EPIC: In the Year 2014

04 Jun, 2023

EPIC: In the Year 2014

May 5, 2005June 3, 2005 Buck Banks

It’s 2014. “The New York Times” has gone off-line and is now a print-only newsletter for the elite and elderly, and EPIC is how you get everything, customized based on your consumption habits. Hey, it could happen, right? “EPIC” is an online film created by two fellows at the Poynter Institute, a well-respected journalism school in St. Petersburg, Fla. It tells the story of what has happened and what could (might? will??) happen to how we get our media and products in the near (immediate???) future. Besides being interesting intellectually, it also represents a cogent analysis of what has happened to the way news is disseminated over just the past six years. See the film here: Epic.

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I’m going to leave it up to Kevin McCarthy to see if he wants to help defeat Putin,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Punchbowl News. “I mean, he’s been pretty good… But is the Republican Party going to be the party that bails out [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? I hope not.”

“You know, I have conversations with my father and my uncle about what I’m doing. I do meditations every day, and that’s kind of the nature of my meditations. I have a lot of conversations with dead people.”

— The Free Press asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. how he thinks his father or uncle would have responded to the challenges facing Democrats today.

“We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not.”

— Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), on Fox News.

“Ronald Reagan said: ‘If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later. Speaker McCarthy’s version: ‘If you can get five or six percent of what you were asking for, you take the deal and claim victory.”

— Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), on Twitter, blasting the debt ceiling deal.

— Dan Pfeiffer

Numerati

70%

“The annual ‘Accelerating Acceptance’ study published Thursday by the advocacy organization reported that 70% of non-LGBTQ+ people want companies to include the LGBTQ community in hiring, advertising and sponsorships,” reports The Messenger.

2 million

45%

65%

A new Navigator Research poll finds that 65% of Americans now believe Donald Trump has committed a crime — including 68% of independents.

26%

Los Angeles Times poll: “Trump has the support of 44% of California’s likely Republican primary voters, while DeSantis was backed by 26%… That’s a notable reversal of their standings three months ago, when DeSantis led Trump by 8 percentage points among the state’s GOP voters.”