The video entertainment industry is undergoing a period of transition. Which is really just another way of saying it’s entering into a period of format wars not unlike the past DVD vs Blu-ray war. This time, it will be over HDR technology. While many equipment makers and content creators throw the word “HDR” around, it currently means a lot of … Continue reading
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BILL O’REILLY IS OUT The Fox star has been let go from the network following a mass exodus of advertisers over sexual harassment allegations. Executives at Fox reportedly fear more will come out in the coming months. O’Reilly’s name has already been scrubbed from “The Factor,” a show he hosted to much acclaim for 20 years, and Tucker Carlson is taking over his time slot. This is what Twitter thinks O’Reilly will do next. Here’s how the rise of President Donald Trump led to O’Reilly’s fall. And take a look at the timeline of the “nine and a half months that shook Fox News.” [HuffPost]
THE WHITE HOUSE SUPER BOWL SHOWING WAS A BIT LACKLUSTER Tom Brady had to stay home for “family matters.” But who didn’t love Rob Gronkowski crashing a Sean Spicer briefing? [HuffPost]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS DEPORTED DREAMER “At stake is whether the Trump administration can credibly claim that it isn’t targeting DACA recipients, even as the president brags that he has unleashed immigration agents to make their own decisions about whom to remove from the country.” [HuffPost]
THIS MOM FILMED THE POLICE WHILE HER 10-YEAR-OLD SON WITH AUTISM WAS ARRESTED The child then spent the night behind bars. [HuffPost]
UC BERKELEY POSTPONES ANN COULTER TALK Over “fears of violence.” [HuffPost]
WHAT A WASHINGTON POST HEADLINE “Roger Stone helped Donald Trump Get Elected President. Now He’s Helping Himself.” [WaPo]
HAVE AN AMAZON ECHO? You can now ask Alexa to listen to The Morning Email! Start your day with a quick update on the latest news by enabling our skill here. [HuffPost]
STOP THE PRESSES, SERENA WILLIAMS IS PREGNANT The GOAT is expecting (and might have won the Australian Open while pregnant), and we could not be more excited. Also, for those that don’t know what GOAT means, it’s Greatest Of All Time. Thankfully, we still have a sibling in high school to keep us hip to these things. [HuffPost]
AND THE WINNER OF PEOPLE’S ‘MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN’ TITLE Has now won five times. [HuffPost]
SAY GOODBYE TO LATE NIGHT Why you should be worried about the impending Writers Guild of America strike. [HuffPost]
WE HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS ‘JUICERO’ NONSENSE Someone convinced a bunch of investors to put their money into something that literally squeezes bags of juice … which you could also do for free with your hands. [HuffPost]
EVE NEVER SAYS NO TO LEARNING Or sequels. We cannot wait for the “Life-Size” follow-up that Tyra Banks has signed onto. [Variety]
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Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge seems to believe it’s high time she defended her choice to sometimes smoke pot with her kids.
The “Come To My Window” singer caused a stir recently when she said she lit up with her 18-year-old son Beckett and 20-year-old daughter Bailey.
“People will judge my mothering or whatever,” the 55-year-old performer said Wednesday on “Access Hollywood.” “My kids grew up in Southern California. It’s not a crazy thing. It was a decision. It’s not something I do a lot, at all, hardly.”
“It was an experience that was kind of family and sacred,” she added. Being judged “breaks my heart a little bit.”
Toking together “brings you closer,” she told Yahoo’s “Weed & The American Family” earlier this week.
“I’d much rather have a smoke with my grown kids than a drink,” she said.
Etheridge reportedly has been smoking recreationally since she was 21 and used marijuana during treatment after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Nearly half of parents who use marijuana have done so in front of their “usually adult” children or smoked with them, according to a Yahoo/Marist poll.
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Sounds like HTC’s busy preparing for a big event in its home country: the electronics maker has just sent out a Save the Date for May 16th. Invites like this are typically shrouded in mystery, and HTC’s is no different. All the invitation says is “Sq…
“We are sending an armada, very powerful,” President Donald Trump said over a week ago when asked about the tensions in North Korea. As it turns out, that “armada” wasn’t heading anywhere near North Korea. And sadly, some very important allies are now nervously laughing at Trump’s lies.
