KirbyKhan posted:

Yeah, don't let nobody tell you she said Nakers or Knickers or whatever.

https://twitter.com/AlisonMorrisNOW/status/1221555983635357696?s=19

Get the gently caress outta here

Midjack posted:

Mmm yes easy mistake to make given Kobe’s well-known affiliation with New York sports teams spanning his entire career.

I wonder how long this newscaster will keep digging before she shuts up and/or gets canned.

KirbyKhan posted:

Comparing MY CITY to the Knick's is not digging up out.

Handsome Ralph posted:

It was super weird because I went to Monster Jam with my friends because we figured it'd be a fun thing to do for ten bucks.

Anyways, I went to the bathroom at some point and a friend sent me a text telling me Kobe died in a helicopter crash, so queue me running up to my friends at Monster Jam with ear pro on yelling "Hey, Kobe's dead!" and then like a dozen people in that section pulling out their phones to check.


Weird loving day.

Fallom posted:

Did the trucks do that thing where they run up a wall and do a backflip?

Smiling Jack posted:

jjmcnab

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By
Paul Farhi
Jan. 26, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. EST
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says an NPR host lied in setting up an interview with him on Friday, but email records support the journalist’s account of how the contentious exchange came to be.

The emails, obtained by The Washington Post, indicate that Pompeo’s staff was aware that NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly would ask Pompeo about several topics in the interview and raised no objections, contrary to Pompeo’s characterization.

In an extraordinary statement issued on State Department letterhead on Saturday, Pompeo blasted Kelly for repeatedly asking him why he refused to express support for the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Kelly said afterward Pompeo berated her using profanity and challenged her to locate Ukraine on an unmarked map, which Kelly said she did.

“NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly lied to me, twice,” Pompeo said in his statement. “First, last month, in setting up our interview and, then again yesterday, in agreeing to have our post-interview conversation off the record. It is shameful that this reporter chose to violate the basic rules of journalism and decency.”

Pompeo’s statement implied that Kelly had agreed before the interview to confine her questions to developments in Iran and that he would not be asked about other subjects. He made the same claim during the interview but Kelly pushed back, telling him she’d worked out a different arrangement with his staff.

But emails between Kelly and Pompeo’s press aide, Katie Martin, a day before the interview show that there was no such agreement and that Kelly made clear her intention to question Pompeo about other topics.

“Just wanted to touch base that we still intend to keep the interview to Iran tomorrow,” Martin wrote. “Know you just got back from Tehran so we would like to stick to Iran as the topic as opposed to jumping around. Is that something we can agree to?”

Kelly responded, “I am indeed just back from Tehran and plan to start there. Also Ukraine. And who knows what the news gods will serve up overnight. I never agree to take anything off the table.”

Martin replied, “Totally understand you want to ask other topics but just hoping . . . we can stick to that topic for a healthy portion of the interview . . . Wouldn’t want to spend the interview on questions he’s answered many times for the last several months.”

Kelly: “My plan is to start with Iran and, yes, to spend a healthy portion of the interview there. Iran has been my focus of late as well. And yes — I also would not want to waste time on questions he’s answered many times in recent months.”

Martin, whose official State Department title is deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, did not respond to a request for comment. Kelly declined to comment.

Kelly, a veteran journalist who is a co-host of NPR’s signature news program, “All Things Considered,” said on the program on Friday that neither Pompeo nor his aides made any request that his post-interview comments be kept off the record. She said she would not have agreed to such terms if they had.

President Trump weighed in to the controversy on Sunday, replying “A very good question!” to a tweet by conservative radio and Fox News host Mark Levin in which Levin asked, “Why does NPR still exist? We have thousands of radio stations in the U.S. Plus Satellite radio. Podcasts. Why are we paying for this big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation.”

Conservatives have tried to cut federal support of NPR and public broadcasting in general for decades, but have never succeeded in eliminating funding. The Trump administration proposed doing so in 2018, but was turned back by Congress.

