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Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst and the author of The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.

Traditional newspapers never sold news; they sold an audience to advertisers. To a considerable degree, this commercial imperative determined the journalistic style, with its impersonal voice and pretense of objectivity. The aim was to herd the audience into a passive consumerist mass. Opinion, which divided readers, was treated like a volatile substance and fenced off from “factual” reporting.

The digital age exploded this business model. Advertisers fled to online platforms, never to return. For most newspapers, no alternative sources of revenue existed: as circulation plummets to the lowest numbers on record, more than 2,000 dailies have gone silent since the turn of the century. The survival of the rest remains an open question.

Led by the New York Times, a few prominent brand names moved to a model that sought to squeeze revenue from digital subscribers lured behind a paywall. This approach carried its own risks. The amount of information in the world was, for practical purposes, infinite. As supply vastly outstripped demand, the news now chased the reader, rather than the other way around. Today, nobody under 85 would look for news in a newspaper. Under such circumstances, what commodity could be offered for sale?

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Times stumbled onto a possible answer. It entailed a wrenching pivot from a journalism of fact to a “post-journalism” of opinion—a term coined, in his book of that title, by media scholar Andrey Mir. Rather than news, the paper began to sell what was, in effect, a creed, an agenda, to a congregation of like-minded souls. Post-journalism “mixes open ideological intentions with a hidden business necessity required for the media to survive,” Mir observes. The new business model required a new style of reporting. Its language aimed to commodify polarization and threat: journalists had to “scare the audience to make it donate.” At stake was survival in the digital storm.

The experiment proved controversial. It sparked a melodrama over standards at the Times, featuring a conflict between radical young reporters and befuddled middle-aged editors. In a crucible of proclamations, disputes, and meetings, the requirements of the newspaper as an institution collided with the post-journalistic call for an explicit struggle against injustice.

The battleground was the treatment of race and racism in America. But the story began, as it seemingly must, with that inescapable character: Donald Trump.

In August 2016, as the presidential race ground grimly onward, the New York Times laid down a marker regarding the manner in which it would be covered. The paper declared the prevalence of media opinion to be an irresistible fact, like the weather. Or, as Jim Rutenberg phrased it in a prominent front-page story: “If you view a Trump presidency as something that is potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that.” Objectivity was discarded in favor of an “oppositional” stance. This was not an anti-Trump opinion piece. It was an obituary for the values of a lost era. Rutenberg, who covered the media beat, had authored a factual report about the death of factual reporting—the sort of paradox often encountered among the murky categories of post-journalism.

The article touched on the fraught issue of race and racism. Trump opponents take his racism for granted—he stands accused of appealing to the worst instincts of the American public, and those who wish to debate the point immediately fall under suspicion of being racists themselves. The dilemma, therefore, was not whether Trump was racist (that was a fact) or why he flaunted his racist views (he was a dangerous demagogue) but, rather, how to report on his racism under the strictures of commercial journalism. Once objectivity was sacrificed, an immense field of subjective possibilities presented themselves. A vision of the journalist as arbiter of racial justice would soon divide the generations inside the New York Times newsroom.

Rutenberg made his point through hypothetical-rhetorical questions that, at times, verged on satire: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?” Rutenberg assumed that “working journalists” shared the same opinion of Trump—that wasn’t perceived as problematic. A second assumption concerned the intelligence of readers: they couldn’t be trusted to process the facts. The answer to Rutenberg’s loaded question, therefore, could only be to “throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of a half-century” and leap vigorously into advocacy. Trump could not safely be covered; he had to be opposed.

The old media had needed happy customers. The goal of post-journalism, according to Mir, is to “produce angry citizens.” The August 2016 article marked the point of no return in the spiritual journey of the New York Times from newspaper of record to Vatican of liberal political furor. While the impulse originated in partisan herd instinct, the discovery of a profit motive would make the change irrevocable. Rutenberg professed to find the new approach “uncomfortable” and, “by normal standards, untenable”—but the fault, he made clear, lay entirely with the “abnormal” Trump, whose toxic personality had contaminated journalism. He was the active principle in the headline “The Challenge Trump Poses to Objectivity.”

A cynic (or a conservative) might argue that objectivity in political reporting was more an empty boast than a professional standard and that the newspaper, in pandering to its audience, had long favored an urban agenda, liberal causes, and Democratic candidates. This interpretation misses the transformation in the depths that post-journalism involved. The flagship American newspaper had turned in a direction that came close to propaganda. The oppositional stance, as Mir has noted, cannot coexist with newsroom independence: writers and editors were soon to be punished for straying from the cause. The news agenda became narrower and more repetitive as journalists focused on a handful of partisan controversies—an effect that Mir labeled “discourse concentration.” The New York Times, as a purveyor of information and a political institution, had cut itself loose from its own history.

Rutenberg glimpsed, dimly, the nature of the transfiguration he was describing. “Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?” he wondered. Even if rhetorically framed, these were remarkable questions. Over the next four years, the need for answers would feed the drama in the Times newsroom.

There’s reason to suspect that Rutenberg and his colleagues regarded the abandonment of objectivity as a temporary emergency measure. Hillary Clinton was heavily favored in opinion polls; on election day, the Times gave her an 84 percent chance of victory. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a moment of profound disorientation for establishment media generally, and for the Times in particular.

Not only had the newspaper failed at the new mission of advocacy; it had also failed, egregiously, at the old mission of mediating between the public and the elite sport of politics. In a somber column published the morning after, Liz Spayd, public editor, announced that the Times had entered “a period of self-reflection” and expressed the hope that “its editors will think hard about the half of America the paper too seldom covers.”

The reflective mood quickly passed. Within weeks, the Washington Post connected the Trump campaign with fake news on Facebook planted by Russian operatives. By May 2017, less than four months into the new administration, Robert Mueller had been appointed special counsel to investigate potential crimes by Trump or his staff associated with Russian interference in the elections. So began one of the most extraordinary episodes in American politics—and the first sustained excursion into post-journalism by the American news media, led every step of the way by the New York Times.

Future media historians may hold the Trump-Russia story to be a laboratory-perfect specimen of discourse concentration. For nearly two years, it towered over the information landscape and devoured the attention of the media and the public. The total number of articles on the topic produced by the Times is difficult to measure, but a Google search suggests that it was more than 3,000—the equivalent, if accurate, of multiple articles per day for the period in question. This was journalism as if conducted under the impulse of an obsessive-compulsive personality. Virtually every report either implied or proclaimed culpability. Every day in the news marked the beginning of the Trumpian End Times.

The sum of all this sound and fury was . . . zero. The most intensively covered story in history turned out to be empty of content. Mueller’s investigation “did not identify evidence that any US persons conspired or coordinated” with the Russians. Mueller’s halting television appearance in July 2019 convinced even the most vehement partisans that he was not the knight to slay the dragon in the White House. After two years of media frenzy came an awkward moment. The New York Times had reorganized its newsroom to pursue this single story—yet, just as it had missed Trump’s coming, the paper failed to see that Trump would stay.

Yet what looked like journalistic failure was, in fact, an astonishing post-journalistic success. The intent of post-journalism was never to represent reality or inform the public but to arouse enough political fervor in readers that they wished to enter the paywall in support of the cause. This was ideology by the numbers—and the numbers were striking. Digital subscriptions to the New York Times, which had been stagnant, nearly doubled in the first year of Trump’s presidency. By August 2020, the paper had 6 million digital subscribers—six times the number on Election Day 2016 and the most in the world for any newspaper. The Russian collusion story, though refuted objectively, had been validated subjectively, by the growth in the congregation of the paying faithful.

In throwing out the old textbook, post-journalism made transgression inevitable. In July 2019, Jonathan Weisman, who covered Congress for the Times and happened to be white, questioned on Twitter the legitimacy of leftist members of the House who happened to be black. Following criticism, Weisman deleted the offending tweets and apologized elaborately, but he was demoted nonetheless.

Then, in August, the print edition of the newspaper covered a presidential statement under the headline “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.” Before that could be changed, a storm of outrage swept over social media and penetrated into the Times’s newsroom. Condemnation of Trump as the avatar of American racism was as close to a canonical doctrine as the new style of reporting possessed. Deviation was cause for scandal. Internal turmoil forced Dean Baquet, the paper’s executive editor, to hold a “town hall” meeting with his newsroom staff, the transcript of which was obtained and published by Slate.

The dramatic confrontation had been triggered by Weisman’s tweets and the heretical headline but was really about the boundaries of expression—what was allowed and what was taboo—in a post-objective, post-journalistic time. On the contentious subjects of Trump and race, managers and reporters at the paper appeared to hold similar opinions. No one in the room defended Trump as a normal politician whose views deserved a hearing. No one questioned the notion that the United States, having elected Trump, was a fundamentally racist country. But as Baquet fielded long and pointed questions from his staff, it became clear that management and newsroom—which translated roughly to middle age and youth—held radically divergent visions of the post-journalism future.

Baquet and his editors wished to pursue an institutional approach to advocacy. The influence that the New York Times wields was a function of its standing among other powerful American institutions: so if you wanted to defeat Donald Trump, you needed to maintain the proper tone. In his answers, Baquet, who was 62, often compared the Times favorably to other news organizations and referred to its storied past. When asked repeatedly why, if everyone agreed that Trump was a racist, the use of the word itself was taboo, Baquet turned to the history of the civil rights movement. The best reporters who covered that struggle, he said, by describing injustice had delivered a message “more powerful” than any epithet.

Baquet admitted that the survival of Trump after the Mueller investigation had caught the newspaper “a tiny little bit flat-footed.” “Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, ‘Holy shit, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.’ ” Given the business model, a new scheme of polarization was needed. Baquet proposed to cover “race and class in a deeper way than we have in years.”

To the young warriors of the newsroom, this probably sounded like rank hypocrisy. Many belonged to a generation uninterested in history that perceived social life in terms of a cosmic conflict against injustice. Their questions suggested that post-journalism, to them, meant telling the unvarnished truth—which happened to be identical to their political convictions. If Trump lied or made racist statements, journalists had a moral duty to call him out as a liar and a racist. This principle was absolute and extended to all subjects. Since, as one of them put it, “racism and white supremacy” had been “sort of the foundation of this country,” the consequences should be reported explicitly. “I just feel like racism is in everything,” this questioner asserted. “It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.”

Unlike management, the reporters were active on social media, where they had to face the most militant elements of the subscriber base. In this way, they represented the forces driving the information agenda. Baquet had disparaged Twitter and insisted that the Times would not be edited by social media. He was mistaken. The unrest in the newsroom had been propelled by outrage on the web, and the paper had quickly responded. Generational attitudes, displayed on social media, allowed no space for institutional loyalty. Baquet had demoted Weisman because of his inappropriate behavior—but the newsroom turned against him because he had picked a fight with the wrong enemy.

To the sectarian mind, all institutions are sinful. “I am concerned,” warned a staffer at the town hall meeting, “that the Times is failing to rise to the challenge of a historical moment.” In the final act of the drama, that concern would explode into revolt. When the young reporters proclaimed that racism was everywhere, they were casting a judgmental eye on their bosses.

Two days after the town hall meeting, the New York Times inaugurated, in its magazine section, the “1619 Project”—an attempt, said Baquet, “to try to understand the forces that led to the election of Donald Trump.” Rather than dig deep into the “half of America” that had voted for the president, the newspaper chose to blame the events of 2016 on the country’s pervasive racism, not only here and now but everywhere and always.

