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Friday, December 20, 2024

The slimmed-down version was stripped of language that would have allowed children with relapsed cancer to undergo treatments with a combination of cancer drugs and therapies. (Currently the Food and Drug Administration is only authorized to direct pediatric cancer trials of single drugs.) The bill also didn't include an extension of a program that gave financial lifelines, in the form of vouchers, to small pharmaceutical companies working on rare pediatric diseases. It was also missing earlier provisions that would have allowed for kids on Medicaid or CHIP"that is, poor children"to access medically complex care across state lines. For political veterans, however, the most striking absence in the revised bill was the language that would have extended funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program. read more


One such prediction has to do with Apple (and Tesla), providing a glimpse into how Wall Street is viewing the looming Trump tariffs and their impact on US tech companies. read more


Wednesday, December 18, 2024

[Pollster Ann] Selzer published a poll days before the election that said Kamala Harris was ahead by 3 percentage points. Trump won the state by 13 percentage points. read more


Thursday, December 12, 2024

As a candidate, Donald Trump campaigned"and won"this year on the promise he would lower prices for Americans angry after the COVID pandemic's inflation brought steep price increases, but now he's backtracking, saying he's not sure he will actually be able to fulfill those vows. Outrage at Trump, and the people who voted for him based on that pledge, was palpable on Thursday. read more


Thursday, December 05, 2024

More trans teens attempted suicide after states passed anti-trans laws, a study shows read more


Comments

Leave it to jeff to get it exactly wrong.

1. Balance or diversity of opinion is not automatically a virtue in journalism. Accuracy is. Having the courage to publish hard facts against the powers that be the most important virtue.

2. OAN or Newsmax or Foxnews spewing republican propaganda is not the same as the NYT accurately reporting -------- crimes. It simply isn't. And I will even grant that there is bias against the truth across the spectrum-though it is far worse on the conservative side.

3. This is actually about major news organizations publicly bowing to political pressure. That is obscene and should be terrifying to everyone, even you. This portends the future of journalism will be to NOT cover the ------- administration honestly or courageously.

4. We are seeing the effects of an ongoing assault on press freedom. You think it a coincidence ABC settled what was nothing more than a nuisance lawsuit? ABC was sued because Stephanopoulos said ------- was an adjudicated rapist-something even the trial judge said. That type of statement CLEARLY falls within the realm of press freedom for a public figure like -------. What damage did --------uffer from Stephanopoulos saying that? ------- is obviously a public figure. That type of statement is or was simple acceptable to state.

5. ABC is owned by Disney; Disney has been dealing with litigation from Florida over Disney's criticism of the Don't Say Gay bill. That has OBVIOUSLY made them gun shy on covering republican issues or criticizing -------.

6. To give you perspective jeff, this is sort of like Hannity going to Delaware and pledging to back off on Hunter Biden criticism. Or FoxNews settling a theoretical lawsuit that Biden brought against them for saying the Biden Crime Family.

7. You think that the recent attacks and surrenders by press organizations will make right wing propaganda machines more or less honest? FoxNews paid, what, 3/4 of a billion dollars for spewing lies. Lies they admitted to and all proof indicating it (so no there is NO equivalence between what Fox and ABC did)? Or do you think it will be a permission structure for them to lie more?

This assault is astounding honestly. And the damage cannot be understated. If the press is afraid to report on stuff ------- is doing or to editorialize on it, well there goes another MAJOR guardrail on -------- presidency.

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