Online media jobs up 209%, helps offset print’s 53% decline

From 2001 to late 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that online publishing, video production and web search jobs have jumped from 66,643 to 206,396. What’s more, those jobs pay significantly better than newspapers.

Employment at newspapers during the same period dropped 58 percent, from 411,800 to 238,091. Magazines saw a decline from 166,306 to 70,632.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/online-media-jobs-up-209-helps-offset-prints-53-decline

Nikki Haley cautions conservative students against trying to ‘own the libs’ online

The advice was given during the High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University on Monday, where Haley asked students to raise their hand if they had “ever posted anything online to quote-unquote ‘own the libs.’”

Most students admitted they had done so, before breaking into a round of applause, according to The Hill.

“I know that it’s fun and that it can feel good, but step back and think about what you’re accomplishing when you do this — are you persuading anyone? Who are you persuading?” Haley said. “We’ve all been guilty of it at some point or another, but this kind of speech isn’t leadership — it’s the exact opposite.”

“Real leadership is about persuasion, it’s about movement, it’s bringing people around to your point of view,” she continued. “Not by shouting them down, but by showing them how it is in their best interest to see things the way you do.”

The conference was presented by Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization designed to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government,” according to the group’s website.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nikki-haley-cautions-conservative-students-against-trying-to-own-the-libs-online

Sessions laughs along as students chant 'lock her up'

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday chuckled along as a group of high school students he spoke to chanted "lock her up."

The chant, a reference among President Trump's supporters to Hillary Clinton, began as Sessions spoke about the importance of defending the Constitution and the rights it protects while delivering remarks at Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

"Lock her up," Sessions repeated, breaking into laughter as the chants grew.

"I heard that a long time over the last campaign," he said, before continuing with the rest of his speech.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398529-sessions-laughs-along-as-students-chant-lock-her-up

Hmmm..what could be causing this change of strategy?

Dem strategist: Dems need to understand celebrities are not elected officials

Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau advised Democrats on Tuesday to not put celebrities on pedestals in the wake of the recent scandal surrounding comedian Trevor Noah and a joke he made about an aboriginal women in 2013.

"We in America, we have this celebrity fetish, and we hold these celebrities up to be more than what they are. Trevor Noah is a comedian that is paid by Comedy Central," Mollineau told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

"I'm not sure how in the last couple of years he's become this progressive darling or so on and so forth, but I know this, he doesn't lead any movement that I believe in, and he's not an elected official," he continued.

"I think that Democrats, a lot of times, we freak out about this, but we have to understand, they are not our elected officials," he said.

"Yeah, it feels good sometimes when someone famous validates something that you believe, but at the end of the day, they're Americans, they have the right to say what they want to say. You don't have to believe it. You don't have to support," he said, adding, "I will say this, Democrats, stop taking their money if you're going to be clutching pearls after they say something, but I don't see something more than just a blip."

Various celebrities have made political headlines in recent months for making heated comments about President Trump and his administration, prompting backlash from the president's supporters.

Actor Robert De Niro took the stage at the Tony Awards this year, and said “F— Trump," while TBS’s “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee faced backlash for referring to first daughter Ivanka Trump as a “feckless c—" on her show.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/398518-dem-strategist-dems-need-to-understand-celebrities-are-not-elected-officials

>>2262428

That's why memes are so important.

Good memes bypass the amygdala/triggering mechanism, planting seeds into otherwise resistant brains.

>>2262482

BOOM

More sauce:

Bronfman, Salzman and two more charged with federal crimes in NXIVM probe

A superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday charged several top members of the secretive NXIVM organization with running a criminal enterprise.

The criminal case against NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere and television actress Allison Mack now includes NXIVM's president, Nancy Salzman, and her daughter Lauren, along with Clare Bronfman, the organization's longtime operations director and an heiress of the Seagram's liquor empire. Kathy Russell, a longtime bookkeeper for NXIVM, also was indicted.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Three-more-charged-with-federal-crimes-in-NXIVM-13100041.php