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Contents:

• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
• AM I GAY?
• GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• BACHELOR ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY ON GMA: ‘I RAN FROM MYSELF FOR A LONG TIME’ (WATCH)
• HOW TO SAY ARE YOU GAY RSIAN
• AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT STRIK ALS WH OPENAI FOR THIS NEXT EM, I TURN OVER TO MY POYNTER LLEAGUE ANNIE AGUIAR. A $5 LN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT AND OPENAI, THE ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE REARCH AND VELOPMENT PANY BEHD CHATGPT, WILL EXPLORE WAYS AI N SUPPORT LOL NEWS, A SIGN OF THE NEWS MEDIA STAKG A CLAIM THE RAPIDLY EXPANDG FIELD OF GENERATIVE AI. OPENAI WILL GIVE $5 LN TO AJP, THE VENTURE PHILANTHROPIC ANIZATN THAT PROVIS FUNDG TO LOL NEWS IATIV LIKE HOTON LANDG, CAPAL B, THE MARSHALL PROJECT AND OTHER LOL NONPROF SHOPS, ADDN TO $5 LN OPENAI API CREDS (SENTIALLY, A FEE FOR EACH TIME A PROJECT SENDS A REQUT TO OPENAI’S LARGER SYSTEM) TO BE ED BY AJP AND S PORTFOL ANIZATNS.  OTHER PLANS OM AJP AND S LOL NEWS ANIZATNS CLU: CREATG A TECHNOLOGY AND AI STUD TO ASSS APPLYG AI WH LOL NEWS, GIVG ANIZATNS ACHG ON HOW TO E TOOLS, AND WORK WH OPENAI AND OTHER AI VENDORS TO SUPPORT JOURNALISM AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MISRMATN DISTRIBUTG GRANTS DIRECTLY TO 10 OF S ANIZATNS TO EXPLORE AI APPLITNS “IN THE EARLY DAYS OF GENERATIVE AI, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO ENSURE THAT LOL NEWS ANIZATNS, AND THEIR MUNI, ARE VOLVED SHAPG S IMPLITNS,” SAID SARABETH BERMAN, CEO OF THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT, A PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG THE AL. “WH THIS PARTNERSHIP, WE AIM TO PROMOTE WAYS FOR AI TO ENHANCE — RATHER THAN IMPERIL — JOURNALISM.” THIS ISN’T OPENAI’S FIRST FORAY TO LLABORATG WH THE PRS, AS LAST WEEK THE PANY STCK A AL WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS TO E THE AP’S TEXT ARCHIVE TO TRA S AI ALGORHMS. IN RETURN, THE AP WOULD GET PUT ON S OWN AI WORK OM OPENAI. (YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THE AL OM AXS.) THE AP HAS ED AI SCE AT LEAST 2014, WHEN STARTED EXPERIMENTG WH TOMATG EARNGS REPORTS. HISTORY SHOWS THAT JOURNALISTS AND NEWS NSUMERS SHOULD BE WARY OF ANY NEWS ANIZATN GETTG TO A MULTILN-DOLLAR BS PARTNERSHIP WH A PANY POISED TO BE A MAJOR NEWSMAKER YEARS TO E. HANDLED RIGHT, HOWEVER, THE TYP OF PARTNERSHIPS N PROVI MOLS FOR AI-DRIVEN SOLUTNS AT THE LOL LEVEL. ON A NATNAL SLE, AI IS AN EMERGG AREA OF FOC FOR BIG PUBLITNS LIKE THE WASHGTON POST, AND LOL-CENTERED AI SOLUTNS ULD HELP PREVENT A WING NOVATN GAP BETWEEN NATNAL AND LOL. BUT FLAWED AG OF AI FOR DIGAL NEWS NTENT HAVE GARNERED ANGER OM NEWS STAFF RECENT WEEKS. ANY IMPLEMENTATN OF THIS TECHNOLOGY A LOL NEWS ENVIRONMENT WHOUT REFUL NSIRATN ULD STAND TO EVEN FURTHER STABILIZE AN ALREADY SHAKY ESYSTEM, AND ’S EASY TO SEE REPEATED FACTUAL ERRORS ON A LOL LEVEL PILG UP TO ERO TST EVEN MORE. IT’S ALSO EASY TO SEE TOOLS VELOPED OM THE PARTNERSHIPS BEG ED BY SCPULO DIGAL NEWS PUBLISHERS TO MIMIZE PAYROLL STS AND SPREAD MISRMATN OUTSI OF THE PURVIEW OF AJP AND THE AP’S ETHIL GUIL. BUT POTENTIAL PFALLS N ONLY DO SO MUCH TO STOP THE EVABLE MARCH OF THE KD OF NOVATN BEG PHED AS HARD AS AI. FROM OPENAI’S PERSPECTIVE, PARTNERSHIPS WH NEWS ANIZATNS MAKE SENSE, BUT UNANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT AI JOURNALISM ST A SHADOW OVER THE ENTERPRISE. THE PARTNERSHIPS N BE READ AS AN IMPLIC PROMISE: WE ARE NOT TRYG TO TAKE YOUR JOB WH THE TECHNOLOGI, BUT MAKE THEM BETTER. THE TECHNOLOGY’S HERE ANYWAY. WHILE A LOT OF THE TALK AROUND GENERATIVE AI IS NJECTURE, WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE THG IS TE: THERE’S NO STOPPG THIS TRA. IT’S