#nypost is me posting in general

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Sorry for not uploading fell of the face of the earth for a hot minute

But im back now 🤑🤑🤑

Listening to the new femtanyl ep and its fire

REACTOR ‼️‼️‼️🎵🎵🔥🔥🔥🎵🎵‼️‼️‼️

Watched tpot 14 and itft 7:00

And

Spwoilers below the cut

The way lil bro went crazy over an empty box

Itft 7:00 was a crazy episode

Especially the ending

Also two was so upset when gaty was eliminated

My heart broke at that scene

What IS winner

We know hes resistant to lava now

So like

Hmmm

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Michael Riedel's lunch with Tom and Charlie. nypost. com/2019/09/19/betrayal-stars-hiddleston-cox-dish-on-being-total-theater-geeks/ I'm not familiar with media in NYC. What sort of paper is NY Post? Any NYC local can enlighten me?

NY Post is a Rupert Murdoch paper like the Sun - tabloid format, I think. Generally sensational headlines. Page Six is the big gossip page. But I think also has some positives, like actually reporting the news, though with a right wing slant and those attention grabbing headlines.

Reminds me of the Toronto Sun, TBH.

https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/betrayal-stars-hiddleston-cox-dish-on-being-total-theater-geeks/

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Prince Andrew was seen getting foot massage from young woman at Epstein's apartment – report

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/22/prince-andrew-epstein-foot-massage?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

Prince Andrew was seen getting foot massage from young woman at Epstein's apartment – report

Incident was recounted in an email exchange between a prominent US literary agent and author Evgeny Morozov

Edward Helmore in New York and Kevin Rawlinson in London | Published:16:55 Thu August 22, 2019 | The Guardian | Posted August 22, 2019 5:58 PM ET |

Prince Andrew was seen inside the New York apartment of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein getting a foot massage from a young woman, according to an email exchange between a prominent US literary agent and author and writer Evgeny Morozov.

In the exchange, published in the New Republic magazine, agent John Brockman recommends to writer Morozov (who he represents as literary agent) that he meet with Epstein, calling him a “billionaire science philanthropist” who has “been extremely generous in funding projects of many of our friends and clients”.

Epstein, 66, killed himself on 10 August in New York while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He was accused of abusing underage girls and reportedly making some of them pleasure several of his rich and powerful friends.

In the piece in the New Republic Morozov explains that he is on the point of cutting ties with Brockman on account of the agent’s continuing silence over his connections to Epstein.. “John has been in the news because of his troubling connections to Jeffrey Epstein,” writes Morozov.

He then cites an email exchange between himself and Brockman from 2013 which includes references to Prince Andrew’s foot massage: “It’s been more than a month since Epstein was arrested on the latest charges. Still, no word on the issue. And, now that I’ve found that old email he sent me, I cannot believe that he knew absolutely nothing of Epstein’s wild sexual escapades.”

Having detailed the contents of the email exchange Morozov concludes, “ I am ready to pull the plug on my association with Brockman’s agency until and unless he clarifies the relationship between him … and Epstein.” The Guardian wrote about Epstein’s friendships with a host of renowned scientists, some of whom were introduced by Brockman.

The Guardian has reached out to Brockman and not yet received a reply. Brockman also declined to respond to Morozov’s request for comment in the New Republic.

In the emails between Morozov (a regular contributor to the Guardian) and Brockman, dated 12 September 2013, the literary agent recounts visiting Epstein at his Manhattan house.

He writes: “Last time I visited his house (the largest private residence in NYC), I walked in to find him in a sweatsuit and a British guy in a suit with suspenders [braces], getting foot massages from two young well-dressed Russian women.”

“After grilling me for a while about cyber-security, the Brit, named Andy, was commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian Assange. We think they’re liberal in Sweden, but its more like Northern England as opposed to Southern Europe,” Brockman reports “Andy” as saying.

Brockman writes that Andrew then complained about his public profile. “In Monaco, Albert works 12 hours a day but at 9pm, when he goes out, he does whatever he wants, and nobody cares. But, if I do it, I’m in big trouble,” the emails describe him saying.