Most of our interactions with our devices, be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone, happens in the web browser. We practically live in our web browers, something Google’s Chrome OS is trying to exploit. So when browser become slow or, worse, crash, it can be an infuriating experience. Google Chrome has tried to address that problem by running each … Continue reading
Let’s face it. Having a Yahoo email address these days is seen as a stigma and a liability. Aside from being “old”, recent revelations have called into question the security of having a Yahoo account. As such, it won’t be surprising if Yahoo experienced a mass exodus of users trying to protect themselves from hacks and massive leaks. Attempting to … Continue reading
President Donald Trump was apparently once on the scent of a film cameo.
Chris O’Donnell told host Conan O’Brien on his show Wednesday that Trump arranged a bit part in the classic movie “Scent of a Woman.”
O’Donnell said that Trump had a deal in which he would appear in movies shot on location at the Plaza Hotel in New York City ― which he owned at the time. So one day, new script pages appeared with Trump and then-girlfriend Marla Maples in a scene for “Scent of a Woman,” the 1992 movie in which O’Donnell played a student looking after a blind veteran played by Al Pacino.
“[Trump] looked the same going into hair and makeup as he did when he left,” O’Donnell said.
But there would be no Hollywood ending for Trump on this film. The scene got cut, O’Donnell said.
Watch the fun above.
Well, Mr. President, you’ll always have “Home Alone 2.”
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Anita Hill once inspired a national movement across the country for women to speak out against sexual harassment in the workplace. Now, in the wake of Bill O’Reilly’s harassment accusations and his subsequent departure from Fox News, Hill is calling for another change in the way U.S. society makes excuses for men in positions of power.
“The problem with sexual harassment isn’t just because people behave badly,” said Hill, now a professor of social policy and women’s studies, in a USA Today interview published Wednesday. “The problem is our inability to develop productive responses to it, and that exists because of our culture that accepts it, because that culture then gets built into how we approach solutions to it.”
“It gets built into the choices we make about who can be believed,” she added. “And even when we find sexual harassment exists, the solutions are very often to move the women who have complained to other positions.”
In 1991, Hill testified in front of an all-male panel of congress members against her former boss Clarence Thomas, who was waiting to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. During the hearings, which were broadcasted to millions of Americans across the country, Hill described all the sexually explicit comments she said Thomas had made while she worked for him as a federal government employee.
Her testimony was controversial and subjected to extreme scrutiny, but it also marked one of the first times that workplace sexual harassment was examined as a public issue. Hill’s testimony inspired thousands of women to speak out against harassment ― an act that was unheard of at the time.
In her interview with USA Today, Hill said that despite all the progress that’s been made, people still make excuses for men’s predatory behavior. She recalled President Donald Trump dismissing his “grab them by the pussy” comments as “locker room talk.”
“We have a whole host of people accepting that as just something men do as opposed to understanding it as predatory behavior that is not only immoral but is also illegal,” Hill told the USA Today. “We had some social forces coming together but we had a cultural excuse that overlaid [Trump’s] statement or his explanation.”
Hill added that women now have more opportunities than she did to speak out against harassment, giving as an example former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s blog post, which detailed how the company had handled her sexual harassment claim.
“The idea that these kinds of behaviors can stay hidden is fading because there are ways to get them out. I think the key is to keep pushing,” Hill said. “When you deal with someone like Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, the key is for people to keep coming forward.”
O’Reilly was dropped from Fox News on Wednesday after sexual harassment accusations resurfaced. Similarly, Ailes stepped down as CEO of Fox News in September after a sexual harassment lawsuit ended in a hefty settlement.
Hill’s comments on O’Reilly’s controversy and Fowler’s HR complaints echoed an op-ed she penned for The Washington Post this month, in which she argued that organizations have no excuse for not holding themselves accountable for sexual harassment.
“Sexual harassment is about control, power and those who abuse it,” Hill wrote for the Post. “It can be stopped only when companies recognize that everyone benefits when women can work in a workplace that is abuse-free.”
Read Hill’s full interview with USA Today here.
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