The 1619 Project rode the social-justice ambitions of the newsroom to commodify racial polarization—and, not incidentally, to fill the void left by Robert Mueller’s failure to launch. The project showed little interest in investigative reporting or any other form of old-school journalism. It produced no exposés of present-day injustice. Instead, it sold agenda-setting on a grand scale: the stated mission was to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of our national narrative.” The reportorial crunch implicit in this high-minded posture might be summarized as “All the news that’s fit to reframe history.”

The guiding spirit behind the 1619 Project was Nikole Hannah-Jones, a rising star at the Times and a practitioner of the prosecutorial school of post-journalism. In a long essay that introduced the project, Hannah-Jones placed American history in the defendant’s docket and found it guilty of unrelieved injustice and oppression. The cast of thousands and multiple plot twists of that story were quite literally reduced to black and white, with whites eternally the villains and falsifiers—not even Lincoln came off looking good—and blacks as redeemers of the nation. “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written,” the article began. “Black Americans have fought to make them true.”

The 1619 Project has come under fire for its extreme statements and many historical inaccuracies. Yet critics missed the point of the exercise, which was to stake out polarizing positions in the mode of post-truth: opinions could be transformed into facts if held passionately enough. The project became another post-journalistic triumph for the Times. Public school systems around the country have included the material in their curricula. Hannah-Jones received a Pulitzer Prize for her “sweeping, provocative, and personal essay”—possibly the first award offered for excellence in post-journalism. The focus on race propelled the Times to the vanguard of establishment opinion during the convulsions that followed the death of George Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer in May 2020.

That episode replaced the Russia collusion story as the prime manufacturer of “angry citizens” and added an element of inflexibility to the usual rigors of post-journalism. Times coverage of antipolice protests was generally sympathetic to the protesters. Trump was, of course, vilified for “fanning the strife.” But the significant change came in the severe tightening of discourse: the reframing imperative now controlled the presentation of news. Reporting minimized the violence that attended the protests, for example, and sought to keep the two phenomena sharply segregated.

News out of step with the reframing mission was exiled to the opinion pages—a loophole that would bring to a climax the family melodrama within the organization. Less than two weeks after Floyd’s death, amid spreading lawlessness in many American cities, the paper posted an opinion piece by Republican senator Tom Cotton in its online op-ed section, titled “Time to Send in the Troops.” It called for “an overwhelming show of force” to pacify troubled urban areas. To many loyal to the New York Times, including staff, allowing Cotton his pitch smacked of treason. Led by young black reporters, the newsroom rebelled.

Once again, the mutiny began on Twitter. Many reporters had large followings; they could appeal directly to readers. In the way of social media, the most excited voices dominated among subscribers. As the base roared, the rebels moved to confront their employer.

The day after the Cotton op-ed appeared online, Times employees sent a letter to Times decision makers, expressing “deep concern” over the piece. This document marked the logical culmination of the process that Rutenberg’s article had begun four years earlier. Objectivity now jettisoned, the question at hand was whose subjective will should control the news agenda.

The letter’s authors made a number of striking assumptions. First, the backdrop was an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil, a story “that does not have a direct precedent in our lifetimes.” The place of the New York Times in that struggle was at issue. Second, some opinions were dangerous—physically so. Cotton’s opinion fell into that category. “Choosing to present this point of view without added context leaves members of the American public . . . vulnerable to harm” while also jeopardizing “our reporters’ ability to work safely and effectively.” Third, the duty of the newspaper was less to inform than to protect such “vulnerable” readers from harmful opinions. By allowing Cotton inside the tent, the Times had failed its readership.

This was the essence of post-journalism: informational “protection”—polarization—sold as a commodity. Objectivity had crumbled before the dangerous Trump. On the question of who decided the danger of any given piece, the newsroom rebels presented a number of broad demands. Future opinion pieces needed to be vetted “across the desk’s diverse staff before publication,” while readers should be invited to “express themselves.” The young reporters felt that they had a better fix on what readers wanted than did their elders. Given the generational divide on social media, this was almost certainly true.

The letter triggered yet another town hall meeting, this time with opinion-page editor James Bennet. It did not go well. Two days later, Bennet was fired. As the rebels demanded, the Cotton op-ed was detoxified with a long-winded editor’s note. The op-ed never appeared in the Times’s print edition. The influence over the news agenda of the younger, more radical, newsroom voices, we can infer, was now large and growing. Older reporters and editors were unlikely to confront them: none wished to share Bennet’s fate.

The history-reframing mission is now in the hands of a deeply self-righteous group that has trouble discerning the many human stopping places between true and false, good and evil, objective and subjective. According to one poll, a majority of Americans shared the opinion that Cotton expressed in his op-ed. That had no bearing on the discussion. In the letter and the town hall meetings, the rebels wielded the word “truth” as if they owned it. By their lights, Cotton had lied, and the fact that the public approved of his lies was precisely what made his piece dangerous.

Two weeks after the Cotton controversy, the Times published an essay by Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize–winning black reporter, titled “A Reckoning over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists.” Equating objectivity with “whiteness,” Lowery called for “moral clarity, which will require both editors and reporters to stop doing things like reflexively hiding behind euphemisms to obfuscate the truth.” The Trump administration and the Republican Party, Lowery urged, should be labeled as what they are: a “refuge to white supremacist rhetoric and policies.” In the post-Bennet moment of post-journalism, editors at the paper were inclined to agree.

Revolutions tend to radicalization. The same is true of social media mobs: they grow ever more extreme until they explode. But the New York Times is neither of these things—it’s a business, and post-journalism is now its business model. The demand for moral clarity, pressed by those who own the truth, must increasingly resemble a quest for radical conformism; but for nonideological reasons, the demand cannot afford to leave subscriber opinion too far behind. Radicalization must balance with the bottom line.

The final paradox of post-journalism is that the generation most likely to share the moralistic attitude of the newsroom rebels is the least likely to read a newspaper. Andrey Mir, who first defined the concept, sees post-journalism as a desperate gamble, doomed in the end by demographics. For newspapers and their multiple art forms developed over a 400-year history, Mir writes, the collision with the digital tsunami was never going to be a challenge to surmount but rather “an extinction-level event.”

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NAME. Anemos ( Lincoln Donato & Grace Tate-Starling ) AGE & BIRTH DATE. 3000+ & Unknown GENDER & PRONOUNS. Nonbinary & He/She/They SPECIES. Oneiroi OCCUPATION. Photographer / Socialite FACE CLAIM. Regé-Jean Page / Phoebe Tonkin

BIOGRAPHY

( tw: servitude, death, murder ) Anemos does not remember the exact time of their creation. Too many years have passed, and too much has happened for it to remain of relevance in their mind. If asked, they might simply shrug their shoulders, and pretend as if the matter was of no consequence. To give off the appearance of youth has always served them well, as to be underestimated by those around them. But in reality, the oneiroi has seen millenniums come and go, the rise and fall of kings and nations alike. Though created by the hands of Nyx, perhaps it is of some humor that the first solid memory they have is of Zeus. Summoned before the mighty God, Anemos was given the order to carry a dream to the Greek king Agamemnon, urging him into battle against the Trojans. They traveled to his tent outside of Troy in the evening, taking the face of the king’s most trusted advisor, and with them they brought the promise of the Gods’ favor from Mount Olympus, spinning it like a web inside of the king’s mind while he slept. It was with this dream that Anemos played a hand in the fall of Troy, giving them a taste of the power that they could wield over the minds of mortals. And yet, once their job was done, the Gods fell silent to the oneiroi. No more instruction came at the time, left to their own devices to wander the world freely without a feeling of true purpose. 

It was fun, for a time. The influence they could hold on others was a source of entertainment, as they shifted through faces and identities as often as it pleased them. But a life alone is a life of loneliness, and Anemos was not immune to those feelings. Even as they enjoyed their revelry, there was still the feeling of being incomplete. So, in the absences of their creator, the Gods, and any others of their kind, Anemos began to look for companionship with the creatures of the earth. They began to make their presence known in the world, and became sought out by many kings and commoners alike for their abilities. Divination in particular was heavily desired, the mortal pull to know a man’s own future all too irresistible, though in seeking for themselves, the answers they received would only lead to a worse outcome as the people tried to escape their fate. The truly clever ones were careful with their questions, worded deliberately and under the promise of facing whatever the future may hold, no matter what answer they were given. It was these people that Anemos liked best, and often spent time in their courts of their own free will and desire.

One such court was that of Ramesses II, later to be known as Ramesses the Great. They came to him early in his reign, already a known oracle in the land, and the pharaoh was quick to extend an invitation to his palace. A bond of mutual respect and friendship was born between the pair, and Anemos stayed in his counsel until the end of his days. They followed him into every one of his Syrian campaigns, and cautioned against waging open war with the Hittites, instead suggesting to form a peace with the other king. And thus the first known peace treaty to exist was drafted, creating a harmony between borders that would last until the end of his reign. Already a great leader in his own right, with Anemos by his side, Ramesses became the greatest known and most widely celebrated pharaoh of all time. When death finally came for him at ninety years of age, Anemos still remained, and saw him through to the next life. It was the first time in their immortal life that Anemos experienced the feelings of grief and loss, an unexpected attachment to mortality that perhaps made them softer to the human species. Unfortunately, not all humans were so deserving.

Indeed, while the wise ones courted the favor of an oneiroi, the greedy ones desired their power for their own use and no one else’s. It was a mistake, a slip of the tongue in the room with the wrong person to hear, where word got out that the talisman Anemos kept was the source of their essence. Staying in Rome at the time, as a guest of the Emperor Septimius Severus, they had been in the area for a while, watching in amusement as the country struggled to regain its footing during the Year of the Five Emperors. They believed themselves to be safe in the Roman court, to wield their influence as they saw fit, and while Septimius held a great respect for the oneiroi’s abilities, his son was not so swayed. Caracalla craved Anemos’s power, saw it as an opportunity for himself to take charge, and sought to control them absolutely. Once he took possession of their talisman, they were bound under his will, forced to carry out his whims. In over a millennium of existence, it was the first true experience of betrayal for the oneiroi, an act that left them filled with rage. 

Though they were incapable of defying the man, that did not mean they were powerless. An angry oneiroi is a dangerous thing, and Anemos was not one to take forced servitude lying down. They began to plant the seeds of doubt and paranoia inside Caracalla’s mind, exacerbated by the death of his father in a military campaign in Caledonia. Forced to share his reign with his brother Geta, he was all too quick to turn to the spirit’s divination for solutions to his problems, which Anemos was happy to provide. This coupled along with every foul idea planted through his head in a dream, Caracalla quickly began a downward spiral into dictatorial behavior. Indeed, it was the spirit who gave him the idea to kill Geta to remove him as an obstacle, along with every single man who supported his brother. A great many people suffered for this, many of them innocent, yet Anemos felt no remorse. If they were trapped and suffering under his thumb, then so should everyone else be as well. 

After the murder of his brother, Caracalla took to the road, never to return to Rome. Though his mother Julia Domna requested for the spirit to stay in the city with her, the emperor refused, and Anemos was forced along with him. And yet it proved to be an unwise decision, for instead of favor, he only brought madness. Each time he pressed upon the oneiroi for knowledge, they would use it to twist his desires, and stroke his cruelty into a man that would become so infamously tyrannical. They encouraged his obsession with becoming the new Alexander the Great, which led to his persecution of Aristotelian philosophers, and also whispered a dream of the massacre and plunder of the city of Alexandria when the citizens mocked him in a satirical play, all the while turning him into someone who the world would not tolerate. When they saw his end at the hands of one of his own soldiers through divination, they pushed him into war with Parthia by presenting it as the only option to escape his fate, but in reality he only sealed it. It was only after that soldier stabbed the emperor to death on the road to Carrhae that Anemos was able to reclaim their talisman, and with it they took off running, never to look back. 