At that point, Brockman writes: “I realized that the recipient of Irina’s foot massage was his Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.”

Buckingham Palace has previously said Andrew was appalled by recent revelations about Epstein. The palace declined to comment on the contents of the email on Thursday night but reiterated its previous statement: “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”

Brockman concludes the email by writing that a week later “on a slow news day the cover of the NYPost had a full-page photo of Jeffrey and Andrew walking in Central Park under the headline: ‘The Prince and the Perv.’ (That was the end of Andrew’s role at the UK trade ambassador.)”

The email exchange – which the New Republic posted online in full – took place almost three years after Prince Andrew, who has strenuously denied any involvement in Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking crimes, was photographed walking in New York’s Central Park with Epstein.

A video taken a day later, on 10 December 2010, showed the duke waving goodbye to a dark-haired woman, identified in media reports as Katherine Keating, daughter of the former Australian prime minister Paul Keating.

Brockman is a literary agent who has represented famous science authors. He also heads the Edge Foundation which seeks to spark debate and conversations between scientists, artists and intellectuals.

Ultimately Morozov says he declined Brockman’s invitation to meet with Epstein.

Buckingham Palace has strenously denied any allegations of wrongdoing linked to his relationship with Epstein.

In a statement released on Sunday, Buckingham Palace said Andrew was “appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes”. It said he “deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent”.

Andrew reportedly met Epstein in the late 1990s, after being introduced by Epstein’s then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the press baron Robert Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, has previously denied any wrongdoing.

It was in Maxwell’s London home that a photograph was taken in 2001 capturing Andrew his arm around Virginia Giuffre – a 17-year-old, then known as Virginia Roberts, who has alleged in court documents that Epstein coerced her into “sexual relations” with Andrew in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.

When they emerged those allegations also prompted a forceful denial from Buckingham Palace, which vehemently denied there was “any form of sexual contact or relationship” between Andrew and Giuffre. “The allegations made are false and without any foundation,” the statement said. The allegations were later found to be immaterial and impertinent by the judge overseeing the case and struck out of the claim.

Prince Andrew was seen getting foot massage from young woman at Epstein's apartment – report

Incident was recounted in an email exchange between a prominent US literary agent and author Evgeny Morozov

Prince Andrew was seen inside the New York apartment of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein getting a foot massage from a young woman, according to an email exchange between a prominent US literary agent and author and writer Evgeny Morozov.

In the exchange, published in the New Republic magazine, agent John Brockman recommends to writer Morozov (who he represents as literary agent) that he meet with Epstein, calling him a “billionaire science philanthropist” who has “been extremely generous in funding projects of many of our friends and clients”.

Epstein, 66, killed himself on 10 August in New York while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He was accused of abusing underage girls and reportedly making some of them pleasure several of his rich and powerful friends.

In the piece in the New Republic Morozov explains that he is on the point of cutting ties with Brockman on account of the agent’s continuing silence over his connections to Epstein.. “John has been in the news because of his troubling connections to Jeffrey Epstein,” writes Morozov.

He then cites an email exchange between himself and Brockman from 2013 which includes references to Prince Andrew’s foot massage: “It’s been more than a month since Epstein was arrested on the latest charges. Still, no word on the issue. And, now that I’ve found that old email he sent me, I cannot believe that he knew absolutely nothing of Epstein’s wild sexual escapades.”

Having detailed the contents of the email exchange Morozov concludes, “ I am ready to pull the plug on my association with Brockman’s agency until and unless he clarifies the relationship between him … and Epstein.” The Guardian wrote about Epstein’s friendships with a host of renowned scientists, some of whom were introduced by Brockman.

The Guardian has reached out to Brockman and not yet received a reply. Brockman also declined to respond to Morozov’s request for comment in the New Republic.

In the emails between Morozov (a regular contributor to the Guardian) and Brockman, dated 12 September 2013, the literary agent recounts visiting Epstein at his Manhattan house.