Washington-based NPR receives less than 1 percent of its annual budget directly from the federal government, but relies on annual dues from hundreds of member stations around the country. These stations receive an average of about 15 percent of their budgets from the federally chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Five Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rebuked Pompeo for his response to Kelly in a letter to him on Saturday. “At a time when journalists around the world are being jailed for their reporting — and as in the case of Jamal Khashoggi, killed — your insulting and contemptuous comments are beneath the office of the Secretary of State,” read the letter from Sens. Robert Menendez (N.J.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Edward J. Markey (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Tim Kaine (Va.).

NPR has stood by Kelly since the dispute with Pompeo arose. “Mary Louise Kelly has always conducted herself with the utmost integrity, and we stand behind this report,” said Nancy Barnes, NPR’s senior vice president of news, in a statement Saturday.

Pompeo has occasionally bristled when asked questions he doesn’t like by reporters.

In October, he told a reporter for a Nashville TV station, Nancy Amons, that it “sounds like you’re working, at least in part, for the Democratic National Committee” after she asked him about the circumstances surrounding Trump’s withholding of military aide to Ukraine.

He made a similar comment to PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff when she broached the same topic a few days earlier.

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China said on Monday that the death toll from a deadly outbreak of coronavirus jumped to 80 as the hard-hit province of Hubei announced 24 new fatalities, while total confirmed cases nationwide rose sharply to 2,744.

bloops posted:

Kobe Bryant atc comms were released. Pilot error — reporting flying at 1400’ under visual flight rules despite local weather reporting overcast conditions at 1100’. Pilot flew them into high terrain that had a peak of 1600’

Icon Of Sin posted:

I don’t think the flu is getting knocked off its pedestal anytime soon, but we have a wannabe contender who’s showing off and needs crushing swiftly.

Godholio posted:

gently caress. I did not expect a CFIT.

mlmp08 posted:

That audio/radar is loving rough.

Another pilot flying as they see fit.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I can't really tell at all what the pilot was doing wrong from the recording itself, especially if I didn't know he was too low to begin with.

Mr. Fix It posted:

ded posted:

from the gbs china thread

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Explain this to me please, because most of the really disturbing atc comms I've heard from crashes were usually much more obviously distressing to me as an layman than these.
In every other comms I've listened to, there was repeated ATC feedback to the pilot that they may be doing something they shouldn't be doing and probably should adjust their decision-making with varying degrees of urgency.

In this audio feed, the pilot constantly relays his altitude (which, I gather, was too low for either the conditions he was flying in?), but until almost the end of the recording there wasn't a single mention of him being too low, and even when it came, it was only because he was too low for "flight following" (?) or some such.
I mean, I'm aware that every aviator is responsible for conducting themselves responsibly to the conditions aware to them AND the regulations at every point, but I figured the recording would have included a lot more "Hey, uh, 2EX, you're hot-dogging it a bit there, you sure you don't want to come back to a safer altitude?"

I can't really tell at all what the pilot was doing wrong from the recording itself, especially if I didn't know he was too low to begin with.

hobbesmaster posted:

The weather report from the nearest airport said overcast at 1100 feet and 2.5 miles visibility at the surface. The hills they crashed into were at 1600 feet. They were flying visually.

Fallom posted:

2.5 miles seems like plenty of distance to avoid flying into a hill. Were they flying in the clouds yet saying they were still in VFR?

Fallom posted:

2.5 miles seems like plenty of distance to avoid flying into a hill. Were they flying in the clouds yet saying they were still in VFR?

FAUXTON posted:

yes

MrMojok posted:

Are you guys telling me that Kobe's pilot flew them into the hill because of bad visibility

MrMojok posted:

Are you guys telling me that Kobe's pilot flew them into the hill because of bad visibility

fromoutofnowhere posted:

I didn't know there were hills in Calabasas that was higher than 700'.

Edit: poo poo, I was thinking of the wrong area.

Edit 2 : Holy poo poo, no matter what direction he was going, if he was under 1600 he was going to hit something.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

From what it seems like, it was more a lack of acknowledging bad visibility than sudden bad visibility jumping out of a bush and shanking you in the rear end.

Eej posted:

I'm reading that the terrain in that area goes up to 3000' meaning safe altitude if you pop into a cloud is pull up to 5000'. Soooooo yeah