The reality of being forced into servitude for so long shook Anemos, and they became determined to never allow it to happen again. No longer did they exist so openly among mortal men, hiding their talents in fear of losing control of their talisman again. Determined that they would rather die than live through that again, they began to search for a method to ensure it’s security. It was during this time that they finally came into contact with one of their own. Another oneiroi, likewise alone in the world, it had been a bit of a salvation for Anemos. Immediately bonded, the two stuck together like glue for over one hundred years, and fell in love in the time in-between. But fate would not allow them to stay together, as their lover’s tricks came back to haunt them in the form of an aggrieved former lord who had lost everything due to the other oneiroi’s machinations. They were outnumbered with weapons of iron, and though the pair fought back, eventually the man got his hands on their love’s talisman and shattered it to pieces with the swing of a mighty axe. Anemos just barely escaped with their own life, wounded and heartbroken, and went deep into hiding as they mourned for their fallen. 

Nearly a century later, when they emerged from their shell of living, it was with a renewed energy to never let themselves fall victim to their talisman. Though it took time and effort, first to find one strong enough and then to make sure they were trustworthy, eventually Anemos sought the services of a witch to help them. And so the talisman was bound on a chain, and laced around their neck falling halfway to their chest, spelled to never be removed by a forceful hand. The chain is unbreakable, so long as the spell itself stays unbroken, and Anemos has never taken it off in over the five hundred years to follow.

For a while, when the world was still vastly unexplored, it was easy to take the face of others and have none be the wiser. But as the world became more modern, and hiding became more difficult, Anemos began to see the benefit of not only stealing faces, but also lives. They would insert themselves in the social circle of their target, learn what was necessary information to impersonate them, before promptly killing them and taking their entire identity. It’s a system they’ve perfected over the last one hundred years or so, giving them access to things otherwise unobtainable.

The two most recent victims whose lives Anemos has taken up are Grace Tate-Starling and Lincoln Donato. Grace was an Australian socialite, daughter of a former model and a billionaire whose family came from old money. Slipping into her life had been all too easy, and when she disappeared off to a “Greek Vacation” no one even questioned it. Lincoln on the other hand had been a traveling European photographer, not of great renown but considered to be an up-and-comer by the community. A loner in life who had little more than his camera, motorcycle, and website, there’d been hardly a more perfect choice for Anemos to take. With both their new appearances in hand, they made their way to Corinth Bay, to the pull of the veil in search of any others of their kind. For even though they had been burned by their desire for connection before, the feeling of loneliness never truly abated, except for the time when around one of their own species. If they could find any more like themselves, or a way to make more, then perhaps they could finally be happy again.

PERSONALITY

+ convivial, loyal, persevering - vengeful, amoral, shortsighted

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Does Trump have Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

In my opinion, yes, yes. A thousand times, yes. However I want to be clear about something before going any further. I am not a psychiatrist. This is entirely my opinion BUT there are a number of doctors who agree with me such as Harvard psychoanalyst Lance Dodes, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Jay Lifton; and   professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University  Dr. John Gartner; and many more. I also don’t want anyone to be under the impression that because Donald Trump seems to be the world’s clearest cut case of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder), that this somehow absolves him of responsibility for his actions. It doesn’t. He is not legally insane- even if his actions often seem irrational to most of us. Narcissistic Personality disorder is in the  DSM–5 (a.k.a. the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition) and it is technically a mental illness. HOWEVER, there is a significant and distinct difference between narcissistic personality disorder and other types of mental illnesses like Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder. First, let’s get a general definition of what personality disorders are and aren’t.

Psychology Today defines personality disorders as: “deeply ingrained ways of thinking and behaving that are inflexible and generally lead to impaired relationships with others.” Mental health professionals formally recognize 10 personality disorders that fall into three clusters.  Cluster A includes the ddd or eccentric disorders. Cluster B includes the dramatic or erratic disorders.  (Narcissistic Personality Disorder falls in Cluster B). And Cluster C which includes Anxious or fearful disorders.”

One might say that narcissistic personality disorder is essentially just an abnormal personality. Like with all personalities, biological factors as well as environment and early life experiences form who a person becomes. People with narcissistic personality disorder just possess personalities that are so outside the norm, and so problematic (for the individual and/or for society) that it has been identified as a mental disorder. With mental illnesses like Bipolar Disorder, the primary treatment is medication to treat that chemical imbalance. You could counsel someone with Bipolar Disorder to the ends of the earth, but unless you treat the imbalance with medication, you won’t get much of anywhere. In many cases, if the Bipolar patient find the right meds, it will generally control all or most symptoms. (It can be a struggle finding that right mix though since its essentially trial-and-error). With Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the primary treatment is psychotherapy. Occasionally meds can be used to treat underlying anxiety or depression but no pill can achieve a total 180 degree turn on personality traits that become ingrained over a person’s lifetime. You can’t re-route a narcissists worldview and patterns of interaction with a pill. That would take therapy. Unfortunately NPD has a low recovery rate because it takes someone who is truly willing to heed the perceptions of other people and someone who highly motivated to change narcissistic behaviors. As I go into some of the signs of NPD and how Trump displays them, you will begin to see why most narcissists lack the willingness and motivation to recover. 

Symptoms:

1) People with NPD have an inflated sense of their own importance and so CLEARLY does Trump. For example, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump claimed he had the largest inauguration crowd in history. He also incorrectly claimed that he had and I quote, “the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan." The reality is that almost every President since Ronald Reagan  won more electoral college votes than Donald Trump. 

2) People with NPD have a deep need for admiration. Trump went on a “thank you tour” after winning the election and has continued to campaign after inauguration. (See video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQnXnQQCCI) Why is he doing these things? Trump wants, no needs, to be surrounded by his base who will scream and cheer and stroke his ego. 

3) People with NPD lack of empathy for others. A good example of this would be when Trump belittled the parents of a deceased Muslim-American soldier (Captain Humayun Khan). Trump lacks the ability to imagine the pain of losing a child in service to this country. Its the same reason he made that “I prefer people who weren’t captured” remark about John McCain. He has no ability to empathize with someone who spent nearly six years in a North Vietnamese prison. Even if you disagree with someone politically, an empathetic person would still show respect and gratitude for American heroes. This next example speaks both Trump’s need for admiration and his lack of empathy: Trump’s strangely chipper attitude about Hurricane Harvey’s devastation. When speaking to some supporters at a firehouse in Corpus Christi, Trump just couldn’t help himself and he exclaimed, "What a crowd, what a turnout." And if anyone else made this next comment, I’d think nothing of it but since it was Trump? Houston, we have a problem. Trump said in tweets, “ HISTORIC rainfall in Houston, and all over Texas. Floods are unprecedented, and more rain coming... Going to a Cabinet Meeting at 11:00 A.M. on #Harvey. Even experts have said they've never seen one like this!....  Wow - Now experts are calling #Harvey a once in 500 year flood!.... Many people are now saying that this is the worst storm/hurricane they have ever seen.” See the problem is Trump is so transparent and I know where this was going before it went there. Of course Trump would ramble about this was the biggest and the best flood because everything with him is automatically the biggest, record breaking thing that ever happened and he is going to turn this around to talk about how awesome he and his team are. And he does exactly that, “ Great coordination between agencies at all levels of government. Continuing rains and flash floods are being dealt with. Thousands rescued.....  Wonderful coordination between Federal, State and Local Governments in the Great State of Texas - TEAMWORK! Record setting rainfall. “  (；一_一) Harvey is just another episode of the Trump show. Everything somehow is about Trump and his sheer tremendousness at (fill in the blank).

4) People with NPD have a mask of ultra-confidence but behind the mask lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism. For example, Trump sued Bill Maher over a joke. Maher got fed up with Trump constantly harping on the Obama birtherism nonsense, so Maher said Trump needs to prove that he isn’t the byproduct of his mother and orangutan. Then Trump threatened to sue The Onion (which in case you don’t know is probably the most famous satirical newspaper currently in print) which published a fake opinion piece pretending to be authored by Trump. It was titled, “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years.” Trump is the definition of a snowflake.

5) Narcissists are preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, or beauty. His obsession with success and power seem pretty clear. If you haven’t picked up on that, you have been living under a rock. His obsession with beauty is fascinating since its definitely not directed inwards. He seems immune to the reality of his own laughable appearance. However, Trump is obsessed surrounding himself with beautiful women. So obsessed that he keeps replacing his romantic partners will the younger model. Back when George Bush Sr. was President, Trump literally told Esquire magazine: "You know, it doesn't really matter what they (meaning the media) write, as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." And he isn’t just obsessed with his romantic partner’s level of attractiveness. Its everyone around him as well, including his daughters. When Tiffany was 2, Trump made this terrifyingly creepy comment  “I think that she’s got a lot of Marla. She’s really a beautiful baby. She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part (referring to her chest) yet but time will tell.” He held his hands in front of his chest to represent breasts when he said that. During an interview with Howard Stern in 2003, Trump said this about his then 22-year-old daughter Ivanka: "You know who's one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's 6 feet tall, she's got the best body. She made a lot money as a model—a tremendous amount."  Three years later on a separate visit to the Howard Stern Show, Trump referred to Ivanka as “voluptuous.” That same year on The View, Trump said this about Ivanka, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” Honestly, who talks about their daughter like that? Trump has carried this vanity straight into the white house. He has often referred to members of his team as coming from "central casting." Its well know that Chris Christie’s weight had a lot to do with the fact that he was not offered a position in Trump’s cabinet.

6) People with NPD are entitled, meaning they believe themselves  to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment. A good example of this Trump’s 5th military deferment for bone spurs. (He’d received 4 prior deferments for being in college. As tough as he talks, you’d think he’d be itching to go fight for his country). Trump had a perfect bill of health less than two years prior to these supposed bone spurs being used as an excuse to dodge the draft. That previous physical did not disqualify him for service as we can tell from his 1-A classification in July 1968. But this new physical that supposedly turned up bone spurs conveniently placed him squarely at the bottom of any call-up list, meaning he would only be drafted if there were some of complete and total military catastrophe. Funny, how those bone spurs didn’t impede Trump’s ability to play baseball, tennis and squash in college? He had only just recently graduated when he got the bone spurs deferment so there is weeks- maybe a couple months tops- in between his athletic college activities and this bone spur deferment. (；一_一) Politifact reports, “ Trump failed to mention his medical deferment when he told ABC News on July 19, 2015, that he was never drafted because the draft lottery went into effect and his birthday came with a high number.” Wrong. He got an extremely high number because of a medical deferment. Fun fact, only 5 percent of people with spurs have any pain at all. It would’ve been an extremely rare case to be debilitated by a spur at age 22.” And even more rare, to miraculously recover so quickly and completely- after the war ended of course- not that we ever saw any actually evidence of physical disability. Since people started bringing this up, Trump has magically remembered the bone spurs... sort of. Except, he couldn’t remember which foot or if it was both... Come on. Unless you are an idiot, you know Trump had his daddy pay of a doctor to make up an excuse to get him out of the draft. Then on top of, Trump has the audacity to say John McCain isn’t a war hero and insult the parents of a dead muslim-American soldier who did fight for this country. That ladies and gentleman, is called entitlement. 