He writes: “Last time I visited his house (the largest private residence in NYC), I walked in to find him in a sweatsuit and a British guy in a suit with suspenders [braces], getting foot massages from two young well-dressed Russian women.”

“After grilling me for a while about cyber-security, the Brit, named Andy, was commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian Assange. We think they’re liberal in Sweden, but its more like Northern England as opposed to Southern Europe,” Brockman reports “Andy” as saying.

Brockman writes that Andrew then complained about his public profile. “In Monaco, Albert works 12 hours a day but at 9pm, when he goes out, he does whatever he wants, and nobody cares. But, if I do it, I’m in big trouble,” the emails describe him saying.

At that point, Brockman writes: “I realized that the recipient of Irina’s foot massage was his Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.”

Buckingham Palace has previously said Andrew was appalled by recent revelations about Epstein. The palace declined to comment on the contents of the email on Thursday night but reiterated its previous statement: “Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”

Brockman concludes the email by writing that a week later “on a slow news day the cover of the NYPost had a full-page photo of Jeffrey and Andrew walking in Central Park under the headline: ‘The Prince and the Perv.’ (That was the end of Andrew’s role at the UK trade ambassador.)”

The email exchange – which the New Republic posted online in full – took place almost three years after Prince Andrew, who has strenuously denied any involvement in Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking crimes, was photographed walking in New York’s Central Park with Epstein.

A video taken a day later, on 10 December 2010, showed the duke waving goodbye to a dark-haired woman, identified in media reports as Katherine Keating, daughter of the former Australian prime minister Paul Keating.

Brockman is a literary agent who has represented famous science authors. He also heads the Edge Foundation which seeks to spark debate and conversations between scientists, artists and intellectuals.

Ultimately Morozov says he declined Brockman’s invitation to meet with Epstein.

Buckingham Palace has strenously denied any allegations of wrongdoing linked to his relationship with Epstein.

In a statement released on Sunday, Buckingham Palace said Andrew was “appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes”. It said he “deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent”.

Andrew reportedly met Epstein in the late 1990s, after being introduced by Epstein’s then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the press baron Robert Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, has previously denied any wrongdoing.

It was in Maxwell’s London home that a photograph was taken in 2001 capturing Andrew his arm around Virginia Giuffre – a 17-year-old, then known as Virginia Roberts, who has alleged in court documents that Epstein coerced her into “sexual relations” with Andrew in London, New York and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.

When they emerged those allegations also prompted a forceful denial from Buckingham Palace, which vehemently denied there was “any form of sexual contact or relationship” between Andrew and Giuffre. “The allegations made are false and without any foundation,” the statement said. The allegations were later found to be immaterial and impertinent by the judge overseeing the case and struck out of the claim.

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“Some news: Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan ordered the removal of the New York Post's story on Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegation against Trump, sources tell me and @garveyshuffle https://t.co/GTh4z7N2eZ”

Asked why Murdoch lieutenant Col Allan would order the removal of the Post story about Carroll's accusation against Trump, one of the sources told me, "Nobody needs to explain why. We already know."

The removal of the story has generated significant chatter inside the @nypost newsroom, sources say. The dead link was still attracting hundreds of page views on Saturday afternoon (likely because it remained in Google's search results)

People inside the Post have told me they've suspected Murdoch brought back Col Allan to help steer the tabloid in a more pro-Trump direction.

Perverts protecting other perverts...

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Rupert Murdoch and President Trump: A friendship of convenience

New Post has been published on https://nexcraft.co/rupert-murdoch-and-president-trump-a-friendship-of-convenience/

Rupert Murdoch and President Trump: A friendship of convenience

For decades, Rupert Murdoch has used his media properties to establish a direct line to Australian and British leaders. But in the 44 years since he bought his first newspaper in the United States, he has largely failed to cultivate close ties to an American president. Until now.

Mr. Murdoch and President Trump — both forged in New York’s tabloid culture, one as the owner of The New York Post, the other as its perfect subject — have traveled in the same circles since the 1970s, but they did not become close until recently, when their interests began to align more than ever before.

