Sponsored news, #SheKnew/#MeToo and a Christmas “Fairytale” + this day in history w/the Shoe Bomber attack and our song of the year by Alex Lahey on your Morning Monarchy for December 22, 2017.
Notes/Links:
SINCLAR Fined $13.4M for Running Sponsored Content as News
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/943980719151366144
Penske Media Buys Controlling Stake in Wenner Media, and With It, Rolling Stone
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/944018809962356737
Carlos Slim To Slash NYT Stake In Half
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/943247135461457920
Papa John’s CEO to step down after remarks on NFL protests drew support from white supremacists
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/943970627035254784
#PapaJohns Founder Steps Down As CEO (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944105884166139905
Colbert teases Trump-themed animated SHOWTIME series (Audio)
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/942858884393218048
Colbert’s cartoon Trump is coming to Showtime (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944105571770179584
More haunting declassified scans of nuclear weapons test videos released
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/942659947510210560
Norway becomes first country to switch off FM radio
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/941879536228208641
#Norway becomes the first country to switch off FM signal (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944104699849928705
Jazz and pop singer Keely Smith dies of heart failure at 89
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/942605236539215873
Ralph Carney, saxophonist and co-writer of the “Bojack Horseman” theme, has died
https://twitter.com/patrickcarney/status/942479048177053696
Insane Clown Posse fans lose appeal against Juggalos FBI “gang” label
https://twitter.com/NME/status/943247065534083072
U.S. Justice Department loses music licensing appeal
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/943658273382727680
Music Licensing Companies Win Royalties Appeal (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944103024066158597
2 will go to trial over 36 deaths in Oakland warehouse fire
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/941507790794829829
2 Men Face Trial over 36 Deaths In Oakland #GhostShip Warehouse Fire (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944102791064121345
Fire Trucks Race to Jared Leto’s Hollywood Hills Home
https://twitter.com/headisajar/status/942847138672926721
Meryl Streep Responds to Rose McGowan’s Golden Globes ‘Hypocrisy’ Tweet
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944097631298396162
“Apparently he hired ex Mossad operators to protect this information from becoming public. Rose and the scores of other victims of these powerful, moneyed, ruthless men face an adversary for whom Winning, at any and all costs, is the only acceptable outcome.”
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/943025567590334464
#MerylStreep Denies She Knew of Harvey Weinstein’s Predatory Behavior (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944102183133257729
#SheKnew campaign launches, as street artists call out Weinstein and Polanski apologist Meryl Streep. Posters appeared next to the Hollywood Highland Center, 20th century Fox Studios, and near Meryl Streep’s Pasadena home.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/943203317789761536
MSNBC paid woman who said Chris Matthews harassed her
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/942604867658493952
MLB Exec Forced Out After Alleged Misconduct
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/943920218987929600
Famed conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual misconduct
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/943868400316530688
Even in 2017, we can’t agree: Is ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ ‘a little rapey’ or innocuous?
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/943501855350558721
Morrissey Takes To YouTube To Address Haters Who’ve Derailed His New Album And Gotten Him “Cross-Examined By The Secret Service” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/943380052166688768
Liam Gallagher Says He and Noel Have Made Up
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/943640722095460352
Fairytale Of New York: 30 years of the song that stole Christmas
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/942233533300518912
#FairytaleOfNewYork: How #ThePogues Created a Christmas Classic (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944093000359034881
#ThisDayInHistory: #December22 w/#RichardReid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard @AmericanAir Flight 63 in 2001 (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944269632965189632
+ #EmbargoAct, #DreyfusAffair begins, #LincolnTunnel opens, #SR71 tested, #BernhardGoetz shoots muggers, #DontAskDontTell repealed
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944270441962541056
Flashback: Suspect Is Kin To 9/11 Hijacker (Dec. 22, 2007)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2007/12/us-suspect-is-kin-to-911-hijacker/
Flashback: J. Edgar Hoover Wanted To Suspend Habeas Corpus & Imprison Thousands (Dec. 22, 2007)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2007/12/hoover-suspend-habeas-corpus-imprison/
+ #Puccini, #LadyBirdJohnson, #PaulWolfowitz, #Basquiat, #LutherCampbell, #RalphFiennes, #RicheyEdwards, #TedCruz birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/944270860147294209
#PumpUpThaVolume: Alex Lahey – “Every Day’s The Weekend” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/892115386241499136