Media Quiz 4

Jeremy Langston

MCOM1003

Professor Reppert 

11/5/20

1) Five new recoveries were reported locally on Sunday, making 1,136 Union County residents considered recovered from the virus. Active cases continued to grow, reaching 72 Sunday, up four from Saturday. (El Dorado News Times)

2) The program is designed to assist renters who make up to 80% of their area’s median income. The program can assist in paying up to two-and-a-half month’s worth of past-due rent. (El Dorado News Times)

3) The parade will be Thursday, Dec. 3 starting at 7 p.m. and continuing until 9 p.m. at the Union County Fairgrounds in El Dorado. Because of COVID-19 and state guidelines for events, this year’s parade will be a drive-through event, with all floats, dancers, bands and other groups stationed along a route through the Union County Fairgrounds. (El Dorado News Times)

4) The 56-year-old California senator, also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, represents the multiculturalism that defines America but is largely absent from Washington’s power centers. Her Black identity has allowed her to speak in personal terms in a year of reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism. As the highest-ranking woman ever elected in American government, her victory gives hope to women who were devastated by Hillary Clinton’s defeat four years ago. (El Dorado News Times)

5) Leading up to the general election, the Union County Election Commission worked to train all poll workers, judges and sheriffs. According to Election Commission Chairperson Janelle Williams, these efforts led to a much smoother election process this time. (El Dorado New Times)

6) A 6,400-student drop in public school enrollment this fall is partially offset by a nearly 3,900-student increase in home-school counts, according to a state analysis of the numbers. (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

7) State lawmakers on Thursday quizzed state Department of Education officials about assistance for public schools and teachers amid the covid-19 pandemic, teachers' salaries, professional development for teachers and other matters. (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

8) A coalition of downtown Little Rock neighborhoods and residents went to court Thursday seeking to halt Arkansas Department of Transportation work on two Interstate 30 projects until the agency can "clearly demonstrate" that the projects can be "conducted and completed" in compliance with an Oct. 29 Arkansas Supreme Court ruling. (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

9)  The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $500,000 gift to support the creation of a new regional campus in El Dorado. The donor asked to remain anonymous, according to a news release from the medical school, which has its main campus in Little Rock. (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

10) Calls for a reversal of Pope John Paul II’s canonization have emerged following a Vatican investigation that revealed he ignored longstanding accusations of sexual abuse and pedophilia against former prelate Theodore McCarrick. ( The New York Times)

11) Homeless men who struggled to find a sense of belonging anywhere found community on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, until some members of that community sought to cast them out. Now they might be moved. ( The New York Times)

12) Ethiopia’s defiant Tigray regional government said Saturday it fired rockets at two airports in the neighboring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa’s second-most populous country.

The Tigray regional government said in a statement on Tigray TV that such strikes would continue “unless the attacks against us stop.” Ethiopia’s federal government said the airports in Gondar and Bahir Dar were damaged in the strikes late Friday, asserting that Tigray regional forces were “repairing and utilizing the last of the weaponry within its arsenals.” (AP News)

13) Australia announced a new investigative agency to build criminal cases against Australian special forces suspected of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

The Office of the Special Investigator is to be formed after a four-year investigation into allegations and rumors surrounding behavior of some soldiers in Special Air Service and Commando Regiments in Afghanistan from 2005 and 2016. (AP News)

14) The late “Alien” actor John Hurt might have known how this bird feels. In an amazing photo making the rounds, a snake eel blasts through the stomach of a heron flying over Delaware.

Photographer Sam Davis told Live Science this week he thought at first that the eel had bitten the bird and clamped on, but after blowing up the photos, he saw an entirely different scenario. “I could see the eel. You could see its eyes,” he said. “It was actually coming out the other end.” Kinda like this guy popped out of Hurt’s character in the 1979 sci-fi classic “Alien.” (Huffpost)

15) Televangelist and private jet aficionado Kenneth Copeland isn’t coping very well with President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump in last week’s election, and he picked an unusual way to show it.

In footage posted online by the progressive group Right Wing Watch, Copeland laughed maniacally ― laughing so much that his flock joined in.

Copeland, who has boasted of being “a very wealthy man" while also pleading with donors for cash to pay for a private jet to avoid flying with “demons", served on President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board. (Huffpost)