7) Narcissists takes advantage of others to reach his or her own goals. Trump has a long, long history of not paying contractors and other employees- lots of them. To quote USA Today, “ During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza. They finished their work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization. Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. A USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found Trump has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past 3 decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them. At least 60 lawsuits, not including the hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings  who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. There were  more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y. air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New York City real estate banking firm. “ If you’d like to read the full USA Today article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

8) Narcissists apologize extremely rarely and if they do apologize, it’s for self serving reasons, rather than out of remorse. About as close to an apology as Trump has gotten is after the Access Hollywood tapes leaked but it was half assed, at best. He mostly just deflected by bringing up Bill Clinton’s misdeeds and complaining about how long ago this conversation occurred. He tossed in an “I said it, I regret it. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow.” and then didn’t change his attitude towards women an iota. The Access Hollywood tape came out on October 7, 2016 and he issued that bullshit apology the same day. Then 5 days later, after Natasha Stoynoff came out to accuse Trump of doing exactly what he said he does in that video (also known as sexual assault), Trump responds by insinuating she isn’t attractive enough for him to bother assaulting her. Because all innocent people say that.... (See video of Trump’s “deeply remorseful” behavior: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-sexual-assault_us_57ffc493e4b0162c043aa2a3

9) Narcissists often have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment. For example, when Trump asked James Comey to pledge his loyalty,  "lift the cloud" around him and his administration involving Russia, and essentially wanted Trump to let Flynn go. Same thing when Trump got upset at Jeff Sessions recusing himself in a situation he was ethically obligated to do so. Trump expects people to not do their job and not abide by the law and ethical guidelines- for him. 

10) Many narcissists care little about rules and boundaries so they may engage in behaviors that others find morally objectionable. An example of Trump’s objectionable business decisions, was creating Trump University which engaged in a variety of illegal business practices, ranging from false claims to racketeering. Trump was obviously eventually sued for that, as he should be. The plaintiffs alleged that they paid up to $35,000 in tuition for very little in return. Trump has agreed to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits after claiming he’d never settle because he was “innocent.” The settlement includes a $1 million penalty paid to New York state for violating the state’s education laws by calling the program a “university” despite offering no degrees or traditional education. The worst part is, business settlements are fully tax deductible. An example of an objectionable personal choice was pardoning Sheriff Joe  Arpaio, a man who violated the civil rights of Americans but having his officers actively target anyone who “looked hispanic” including people who hadn’t done so much as a a traffic violation which violates the equal protection clause of the constitution and the 4th amendment which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. Then Arpaio ignored a judge’s order to cease those violations. He also did things like, making male prisoners wear pink underwear and housing them in an outdoor tent city in the Arizona desert where it got so hot that the inmates’ shoes melted. Why did Trump do it? He’d say because Arpaio battled illegal immigration but the truth is, its because Arpaio stroked Trump’s ego by supporting him during the election. Due process goes out the window because he was nice to Trump.  (；一_一)

This person is mentally unfit to lead. Trump has no business with his finger on the nuclear launch code.

[comoxvalleycounselling]

How to Locate the Best Counseling Services in Courtenay, BC?

Finding the right counseling service can make a world of difference when you're navigating personal challenges. Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, or any other life struggles, seeking professional support can help you regain balance and perspective. But how do you find the best counseling services in Courtenay, BC? Here, we’ll explore what to look for and how to make an informed decision.

What Should You Look for in Counseling Services?

When searching for the best counseling services, several factors must be considered. Finding a service that fits your needs and offers a professional, empathetic approach is necessary. Here are some essential qualities to keep in mind:

1. Qualified and Experienced Counselors

The first thing to consider is whether the counselors are appropriately trained and licensed. In Canada, it's essential that counselors hold appropriate credentials to ensure they have the expertise to provide quality care. Specifically, look for a registered counsellor in Courtenay, BC, with the necessary certifications and experience.

Additionally, counselors should use proven methods that align with your goals. For instance, if you’re looking for a specific therapeutic approach, you might be interested in counselors specialising in Satir Model counselling. This approach focuses on personal growth and improving relationships by addressing the conscious and subconscious mind.

2. Personalized Approach to Therapy

No two individuals are alike, and the best counseling services offer a tailored approach to each client’s needs. It's essential to ensure that your chosen service will develop a personalized plan to address your concerns. Whether you need support with depression, family dynamics, or coping with a loss, your counselor should take the time to understand your unique situation.

3. Accessible and Convenient Location

Look for counseling services that are easily accessible in Courtenay, BC. Ideally, they should be located conveniently, allowing you to attend regular sessions without unnecessary stress or travel time. Moreover, ensure their office hours are flexible enough to fit your schedule.

4. Affordable Options

Therapy can be an investment in your well-being, but it’s also important to find services that are financially accessible. Some clinics offer sliding scale fees or payment plans to accommodate different budgets. You might also want to consider affordable online counseling options, which can be more flexible and cost-effective while offering the same care level.

5. Reputation and Client Reviews

Word of mouth and online reviews are powerful tools when selecting a counselor. Check reviews or ask for referrals from people you trust. This will give you a better understanding of what to expect and the overall quality of the counseling services.

6. Comfort and Trust

Therapy works best when you feel comfortable and supported by your counselor. During your initial consultation or intake session, pay attention to how you think about the counselor’s approach. A counselor should be approachable, non-judgmental, and empathetic. Trust and rapport are crucial in any therapeutic relationship.

How can you find counseling services near Courtenay, BC?

Now that you know what to look for in a counselor, here’s how to find the best counseling services near Courtenay, BC:

1. Search Online and Local Listings

A great starting point is to search online for counseling services near Courtenay, BC. You can use local directories or specific counseling websites that list registered professionals. Websites like the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) or the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) provide directories of licensed professionals.

2. Ask for Recommendations

Don’t hesitate to ask friends, family, or your doctor for recommendations. People who have experienced counseling can offer valuable insights and share their personal experiences. If you know someone who has received therapy, ask them about their counselor’s approach, professionalism, and effectiveness.

3. Look for Specialization

Counseling services can specialize in various areas such as addiction recovery, couples therapy, grief, or trauma. If you have specific needs, seek a counselor specialising in that area. For instance, if you’re looking for relationship-focused therapy, you might want a counselor well-versed in models like the Satir Model counseling, which emphasizes communication and emotional connection.

4. Review Their Website and Services

Most counseling services will have a website that provides important information about their practice. Review their services, therapy modalities, and client testimonials. Some sites will offer free consultations or intake forms so you can get an idea of how they approach counseling.

5. Consider Online Counseling Services

If finding local counseling services proves challenging, consider looking into affordable online counseling options. With technology becoming more integrated into our lives, many counselors now offer online therapy sessions as effective as in-person visits. These services are invaluable for those who have busy schedules or prefer the convenience of counseling from their own home.

What Is the Satir Model Counselling?

One popular therapeutic approach to look for in Courtenay is the Satir Model counselling. Virginia Satir's model focuses on improving self-esteem, communication, and personal growth. It’s based on the belief that individuals have an innate capacity for growth and transformation.

The Satir Model emphasizes the importance of family dynamics and their impact on emotional well-being. It helps individuals and families improve communication, reduce conflict, and increase emotional understanding. This method can be incredibly beneficial if you're dealing with relational issues.

This type of counseling can be a great option if you are looking for a holistic and integrative approach to therapy that focuses on emotional healing and building healthier relationships.

Benefits of Counseling Services in Courtenay, BC

There are numerous benefits to seeking professional counseling in Courtenay, BC. Here are just a few:

Emotional Support: Counseling provides a safe space to express your emotions without fear of judgment. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, or life transitions, having someone to talk to can bring relief.

Improved Mental Health: Regular therapy sessions can help individuals work through personal challenges and develop coping strategies for long-term mental health benefits.

Relationship Healing: Therapy can be a powerful tool for couples and families looking to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and enhance their relationships. Methods like the Satir Model are specifically designed to address these areas.

Self-Discovery and Personal Growth: Counseling can lead to greater self-awareness, helping individuals discover their needs and desires. This can be empowering, especially for those seeking significant life changes.

Conclusion

Locating the best counseling services in Courtenay, BC, requires careful thought and consideration. By focusing on essential factors such as the counselor's qualifications, approach, and accessibility, you can find a service that aligns with your unique needs. Whether you opt for in-person or online counseling, remember that seeking professional help is a courageous and vital step toward improving your mental and emotional health.

Comox Valley Counselling is committed to providing personalized counseling services tailored to your needs. Whether you’re looking for Satir Model counseling or exploring options for affordable online counseling, we’re here to help you take the next step in your journey toward healing and growth.

[bellboy905]

Reflexive and amoral avarice is one of the ignoble truths of Trump, but it’s subsidiary to the most important and elemental fact about the man, which is that he never does or says anything new. Some things may be shaded slightly differently from one blurt or boast to the next... but such slight variations of narrative form don’t alter the fundamental message... a running litany of shape-shifting grievance... that centers and celebrates the solitary genius of the narrator at the expense of a cultural and political establishment... bent on mocking, belittling, and victimizing him. The bigger story never changes, because Trump cannot change.

[...]

The power Trump fondly imagines that he wields... is it at bottom just... impressiveness. It’s that power, in Trump’s own twice-told tales of titanic achievement, that unlocks all the others... The thing about impressiveness, however, is that it resides entirely in the eye of the beholder... and in Trump’s case, he typically invokes it in a crass gambit to annex and manipulate... that beholder’s eye and generate maximum ego-gratification for himself. As with most things Trump-related, the form that this ascriptive impressiveness takes can be mapped with laughable ease over whatever failing he is most keen to conceal at that moment.

[...]

For many years... Trump lived in a strange public inversion of the usual superhero routine. His secret identity as a witless and grandiose scam artist was widely known, while his identity as an Extremely Impressive Person was known only to himself and a few loyal retainers. The Apprentice certainly helped restore his status, but it took the work of the political media to reveal Trump’s actual superpower.

[...]

To hear the... media tell it, Trump’s signature power is the ability to change the subject. With just a strange flutter of his pale eyelids and a difficult-to-parse ad-lib, Trump can swing a news cycle away from his latest lurid failure and back in the direction he wants it to go... This seems to give Trump entirely too much credit.

[...]

At this stage in his sublimely unexamined life and increasingly evident cognitive decline, Trump isn’t really capable of... compelling misdirections or even passably convincing falsehoods. He digresses because he loses the plot, and he lies when the truth wouldn’t look good on him. He distracts himself and tells himself lies because it is the only way to square what is actually happening with what he would prefer to be happening.

[...]

Where the media has failed and continues to fail is in its insistence that Trump is doing all of this, or any of it, for the same reason that other politicians are understood to have aimed to distract or chosen to lie.

[...]

A series of long-standing procedural and political and discursive norms... have failed the essential challenge that Trumpian politics and Trump’s own bulletproof shamelessness present. But the steepness and rapidity of their fall raises some serious questions about just how sturdy they were to begin with. The spectacle of expert analysts and thought leaders parsing the actions of a man with no expertise or capacity for analysis is the purest acid satire.

[...]