Since Inauguration Day, Mr. Murdoch has talked regularly with Mr. Trump, often bypassing the White House chief of staff, Gen. John F. Kelly, who screens incoming calls. Mr. Murdoch has felt comfortable enough to offer counsel that others may shy away from, such as urging the president to stop tweeting and advising him to improve his relationship with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson. Mr. Murdoch also has weekly conversations with Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

Before the news broke that Mr. Murdoch had agreed to sell vast parts of his 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company for $52.4 billion, Mr. Trump called him to get his assurance that the Fox News Channel, the highly rated cable network and frequent bullhorn of the Trump agenda, would not be affected.

More from The New York Times: Fox-Disney deal gives Rupert Murdoch his King Lear moment Diane Straus, publisher of liberal policy magazines, dies at 66 Joan Walsh’s contract at MSNBC Is not renewed

On Dec. 14, the day the agreement was announced, Mr. Trump let the world know that he had made a congratulatory call to Mr. Murdoch. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, also passed along the president’s belief that the deal would be “a great thing” for jobs — a claim disputed by Wall Street analysts.

After decades of ups and downs, Mr. Trump now counts Mr. Murdoch as one of his closest confidants. The two titans made a show of their improved relationship in June 2016, when Mr. Murdoch visited Mr. Trump at the Trump International Golf Links Scotland before a group of reporters. They appeared together again at a black-tie dinner in May in honor of American and Australian veterans who fought side by side in World War II. Mr. Murdoch introduced the president as “my friend Donald J. Trump” before they engaged in a brief hug.

They are opposites in personal style, with Mr. Murdoch gruff and low-key, preferring schlubby newsrooms to Mr. Trump’s gilded towers and glitz. But they have much in common.

Both were born to wealth, but at a distance from the centers of power. Mr. Trump grew up in Jamaica, Queens, the son of a real estate developer content to earn his fortune in the boroughs outside Manhattan — so close but so far from glittering Midtown, where the son would make his name and his home. Mr. Murdoch, the son of a journalist who became the owner of a newspaper chain, spent his childhood in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Murdoch, 86, and Mr. Trump, 71, are also alike in that they were both sent to military schools as boys before going on to outdo their fathers in the family businesses.

Although both men parlayed their inheritances into global power, they have stubbornly viewed themselves as outsiders at odds with the establishment. When Mr. Murdoch entered the British newspaper market in 1968, London society shunned him and his vulgar tabloids, The Sun and The News of the World, which he used to wound his enemies and advance his political interests. Mr. Trump withstood a similar wariness among the elite after he made himself a Manhattan player through his brazen deal making and hucksterism.

To make their way upward in New York, both men relied on a powerful friend, the lawyer Roy M. Cohn, a ruthless fixer who made his name in the 1950s as the chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy, the Red-baiting senator, before representing some of the city’s most powerful figures, including the mobster John Gotti and the New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

Mr. Cohn connected Mr. Trump to Mr. Murdoch and the tabloid he bought in 1976, The New York Post. The upstart developer saw that he could benefit from the brash daily — especially its Page Six gossip column, which started a year after Mr. Murdoch became the paper’s owner.

“Trump was interested in specifically Rupert’s ownership of The Post, because Page Six is very important to his rising stature in New York City and branding efforts,” said Roger J. Stone Jr., a Republican operative who has known both men for decades.

Mr. Trump seemed to revel in the tabloid’s saucy coverage of his personal life. In 1989 and 1990, The Post turned out a series of front pages on Mr. Trump’s split from his first wife, Ivana Trump, and his affair with Marla Maples. The stream of headlines in bold block letters culminated in a quote attributed to Ms. Maples: “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had.”

Mr. Trump’s enthusiastic response to the planned Disney-Fox megadeal may have been lost in the swirl of Washington news had it not been for his vehement opposition to another recent attempt at media consolidation — AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, a frequent target of the president’s “fake news” complaints. While so far making no move on the Disney-Fox plan, the Justice Department has sued to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal on antitrust grounds in a rare instance of governmental interference in a merger of two companies that do not directly compete with each other.