A SAVVY MOVE FOR AJP AND THE AP TO HOP ABOARD AND SEE WHERE GO, BUT A SRY ONE WHEN TO HANGG ON. CALL OF THE DAY FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS ON THE SET OF HIS BUT SHOW MONDAY NIGHT. (CHARL SYK/INVISN/AP) DID FOX NEWS HIRE THE RIGHT WATTERS TO REPLACE TUCKER CARLSON PRIME TIME? JSE WATTERS MA HIS BUT ON MONDAY, BUT ONE OF HIS GUTS STOLE THE SHOW: HIS MOM. WATTERS FISHED UP HIS GURAL SHOW BY TAKG A PHONE LL OM HIS MOTHER, ANNE, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT. SHE HAD PLENTY OF ADVICE FOR HOW HER SON SHOULD HOST HIS SHOW. AFTER PRAISG HIM FOR HIS HARD WORK AND HOW PROUD SHE IS OF HIM, SHE SAID, “DO NOT TUMBLE TO ANY NSPIRACY RABB HOL. WE DO NOT WANT TO LOSE YOU AND WE WANT NO LAWSUS.” THAT SEEMED LIKE A VEILED SHOT AT CARLSON, WHO LOST HIS JOB NOT LONG AFTER FOX NEWS PAID DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS $787.5 LN TO SETTLE A FAMATN LAWSU. MOM THEN SAID, “IN KEEPG WH THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH, DO NO HARM. WE NEED YOU TO BE KD AND RPECTFUL. USE YOUR VOICE RPONSIBLY TO PROMOTE NVERSATN THAT MATAS A NARRATIVE THREAD. THERE REALLY HAS BEEN ENOUGH BIN-BASHG AND THE LAPTOP IS OLD. PERHAPS YOU ULD SUGGT THAT YOUR PEOPLE TAKE LS TERT, FOR EXAMPLE, OTHER PEOPLE’S BODI AND TALK ABOUT THAT.” SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT TMP, TELLG WATTERS, “YOU ULD ENURAGE THAT BEDMSTER IEND OF YOURS TO RETURN TO HIS EARLIER REER ON TELEVISN. EVERYONE HIS DIENCE ULD WEAR A RED HAT AND I’M SURE THE RATGS WOULD SOAR, ALTHOUGH NEVER AS HIGH, MY DARLG, AS YOURS.” CAN WE GET HER ON EVERY NIGHT? HOW MANY WATCHED? BY THE WAY, WATTERS’ BUT SHOW AVERAGED 2.4 LN VIEWERS. THAT’S NEARLY A LN FEWER THAN CARLSON’S FAL SHOW, WHICH AVERAGED 3.2 LN VIEWERS. AS MEDIA REPORTER BRIAN STELTER NOTED, WATTERS’ NUMBERS WERE NIGHT ONE AND AFTER “HEAVY PROMOTN.” MEDIA TIDBS MARGARET SULLIVAN’S LATT MEDIA LUMN FOR THE GUARDIAN US: “I TOOK RFK JR’S PHONE LL LONG AGO. NOW I REGRET .” THE ATLANTIC HAS HIRED MICHAEL POWELL, WHO HAS BEEN AT THE NEW YORK TIM SCE 2007. AT THE TIM, POWELL HAS BEEN A NATNAL REPORTER VERG ISSU AROUND EE SPEECH. IN THE PAST, POWELL WROTE THE “GOTHAM” LUMN FOR THE METRO SECTN AND WROTE THE “SPORTS OF THE TIM” LUMN. HE WORKED AT THE WASHGTON POST BEFORE JOG THE TIM. THE ATLANTIC ALSO HIRED ZOë SCHLANGER TO VER ISSU OF CLIMATE, WHICH WILL CLU A NEWSLETTER LLED “THE WEEKLY PLA.” SCHLANGER HAS BEEN A STAFFER AT NEWSWEEK AND QUARTZ, AND ALSO HAS BEEN A NTRIBUTOR TO, AMONG OTHER OUTLETS, THE ATLANTIC AND THE NEW YORK TIM. THE TEXAS TRIBUNE’S WILLIAM MELHADO AND ALEJANDRO SERRANO WH “TEXAS A&M TERIM AN RIGNS AFTER UNIVERSY BACKTRACKS ON HIRG PROFSOR TO REVIVE JOURNALISM PROGRAM.” AXS’ SARA FISCHER AND KERRY FLYNN WH “VOX MEDIA DROPS S OWN CMS.” AUD OM NPR’S “POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR” AS LDA HOLM, ERIC DEGGANS, MIKE KATZIF AND JSI REEDY BREAK DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD ACTORS AND WRERS STRIKE. LIZ KRTZ IS JOG NBC NEWS AS A RRPONNT BASED LOS ANGEL. SHE WILL VER ALL NEWS THE WTERN REGN FOR ALL NBC NEWS PLATFORMS, CLUDG MSNBC. KRTZ JOS NBC OM ABC7 SAN FRANCIS WHERE SHE WAS AN ANCHOR AND REPORTER. BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS AN EVENG ANCHOR AND REPORTER SACRAMENTO AT ABC AFFILIATE KXTV. HOT TYPE THIS PIECE IS LONG, BUT WELL WORTH . SIMPLY OUTSTANDG OM THE NEW YORKER’S EY NSBM: “COUNTRY MIC’S CULTURE WARS AND THE REMAKG OF NASHVILLE.” CATCHG UP ON THIS EXCELLENT JIM AXELROD PIECE OM LAST WEEKEND’S “CBS SUNDAY MORNG”: “KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: ‘THERE ARE TIM WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK THE TTH.’” WALL STREET JOURNAL SPORTS LUMNIST JASON GAY WH “I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THIS TOUR FRANCE IS.” MORE ROURC FOR JOURNALISTS

