a statement carried by state news agency Petra.
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Blueberries! They're good for you! High in antioxidants! Delicious! Except when they're made out of "sugar, corn syrup, starch, hydrogenated oil, artificial flavors and artificial food dye blue No. 2 and red No. 40," as found in a new report.
The investigation, conducted by NaturalNewsTV, reveals the truth staring you in the face from the back of that box of "blueberry" muffins (or bagels, or bread, or scones, or many, many others). The blueberries, simply, aren't. They're made of wacky sounding concoctions like "blueberry bits," which, contrary to their title, are not blueberries. Not even bits of them. Sometimes a product maintains some tenuous connection to blueberry honesty with a "dash of blueberry puree concentrate." Sometimes there's just zero trace of blueberries at all.
Fake blueberry-ness is okay in, say, Skittles, or a popsicle. But not muffins in a box adorned with giant photos of blueberries. Next time you hit the grocery aisle, read the back of the package. Or, just buy actual blueberries—if you squeeze them and they don't burst into a puddle of partially hydrogenated soybean oil and dye, odds are you're safe. [NaturalNews.TV via LA Times]


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(Reuters) - The trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl should be closed to the public to protect the accuser in a case that has received national attention, the state's attorney general said on Thursday.
The case caused a national sensation earlier this month when the hacker activist group Anonymous publicized a picture of two young men carrying the girl by her wrists and ankles and released a video showing other young men joking about the alleged assault.
A defense attorney has also requested that the trial be closed. Both the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the defense have said that the accuser has also made the request.
A hearing on the motions before visiting Hamilton County Judge Tom Lipps is set for Friday in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court. In Ohio, it is easier to close juvenile hearings than adult trials.
Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays, both 16, are to face trial as juveniles next month in Steubenville, a city of 19,000 near the Pennsylvania border. Prosecutors say the two members of the high school football team there had raped a classmate at a party attended by many teammates last August.
Community leaders have criticized authorities, voicing suspicion they have avoided charging more players who could have been involved in order to protect the school's beloved football program.
Reuters is not identifying the accuser because she is a purported victim of sexual assault.
In his filing last week, Richmond's lawyer, Walter Madison, said closing the trial to the public would be the only way to protect witnesses from Anonymous, which has threatened to expose private information of anyone who helps protect his client from prosecution.
Also on Thursday, students from Ohio State University delivered a petition with 70,000 signatures to DeWine's office, demanding that everyone present at the party be charged to the fullest extent of the law.
DeWine met with three of the students in his office, where they discussed the judicial process, spokesman Dan Tierney told Reuters.
Days before testifying against Richmond and Mays, at least three teammates who attended the party received commitments from prosecutors that they would not be prosecuted for any crimes, according to documents Reuters received from a source directly involved in the case.
In letters from DeWine's office addressed to each student's lawyer, the state committed to not prosecuting Evan Westlake, Anthony Craig and Mark Cole, three witnesses for the prosecution.
But DeWine has said that his office had made no deal with any of the witnesses involved in the case. The office has said the investigation is continuing, and that a lack of evidence has prevented prosecutors from bringing more charges.
(Reporting By Drew Singer; Editing by Mary Wisniewski, Greg McCune and Lisa Von Ahn)


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Still getting bullied. I haven't dealt with that. Haven't dealt with thugs that try to control me. Big shots with small minds, they are making life unsafe. People that are so stupid they actually believe they scare me. I am scared, scared of the district attorneys office. Im not interested in going to war and ending up in front of the judge. Yet, I still have to get the resentments out and I have to learn to live with out having a reason to be pulled in front of the judges office. Its about older deeper resentments.
Im trying to live through the wrong people to solve my problems. Im on the edge, living dangerously. Im in delusion if I think my thinking is healthy, it is not, it is resentment based and could get me killed. However, more realistically I will end up humiliated and looked upon as a class clown that others don't have to take seriously.
Others are forcing me into a corral to compete with them. Im being forced against my will. I can leave. That is my only option. Im an honest honorable man. Many people don't like people like me as the rules I live by dull there life style. These people live by one ideal: authority. Either they rule or get ruled. My opinion: I don't have time to be a victim or the victimizer, nor am I interested in playing games. TRix are for kids!
Im hooked like a fish. I want to kill, I want to fight, I want to kill and fight anyone that looks or acts like the people that hurt me from my past. I am finding myself hanging out or around these undeveloped humanoids, and Im getting taken advantage by them. Im not sure what to do. Im overwhelmed. I need to walk away and get out of the harmful situation; grieve the loss and move on.
