The beginning of summer was not the carefree and lazy. We followed the scandals of the photo shoot Kathy Griffin and discussed the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
The presenter of the Christmas program on CNN and stand-up comedian Kathy Griffin earlier in the week, posted Twitter pictures of a joint project with Tyler Shields. The photographer always had a reputation as a guy who loves to tickle and annoy the sleepy citizen. But this time he managed to impress the maximum number of viewers.
Shields took Katie with a fake severed head trump. Social media reacted immediately and almost unanimously condemning a political satire. Actress, a few hours later, he deleted the controversial photo and apologized to everyone offended by this act.
What would the reaction did not count shields and Griffin, the scale of the scandal to them, it seems, was a surprise. The provocation was worth the actress’s career – CNN terminated her contract, Republicans and the family of the Trumps demanded revenge, the Democrats rushed to Twitter #janessa. For CNN to terminate the contracts and agreements – reached out to sponsors and other employers, and the actress tearfully stated the death of his career.
Kathy Griffin hired a lawyer and tried to explain to the press. She made quite reasonable arguments, it was admitted that it is overkill and sincerely apologized. However, the damage had already been done. The actress tried to play the card of sacrifice, but had clearly underestimated the power of visualization in conjunction with the availability of information on Twitter.
Why Griffin is proud of the Fronde became a pariah, slipped on a puddle of fake blood? Political protests with a symbolic burning of effigies of leaders of the countries, bloody cartoons, appeared not yesterday and most often do not cause violent emotions of the public. The idea of the actress was also not original: a homage to the cover of Spiegel with trump and the head of the statue of liberty. The scandal then was not very active, in the strict framework of political satire.
The photo caused a definite negative and a desire to say «this is unacceptable» it is somewhere on the level of physiological reactions. Katie naively believed that fashion trend of Hollywood and HBO – more bloody scenes and severed limbs is already decreased threshold of pain perception. Unforgivable mistake.
Perhaps political slogans have in his imaging to stay symbolic and not strive for accuracy, not to play on emotions and appeal to common sense and to rely on the arguments, not Hollywood special effects.
The second major scandal of the week – the Paris climate agreement in which the United States is no longer involved. Under the Treaty, America was the largest sponsor of the environmentalists. Although, if we evaluate the contribution of each country in terms of per capita, the us is somewhere in the middle of the list. Simply put, the average Norwegian or the Swede slept in the common Fund of nature protection significantly more than American. But trump is still considered such terms to be unfair and went out, slamming the door. Elon Musk also stood up and walked out of the President’s Council: however, as promised, the door is covered neatly. But new York, Washington and many more cities said that wherever he took the US President, they will continue to stand its ground and will continue to follow the points of the Paris agreement on the protection of the environment.
Activists held a series of protests. We started with the greening of iconic buildings in honor of the environment, has completed a more global search for the truth. Every time it seems that the scandal with Russian hackers have sluggish starts to smolder, he erupted again. Admirable tenacity and persistence.
Scandal less revolved around the upcoming Puerto Rican parade. Bright city festival organizers and activists decided to politicize, dedicating it to the recently released from prison, the leader of the terrorist organization Oscar lópez Rivera.
On the one hand, with him a very complicated story, with other very intelligible. Parade organizers insisted that Rivera, an activist, a revolutionary and a fighter, the terrorist attacks, never had direct relations, and later repented and renounced terror. The sponsors and their opponents do not understand how it is possible to lead the organisation that takes responsibility for the attacks in the USA in 70-80-ies and thus have no relation to them.
The Governor and the patrons refused to participate in such actions. De Blasio said already tuned and therefore ignore the political message and will not spoil a great holiday in the city.
The scandal has exhausted itself after Rivera decided he did not want to be a bone of contention in the Big Apple and has withdrawn from participation. The question was removed dubious reasons not to come to the holiday left. But something tells us that the 60th Puerto Rican parade is not the way it presented both sides of the conflict.
For obtaining a US visa will need to prove that the last 5 years in social media applicant behaved decently, did not post nonsense, leaving questionable reviews and were not included in all black lists that you can imagine. The decision is still causing controversy about the Big Brother and Orwellian world, but also philosophical questions about responsibility for their actions and freedom of speech, there are problems with the technical side of the process. Ministry of education expresses its serious concern that foreign teachers and students will receive their visa by the end of the school year, not the beginning.
Anyway, hypothetically, these measures are intended to improve security, which is not allowed to forget the frequent terrorist attacks in Europe. 6 people were killed and 40 wounded in the night from Saturday to Sunday in London. 2 attacks at different points. The car crashed into the crowd on London bridge and borough market, the terrorists, armed with machetes, attacked passers-by. Trump urged to reject political correctness, to ensure safety and offered support in the investigation of the attack.
In new York, FBI agents arrested 19 mafia family Lucchese. Cosa Nostra still immortal, but the Prosecutor, John Kim is determined and optimistic. They say that family Lucchese inspired Martin Scorsese.
May defer to «House of cards» and review the «Nice Guys»? Speaking of which, the long-awaited new season with Robin Wright and Kevin spacey are finally again on the screen. The biggest secret is not how to turn the creators of the series the fate of a movie President, and what and how accurately they guessed, building projections a year ago on the set.