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change.

I me out at a nservative Christian llege the US and was a gay relatnship for around two years wh a basketball player who end up marryg a woman.

Well, you mt have been gay the whole time, some might thk, and bee of some relig shame, you cid to lie to yourself and experiment wh a girl. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.

” Vios started circulatg on the ter featurg gay people askg straight people “when they chose to be straight.

” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy.

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.

” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backward – even if they are themselv, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The Cy fame. In a 2012 terview wh New York Tim Magaze, the actrs sually mentned that homosexualy was, for her, a choice. “I unrstand that for many people ’s not, but for me ’s a choice, and you don’t get to fe my gayns for me.

Callg me “idtic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the relig right uldn’t have wrten any better. ”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay. Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Profsor of Psychology at Universy of Tennsee, for stance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexualy is nate still hold negative views of gays.

AM I GAY?

In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance. Instead, she suggts hg on the fact that far more people are now personally acquated wh someone who is gay. In 1985, only 24% of Amerin rponnts said they had a gay iend, relative or -worker —  2013, that number was at 75%.

“It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists.

GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

“They tell me my own homo-negativy is beg manifted my work, ” says Grzanka.

Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins.

And when I published my say on choosg to be gay, an irate Amerin lbian activist wrote me that had “jt been nfirmed” to her that my wrg was “directly rponsible for four gay aths Rsia.