Trump represents an extraordinary challenge to political media precisely because there is nothing here to parse, no hidden meanings or tactical elisions or slow-rolled strategic campaign... There is nothing artful or concealed about Donald Trump, which is one of the secrets of his strange success as a politician. His lies are preposterous and glaring and never anything but the obvious opposite of what is actually true... The sheer mass of his annihilating selfishness leaves no room for anything like subtext. Trump is nothing but what he appears to be, and his superpower comes from this. His superpower is getting upset.

[...]

A wealthy dullard with what he perceived to be a divine right to the admiration, and grateful deference, of others... Trump picked his enemies not wisely but too well... and found himself hooked on Twitter... because he wanted to make himself look impressive and happy, and... because he needed to destroy anyone and everyone who’d ever made him look or feel less so.

[...]

Years before he became something like the subject and object of virtually all the programming on Fox News and Fox Business, Trump tweeted his takes on the celebrity gossip he gleaned from Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood with the same energy that he now brings to his regular morning ritual of transcribing Fox & Friends for his online followers... As Trump’s viewing diet shifted... his act soured and sharpened in turn.

[...]

The relationship between the president and his television channels has become... overtly recursive. Trump watches people talk about him on Fox, filters what they’ve said through the damp wool of his brain and repeats it, and then watches himself saying it on television later that day. As president, Trump has routinely sought the counsel of various Fox News personalities.

[...]

The politics of Fox News are reactionary, but they are also hard to pin down. They are about a feeling, a combination of distaste and distrust for all the things that other people are getting away with and seem so entitled to out there. This hunched and feral posture of grievance is then combined with a fiercely put-upon impatience with the service that viewers themselves are receiving... Even their defense of Trump is grounded in how he is being betrayed or treated unfairly.

[...]

Someone who spends eight or ten hours a day bathing in it could not by any rights be considered informed. That’s not really the point, and not remotely the business model. The idea is to keep viewers hanging around through the commercial breaks, to keep them engaged and enraged enough to continue watching and just frightened enough to believe that they’re better off staying indoors.

[...]

It’s true that the broader Fox project was always to make those viewers... receptive to conservative politics. But the actual election to the presidency of a Fox News addict whose understanding of politics is shaped wholly by the television he watches and his own legacy grievances and biases presents a different suite of challenges. Trump’s towering incuriosity and impatience with other people have ensured that, despite having a massive intelligence-and-policy apparatus at his command, he continues to get most of his information from his television. Fox News’ editorial policies have ensured that he believes politics to consist of three separate and equally important parts: tax cuts, wars, and elections

[...]

This is only a problem when it comes to governing. Trump has been and will continue to be terrible at that, when he deigns to take a run at it. But when it comes to doing what he does best... getting upset, and getting other people upset... Trump’s ability to absorb and project what his Super TiVo feeds him finally plays like the superpower that it is.

Trump’s election in 2016 has long been limned as a victory powered by people who had previously been outside of politics... people who believed politics did not and could not work, and distrusted the idea that incrementalism and compromise would or ever could fix what was wrong with the country. Trump himself is one of those people. Not because he has been screwed over and ground down by the failures of government. On the contrary, it’s difficult to imagine anyone in American public life who has violated more laws... with fewer real repercussions. It may be that some disillusioned voters, who had come to believe that politics were just something that happened on television, turned to Trump in 2016 because they recognized him from television and didn’t realize how much real damage he could do.

But Trump himself also believed that politics were something that happened on television: an abstract performance of grievance and confrontation and inchoate anger that resets every morning and gets more interesting during even-numbered years. He’s never known it to be anything else.

[...]

If Trump were a more sympathetic figure... there would be something sad about the way that all this new information had made it so much more difficult for him to think.

[...]

He’s going to make the things stop until he can figure out what’s going on. He’s going to stop doing the things that are confusing and don’t seem to be working, and start doing the simpler things that will work. He’s going to get to the bottom of these horrible things that people keep hinting at... He’s going to figure it all out and very strongly fix it... But his television won’t tell him how.

[whatisonthemoonarchive]

Is it any wonder Sean Moon loves the Trumps?

Donald Trump Jr., Sub-Master of the Universe

 Matt Bai 5 hours ago 

  Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty

The most emblematic novel of the 1980s, Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” was published 30 years ago this October. It’s often been called a satire, but if you grew up in or around New York during that time, as I did, the fractured metropolis of Wolfe’s imagining wasn’t far-fetched. It was basically the 5 o’clock news with the names changed.

If you didn’t read the novel or see the disappointing film with Tom Hanks (and, I admit, it’s been quite a while since I read it, too), here’s the basic recap. Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street bond trader, a “Master of the Universe” as it existed in the Reagan years, who, along with his mistress, gets lost in the Bronx one night and ends up running over an African-American kid before speeding away.

What follows is a classic conflagration involving hardened city cops, breathless tabloid reporters and cynical civil rights leaders, among others. The Master of the Universe escapes jail but is ultimately laid low and stripped of his net worth, while the cold engine of capitalism revs on.

In its essence, “Bonfire” owed much to the greatest of New York novels, “The Great Gatsby”; like F. Scott Fitzgerald writing in the 1920s, Wolfe depicted “careless people” living in a cocoon of social presumption, inured to consequence and indifferent to the catastrophes left in their wake. Both novelists employed the traffic accident as a useful metaphor for recklessness, and both explored the connection, in their own times, between fraudulence and wealth.

And in Wolfe’s time, no one embodied that connection better or more brazenly than Donald Trump.

During the years in which Wolfe was serializing “Bonfire” in Rolling Stone, culminating in its publication in 1987, Trump was building a casino empire in Atlantic City, financed largely by junk bonds and mountainous debt. He bought a USFL football team and pasted his name on a fleet of commercial jets.

He bluffed and borrowed his way to celebrity. By the end of the decade, not only was Trump the master of the universe he surveyed from the window of his Fifth Avenue tower, but he had designs on the worlds of entertainment and politics, too. He combined elements of both Gatsby and McCoy — self-invented and self-involved, heedless and highly leveraged.

As the ’80s gave way to the ’90s and then to a new millennium, though — as the city’s worst neighborhoods yielded to gentrification, and as its political machines yielded to Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg — New York became more corporate, its aristocracy more entrenched.

If Wolfe’s ’80s belonged to the brash titans of finance and speculation, then the less colorful period after belonged largely to the sheltered kids who played with their family fortunes.

It was in this New York that Donald Jr. and Eric and Ivanka Trump came of age like young royals out of “Frozen.” (Fitting that their dad built the city a skating rink.) It was here that young Jared Kushner — whose own Master of the Universe father went to a federal lockup for, among other things, trying to seduce his own brother-in-law with a hooker to keep him from testifying about campaign finance violations — busied himself buying up properties as if he were playing Monopoly.

They didn’t get schooled in the family-owned tenements in Jersey or the outer boroughs. It was Penn and Georgetown and Harvard for them, all expenses paid, all things possible.

Say what you will about President Trump, and I’ve said plenty; you can’t say he ever lacked for what New Yorkers call chutzpah. He had the brass ornaments to risk his modest inheritance, to plow through bankruptcies, to court public humiliation in pursuit of far-flung enterprises. I actually admire that.

He had the temerity to run for president, which is more than a lot of more able, more qualified politicians will ever be able to say. If our most capable political leaders had half of Trump’s adventurism, he’d probably still be living on Fifth Avenue.

But the kids, near as I can tell, never risked a thing or placed a bet. They appear never to have learned anything their dads couldn’t teach them in the warm safety of a penthouse. Their birthrights became the whole of their identities.

Any one of them could have struck out for points west or south, where the postindustrial economy was flowering, where there were new markets to be conquered and untold sums to be amassed. Even the young Kennedys, however aimless and entitled, wandered off to Maryland and Illinois and California, seeking some meaning beyond the name.

Not the Trumps. Not young Kushner. They went right from adolescence to the highest echelon of family businesses, dabbling in pageants and shoes and niche media. They were Sub-Masters of the Universe, eons removed from the Big Bang.

Of course Ivanka had zero self-consciousness about taking her father’s chair when he stepped out during a meeting of the most powerful world leaders on the planet. She’d already run his business and filled in on his reality TV shows. If she isn’t already considering a plan to succeed him as president, I’d be very surprised.

And of course Kushner had no hesitation about jetting off to the Middle East to broker peace among the Arabs and Israelis, when he’s barely qualified to serve as a delegate to the model U.N. Who ever told Jared he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room?

It does not seem to occur to the Trump children — ever — that they have now strayed dangerously beyond the boundaries of their cozy Manhattan kingdom, that what they’re dabbling in now is the impossibly complex business of our national and economic security, not to mention the arcane machinery of politics and law enforcement.

I wasn’t right about a lot of things during last year’s campaign, but I was dead right when I warned that Trump would run the government the way he had run his business — as a family enterprise, the plaything of his children. To me, this is the single greatest threat his presidency poses.

They strike me as careless people. They know as much about consequence as I do about handbags.

Which leads me, finally, to the topic of the day in Washington: this business of Donald Jr. and the Russians. Any experienced adviser to a nominee would have flinched at an email promising opposition research from a foreign government, and at the very least would have diverted it to someone outside the campaign (or reported it to the authorities).

But read the emails Junior exchanged with an emissary about the Russian government offering to help sink his father’s opponent, and you get the idea that he’d watched a bunch of “House of Cards” episodes and figured he knew how all of this worked. He was winging it, as Sub-Masters of the Universe do.

Then, when the news of that meeting started to break in the New York Times, he lied about it, saying the meeting was just about policy. When more details emerged, he revised the lie, saying he was told this Russian lawyer might have some useful information but had no idea who she was.

Then, when that also proved untrue, he said maybe he did know exactly who she was, but he figured that whatever she had come halfway across the world to tell him was publicly available information, anyway.

This is what he learned from watching his more dynamic father — that you can lie with impunity. That the rules don’t apply. That the system can always be gamed.

Except that none of this has anything to do with how business gets conducted in the cosseted confines of Trump Tower. It’s no longer about politics or public opinion.

There is only one man whose view on any of this ultimately matters now, and that man’s name is Robert Mueller.

Like Sherman McCoy, the young Trumps find themselves hurled into a pitiless world of lawmen and voracious media, all of whom somehow elude their mastery. Before this bonfire burns out, I’m betting the special counsel is going to know about all the meetings and all the emails, and a lot of very expensive lawyers are going to have a lot of hours to bill.

That’s always the moral of the story: Carelessness comes with a cost.

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Happy Wishes for wedding

We've been there: You shop long and elusive the ideal wedding card for the prospective wedded couple and after that you return home and have a quite unpleasant time making sense of what to write in it. The uplifting news is, there are no firm guidelines about what to write in a wedding card. For whatever length of time that your wedding congrats message is ardent and offers the couple a positive wish for their marriage, you're ready.

Wedding Card Decorum 101

It ought to nearly abandon saying that wedding cards are standard for any individual who needs to send wedding wishes to a connected with or recently hitched couple. In case you're following customary wedding visitor manners, you'll either need to convey the card to the wedding gathering or mail it legitimately to the couple (more often than not between the time you get the wedding welcome and half a month after the wedding). Truly however, you can send it at whatever point you need. You could even send a pleasant card if the wedding is little and you're not welcomed. Basically: Wedding congrats are welcome whenever by anybody!

