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Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid respond to Ronna McDaniel being dropped by NBC after liberal pressure: ‘I’m grateful’

MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow reacted happily to the hiring and almost immediate termination of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday as an NBC News annalyst.

NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde sent a memo to staff Tuesday announcing that McDaniel was no longer with the network, after Maddow, Reid and several other network hosts cried foul in on-air rebukes.

“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” Conde wrote. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility

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The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV

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Every week the big cable news networks in the US — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — blast out press releases touting some kind of ratings achievement. These documents are sometimes specific, and often ultra competitive, with each channel trying to claim the title of “most-watched” on cable.

Recently, this obsession with ratings has started to look a bit like musicians playing their violins as the Titanic sinks. Cable television is in long-term decline. Some recent statistics: every day, about

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CTV Barrie elements how layoffs, programming cuts impact station

Bell Media executives say they’re scrapping 6 pm and 11 pm newscasts on weekends at many CTV and CTV2 stations

Barrie’s TV news station is likely to be among the many local newscasts impacted by Bell Media’s announcement Thursday morning that it’s cutting both jobs and programming.

According to an internal memo, signed by Dave Daigle, vice-president of local TV, radio and Bell Media Studios, and Richard Gray, vice-president of news at Bell Media, weekday noon newscasts at all CTV stations, except Toronto, will end . The company says it is also scrapping its 6 pm and 11 pm newscasts

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DPS Programming for Fall 2023 Semester — Syracuse University News

Join the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety (DPS) throughout the Fall 2023 semester for opportunities to learn, interact and engage with our team. For some events, like our DPS Game Nights in the Schine Student Center, Coffee with a Cop in early October and De-stress with DPS at Bird Library during finals week, you can just stop by at your leisure; for other programs, you have to sign up for including:

Community Police Academy (CPA)

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Spring 2023 CPA graduates along with Chief Stone and instructors from DPS.

DPS is proud to offer a CPA to our students, faculty and

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Coding event returns to in-person format

  • Hack Appleton’s first in-person hack-a-thon since 2019 took place Sunday at UW-Oshkosh Fox Cities
  • The event began in 2009 as the brainchild of Ivan Fan, who founded the Appleton Youth Education Initiative
  • Middle and high school students used coding and programming languages ​​to create projects along the theme of “The Future”
  • Video shows students interacting with each other and the event’s organizers discussing its significance

(The following is a transcription of the full broadcast story)

Students in this generation can learn how to code from the Internet alone — and that was on display at Hack Appleton. Middle and high

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Detroit’s WDET-FM drops national shows in favor of new local programs

Although WDET-FM (101.9) will mark its 75th anniversary next month, it’s not getting older, it’s getting more local.

Detroit’s public radio station will soon increase its local programming by about 40%, according to program director Adam Fox.

“This is a signal that WDET is sending to its community that we know this city deserves a public radio station that is truly devoted to what’s special and amazing and important about Detroit,” Fox says of the imminent scheduled makeover.

“Don Was Motor City Playlist,” which now is on at 10 pm Fridays, will move to the 8-10 pm slot that same night. It features the hosting team of Was and Ann Delisi.

The changes, which began Feb. 5 on WDET’s airwaves, app and web livestream, will require some major revamping of the weekday

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Study: Java is the most-used programming language

The latest study released by New Relic showed that Java 17 user adoption grew 430% in one year following its release in 2021. However, according to the software development company’s State of the Java Ecosystem Report, Java 8 and Java 11 remain the most-used versions.

The findings mean Java is the most dominant platform in modern development.

“Our study attests to Java’s enduring popularity with software developers in every industry and sector as the ecosystem evolves. With the release of Java 17, the platform remains the programming language of choice to support development and growth in the cloud,” Peter

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Psychology programming at CES 2024 to focus on intersection of humans, technology

Washington — Making social media safer for kids, using games to promote prosocial behavior and reduce violence and managing ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence are some of the topics to be presented in a new programming track developed by the American Psychological Association for CES 2024.

Working with the Consumer Technology Association®, APA will launch PsyTech at CES, a look at how psychological science intersects with and influences technology at CTA’s annual Consumer Electronics Show, Jan. 9–12, 2024, in Las Vegas.

As the science of human behavior, psychology plays a significant role in advancing technology. Psychological researchers are engaged across

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