Gawker got sold today to Univision for $135 million. This is the fallout from the Hulk Hogan lawsuit.
Then I saw this tweet ...
When you compare Fusion to Gawker/Jezebel/Gizmodo/Kotaku you really start to see the depth of what is lost here. sad day for indie media.
— ⤵︎ (@CodyBrown) August 16, 2016
Ultra-nationalist Serbia's greet Vice President Biden with chants of "Voter for Trump!" on today's trip to Belgrade. Vojislav Seselj, the head of Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party who was recently acquitted of war crimes toasted Trump as a "a supporter of Russia."
Here are some pictures of some Trumpers who had Trump tattooed on their body.
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States run news services of all sorts. There's the BBC which functions or at least did function as a national news source of record for the country itself. There's Germany's Deutsche Welle and the US Voice of America, which fill out the spectrum from the BBC to the public diplomacy model. Russia Today, known as RT, operates nominally on something like the Deutsche Welle model but has leaned in an increasingly propagandistic direction over recent years. RN popped up in the Trump/Putin story because Trump's top military advisor, retired General Mike Flynn sometimes writes for RT and was hosted last December, along Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein, at Putin's table in Moscow to celebrate RT's anniversary.