How My Generation is Getting Screwed Once Again

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How My Generation is Getting Screwed Once Again

HLN May Add Satire to Attract Social Media Generation

HLN — the breezy cable spinoff of CNN — may start serving some satire with its serious news.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Albie Hecht, HLN executive vice president, says he watches Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

“Tonally, that’s an arena we want to move into as an editorial voice, but probably not quite as snarky,” Hecht tells the Reporter.

He also admires Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, whom he calls “a provocative interviewer, although he can be annoying and upsetting. But he’s a great entertainer.”

HLN is now a mix of news, crime shows, legal analysis, documentaries, and feature shows with such hosts as Nancy Grace and Dr. Drew Pinsky.

The Reporter says Hecht, a former Viacom Inc. executive who helped in the successes of MTV and Nickelodeon, wants to transform HLN — formerly known as Headline News — into a destination for the “social media generation.”

“We need to reinvent how we show the social media conversation,” he told the publication.
“There is a lot of social media, but not on TV. There’s a lot online, there’s a lot on mobile, and there’s nothing on television. So for me, the opportunity is to name it, claim it, be first, and to give it a home on television.”

He says his target age is 35-38 — “people immersed in social media but also avid television watchers. They may not watch TV news, per se, but they watch a lot of TV and we want to tap into their interests.”

“MSNBC is on the left, Fox News is on the right, and they’re talking about politics. CNN is the truth in the middle. We’re the naked truth. We’re the social media truth.”

Hecht insists HLN is not abandoning news. “We will be a news channel. We’ll just be a different definition of news,” he told the Reporter.

According to the journalism website Media Bistro, January was a “mixed bag” for HLN in ratings.

“While the network remained fourth in total viewers, there are signs of life among younger viewers: HLN came in third among the cable news networks in the A25-54 demographic in total day, edging out CNN by just 3,000 viewers,” Media Bistro said. “Additionally, the network has grown its audience in the demo in both total day and prime time compared to January 2013.”

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How has your generation voted?

The Pew Research center has updated their terrific graphic showing how each generation of Americans have voted, relative to the rest of the country, over the last two decades:

As you can see, those who came of voting age under FDR, Nixon, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama have tended to vote more Democratic compared to the nation at large, while Americans who reached majority while Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 have leaned Republican. Most cohorts have remained fairly consistent in their choices over time, though that 1960s contingent—perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not—seems to have grown more conservative in recent years.

One thing this chart doesn’t show, though, is intensity of preference. So Clinton kids like myself have typically gone for Democrats, but by what margin? For that, you have to drill down further, and Pew offers the example of our most recent presidential election, the 2012 contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Head below the fold for another compelling graphic.

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How has your generation voted?

How has your generation voted?

The Pew Research center has updated their terrific graphic showing how each generation of Americans have voted, relative to the rest of the country, over the last two decades:

As you can see, those who came of voting age under FDR, Nixon, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama have tended to vote more Democratic compared to the nation at large, while Americans who reached majority while Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 have leaned Republican. Most cohorts have remained fairly consistent in their choices over time, though that 1960s contingent—perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not—seems to have grown more conservative in recent years.

One thing this chart doesn’t show, though, is intensity of preference. So Clinton kids like myself have typically gone for Democrats, but by what margin? For that, you have to drill down further, and Pew offers the example of our most recent presidential election, the 2012 contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Head below the fold for another compelling graphic.

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How has your generation voted?

Air Force Seeks Laser Weapons for Next Generation Fighters

Dave Majumdar
USNI.org
November 20, 2013

This is a Lockheed Martin concept for a sixth-generation concept aircraft to replace the F-22 Raptor. The Air Force released a request to arm its next generation fighters with offensive lasers. Lockheed Martin Illustration

The U.S. Air Force has released a new request for a high-powered laser weapon that could be mounted on a next-generation air dominance fighter in the post-2030 era.

“The emphasis of this effort is to identify potential laser systems that could be integrated into a platform that will provide air dominance in the 2030+ highly contested Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) environments,” the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) said in a Request for Information document posted on FEDBIZOPPS last week.

The AFRL is particularly interested in lasers that would be at technology readiness level four (TRL4) by October 2014. That means the basic components are already integrated enough to work together in a lab. But the USAF wants the laser to be at TRL5 or better by 2022, which means the system’s components could be integrated with “reasonably realistic supporting elements” to be tested in a simulated environment.

“Laser and beam control systems are being investigated independent of platform in the flight regime from altitudes Sea Level to [65,000ft] and speeds from Mach 0.6 to 2.5,” the AFRL posting states.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 12:11 pm

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Generation Opportunity Ad Hits Obamacare: Halloween Horror 2013

“Don’t get scared into signing up signing up for Obamacare,” this ad from Generation Opportunity says. “You have options. Get the insurance that’s right for you.”

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New Generation Of Immigrant Advocates Take Radical Approach

Elizabeth Llorente
Fox News Latino
Oct. 18, 2013

The frustration, say immigration advocates, is reaching a fever pitch.

That is why, many say, recent weeks have seen activists use chains and pipes to tie themselves to the tires of buses that carry immigrants slated for deportation to court, block traffic on Capitol Hill and get arrested, surround Tucson police when they targeted two immigrants during a traffic stop, and chain themselves and block the entrance of a federal detention center.

More such actions, they vow, are coming.

“It’s absolutely out of frustration and impatience,” said Marisa Franco, campaign organizer for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which helped coordinate some of the more provocative actions. “Immigrant communities who are losing 1,100 loved ones every day to deportation cannot wait for Congress to end its political games or for the President to rediscover his moral compass,” she added.

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This article was posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 10:19 am

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Distributed Generation in New England Will Triple By 2021, Study Says

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