Mr. Murdoch, whose ideology is more malleable than his critics realize, has long gained from his knack for placing himself close to power. In the 1980s, when he was cozy with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, his London tabloids took a pro-Tory stance. In 1997, his newspapers endorsed the Labor Party leader Tony Blair for prime minister.

Lance Price, a former Blair spokesman, referred to Mr. Murdoch as “effectively a member of Blair’s cabinet.” In turn, Mr. Murdoch faced little government scrutiny as he expanded his media empire to reach 40 percent of British newspaper readers and millions of television viewers through his stake in Sky, a pay TV service. But after a 2011 phone hacking scandal at the now-shuttered News of the World put a spotlight on his remarkable political influence, he found himself facing regulatory hurdles, and his $15 billion bid for a 61 percent stake of Sky came to nothing.

Even as Mr. Murdoch enjoyed an open invitation to 10 Downing Street, he found that his overtures to United States presidents mostly fell short. And before making their alliance, Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Trump had to put their old spats behind them.

Before the recent rapprochement, Mr. Murdoch privately called Mr. Trump “phony,” and accused him of exaggerating his net worth. For his part, Mr. Trump once threatened to sue Mr. Murdoch for libel after The Post reported that the storied Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y., had denied him membership.

During much of the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Murdoch — who initially swooned over Jeb Bush — stood against Mr. Trump, declaring that he was “embarrassing his friends” and “the whole country.” The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Murdoch’s crown jewel, ran an editorial calling the candidate a “catastrophe.” The Post led with the headline “Don Voyage” and declared, “Trump is toast.”

Mr. Trump on Twitter: “Wow, I have always liked the @nypost but they have really lied when they covered me in Iowa.” He also the Journal: “Look how small the pages have become @WSJ,” he wrote. “Looks like a tabloid — saving money I assume!”

The Post ended up endorsing Mr. Trump, with reservations, in the New York primary, but refrained from endorsing either him or Hillary Clinton in the general election.

More recently, Mr. Murdoch expressed exasperation with Mr. Trump’s immigration policies. In response to the White House ban on travel of people from majority-Muslim nations, his company, 21st Century Fox, released a memo offering assistance to any employees hurt by the executive order and reminding them that “21CF is a global company, proudly headquartered in the U.S., founded by — and comprising at all levels of the business — immigrants.” In August, James Murdoch, the younger son of Mr. Murdoch and the chief executive of 21st Century Fox, condemned the president’s response to the riots in Charlottesville, Va.

The man partly responsible for the détente was another moneyed outsider who craved status and respect: Jared Kushner.

When Mr. Kushner bought The New York Observer in 2006, he wasted little time reaching out to Mr. Murdoch. “He wanted to be Murdoch,” said one person close to both men at the time. In early 2016, after a presidential debate during which Mr. Trump faced aggressive questioning from Megyn Kelly, then a Fox News anchor, the candidate sent Mr. Kushner to Mr. Murdoch on a media diplomacy mission.

Mr. Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, is close friends with Mr. Murdoch’s third wife, Wendi Deng. Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Deng attended the Kushner-Trump wedding in 2009 at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., and the Murdoch daughters, Grace and Chloe, served as flower girls.

Before Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Deng divorced in 2013, Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump vacationed on Rosehearty, Mr. Murdoch’s 184-foot sailing yacht. In a further sign of the two families’ closeness, Ms. Trump took on the job of Murdoch trustee responsible for overseeing the two girls’ $300 million fortune — a role she gave up a month before President Trump took office.

In June 2016, when Mr. Trump appeared to be the inevitable Republican nominee, Mr. Murdoch made the visit to Trump International Golf Links Scotland. Completed in 2012 over the objections of nearby residents, the course lies 35 miles from the herring-fishing port of Rosehearty, the town left behind by the Murdoch clan when it emigrated to Australia in 1884.