BACHELOR ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY ON GMA: ‘I RAN FROM MYSELF FOR A LONG TIME’ (WATCH)

There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected. The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure.

— but bee they’re qutn of what leads to homosexualy the first place, however, is obscure, even to the experts. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors.

HOW TO SAY ARE YOU GAY RSIAN

”Siarly, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn wr a 2013 statement that while the of heterosexualy and homosexualy are currently unknown, they are likely “multifactorial cludg blogil and behavral roots which may vary between different dividuals and may even vary over time. ”Te, var eye-grabbg headl over the years have claimed that some scientists have found somethg like The Gay Gene.

” Acrdg to LeVay’s rearch, a specific part of the bra, the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3), is smaller homosexual men than is heterosexual as they might, scientists have stggled to inty any particular gen that nsistently predict the directns of our love and sire (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Read moreYou n spot the problem wh this study a e away: were the gay bras LeVay studied born that way, or did they bee that way? Another landmark paper on the origs of homosexualy was published 1993 by a geicist named Dean Hamer, who was terted to learn whether homosexualy uld be hered. Begng om his observatn that there are more gay relativ on a mother’s si than a father’s, Hamer turned his attentn to the X chromosome (which is passed on by the mother).

He then reced 40 pairs of gay brothers and got to work. ”A 2015 study sought to nfirm Hamer’s fdgs, this time wh a much larger sample: 409 pairs of gay brothers.

AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT STRIK ALS WH OPENAI FOR THIS NEXT EM, I TURN OVER TO MY POYNTER LLEAGUE ANNIE AGUIAR. A $5 LN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT AND OPENAI, THE ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE REARCH AND VELOPMENT PANY BEHD CHATGPT, WILL EXPLORE WAYS AI N SUPPORT LOL NEWS, A SIGN OF THE NEWS MEDIA STAKG A CLAIM THE RAPIDLY EXPANDG FIELD OF GENERATIVE AI. OPENAI WILL GIVE $5 LN TO AJP, THE VENTURE PHILANTHROPIC ANIZATN THAT PROVIS FUNDG TO LOL NEWS IATIV LIKE HOTON LANDG, CAPAL B, THE MARSHALL PROJECT AND OTHER LOL NONPROF SHOPS, ADDN TO $5 LN OPENAI API CREDS (SENTIALLY, A FEE FOR EACH TIME A PROJECT SENDS A REQUT TO OPENAI’S LARGER SYSTEM) TO BE ED BY AJP AND S PORTFOL ANIZATNS.  OTHER PLANS OM AJP AND S LOL NEWS ANIZATNS CLU: CREATG A TECHNOLOGY AND AI STUD TO ASSS APPLYG AI WH LOL NEWS, GIVG ANIZATNS ACHG ON HOW TO E TOOLS, AND WORK WH OPENAI AND OTHER AI VENDORS TO SUPPORT JOURNALISM AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MISRMATN DISTRIBUTG GRANTS DIRECTLY TO 10 OF S ANIZATNS TO EXPLORE AI APPLITNS “IN THE EARLY DAYS OF GENERATIVE AI, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO ENSURE THAT LOL NEWS ANIZATNS, AND THEIR MUNI, ARE VOLVED SHAPG S IMPLITNS,” SAID SARABETH BERMAN, CEO OF THE AMERIN JOURNALISM PROJECT, A PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG THE AL. “WH THIS PARTNERSHIP, WE AIM TO PROMOTE WAYS FOR AI TO ENHANCE — RATHER THAN IMPERIL — JOURNALISM.” THIS ISN’T OPENAI’S FIRST FORAY TO LLABORATG WH THE PRS, AS LAST WEEK THE PANY STCK A AL WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS TO E THE AP’S TEXT ARCHIVE TO TRA S AI ALGORHMS. IN RETURN, THE AP WOULD GET PUT ON S OWN AI WORK OM OPENAI. (YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THE AL OM AXS.) THE AP HAS ED AI SCE AT LEAST 2014, WHEN STARTED EXPERIMENTG WH TOMATG EARNGS REPORTS. HISTORY SHOWS THAT JOURNALISTS AND NEWS NSUMERS SHOULD BE WARY OF ANY NEWS ANIZATN GETTG TO A MULTILN-DOLLAR BS PARTNERSHIP WH A PANY POISED TO BE A MAJOR NEWSMAKER YEARS TO E. HANDLED RIGHT, HOWEVER, THE TYP OF PARTNERSHIPS N PROVI MOLS FOR AI-DRIVEN SOLUTNS AT THE LOL LEVEL. ON A NATNAL SLE, AI IS AN EMERGG AREA OF FOC FOR BIG PUBLITNS LIKE THE WASHGTON POST, AND LOL-CENTERED AI SOLUTNS ULD HELP PREVENT A WING NOVATN GAP BETWEEN NATNAL AND LOL. BUT FLAWED AG OF AI FOR DIGAL NEWS NTENT HAVE GARNERED ANGER OM NEWS STAFF RECENT WEEKS. ANY IMPLEMENTATN OF THIS TECHNOLOGY A LOL NEWS ENVIRONMENT WHOUT REFUL NSIRATN ULD STAND TO EVEN FURTHER STABILIZE AN ALREADY SHAKY ESYSTEM, AND ’S EASY TO SEE REPEATED FACTUAL ERRORS ON A LOL LEVEL PILG UP TO ERO TST EVEN MORE. IT’S ALSO EASY TO SEE TOOLS VELOPED OM THE PARTNERSHIPS BEG ED BY SCPULO DIGAL NEWS PUBLISHERS TO MIMIZE PAYROLL STS AND SPREAD MISRMATN OUTSI OF THE PURVIEW OF AJP AND THE AP’S ETHIL GUIL. BUT POTENTIAL PFALLS N ONLY DO SO MUCH TO STOP THE EVABLE MARCH OF THE KD OF NOVATN BEG PHED AS HARD AS AI. FROM OPENAI’S PERSPECTIVE, PARTNERSHIPS WH NEWS ANIZATNS MAKE SENSE, BUT UNANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT AI JOURNALISM ST A SHADOW OVER THE ENTERPRISE. THE PARTNERSHIPS N BE READ AS AN IMPLIC PROMISE: WE ARE NOT TRYG TO TAKE YOUR JOB WH THE TECHNOLOGI, BUT MAKE THEM BETTER. THE TECHNOLOGY’S HERE ANYWAY. WHILE A LOT OF THE TALK AROUND GENERATIVE AI IS NJECTURE, WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE THG IS TE: THERE’S NO STOPPG THIS TRA. IT’S A SAVVY MOVE FOR AJP AND THE AP TO HOP ABOARD AND SEE WHERE GO, BUT A SRY ONE WHEN TO HANGG ON. CALL OF THE DAY FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS ON THE SET OF HIS BUT SHOW MONDAY NIGHT. (CHARL