Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern’s Lesson to Journos
With steel behind her professional smile, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern dismantles a sexist reporter question and schools him on what he should have asked about (leveraging economic opportunities between New Zealand and Finland):
In which Elizabeth Oxenberg moves to another country and forgets to tell her then 15-year old daughter, Christina Oxenberg, who has just come back from high school break. (RadioOx)
“Overall, it was the most widespread Republican rebuke Trump has received since January 6th. And it came just two weeks after the former president launched his reelection campaign, and three weeks after a disappointing midterm that many Republicans blamed on Trump-backed candidates who voters perceived as extreme.” (SEMAFOR)
“On Monday, it was reported that Trump had spent the weekend attempting to convince Kushner and Ivanka to appear with him onstage for his 2024 announcement. Not only did that not happen, but Ivanka wasn’t even at Mar-a-Lago when he delivered it.” (Bess Levin/VF)
“But as the lockdowns of 2020 wore on, Mr. Abdul-Rashed’s wife began to notice that her husband was also spending a lot of time online, and that those sessions were agitating him. When she asked what he was watching, he would say something like, ‘Just YouTubers or whatever.’ Glancing over his shoulder now and then, she saw ‘plandemic’ videos about Covid-19 and bizarre ultraconservative content about Satan’s grip on the government.” (NYTimes)
Layoffs begin at CNN. (THR)