- Donald Trump Personally Blasts the Press (New Yorker) "This is where we are. The President-elect does not care who knows how unforgiving or vain or distracted he is. This is who he is, and this is who will be running the executive branch of the United States government for four years. Participants said that Trump did not seem entirely rational about his criticism of the media, nor did he appear any more informed about policy than he had been during the campaign. When one participant pointed out that all Presidents and Presidential candidates believe they get bad press, Trump said, 'Not Obama!'" and Trump meeting with media a ‘f---ing firing squad’ (The Hill) and Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump (NYT) "The new president will be a man who constantly accuses the media of getting things wrong but routinely misrepresents and twists facts himself."
- Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds (WSJ) "Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. Many students judged the credibility of newsy tweets based on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source."
BUSINESS:
BUSINESS:
- Facebook wants to enter China so bad it’s reportedly building censorship tools (Quartz)
- Patagonia Is Donating All Its Black Friday Sales to Charity (Mashable)
NEWS:
- With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight (NYT) "The president-elect was also asked about a meeting with a British politician, Nigel Farage, shortly after the election. According to a person present at that meeting, Mr. Trump encouraged Mr. Farage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar the view from one of his Scottish golf courses. 'I might have brought it up,' he [Trump] said during his lunch at The Times."
- Donald Trump lost most of the American economy in this election (WaPo) "According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year. 'This is a picture of a very polarized and increasingly concentrated economy,' said Mark Muro, the policy director at the Brookings metro program, 'with the Democratic base aligning more to that more concentrated modern economy, but a lot of votes and anger to be had in the rest of the country.'"
- Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump (Politico) "The 538 members who comprise the Electoral College are slated to gather in their respective state capitals on Dec. 19 to cast the formal vote for president. Trump won the popular vote in states making up 290 electoral votes — and he’s leading narrowly in Michigan, which carries another 16 electoral votes. If all of them vote for Trump, he’ll win 306 electoral votes, easily exceeding the 270-vote majority he needs to become president. That's why the magic number is 37 Republican defections." and Could Libs Really Flip the Electoral College? (Rush Limbaugh) "Yeah. Look, I think your concern is real. I have more concern about this than the experts that I just talked about. Everyone I've talked to says, 'Naw, naw nothing there. They can't. It's impossible. No matter what kind of pressure's brought to bear, death threats, it's impossible.' I don't believe it. I'm not gonna believe this 'til it happens."
- Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency (New Yorker)
SPORTS:
- Thirty years after Mike Tyson became champion, unfulfilled promise is the lasting memory (WaPo) "But Mike Tyson the fighter? In retrospect, the whole added up to less than the sum of its parts."
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- Patagonia Is Donating All Its Black Friday Sales to Charity (Mashable)
NEWS:
- With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight (NYT) "The president-elect was also asked about a meeting with a British politician, Nigel Farage, shortly after the election. According to a person present at that meeting, Mr. Trump encouraged Mr. Farage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar the view from one of his Scottish golf courses. 'I might have brought it up,' he [Trump] said during his lunch at The Times."
- Donald Trump lost most of the American economy in this election (WaPo) "According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year. 'This is a picture of a very polarized and increasingly concentrated economy,' said Mark Muro, the policy director at the Brookings metro program, 'with the Democratic base aligning more to that more concentrated modern economy, but a lot of votes and anger to be had in the rest of the country.'"
- Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump (Politico) "The 538 members who comprise the Electoral College are slated to gather in their respective state capitals on Dec. 19 to cast the formal vote for president. Trump won the popular vote in states making up 290 electoral votes — and he’s leading narrowly in Michigan, which carries another 16 electoral votes. If all of them vote for Trump, he’ll win 306 electoral votes, easily exceeding the 270-vote majority he needs to become president. That's why the magic number is 37 Republican defections." and Could Libs Really Flip the Electoral College? (Rush Limbaugh) "Yeah. Look, I think your concern is real. I have more concern about this than the experts that I just talked about. Everyone I've talked to says, 'Naw, naw nothing there. They can't. It's impossible. No matter what kind of pressure's brought to bear, death threats, it's impossible.' I don't believe it. I'm not gonna believe this 'til it happens."
- Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency (New Yorker)
SPORTS:
- Thirty years after Mike Tyson became champion, unfulfilled promise is the lasting memory (WaPo) "But Mike Tyson the fighter? In retrospect, the whole added up to less than the sum of its parts."
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