Concerning the card itself, wedding cards come in bunches of various configurations—from standard welcome cards you find at a charming stationery shop to hand crafted cards, little labels connected to blessings and even basic, carefully made wedding messages that are printed and sent to the couple with their blessing. The majority of the above go as a wedding card and are viewed as alright, so don't want to have mutiple. (On the other hand, on the off chance that you paid a blessing off the couple's library and need them to likewise have a pretty card from you, take one to the gathering and drop it in a wedding card box or on a blessing table!)

Is It Alright to Compose the Expression "Congrats?"

To put it plainly, yes. All things considered, it used to state or expressing "congrats" to a recently hitched lady was once viewed as a blunder since it was thought of as praising her on really getting a man! (That's right, you read that right.) Today however, that is viewed as an obsolete principle and school of thought. In any case, if the couple happens to be customary or originated from an exceptionally conventional family, you should need to evade the term by and large and simply state "all the best."

What to Write in a Wedding Card

The ideal wedding wish is nostalgic, sweet and completely customized to the couple. Is it for your most loved cousin and his new spouse? Or on the other hand your amusing school flat mate who at last settled down? The following are many instances of wedding wishes cites for motivation. Utilize the speedy connections beneath to make an astonishing (virtuoso!) wedding message:

what to write in a wedding card - formal

what to write in a wedding card - easygoing

what to write in a wedding card - interesting

what to write in a wedding card - religious

what to write in a wedding card - family

what to write in a wedding card - kin

what to write in a wedding card - child or little girl

what to write in a wedding card - companion

what to write in a wedding card - collaborator

what to write in a wedding card - parent

Formal Wedding Wishes

Because it's a formal wedding with floor-length dresses and tuxes doesn't mean you need to send a formal card with stuffy wording. (The card doesn't need to impeccably coordinate the occasion.) Still, in the event that you need to compose a decent message that is ageless and sentimental, a formal note is the best approach.

Models:

"Wishing you a lifetime of adoration and joy."

"Your big day will travel every which way, however may your adoration always develop."

"All the best on this magnificent voyage, as you construct your new lives together."

"May the years ahead be loaded up with enduring bliss."

"May the affection you share today become more grounded as you develop old together."

"May your association bring you more delight than you can envision."

"May today be the start of a long, glad coexistence."

"Much obliged to you for letting us/me share in this blissful day. We/I want you to enjoy all that life has to offer as you set out on this great association."

"Wishing you delight, love and bliss on your big day and as you start your new coexistence."

"May the adoration and satisfaction you feel today radiate as the years progressed."

Easygoing Wedding Wishes

On the off chance that you don't feel great with formal wedding idioms, at that point don't do it. Act naturally. It's totally fine to compose a progressively easygoing wedding message in the card, regardless of the beneficiary. Put it along these lines: Quick and painless is in every case fine, insofar as you're stating something decent or including a desire for the couple's future.

Precedents:

"All the best!"

"Congrats!"

"Congrats on your wedding!"

"We're/I'm so upbeat for you!"

"Wishing you loads of affection and joy."

"We/I cherish you. Well done!"

"Heaps of affection today and past."

"Here's a bit of something to begin your coexistence." (In case you're including a blessing.)

"Much love."

"Wishing you a long and glad marriage."

"Here's to a long and glad marriage!"

"Wishing you the best today and dependably."

"So glad to commend this day with you both!"

"All the best for a thrilling future together."

Clever Wedding Wishes

Feel free to compose something clever in the card that you think will make them giggle. Simply be cautious with your marriage wishes. What may effectively appear to be a joke in discussion could be misinterpreted on paper. As a standard guideline, keep away from jokes that are snide or snarky. Additionally untouchable? Avoid whatever could be viewed as annoying, infer that one of them is the "better half" or notice anything about it having taken excessively long (or too brief period) to get hitched. Gracious, and no separation jokes!

Precedents:

"As Bill and Ted stated, 'Be amazing to one another.'"

"A debt of gratitude is in order for welcoming us to eat and drink while you get hitched. Congratulations!"

"Wishing you loads of adoration—and bunches of cosmetics sex!" (If this is proper given your association with the couple.)

"Our marriage guidance: Love, respect and… scour the can." (Or fill in some other interesting counsel you have.)

"Love is all you need… stay with that poop and you'll do incredible!" (If this is fitting given your association with the couple.)

"Treat marriage like a hockey match-up. No roughing!"

"Much obliged for the free alcohol. All the best on a long, upbeat marriage!"

"Getting hitched resembles going to show school. May there be more satire than drama."

Religious Wedding Wishes

On the off chance that the couple is religious, at that point this may be the best alternative. Religious wedding card messages can make reference to God, let them know of your supplications or statement sacred text. Before composing a religious message in a wedding card, think about the couple's convictions and rehearses, and alter the message to them. In the event that they aren't excessively religious or don't love routinely, something exceptionally religious could make them awkward, so it's be ideal to tone down religious components or maintain a strategic distance from them through and through. What's more, in case you're uncertain of what religious message to compose, pick progressively broad wedding words.

Christian Models:

"May God favor you and your association."

"May God concede all of you of life's favors and love's delights."

"Sending you petitions for unending affection and joy."

"God favor you both on this day with a lifetime of shared love and bliss."

"May the Person who united you favor your marriage, improve your lives and develop your affection consistently."

" 'God has emptied out His adoration into our souls.' – Romans 5:5"

" 'Love is tolerant. Love is benevolent… Love never fizzles.' – 1 Corinthians 13:4-13"

Jewish Precedents:

"Mazel Tov! May the delight that is yours today dependably fill your life."

" 'I am my dearest's and my cherished is mine.' – Shir Ha'Shirim/Melody of Tunes 6:3" Or " 'Ani L'Dodi, v'Dodi Li.' – Shir Ha'Shirim/Tune of Tunes 6:3"

"May you be honored."

"Mazel Tov on your wedding!" or "Mazel Tov on your marriage!"

Wedding Wants for a Relative

When composing a wedding card for family, you can go exceptionally broad or individual—it's totally up to you and the sort of message you need to pass on.

Precedents:

"Congrats on your marriage, and welcome to the family!"

"We are/I am so upbeat to respect another relative. All the best to you both!"

"We're/I'm so glad [name] has discovered 'the one.' Welcome to the family!"

"We're charmed to impart this day to you both."

"What an awesome day for our family, and particularly both of you. May the delight you feel today endure forever."

"Today, we add one more part to our family, and we couldn't be more joyful. All the best to you both."

"What a brilliant expansion to our family. We're/I'm so glad to partake in your festival. Congrats!"

"We/I couldn't be more joyful to call you both family. All the best for a long and upbeat future together."

"We/I adore you both. Much obliged for giving us a chance to partake in your festival!"

"Congratulations! Love and embraces."

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Happy wishes for wedding

We've been there: You shop long and elusive the ideal wedding card for the prospective wedded couple and after that you return home and have a quite unpleasant time making sense of what to write in it. The uplifting news is, there are no firm guidelines about what to write in a wedding card. For whatever length of time that your wedding congrats message is ardent and offers the couple a positive wish for their marriage, you're ready.

Wedding Card Decorum 101

It ought to nearly abandon saying that wedding cards are standard for any individual who needs to send wedding wishes to a connected with or recently hitched couple. In case you're following customary wedding visitor manners, you'll either need to convey the card to the wedding gathering or mail it legitimately to the couple (more often than not between the time you get the wedding welcome and half a month after the wedding). Truly however, you can send it at whatever point you need. You could even send a pleasant card if the wedding is little and you're not welcomed. Basically: Wedding congrats are welcome whenever by anybody!

Concerning the card itself, wedding cards come in bunches of various configurations—from standard welcome cards you find at a charming stationery shop to hand crafted cards, little labels connected to blessings and even basic, carefully made wedding messages that are printed and sent to the couple with their blessing. The majority of the above go as a wedding card and are viewed as alright, so don't want to have mutiple. (On the other hand, on the off chance that you paid a blessing off the couple's library and need them to likewise have a pretty card from you, take one to the gathering and drop it in a wedding card box or on a blessing table!)

Is It Alright to Compose the Expression "Congrats?"

To put it plainly, yes. All things considered, it used to state or expressing "congrats" to a recently hitched lady was once viewed as a blunder since it was thought of as praising her on really getting a man! (That's right, you read that right.) Today however, that is viewed as an obsolete principle and school of thought. In any case, if the couple happens to be customary or originated from an exceptionally conventional family, you should need to evade the term by and large and simply state "all the best."

What to Write in a Wedding Card

The ideal wedding wish is nostalgic, sweet and completely customized to the couple. Is it for your most loved cousin and his new spouse? Or on the other hand your amusing school flat mate who at last settled down? The following are many instances of wedding wishes cites for motivation. Utilize the speedy connections beneath to make an astonishing (virtuoso!) wedding message:

what to write in a wedding card - formal

what to write in a wedding card - easygoing

what to write in a wedding card - interesting

what to write in a wedding card - religious

what to write in a wedding card - family

what to write in a wedding card - kin

what to write in a wedding card - child or little girl

what to write in a wedding card - companion

what to write in a wedding card - collaborator

what to write in a wedding card - parent

Formal Wedding Wishes

Because it's a formal wedding with floor-length dresses and tuxes doesn't mean you need to send a formal card with stuffy wording. (The card doesn't need to impeccably coordinate the occasion.) Still, in the event that you need to compose a decent message that is ageless and sentimental, a formal note is the best approach.

Models:

"Wishing you a lifetime of adoration and joy."

"Your big day will travel every which way, however may your adoration always develop."

"All the best on this magnificent voyage, as you construct your new lives together."

"May the years ahead be loaded up with enduring bliss."

"May the affection you share today become more grounded as you develop old together."

"May your association bring you more delight than you can envision."

"May today be the start of a long, glad coexistence."

"Much obliged to you for letting us/me share in this blissful day. We/I want you to enjoy all that life has to offer as you set out on this great association."

"Wishing you delight, love and bliss on your big day and as you start your new coexistence."

"May the adoration and satisfaction you feel today radiate as the years progressed."

Easygoing Wedding Wishes

On the off chance that you don't feel great with formal wedding idioms, at that point don't do it. Act naturally. It's totally fine to compose a progressively easygoing wedding message in the card, regardless of the beneficiary. Put it along these lines: Quick and painless is in every case fine, insofar as you're stating something decent or including a desire for the couple's future.

Precedents:

"All the best!"

"Congrats!"

"Congrats on your wedding!"

"We're/I'm so upbeat for you!"

"Wishing you loads of affection and joy."

"We/I cherish you. Well done!"

"Heaps of affection today and past."

"Here's a bit of something to begin your coexistence." (In case you're including a blessing.)

"Much love."

"Wishing you a long and glad marriage."

"Here's to a long and glad marriage!"

"Wishing you the best today and dependably."

"So glad to commend this day with you both!"

"All the best for a thrilling future together."

Clever Wedding Wishes

Feel free to compose something clever in the card that you think will make them giggle. Simply be cautious with your marriage wishes. What may effectively appear to be a joke in discussion could be misinterpreted on paper. As a standard guideline, keep away from jokes that are snide or snarky. Additionally untouchable? Avoid whatever could be viewed as annoying, infer that one of them is the "better half" or notice anything about it having taken excessively long (or too brief period) to get hitched. Gracious, and no separation jokes!

Precedents:

"As Bill and Ted stated, 'Be amazing to one another.'"

"A debt of gratitude is in order for welcoming us to eat and drink while you get hitched. Congratulations!"

"Wishing you loads of adoration—and bunches of cosmetics sex!" (If this is proper given your association with the couple.)

