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The Flack™ for Friday, April 19, 2024

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NPR Suspends Editor Who Claimed Left-Wing Bias at Outlet Had ‘Lost America’s Trust’; Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics; Google Blocking Links to California News Outlets From Search Results; Hot Market for Pencils Help Kids Turn Lead Into Gold; There Are Plenty of Power Publicists. But Only One Works for Taylor Swift.; Shake Shack Shades Rival Chick-fil-A With Sunday-Only Free Chicken Sandwich Offer

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The Flack™ for Friday, April 5, 2024

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LA Times Edits Column and Apologizes After Drawing the Ire of LSU Coach Kim Mulkey; Free Speech Is Alive and Well at Vanderbilt University;
one way to stay young forever: type in lowercase; Authoritarians Threaten Journalists Around the Globe;
Gmail Debuted 20 Years Ago. It Wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke.

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The Flack™ for Friday, March 22, 2024

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Royal Photo Scandal: Another Doctored Image Emerges as Kate Middleton Controversy Deepens; ESPN Boss Jimmy Pitaro’s Chaotic Race to Remake the Sports Giant; Apple Is Poised to Go All In on AI, Including a Partnership With Google; Why Some 20-Somethings Are Saying No to TikTok; Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes AI Experiments

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The Flack™ for Friday, March 8, 2024

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Shoppers Call Out Kellogg CEO’s ‘Cereal for Dinner’ Pitch for Struggling Families; How the News Media Keeps Losing the Future; Sports Anchors Went All In on Outrage. Then There’s Scott Van Pelt.; Google’s Apology for Its Gemini Image Debacle Reveals a Much Deeper Culture Problem for the Company; American Sign Language Reveals Wordplay Beyond Sound

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The Flack™ for Friday, December 15, 2023

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“We Sometimes Have to Hear Speech We Hate,” Legal Experts Weigh in on the Campus Crisis; Publisher of Sports Illustrated Ousts CEO Ross Levinsohn; Reading Print Magazines is an Elite Pursuit; Zara Pulls Campaign That Critics Said Resembled Gaza Destruction;
Elon Musk Is Going Down a Conspiratorial Rabbit Hole and Taking X With Him;

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