Its about Pride, its about humiliation. To be publicly humiliated sucks. Its almost to much for me. I want to kill.
I want to go back and fight some more.
I dont like being controlled by people that push power, when they have non. Bullies try to intimidate and scare. I haven't dealt with the bullies from the past. How can I deal with the ones from the present.
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Mastroianni readies for healthy spring after tough 2013
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Darin Mastroianni can only shake his head when he thinks about the fluke injury suffered last Spring Training that essentially derailed his season.
Mastroianni fouled a ball off his left ankle in late March in a Grapefruit League game against the Cardinals, but didn't think it would keep him out of action for long. He ended up making the team out of camp as a fourth outfielder, but aggravated the injury while trying to run early in the season and ultimately landed on the disabled list in mid-April.
Things only got worse from there, as he ended up needing surgery to repair a bone chip in his ankle in May before undergoing a second surgery on Oct. 17 to remove the fixation hardware originally placed in his ankle.
Mastroianni, who played in just 30 games with the Twins last year, spent the entire offseason in Minnesota rehabbing his ankle, and said Wednesday it's almost 100 percent and he doesn't need to wrap or tape it anymore.
"It feels good," Mastroianni said. "It's a little sore, but everything else is sore, too. But everything feels good. I plan to be ready for the first [Grapefruit League] game on [Feb. 28]. I'm not too worried about it. I think we'll get a better feel and see how it reacts when we get to game speed. But we'll get a good feel for that next week once camp really starts."
Mastroianni was taken off the 40-man roster this offseason, but said it doesn't change how he'll approach this spring. He's still competing for a spot as a fourth outfielder and knows the decision will ultimately be out of his control.
"The roster is their call, it's not my call," Mastroianni said. "I hope I'll be there, but I don't have much say other than going out and playing."


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Pete Hall picks out the players who starred in the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey.
Team of the Tournament
Guillermo De Amores - UruguayHaving conceded only three goals in seven games as Uruguay exceeded all expectations in reaching the Under-20 World Cup final in Istanbul, De Amores was handed the Golden Glove award in recognition of his solid performances. The Liverpool of Montevideo shot-stopper just edges out France's Alphonse Areola to secure a spot in this side, and whilst not grabbing the headlines with jaw-dropping saves, his calm and composed style sets him apart from the rest. Though De Amores is only 18 years old, he plays with a real confidence that should stand him in good stead for the future.
Guillermo Varela - UruguayMuch was expected of David Moyes' first Manchester United signing in Turkey, and he didn't disappoint. Both Varela and fellow full-back Gianni Rodriquez stifled opponents and contributed to La Celeste's incredible defensive record. The former was especially impressive in Uruguay's impressive display against Spain in the quarter-finals, stopping the tricky Gerard Deulofeu in his tracks, frustrating him so much he had to be withdrawn. Not spectacular going forward, but as resolute as they come in defence, Varela showed the maturity that could make him popular at Old Trafford, and see him called up to the first team sooner than previously thought.
Kurt Zouma - FrancePart of a France squad oozing in talent, the eventual champions have a lot to thank Zouma for as he stood strong when the strikers misfired. One of the youngest members of the squad, the 18-year-old has been a regular in the Saint-Etienne first-team fold for two seasons, and played a big part in their inaugural Coupe de la Ligue success last campaign. After missing the first two group games through injury, Zouma's return to the side coincided with notable improvement in the knock-out stages from the French, and his aerial ability proved vital in shutting out several teams en route to clinching the Under-20 crown.
Derik - SpainIt was a major shock when Spain were eliminated from the tournament after finishing the group stages with a 100% record, even beating the eventual winners France in the final group game with a weakened side. However, there was not much more centre-back Derik could do. As well as being strong in the tackle, the Real Madrid Castilla defender is very much a Mediterranean footballer, preferring to play the ball out from the back - a style that even earned him praise from Gary Neville, who said Derik's passing was "the best he had seen in years."
Ali Adnan - IraqPart of the fairytale story of the tournament, Ali Adnan was a key figure for Iraq as they surprised everyone by reaching the semi-finals in Turkey, finishing top of England's group in the process. The full-back has impressed so much that Turkish champions Galatasaray look set to make the 19-year-old the most high-profile player from his country of all time. Seventeen full international caps stood Ali Adnan in good stead pre-tournament, and his added experience showed on the pitch. He was a real threat going forward, as his late equaliser against a stunned England showed, and he could light up the Turk Telekom Arena should the deal with club side Baghdad FC go through.