Mr. Murdoch arrived with the former model Jerry Hall, his fourth wife, whom he married in March 2016. Under cloudy skies, the newlyweds toured the property in a golf cart large enough for four. Mr. Trump was at the wheel, with Ms. Hall seated beside him. Mr. Murdoch, wearing sunglasses, sat on a backward-facing rumble seat as they made their way to the Trump-refurbished Macleod House, a 15th century mansion, where they had dinner.

Mr. Trump’s mended relationship with Mr. Murdoch has not gone unnoticed by Time Warner executives, who wonder why AT&T’s attempt to buy the company has run into regulatory trouble at a time when the president has smiled on the Disney-Fox deal.

“If you look at the facts of our case, even before you heard the administration’s endorsement of the Disney-Fox deal, it was hard to understand how the Justice Department could reach a decision to block our deal,” Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, said.

A spokesman for the White House, Raj Shah, said that Mr. Trump hadn’t spoken to Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the AT&T-Time Warner deal and that “no White House official was authorized to speak with the Department of Justice on this matter.”

The way CNN’s parent company views it, Fox News has adopted a role similar to the one played by Mr. Murdoch’s British tabloids when they helped advance the agendas of British leaders. As Mr. Blair learned, however, even a special relationship with the media baron can sour quickly. He and Mr. Murdoch — once so close that Mr. Blair was the godfather to Grace Murdoch — are no longer on speaking terms.

During the British government’s 2012 inquiry into the mogul’s political influence, the former prime minister described what it was like when a story subject falls out of favor with a Murdoch-controlled tabloid.

“Once they’re against you, that’s it,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s full on, full frontal, day in, day out, basically a lifetime commitment.”

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

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Television Series: “Black-ish”

 Who doesn’t love Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross together? The television series, Black-ish, is a sitcom about a family man who struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.  Andre 'Dre' Johnson has a great job, a beautiful wife, Rainbow (Bow), four kids, and a colonial home in the 'burbs. But has success brought too much assimilation for this black family?

To tell the truth, I had originally dismissed 'Black-ish' when I first heard about it, basing this rejection simply on the title and I thought I would be uncomfortable watching the show and I wouldn’t relate to any of the episodes. What an awful way to think just based on a shows title!  

"Black-ish" reveals that the father's discontent is a generational thing--something all of us feel who realize that young people cannot identify with the values and events of earlier generations. And it eventually shows that humanity trumps "blackness".  I hope this show pursues the path it is on. There are lessons here for everyone. And the writers are mining laughs far outside the topic of race.

I enjoy this sitcom because it pokes fun at life in general and teaches me valuable life lessons about how easy it is as human beings to misunderstand each other. If we simply take the time to communicate positively with each other, we'd all be living much better lives.

Now, the controversy surrounding the show. There are, of course, those who think that the show perpetuates stereotypes about black people, that it demeans them or tries to declare what attributes define "black culture". It doesn't help that even the title of the show brings those thoughts to the forefront of the mind. I'm not black, and therefore cannot say definitively that this show isn't offensive to any specific category of people. But I honestly feel that the writers are trying to do a good thing here. They do more to try to break stereotypes than disseminate them; and they manage to do this, for the most part, in clever ways that don't look too forced. I don't feel like I'm being asked to laugh at caricatures like with other sitcoms. But critics might say, "Why do they even have to broach the subject of race? Why can't they be a successful family which happens to be black?" If the show didn't mention race at all, but instead chronicled the comedic hijinks of an affluent family (which happens to be black), and had a completely innocuous title, there would be critics up in arms about the show being ashamed/afraid of celebrating black culture. I don't think 'The Cosby Show' or 'Family Matters' work as rebuttals to that argument – those were products of a different era, one before the fracturing of network television and before relegation of "black interest" shows to pigeonholed networks.  Race is not treated as an incidental background detail but part of the shows identity. The Johnsons are not a family who happen to be black but a family who are black

 Genzlinger, Neil. "A Family Rooted in Two Realms." Www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2014. Accessed October 08, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/arts/television/black-ish-a-new-abc-comedy-taps-racial-issues.html.