"Our marriage guidance: Love, respect and… scour the can." (Or fill in some other interesting counsel you have.)

"Love is all you need… stay with that poop and you'll do incredible!" (If this is fitting given your association with the couple.)

"Treat marriage like a hockey match-up. No roughing!"

"Much obliged for the free alcohol. All the best on a long, upbeat marriage!"

"Getting hitched resembles going to show school. May there be more satire than drama."

Religious Wedding Wishes

On the off chance that the couple is religious, at that point this may be the best alternative. Religious wedding card messages can make reference to God, let them know of your supplications or statement sacred text. Before composing a religious message in a wedding card, think about the couple's convictions and rehearses, and alter the message to them. In the event that they aren't excessively religious or don't love routinely, something exceptionally religious could make them awkward, so it's be ideal to tone down religious components or maintain a strategic distance from them through and through. What's more, in case you're uncertain of what religious message to compose, pick progressively broad wedding words.

Christian Models:

"May God favor you and your association."

"May God concede all of you of life's favors and love's delights."

"Sending you petitions for unending affection and joy."

"God favor you both on this day with a lifetime of shared love and bliss."

"May the Person who united you favor your marriage, improve your lives and develop your affection consistently."

" 'God has emptied out His adoration into our souls.' – Romans 5:5"

" 'Love is tolerant. Love is benevolent… Love never fizzles.' – 1 Corinthians 13:4-13"

Jewish Precedents:

"Mazel Tov! May the delight that is yours today dependably fill your life."

" 'I am my dearest's and my cherished is mine.' – Shir Ha'Shirim/Melody of Tunes 6:3" Or " 'Ani L'Dodi, v'Dodi Li.' – Shir Ha'Shirim/Tune of Tunes 6:3"

"May you be honored."

"Mazel Tov on your wedding!" or "Mazel Tov on your marriage!"

Wedding Wants for a Relative

When composing a wedding card for family, you can go exceptionally broad or individual—it's totally up to you and the sort of message you need to pass on.

Precedents:

"Congrats on your marriage, and welcome to the family!"

"We are/I am so upbeat to respect another relative. All the best to you both!"

"We're/I'm so glad [name] has discovered 'the one.' Welcome to the family!"

"We're charmed to impart this day to you both."

"What an awesome day for our family, and particularly both of you. May the delight you feel today endure forever."

"Today, we add one more part to our family, and we couldn't be more joyful. All the best to you both."

"What a brilliant expansion to our family. We're/I'm so glad to partake in your festival. Congrats!"

"We/I couldn't be more joyful to call you both family. All the best for a long and upbeat future together."

"We/I adore you both. Much obliged for giving us a chance to partake in your festival!"

"Congratulations! Love and embraces."

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Tremendous Bowl adverts present Alexa as a part of each day life – Advertising and marketing Land

Tremendous Bowl adverts this previous Sunday bounced between the previous and the longer term, with a beneficiant dose of nostalgia (Stella Artois) to offset nervousness in regards to the coming of AI and robots (Michelob Extremely). However there have been a number of adverts that includes digital assistants, both with Amazon Alexa or stand-ins meant to evoke Alexa.

Unhappy system and ‘quite a lot of fails’. Whether or not the adverts celebrated or satirized digital assistants, the clear implication was they’re now part of our each day lives and right here to remain. A choice of these spots included Pringles’ Unhappy System, Mercedes Say the Phrase and Amazon’s Not Every part Makes the Reduce.

The irony of those adverts is that manufacturers had been utilizing digital assistants/sensible audio system to market their merchandise (e.g., Pringles). However sensible audio system haven’t materialized as viable channel for manufacturers. Regardless, the put in base of sensible speaker house owners continues to develop.

Development of Households with A number of Sensible Audio system

Supply: CIRP, January 2019 (n=500 sensible speaker house owners)

Development of multi-speaker properties. The most recent survey information from Client Intelligence Analysis Companions (CIRP) signifies that the vacation quarter noticed important sensible speaker gross sales. Amazon had already confirmed this, and final month the web retailer stated that it had bought greater than 100 million Echo units.

Extrapolating from its new survey information, CIRP introduced, “the US put in base of sensible speaker units is 66 million models, up from 53 million within the September 2018 quarter and 36 million . . . in December 2017.” There are different extra aggressive estimates that counsel the U.S. market could have crossed the 100 million system threshold. The precise quantity could lie in-between these two estimates.

CIRP additionally stated its information present the variety of sensible speaker house owners with multiple unit of their properties grew considerably prior to now yr, with 35 p.c of householders now reporting multiple system at residence. That compares with simply 18 p.c in December 2017.

Why you must care. It now appears doubtless that conventional promoting received’t be a function of the Alexa consumer expertise. As a substitute, Amazon has given its approval to subscriptions and premium content material gross sales by third events inside expertise. E-commerce can also be in there someplace. Nevertheless expertise have up to now not been a really efficient advertising and marketing or branding software.

Against this, Google appears targeted on making the Assistant right into a reserving and commerce platform (e.g., guide rides, purchase film tickets). It appears exhausting to consider, nevertheless, that audio adverts or sponsorships and video/show adverts (on sensible shows) received’t seem in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later on Google Dwelling units.

About The Creator

Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a private weblog, Screenwerk, about connecting the dots between digital media and real-world client conduct. He’s additionally VP of Technique and Insights for the Native Search Affiliation. Comply with him on Twitter or discover him at Google+.

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Is Your Brand Breaking the Law on Social Media?

Ambiguous rules and lax enforcement of resharing original content on social media has perpetuated the theft of the creators’ intellectual property. But that’s changing as the creative class – photographers, videographers, musicians, et al. – are more likely to enforce their legal and moral rights in the growing multibillion-dollar social media industry.

If your brand doesn’t rely solely on commissioned or in-house content, you could have potential legal exposure from the images you use on social media. That’s why you might want to rethink or at least review your social media content policies.

Unless your #socialmedia images are commissioned or created in-house, you may be breaking the law. @allen3m ‏ Click To Tweet

U.S. copyright law provides statutory damages up to $150,000 per image for willful infringement. And, though you may not read about a lot of court decisions on copyright infringement, remember many cases are settled out of court, never to be shared publicly.

Mitigate your and your brand’s risk by understanding some key intellectual property (IP) insights and following a few hints I’ve found helpful even though I’m not an attorney.

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Bots and automation make finding infringements easier

Google Images has a reverse image search feature that allows users to click on the camera then upload an image and view the websites using that image. Companies like Getty Images automate similar technology to find instances of unlicensed use and automatically dispatch letters seeking compensation for commercial infringement. Here’s one way to respond if you get a copyright infringement letter.

Technological improvements will continue to make it easier and cheaper for content creators to find stolen images, and properly licensing images is a simple way to avoid costly penalties.

Do this: License your images from stock photo sites or directly from photographers to avoid potential liability. Use a digital asset management (DAM) system to track your content licenses.

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One brand’s permission doesn’t mean everyone can use it

Tagging the originator of an image doesn’t give the poster a legal license to reuse content. And given that images are reposted then reposted then reposted, original attribution often is lost. In other words, you might not only illegally post an image, you might credit the wrong person or brand.

Tagging the originator of an image doesn’t mean you have the legal license to reuse the content. @allen3m‏ Click To Tweet

A large fashion publication with 3 million followers recently reposted an image that appeared on the Instagram account of French hotel Domaine des Hauts. It didn’t seek permission or credit the photographer. Perhaps the media outlet thought it was OK to repost the image without permission because it was a marketing image. But fans of the photographer Jamie Beck recognized the reused image and cried foul. Although the publication quickly removed the image and licensed another one from the original photographer to the satisfaction of both parties (and their followers), the incident is a prime example of how the appearance of a brand’s content in social media isn’t a blanket license for others to use at will.

Do this: Avoid reposting other user’s content, even marketing-related content, unless you have explicit permission.

“Fair use” isn’t what it sounds like

People often cite “fair use” as a defense for breaking copyright law. But the concept is frequently misunderstood. U.S. copyright law poses the following four characteristics to evaluate the question of fair use:

Purpose and character of the use (including whether the use is of a commercial nature or for nonprofit educational purposes)

Nature of the copyrighted work

Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work

Examples of commonly accepted fair use include but aren’t limited to educational purposes, criticism, and satire. Brands rarely repost images under these contexts, thus their use is unlikely to pass the fair use test.

Brands reuse of images is unlikely to pass the “fair use” test, says @allen3m. ‏ Click To Tweet

Images from or about the news and celebrity images are frequently reposted without permission. Neither is considered fair use. In fact, there’s a decent amount of case law supporting the rights of the creative creators. Even reusing an image of your brand or you may not constitute fair use. Model Gigi Hadid posted a photo of herself taken by Peter Cepeda to her Instagram account. Presumably, she believed she had the legal right to publish a photo of herself. But the photographer sued for copyright infringement, and the case was settled out of court.

Infringement gets murky when someone uses another brand’s content (e.g., product or campaign image) on their blog or social media post. From a legal standpoint it shouldn’t be done because the republisher doesn’t know the licensing terms between the original brand and the content creator. Though, from a practical perspective, brands usually want their content shared, so it’s unlikely that this usage would run afoul. But you never know. Use Google Images to see if the image is original to the brand. Checking the provenance (e.g., did it come from the brand’s website?) can mitigate your risk.

Do this: Don’t rely on fair use as a reason to avoid paid licenses. Create and enforce a content licensing and permission policy.

User-generated content is a largely untested area

Brands love user-generated content (UGC) because it’s free and builds affinity. There are many methods of collecting UGC (e.g., contests that require users to agree to a set of terms and conditions – one of which is giving the brand the rights to the UGC). Some brands rely on hashtags to cull UGC content, then use the hashtag as evidence of permission to repost.

Calvin Klein’s ongoing #MyCalvins campaign generates a seemingly endless supply of attractive millennials looking to become Insta-stars. One might plausibly argue the hashtag is specific enough that a consumer wouldn’t randomly use it without knowing it was part of a UGC campaign. (And Calvin Klein likely seeks explicit permission before it reposts on its Instagram account of 1.3 million-plus followers.) But I don’t know of any case law to suggest a hashtag alone represents a usage license, and brands need to be careful about interpreting it as such.

Hashtags provide user-generated categorization – an incredibly helpful taxonomical device that enhances discovery on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. But brands need to be careful in assuming the presence of a hashtag equates to permission. It almost certainly does not meet the threshold in most cases.

Don’t assume use of your brand’s hashtag equates permission to reuse the image, says @allen3m. Click To Tweet

Do this: Even if you encourage your audience to use brand-specific hashtags, seek written permission from the content creator before reposting.

Know the platform’s rules

Social media platforms have distinct personalities with different content focuses, but it’s important to remember most content is legally owned by the content creator. Although Instagram is a massive repository of over 40 billion photos, it is not a free stock photo site. In fact, its terms of use prohibit infringement of a third-party’s rights:

You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Service or otherwise have the right to grant the rights and licenses set forth in these Terms of Use; (ii) the posting and use of your Content on or through the Service does not violate, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights; (iii) you agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed by reason of Content you post on or through the Service; and (iv) you have the legal right and capacity to enter into these Terms of Use in your jurisdiction.

And Instagram’s API Platform Policy prohibits violating other users’ rights. In 2015, Groupon was hit with a class action lawsuit for stealing location-tagged photos from Instagram and using the images to promote those businesses with Groupon deals. Interestingly, the main claim wasn’t copyright infringement, but using a person’s likeness (rights of publicity) to promote a business without the person’s consent.

