CNN’s reboot of “Crossfire” has a new supervising producer – a media veteran fired last year by Yahoo! News for saying Mitt and Ann Romney were happy to watch “black people drowning.”
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Mickie Rosen, head of global media at Yahoo, who was responsible for properties including Yahoo News, Sports and Finance, is leaving the company effective Sept. 1, Yahoo revealed Monday in a regulatory filing.
The change was announced just hours after Yahoo disclosed the resignation of three board members: Daniel Loeb, Harry Wilson and Michael Wolf, effective July 31, bringing the size of the company’s board down to seven. “The remaining directors are committed to revisiting the board’s size and composition,” Yahoo said in a statement. However, the two events are believed to be unrelated.
The board members’ resignations were disclosed alongside Yahoo’s announcement of its repurchase of 40 million shares of Yahoo common stock owned by hedge fund Third Point, at a purchase price of US$29.11 per share. Loeb is CEO at Third Point; the hedge fund had nominated Wilson and Wolf as Yahoo board members.
In a separate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Yahoo said that Rosen, who had served as senior vice president, global media and commerce since 2011, would receive severance benefits specified in her existing agreement with the company. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment further on Rosen’s departure or provide information about a replacement.
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Former New York Times technology and culture writer Virginia Heffernan, who now writes for Yahoo! News, recently told the world she’s a creationist and she has become a lightning rod for ridicule because of it. …read more
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President Obama’s teleprompter may be more valuable than even his biggest critics claim. After all, a man who stole Obama’s teleprompter was sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
“The theft of government property is a serious offense,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Roderick Young said during Virginia resident Eric Brown’s sentencing hearing. “It’s all the more serious when the property belongs to the White House Communications Agency.”
Brown, 49, agreed to the lengthy sentence in order to avoid being prosecuted for 14 other truck thefts, according to NBC News. Virginia sentencing guidelines stipulated a prison term of about three years for the theft of government property.
Over the past 30 years, Brown has been convicted of 36 crimes.
“If I had to sum up Mr. Brown’s character, it would be that he’s a thief,” Judge John A. Gibney said.
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RNC committee members gathered at their annual spring conference in Los Angeles voted unanimously on Friday to approve a number of resolutions, including one to reaffirm that the GOP still opposes gay marriage, Time’s Zeke J. Miller reported.
“[T]he Republican National Committee affirms its support for marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and as the optimum environment in which to raise healthy children for the future of America; and be it further resolved, the Republican National Committee implores the U. S. Supreme Court to uphold the sanctity of marriage in its rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act,” the resolution, first obtained by Chris Moody of Yahoo News, read.
Miller reports that the resolution was submitted by RNC committeeman Dave Agema, a Michigan Republican who has drawn criticism for calling gays and lesbians “filthy” and comparing them to people who were “dying of alcoholism.”
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A mountain climber is probably feeling pretty lucky after surviving a terrifying, 100-foot fall down an icy slope. Outfitted with a GoPro camera, he managed to record the entire accident in a short video (above).
Yahoo! News reports that Mark Roberts, 47, suffered a broken ankle and bruising but was not seriously injured during the rough-and-tumble descent down Parsley Fern Lefthand Gully, in the Snowdonia region of Wales, on Feb. 24. The approximately 60-second slide began when Roberts was hit by a chunk of falling ice, visible in the recording of the incident.
Roberts was subsequently rescued by the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, which used a helicopter to fly him to safety, according to the Daily Post.
A government lawyer is attempting to get dismissed almost $700 in traffic tickets given to U.S. Postal Service employees in Cleveland, claiming it is immune from state and local regulation, Yahoo! News reported.
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A government lawyer is attempting to get dismissed almost $700 in traffic tickets given to U.S. Postal Service employees in Cleveland, claiming it is immune from state and local regulation, Yahoo! News reported.