Peyser, Andrea. "Shows like 'Black-ish' perpetuate racist stereotypes." NyPost. April 06, 2015. Accessed October 8, 2017. http://nypost.com/2015/04/06/shows-like-black-ish-perpetuate-racist-stereotypes/

http://abc.go.com/shows/blackish

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People who opt into the regimens of self-assembly gourmet meals pushed by the likes of Blue Apron tend to be the kind of conscious consumers who care about how their fish was caught or their vegetables farmed.

Most of these companies offer food that lives up to those ideals, but they also deliver something else: lots and lots of tiny plastic bags, freezer packs, and styrofoam that ends up in the trash.

SEE ALSO: Sorry, Blue Apron: Amazon is already selling its own meal kits

The waste inherent to meal kits has become a frequent topic of criticism as the concept has picked up steam in the past few years. For its part, Blue Apron seems to have done as much as it can to make its packaging minimal and recyclable. When done right, the precision planning of the model has also been proven to cut down on the food waste otherwise generated by neglected leftovers, unused ingredients, and disregard for produce seasonality.

But the industry is changing fast. Amazon dropped a bomb on it this week with its own long-rumored entrance, accelerating the tail spin its Whole Foods mega-merger had already triggered on the price of Blue Apron’s newly minted stock.

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At the same time, Blue Apron is reckoning with how to move beyond the metro-millennial podcast crowd with which it made its name. Wall Street financial disclosures reveal that the company’s customer growth has stagnated in recent months along with the size of their orders.

Blue Apron seems to have responded by steering its marketing war chest towards a wider audience. The company launched its first-ever global television campaign this spring after years of pouring money into niche digital media efforts.

As the tooth-and-nail fight intensifies over a market that one research firm predicted could be worth $10 billion by 2020, the question is how much of a trash trail will the industry leave behind?

The battle for a mass audience will put convenience and cost above all else, up to and possibly including environmental impact.

The cardboard cost of convenience

The appeal of online grocery of any kind is a sort of siren song in the retail world.

It’s one of the few categories that’s able to draw customers back again and again on a regular basis. Big-box giants like Walmart, Target, and Amazon find that reptition so valuable that they’re even willing to operate it at a loss if it means getting shoppers through the door (or virtual door).

But online grocery is also a notoriously tricky business that’s racked up an impressive body count of failed startups. One of the biggest challenges comes down to the difficult logistics of sorting and transporting massive amounts of perishable food to people’s doorsteps.

Amazon has been trying to crack that code for at least a decadewith little success before nowand it’s wasted a ton of food doing so. In 2014, for instance, one consultant said the company would dispose of around a third of its bananas to ensure that every bunch included exactly five. Groups of four and the odd sixth fruit landed in the trash. Bloomberg reported that Amazon’s grocery business has lost money to spoiled food at more than double the rate of the average supermarket.

And on the NYPost article, if anybody knows how to get 20% margins in groceries, call me!

Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) February 7, 2017

Even so, one might think that e-commerce in general benefits the environment by saving people a drive to the store. But studies have shown that the shipping operations involved mean that’s not necessarily the case.

Online shopping has not helped the environment, Ardeshi Faghri, a University of Delaware professor who’s studied the emission rates of online shopping, told the New York Times last year. It has made it worse.

Leftovers begone

Obviously, the precise and controlled nature of the meal kit model means it’s able to avoid a lot of these pitfalls. Blue Apron works hard to make the process as efficient as possible; it consorts with individual farmers to tie recipes to their output, times its supply chain to ensure minimal spoilage, and aligns its meal schedule with produce that’s seasonally available.

A study commissioned by the company found that Blue Apron customers waste around 62 percent less than the average grocery store consumer, and it’s made the issue a central pillar of its public relations strategy. And with good reasonfood waste has become a huge and mostly avoidable problem. Some studies estimate around 1.3 percent of our GDP is spent on food that’s never eaten.