Do this: Always obtain permission before reposting content. Tagging and/or adding a copyright disclaimer won’t provide you legal cover in infringement cases.

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It’s confusing

The threat of lawsuit has forced the largest social media and content-sharing platforms to automate copyright infringement detection and monetization capabilities. For example, YouTube allows musicians to “cover” popular songs without obtaining a mechanical or synchronization license because they have deals in place with some of the major music publishers to automate the process. Automation simplifies accounting, but the artist might incorrectly believe that no licensing is necessary to use someone else’s intellectual property since the process is obfuscated. There’s no substitute for directly obtaining a license and using a system to manage compliance.

The average consumer rarely deals directly with licensing so it’s easy to be ignorant of the law. But the risk for brands is undeniably high. A corporate content policy is a starting point for risk mitigation (and don’t forget to involve your legal counsel).

Disclaimer: This article does not constitute legal advice. Always consult with a lawyer.

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Is Your Brand Breaking the Law on Social Media?

Ambiguous rules and lax enforcement of resharing original content on social media has perpetuated the theft of the creators’ intellectual property. But that’s changing as the creative class – photographers, videographers, musicians, et al. – are more likely to enforce their legal and moral rights in the growing multibillion-dollar social media industry.

If your brand doesn’t rely solely on commissioned or in-house content, you could have potential legal exposure from the images you use on social media. That’s why you might want to rethink or at least review your social media content policies.

Unless your #socialmedia images are commissioned or created in-house, you may be breaking the law. @allen3m ‏ Click To Tweet

U.S. copyright law provides statutory damages up to $150,000 per image for willful infringement. And, though you may not read about a lot of court decisions on copyright infringement, remember many cases are settled out of court, never to be shared publicly.

Mitigate your and your brand’s risk by understanding some key intellectual property (IP) insights and following a few hints I’ve found helpful even though I’m not an attorney.

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Bots and automation make finding infringements easier

Google Images has a reverse image search feature that allows users to click on the camera then upload an image and view the websites using that image. Companies like Getty Images automate similar technology to find instances of unlicensed use and automatically dispatch letters seeking compensation for commercial infringement. Here’s one way to respond if you get a copyright infringement letter.

Technological improvements will continue to make it easier and cheaper for content creators to find stolen images, and properly licensing images is a simple way to avoid costly penalties.

Do this: License your images from stock photo sites or directly from photographers to avoid potential liability. Use a digital asset management (DAM) system to track your content licenses.

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One brand’s permission doesn’t mean everyone can use it

Tagging the originator of an image doesn’t give the poster a legal license to reuse content. And given that images are reposted then reposted then reposted, original attribution often is lost. In other words, you might not only illegally post an image, you might credit the wrong person or brand.

Tagging the originator of an image doesn’t mean you have the legal license to reuse the content. @allen3m‏ Click To Tweet

A large fashion publication with 3 million followers recently reposted an image that appeared on the Instagram account of French hotel Domaine des Hauts. It didn’t seek permission or credit the photographer. Perhaps the media outlet thought it was OK to repost the image without permission because it was a marketing image. But fans of the photographer Jamie Beck recognized the reused image and cried foul. Although the publication quickly removed the image and licensed another one from the original photographer to the satisfaction of both parties (and their followers), the incident is a prime example of how the appearance of a brand’s content in social media isn’t a blanket license for others to use at will.

Do this: Avoid reposting other user’s content, even marketing-related content, unless you have explicit permission.

“Fair use” isn’t what it sounds like

People often cite “fair use” as a defense for breaking copyright law. But the concept is frequently misunderstood. U.S. copyright law poses the following four characteristics to evaluate the question of fair use:

Purpose and character of the use (including whether the use is of a commercial nature or for nonprofit educational purposes)

Nature of the copyrighted work

Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work

Examples of commonly accepted fair use include but aren’t limited to educational purposes, criticism, and satire. Brands rarely repost images under these contexts, thus their use is unlikely to pass the fair use test.

Brands reuse of images is unlikely to pass the “fair use” test, says @allen3m. ‏ Click To Tweet

Images from or about the news and celebrity images are frequently reposted without permission. Neither is considered fair use. In fact, there’s a decent amount of case law supporting the rights of the creative creators. Even reusing an image of your brand or you may not constitute fair use. Model Gigi Hadid posted a photo of herself taken by Peter Cepeda to her Instagram account. Presumably, she believed she had the legal right to publish a photo of herself. But the photographer sued for copyright infringement, and the case was settled out of court.

Infringement gets murky when someone uses another brand’s content (e.g., product or campaign image) on their blog or social media post. From a legal standpoint it shouldn’t be done because the republisher doesn’t know the licensing terms between the original brand and the content creator. Though, from a practical perspective, brands usually want their content shared, so it’s unlikely that this usage would run afoul. But you never know. Use Google Images to see if the image is original to the brand. Checking the provenance (e.g., did it come from the brand’s website?) can mitigate your risk.

Do this: Don’t rely on fair use as a reason to avoid paid licenses. Create and enforce a content licensing and permission policy.

User-generated content is a largely untested area

Brands love user-generated content (UGC) because it’s free and builds affinity. There are many methods of collecting UGC (e.g., contests that require users to agree to a set of terms and conditions – one of which is giving the brand the rights to the UGC). Some brands rely on hashtags to cull UGC content, then use the hashtag as evidence of permission to repost.

Calvin Klein’s ongoing #MyCalvins campaign generates a seemingly endless supply of attractive millennials looking to become Insta-stars. One might plausibly argue the hashtag is specific enough that a consumer wouldn’t randomly use it without knowing it was part of a UGC campaign. (And Calvin Klein likely seeks explicit permission before it reposts on its Instagram account of 1.3 million-plus followers.) But I don’t know of any case law to suggest a hashtag alone represents a usage license, and brands need to be careful about interpreting it as such.

Hashtags provide user-generated categorization – an incredibly helpful taxonomical device that enhances discovery on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. But brands need to be careful in assuming the presence of a hashtag equates to permission. It almost certainly does not meet the threshold in most cases.

Don’t assume use of your brand’s hashtag equates permission to reuse the image, says @allen3m. Click To Tweet

Do this: Even if you encourage your audience to use brand-specific hashtags, seek written permission from the content creator before reposting.

Know the platform’s rules

Social media platforms have distinct personalities with different content focuses, but it’s important to remember most content is legally owned by the content creator. Although Instagram is a massive repository of over 40 billion photos, it is not a free stock photo site. In fact, its terms of use prohibit infringement of a third-party’s rights:

You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Service or otherwise have the right to grant the rights and licenses set forth in these Terms of Use; (ii) the posting and use of your Content on or through the Service does not violate, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights; (iii) you agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed by reason of Content you post on or through the Service; and (iv) you have the legal right and capacity to enter into these Terms of Use in your jurisdiction.

And Instagram’s API Platform Policy prohibits violating other users’ rights. In 2015, Groupon was hit with a class action lawsuit for stealing location-tagged photos from Instagram and using the images to promote those businesses with Groupon deals. Interestingly, the main claim wasn’t copyright infringement, but using a person’s likeness (rights of publicity) to promote a business without the person’s consent.

Do this: Always obtain permission before reposting content. Tagging and/or adding a copyright disclaimer won’t provide you legal cover in infringement cases.

Always obtain permission before reposting #content, says allen3m. #copyrightlaw Click To Tweet

It’s confusing

The threat of lawsuit has forced the largest social media and content-sharing platforms to automate copyright infringement detection and monetization capabilities. For example, YouTube allows musicians to “cover” popular songs without obtaining a mechanical or synchronization license because they have deals in place with some of the major music publishers to automate the process. Automation simplifies accounting, but the artist might incorrectly believe that no licensing is necessary to use someone else’s intellectual property since the process is obfuscated. There’s no substitute for directly obtaining a license and using a system to manage compliance.

The average consumer rarely deals directly with licensing so it’s easy to be ignorant of the law. But the risk for brands is undeniably high. A corporate content policy is a starting point for risk mitigation (and don’t forget to involve your legal counsel).

Disclaimer: This article does not constitute legal advice. Always consult with a lawyer.

Technology is playing a growing role in copyright infringement monitoring and enforcement. Be one of the first to learn about how those issues will be tackled in 2019 at ContentTECH. Sign up today to be notified when registration opens. 

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The ‘hey’ in ‘heyday’

Q: Did the word “heyday” originally refer to a day when hay is harvested?

A: No, “heyday” isn’t etymologically related to either “hay” or “day.” In fact, it’s probably related to the exclamation “hey,” used to call attention, express surprise, and so on.

“Originally, the word was heyda, an exclamation roughly equivalent to the modern English hurrah,” John Ayto says in his Dictionary of Word Origins. “Probably it was just an extension of hey, modelled partly on Low German heida ‘hurrah.’ ”

When “heyday” first showed up in English writing in the early 1500s, it was an “exclamation denoting frolicsomeness, gaiety, surprise, wonder, etc.,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The earliest example in the OED is from Magnyfycence, a 1530 morality play by the English poet laureate John Skelton: “Rutty bully Ioly rutterkyn heyda.”

The central character in the play, Magnificence, is tempted by such political evils as Crafty Conveyance, Courtly Abusion, and Cloaked Collusion.

That line of dialogue, a comment by Courtly Abusion to Cloaked Collusion, comes from a medieval song. It’s apparently a satire on the gibberish supposedly spoken by drunken Flemish visitors in England.

The next Oxford example is from Abcedarium Anglo Latinum (1552), an English-Latin dictionary by Richard Huloet: “Heyda or hey, euax.” (The Latin exclamation euax means good.)

And here’s an expanded OED citation from Ralph Roister Doister, a comic play by Nicholas Udall, written around 1550: “Hoighdagh, if faire fine Mistresse Custance sawe you now, Ralph Roister Doister were hir owne I warrant you.”

As for the noun “heyday,” it referred to a “state of exaltation or excitement of the spirits or passions” when it first appeared in the late 1500s, Oxford says.

The dictionary’s earliest example, which we’ve expanded, is from Sir Thomas More (circa 1590), a play written and revised by several writers (a three-page, handwritten revision is said to be by Shakespeare):

“And lett this be they maxime, to be greate / Is when the thred of hayday is once spoun, / A bottom great woond vpp greatly vndoun.” (The word “bottom” here refers to a ball of thread.)

Ayto, in his etymological dictionary, says “the influence of the day-like second syllable did not make itself felt until the mid-18th century, when the modern sense ‘period of greatest success’ began to emerge.”

The OED defines the modern sense as the “stage or period when excited feeling is at its height; the height, zenith, or acme of anything which excites the feelings; the flush or full bloom, or stage of fullest vigour, of youth, enjoyment, prosperity, or the like.”

The earliest Oxford example is from The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, a 1751 novel by Tobias Smollett, who refers to Peregrine as an “imperious youth, who was now in the heyday of his blood.

As for the old interjection “hey,” the OED defines it as a “call to attract attention; also, an exclamation expressing exultation, incitement, surprise, etc.; sometimes used in the burden of a song with no definite meaning; sometimes as an interrogative.”

The dictionary’s earliest example is from an account of the life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria, written sometime before 1225: “Hei! hwuch wis read of se icudd keiser!” (“Hey! What wise counsel from such a well-known emperor!”)

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