The county has even gone to court to get a temporary restraining order to prevent the church from holding large indoor services. In san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Marianne, thank you. Its hard to see all these restaurants suffering here. The message in marin county is to stop dining indoors. The number of new cases per day have doubled in marin county. Right now restaurants are allowed to operate their 50 capacity indoors. The county wants to scale back to 25 . It is voluntary right now. But it could be mandatory by next tuesday. Well, cases are surging across california, the state is seeing a huge jump in its Positivity Rate. This graph shows the rate of positive infections across california. You can see quite the roller coaster ride the past six months. Weve peaked in midjuly, you can see right here. Then we went down and just three weeks ago, our Positivity Rate was at its lowest point, 2. 6 . Take a look at it now. 3. 8 . That quick spike may indicate the state could
Address the problem. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I want to go through our usual housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. All participates should refrain from discussing any classified or other information protected from public disclosure. Second, the committee is conducting this virtual hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965. It is being broadcast live on the committees website. Because of the threat posed by the covid19 pandemic remains ongoing, were proceeding with this hearing remotely in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and public. While we wish we could return to all standard inperson events, health and safety protocols dictate we find alternate means of carrying out our oversight obligations. Okay. So let me remind members of a few remote hearing procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Membe
Unable the come to the mike, let her know and we can accommodate that. Then afterwards, theres a book signing. Youll have seen this book in the lobby and sean is there, able to take your credit card and lynns ready to sign it. Its not too early to be making christmas gifts. Get all that shopping done well before. Shes the collieland professor of American History at occidental college. Shes taught a number of distinguished institutions, including berkeley, Whitman College and mckenna college. She specializes in u. S. Womens history and cultural and social history since the civil war. Shes a distinguished professor having received many honorary, many honors include being a senior full bright lecturer at the university of rome and many other recognitions. Which is all to say that were in for a treat. She brings to this topic a richness which i think is going to make this experience one of real memory for us. I thank you for being here and at the activities at the memorial. I invite you ba
Alex, was it you who wrote about the Jackson Magnolia. It was. So you already know about this. For everybody else, think back when Jonathan Pliska visited our class and we talked about the story behind the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story, not alex. Anybody else . Yeah, william. Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted the tree because it was her favorite tree. Uhhuh. And he brought the seeds from the herm taj in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . False. Well, he said that there really isnt any type of contemporary evidence. Andrew jackson never mentions planting a tree. Theres nothing in newspapers. So it seems like this is a story that has, of course, these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually the first known exterior photograph of the white house. It was taken by a welshborn photographer named john plume jr. And about january, 1846. So, if youre looking at the white house, this
The end of the 19th century. This has become over the years an allpurpose media antidote. Useful in describing any number of media sins and shortcomings including the scourge of fake news including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media myths . These are prominent stories about and or by the news media that are widely known and often retold but which under scrutiny, under examination dissolve as apockricful or widely exaggerated media myths. And in a way media myths are cousins to fake news. Maybe thought of cases of fake news that have massac masquerad accurate for many years. They can be thought of as the junk food of journalism. Appealing, alluring, delicious perhaps but not terribly fulsome and not terribly healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, succinct, short, to the point. And of course theyre media centric. They revolve around media, media actors, journalists. Theyre easi