Despite Blue Apron’s best efforts, though, storing and shipping such a huge quantity of food still requires a massive amount of energy to be expended. The company has three distribution centers (Richmond, California; Arlington, Texas; and Jersey City, New Jersey) and perishables have to be refrigerated in some fashion as they are hauled across the vast amount of space in between those locations. The food isn’t necessarily locally sourced either.

The packaging is a whole other matter. Separate plastic baggies are used for each ingredient; portions as small as a few garlic cloves get their own wrapper. Many kits require hefty, gel-filled freezer packs, tin foil, and, for some companies, styrofoam insulation to regulate temperature.

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Blue Apron’s PR department, to its credit, has devoted hours to detailing how each of those materials are actually biodegradable and recyclable. The baggies are made of low-density polyethylene, which is technically recyclable but often omitted from curbside pickup because of its low value (Blue Apron tells customers how to find a recycling center on its website). The company advises customers to reuse, donate, or recycle the freezer packs, though the last option requires cutting open and manually squeezing several pounds of goop from the packs beforehand. It even lets customers return the packaging material back in the mail if all else fails.

The company’s commitment to minimizing its carbon footprint is admirable. But many of those methods aren’t exactly practical for the average person. And when you ship 8 million meals a month, that toll can definitely add up.

All-out Amazon assault

With dozens of startups elbowing for the space, competition is fierce in the meal kits business. But until now, it’s mostly been between companies that were each in a relatively similar position.

Amazon, on the other hand, works from its own tried-and-true playbook for scorched-earth market domination.

While the meal kits currently being tested on the site are comparable in price to Blue Apron’s, Amazon could very well decide to undercut and choke out the rest of the industry as it’s done with countless others.

Blue Apron and its ilk live and die by meal kit sales, but they aren’t even a blip on Amazon’s balance sheet. The e-commerce juggernaut’s famously aggressive attitude toward supplier negotiations and potential integration with the rest of its vast consumer empire mean it’s hardly even operating on the same plane.

And while companies like to claim that waste reduction and environmental friendliness happen to align with their bottom lines, that’s not necessarily always true, and Amazon has clearly demonstrated its willingness to throw out sustainability for efficiency’s sake. For the most part, it doesn’t seem to particularly care what the public thinks of these decisions either.

Faced with massive pressure from skittish investors to make its business viable, Blue Apron can’t afford not to follow.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58e07fb3e4b0b3918c84218f,58a7fc48e4b037d17d282c92

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58e07fb3e4b0b3918c84218f,58a7fc48e4b037d17d282c92

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58e07fb3e4b0b3918c84218f,58a7fc48e4b037d17d282c92

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NY Post Apologizes For 'Heil President Trump' Alerts On Hacked Account

New York Post readers were surprised over the weekend to receive a series of push alerts apparently from the newspaper, including one that read: “Heil President Trump!”

The April Fools’ alerts, which included religious references and Nirvana lyrics, may have been directed at Donald Trump. They were quickly taken down. 

So the @nypost got hacked http://pic.twitter.com/FqMyKoR30x

— Matt Fitzgerald (@MattF_News) April 2, 2017

The early alerts from the generally pro-Trump Post, which is owned by Trump pal Rupert Murdoch, praised the president. The later messages warned that there was still time to repent before the “fate” of “your soul” was decided (”salvation remains within reach”).

“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read one of the alerts. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned.”

Another urged: “Open your heart to those you do not understand and listen to all those you fear and look down upon.”

Still another cautioned: “For the fate of your soul is soon to be decided.”

One line — “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but don’t be late” — is from the 1991 Nirvana song “Come As You Are.”

The messages appeared to be signed: “With Lucid Love, Selah.” The word selah is used dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible at the end of passages. It’s not entirely clear what it means; the word could be some kind of musical direction at the end of psalms or an exhortation to pay attention.

The Post apologized to readers on Sunday, saying the account had been “compromised.”

The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies.

— New York Post (@nypost) April 2, 2017

Trump did not respond to the alerts.

type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58e07fb3e4b0b3918c84218f,58a7fc48e4b037d17d282c92

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