2/15/2020

A TV show that puts private companies in a good light?

From Fox News:
Is your child's favorite TV show propaganda? Kings College professor Liam Kennedy says his 2-year-old son isn't allowed to watch the popular show "Paw Patrol" because of what he sees as the show's harmful underlying messages. 
Created in 2013, "Paw Patrol" is an animated series about a group of do-good dogs and a 10-year-old boy named Ryder who rescue various people in tricky situations. But when the Canadian educator watched hours of the show during research for the journal "Crime Media Culture," that's not all he saw. 
Kennedy published a paper on the subject titled "'Whenever there's trouble. Just yelp for help': Crime, Conservation and Corporatization in Paw Patrol." In an interviewwith London Morning's Rebecca Zandbergen, Kennedy said the depiction of the state and local government officials like Mayor Humdinger and Mayor Goodway are "portrayed negatively." . . . 
In addition, Kennedy takes issue with the "Paw Patrol" organization as a "private corporation" acting as a stand-in for a government-funded police force. . . .

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Is it fair that high school girls have to compete against boys?: Conn. high school girls file lawsuit arguing that allowing transgender athletes to compete is sex discrimination

From Fox News:
Three female high school athletes in Connecticut, along with their families, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls track and field meets, arguing that biologically male athletes have a physical advantage. 
Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School; Chelsea Mitchell, a senior at Canton High School; and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School, announced the lawsuit in a press conference on the steps of the state capitol in Hartford, the Washington Post reported.  
“Our dream is not to come in second or third place, but to win, fair and square,” Mitchell said. “All we’re asking for is a fair chance.” 
The three are arguing that competing against biologically male athletes has denied them the chance to win medals and achieve scholarship opportunities. . . .

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2/09/2020

Comparing Coronavirus to SARS

The Coronavirus has surpassed SARS in terms of the total number of deaths, and it is spreading much more rapidly than SARS. This graph is out of date, as there are now over 34,800 cases of the Coronavirus as of February 8th, 2020. The Coronavirus seems to still be accelerating.