Moses Odjer - GhanaAs Ghana surprised many by reaching the semi-finals with a string of comeback victories, 16-year-old Odjer also showed the world what he could do, and was at the heart of all that was good about the Black Satellites. Very much the engine room of the side, Odjer covered virtually every blade of grass in each appearance he made in Turkey, and lifted his side whenever they needed rousing, showing an enthusiasm which has attracted interest from England and France. It will be a huge surprise if the youngster remains in his homeland with Tema Youth for the coming season.
Paul Pogba - FranceThe most obvious pick of this selection after securing the well-deserved Golden Ball award, Pogba lived up to his superstar billing by reminding Manchester United fans what they are missing, performing adroitly throughout the whole tournament, driving Les Bleuets to their first U20 title. Leading by example, under pressure from being the most famous name to participate in Turkey, the all-action midfielder took games by the scruff of the neck, and carried his side. Along with partner Geoffrey Kondogbia, he dominated the middle of the park, and will certainly be even stronger for Serie A champions Juventus as they attempt to retain the Scudetto once more.
Juan Quintero - ColombiaOne of the stars of the tournament, Quintero was unfortunate to be part of a Colombia side eliminated in the last 16 by South Korea, despite coming into the tournament on the back of a brilliant team display at the Sudamericano. The magical winger lit up games with a dazzling array of skills that mesmerised opponents, and persuaded Portuguese giants Porto to part with their cash to land the 20-year old. He also had a finishing product to match, with two brilliant goals, including a last-gasp free-kick against the Koreans to force their last-16 tie to extra-time. There seems no end to what he can do.
Bruma - PortugalAnother player who came into the tournament with a big reputation was Bruma, who even prior to kick-off in Turkey was compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, and the comparisons were hard to avoid after a string of goalscoring displays. An incredible five goals and two assists in four games before Portugal were surprisingly eliminated in the last 16 put pay to any doubts the 18-year-old would buckle under the weight of expectation. And, with his wizardry on the wing, as well as the ability to cut inside to devastating effect, the talented Sporting Lisbon forward looks set for a bright future.
Nico Lopez - UruguayNicknamed 'the Rabbit' due to his trickiness in and around the box, Lopez had to spearhead the Uruguay attack on his own, and his haul of four goals was pivotal to La Celeste reaching the final. Capable of conjuring a chance out of nothing, youngster Lopez has electrifying pace, and his unpredictability means that he was a serious handful for defenders throughout the tournament. He's just moved to Udinese from Roma, and with the composure on the ball he has, he certainly has the potential to be a major star for both club and country.
Jese - SpainIf Spain had progressed further than the quarter-final stage and gone on to win the tournament as many predicted, then Jese would certainly have been a challenger for the Golden Boot crown. From a wide position, the Real Madrid academy graduate glides around the pitch with ease, and his five goals in as many games are no fluke with the ability he possesses. Opting for finesse finishes rather than power, Jese makes scoring goals look effortless, and further first-team call-ups for Los Blancos may not be too far off if he continues to develop as he is currently.
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THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE SOCIO-POLITICS OF JUSTICE by Kristen Fuhs A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Kristen Fuhs
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Widening Horizons update publishedFeb 12, 2020
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- The 13-year-old was found in about 4 feet of water
- Lifeguards were not on duty at the time
- The Pop Century Resort is in Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando
Two days after he was pulled from the bottom of a swimming pool at a Disney resort in Florida, a 13-year-old boy from Missouri has died.
Anthony Johnson had been playing in a pool at Disney's Pop Century Resort on Sunday. No lifeguards were on duty at the time; signs were posted warning that swimmers swam at their own risk.
Relatives said Anthony was jumping in and out with friends when they noticed him missing, and pulled him out within minutes, according to CNN affiliate WFTV.
The boy died Tuesday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
"We are saddened by Anthony Johnson's passing and our hearts go out to his family, friends and loved ones," a statement from Disney said. "We have reached out to his family to offer care and assistance during this difficult time."
William Cybulski, a firefighter who was vacationing from Buffalo, New York, said he helped another vacationing firefighter and a doctor give CPR to the boy.
"You never want to see something like that, especially when you're on vacation, or any child in general no matter where you are," Cybulski told CNN affiliate WKMG.
Cybulski's girlfriend, Crystal Loschiavo, told the station that she did her best to keep the family calm, and tried to soothe Johnson's brother.
"The little boy was really upset that it was his brother," Loschiavo said. "He kept saying 'this is my only brother, this is my only brother. I don't want anything to happen to him.'"
The Pop Century Resort is located in the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando.
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