SYK/INVISN/AP) DID FOX NEWS HIRE THE RIGHT WATTERS TO REPLACE TUCKER CARLSON PRIME TIME? JSE WATTERS MA HIS BUT ON MONDAY, BUT ONE OF HIS GUTS STOLE THE SHOW: HIS MOM. WATTERS FISHED UP HIS GURAL SHOW BY TAKG A PHONE LL OM HIS MOTHER, ANNE, WHO IS A DEMOCRAT. SHE HAD PLENTY OF ADVICE FOR HOW HER SON SHOULD HOST HIS SHOW. AFTER PRAISG HIM FOR HIS HARD WORK AND HOW PROUD SHE IS OF HIM, SHE SAID, “DO NOT TUMBLE TO ANY NSPIRACY RABB HOL. WE DO NOT WANT TO LOSE YOU AND WE WANT NO LAWSUS.” THAT SEEMED LIKE A VEILED SHOT AT CARLSON, WHO LOST HIS JOB NOT LONG AFTER FOX NEWS PAID DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS $787.5 LN TO SETTLE A FAMATN LAWSU. MOM THEN SAID, “IN KEEPG WH THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH, DO NO HARM. WE NEED YOU TO BE KD AND RPECTFUL. USE YOUR VOICE RPONSIBLY TO PROMOTE NVERSATN THAT MATAS A NARRATIVE THREAD. THERE REALLY HAS BEEN ENOUGH BIN-BASHG AND THE LAPTOP IS OLD. PERHAPS YOU ULD SUGGT THAT YOUR PEOPLE TAKE LS TERT, FOR EXAMPLE, OTHER PEOPLE’S BODI AND TALK ABOUT THAT.” SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT TMP, TELLG WATTERS, “YOU ULD ENURAGE THAT BEDMSTER IEND OF YOURS TO RETURN TO HIS EARLIER REER ON TELEVISN. EVERYONE HIS DIENCE ULD WEAR A RED HAT AND I’M SURE THE RATGS WOULD SOAR, ALTHOUGH NEVER AS HIGH, MY DARLG, AS YOURS.” CAN WE GET HER ON EVERY NIGHT? HOW MANY WATCHED? BY THE WAY, WATTERS’ BUT SHOW AVERAGED 2.4 LN VIEWERS. THAT’S NEARLY A LN FEWER THAN CARLSON’S FAL SHOW, WHICH AVERAGED 3.2 LN VIEWERS. AS MEDIA REPORTER BRIAN STELTER NOTED, WATTERS’ NUMBERS WERE NIGHT ONE AND AFTER “HEAVY PROMOTN.” MEDIA TIDBS MARGARET SULLIVAN’S LATT MEDIA LUMN FOR THE GUARDIAN US: “I TOOK RFK JR’S PHONE LL LONG AGO. NOW I REGRET .” THE ATLANTIC HAS HIRED MICHAEL POWELL, WHO HAS BEEN AT THE NEW YORK TIM SCE 2007. AT THE TIM, POWELL HAS BEEN A NATNAL REPORTER VERG ISSU AROUND EE SPEECH. IN THE PAST, POWELL WROTE THE “GOTHAM” LUMN FOR THE METRO SECTN AND WROTE THE “SPORTS OF THE TIM” LUMN. HE WORKED AT THE WASHGTON POST BEFORE JOG THE TIM. THE ATLANTIC ALSO HIRED ZOë SCHLANGER TO VER ISSU OF CLIMATE, WHICH WILL CLU A NEWSLETTER LLED “THE WEEKLY PLA.” SCHLANGER HAS BEEN A STAFFER AT NEWSWEEK AND QUARTZ, AND ALSO HAS BEEN A NTRIBUTOR TO, AMONG OTHER OUTLETS, THE ATLANTIC AND THE NEW YORK TIM. THE TEXAS TRIBUNE’S WILLIAM MELHADO AND ALEJANDRO SERRANO WH “TEXAS A&M TERIM AN RIGNS AFTER UNIVERSY BACKTRACKS ON HIRG PROFSOR TO REVIVE JOURNALISM PROGRAM.” AXS’ SARA FISCHER AND KERRY FLYNN WH “VOX MEDIA DROPS S OWN CMS.” AUD OM NPR’S “POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR” AS LDA HOLM, ERIC DEGGANS, MIKE KATZIF AND JSI REEDY BREAK DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD ACTORS AND WRERS STRIKE. LIZ KRTZ IS JOG NBC NEWS AS A RRPONNT BASED LOS ANGEL. SHE WILL VER ALL NEWS THE WTERN REGN FOR ALL NBC NEWS PLATFORMS, CLUDG MSNBC. KRTZ JOS NBC OM ABC7 SAN FRANCIS WHERE SHE WAS AN ANCHOR AND REPORTER. BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS AN EVENG ANCHOR AND REPORTER SACRAMENTO AT ABC AFFILIATE KXTV. HOT TYPE THIS PIECE IS LONG, BUT WELL WORTH . SIMPLY OUTSTANDG OM THE NEW YORKER’S EY NSBM: “COUNTRY MIC’S CULTURE WARS AND THE REMAKG OF NASHVILLE.” CATCHG UP ON THIS EXCELLENT JIM AXELROD PIECE OM LAST WEEKEND’S “CBS SUNDAY MORNG”: “KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: ‘THERE ARE TIM WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ANY CHOICE BUT TO SPEAK THE TTH.’” WALL STREET JOURNAL SPORTS LUMNIST JASON GAY WH “I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THIS TOUR FRANCE IS.” MORE ROURC FOR JOURNALISTS

”And as Allen pots out, there have also been studi that found no “X-lked gene unrlyg male homosexualy.