The other day, I canceled my subscription to the New York Times. The paper’s circulation department says I’ve been getting it delivered to my home for 10 years, but I think it has been much longer.

I told the customer service representative that I was appalled by the paper’s “disgraceful” biased coverage of the presidential election. I told her to make sure she wrote that word down in the space that asked for a reason I was canceling.

It’s not that I back Donald Trump, whom I met for the first time 30 years ago but hadn’t heard from for many years — until after he announced in June 2015 that he was running for president.

And I certainly don’t support Hillary Clinton.

I think both are not only deeply flawed candidates but also damaged human beings.

But the role of a newspaper is — in its news pages — to cover an election objectively and fairly.

What a paper does on its editorial page and what columnists write is entirely different. That’s where the Times’ contempt for Trump should be expressed. And that’s where that paper — any paper — can go to town to gut the son of a gun.

The news pages, and certainly the front page, are sacred ground in the newspaper business where readers should trust that they are getting the facts and no opinion. But it’s not as simple as that.

Papers slant their coverage not only by choosing the words in a story but also by deciding which stories to run and which to ignore.

In the Times’ case, because it’s what is called a broadsheet — a big-size newspaper — there is also the issue of where a story is placed, especially on the front page.

The top right part of a paper like the Times is the most visible area. The bottom left of the page is the least visible.

It’s been clear to me for a while that the Times and other media outlets have been favoring Hillary over Trump. And that’s their right — in the editorial page and in columns.

If you feel the same way, you can dial the Times at 800-698-4637. They’ll offer you a deal to stay. I told them all I wanted was honest coverage.

And I fully understand why that is. Trump has given them tons of negative material with his often wacky and lurid comments. Plus, he’s an outsider not only in political circles but also in media circles and hasn’t built up a store of favors with the press that longtime politicians would have.

And, of course, some would argue that the mainstream media in the US always favor liberal politicians, which Trump isn’t.

But Hillary is no saint.

And the avalanche of recently leaked emails certainly has given the media enough bad stuff to publish about her and her campaign, including a conversation by Hillary’s aides against Catholics that didn’t make it into the mainstream media.

Trump has complained loudly about his treatment by some of the biggest papers in the US. In fact, he’s threatened to pull the credentials of the Times and the Washington Post.

But it wasn’t until very recently that proof surfaced (in leaked emails) as to just how much some of these papers were favoring — and doing favors for — the Clinton campaign.

For instance, the Times’ political reporter, Maggie Haberman (who once worked here at The Post), was called a “friendly journalist” by Clinton staffers who would tee up stories for their campaign.

Haberman was working at Politico when she won her “friendly journalist” status but is now with the Times.

A different leaked memo reveals that another Times reporter, Mark Leibovich, allowed the Clinton campaign to veto quotes given by Hillary before he put them in a story.

When the negotiation over the quotes was completed, Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the Clinton campaign, wrote to Leibovich to say “pleasure doing business.”

It’s been clear to me for a while that the Times and other media outlets have been favoring Hillary over Trump. And that’s their right — in the editorial page and in columns.

To the Times’ credit, it did break the original story about Hillary using a private email server instead of a government-issued one like everybody else at her State Department.

And checking quotes for accuracy with a source isn’t unusual, although blanket veto power — if that’s what this was — isn’t proper.

I’ve been in this business long enough to know the tit-for-tat negotiations that go on between reporters and sources.

But allowing a source to have too much control over a story makes a paper nothing more than a puppet and destroys the notion of a free press.

This last example is perhaps the most egregious. Another leaked email from Palmieri on July 8, 2015, is a discussion with John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, and others about a Times story on the costs of some of Hillary’s policies.

Palmieri writes: “I wanted to give you an update on NYT pending story on the costs of policy proposals… I had a pretty frank conversation with them about what an unfair story would do as a further setback in the relationship.” I assume that means relations between Hillary and the Times.

“Maggie thinks it is responsible and that we are not going to have a problem with it — it will have all the caveats that HRC [Hillary Clinton] has not actually proposed these policies… She [Maggie, I assume] is going to read me the story later today off the record to further assure me.”

I assume “Maggie” is Maggie Haberman, who — with another reporter — two days later published a 1,500-word story on Page 19 of the paper with the headline “Clinton Aims an Ambitious Economic Agenda at a Party Shifting Left.” Anyway, that’s why I canceled my Times subscription. (By John Crudele).

http://nypost.com/2016/10/12/why-i-finally-canceled-my-new-york-times-subscription/

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Pauline Hopkins.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Her work reflects the influence of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Biography.

Her first known work, a musical play called Slaves’ Escape; or, The Underground Railroad (later revised as Peculiar Sam; or, The Underground Railroad), first performed in 1880. Her short story "Talma Gordon", published in 1900, is often named as the first African-American mystery story. She explored the difficulties faced by African-Americans amid the racist violence of post-Civil War America in her first novel, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, published in 1900. She published three serial novels between 1901 and 1903 in the African-American periodical Colored American Magazine: Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice, Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest, and Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self. She sometimes used the pseudonym Sarah A. Allen.

Hopkins spent the remainder of her years working as a stenographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from burns sustained in a house fire.

In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series. Hopkins's novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (with an introduction by Richard Yarborough) was reprinted as a part of this series. Hopkins's magazine novels (with an introduction by Hazel Carby) were also reprinted as a part of this series.

Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the 20th century, though she is lesser known than many literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self first appeared in serial form in The Colored American Magazine in the November and December 1902 and the January 1903 issues of the publication, during the four-year period in which Hopkins served as its editor. Elements of the work have been compared to Goethe's Faust.

Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who does not care about being black or appreciating African history but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archaeological trip. His motive is to raid the country of lost treasures, which he does find. However, he discovers much more than he expected: the painful truth about blood, race, and the half of his history that was never told. Hopkins wrote the novel intending, in her own words, to "raise the stigma of degradation from [the Black] race." The title, Of One Blood, refers to the biological kinship of all human beings.

Published works.

• Slaves’ Escape; or, The Underground Railroad. 1880.

• Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South. 1900.

• "Talma Gordon". First published in The Colored American Magazine.1900.

• Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice. First published serially in The Colored American Magazine. 1901-1902.

• Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest. First published serially in The Colored American Magazine. 1902-1903.

• Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self. First published serially in The Colored American Magazine. 1903.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hopkins

How to use Coca-Cola as a household cleaner.

Here are two interesting things that you do not know about Coca Cola: is the biggest brand in the world and is the second most famous phrase, after English “hello”. Leaving aside its sweet and alluring acid, Coca Cola is very harmful to the human metabolism. But there is good news in terms of the most loved product in the world, namely that the soda contains acid whose level is very close to that of a car battery.

Therefore, Coca Cola can be used to clean many surfaces and is often a product more effective than ordinary cleaning products. Read below what Coca-cola contains and this makes it a good solution used to clean and not to drink.
Here is what Coca Cola contains:

The first most bothersome aspect of the composition of this drink is that it contains only 85% water, while other carbonated drinks contain even 98% water. Coca Cola contains also obviously, carbon dioxide, which cause stomach irritation. These rashes can be treated by your body with calcium through blood. If there is no calcium in the blood, the body gets its required reserves from the bones. Perhaps the biggest problem is that this drink has in its composition phosphoric acid, which drastically decreases the supply of calcium from the bones. So you can understand quite clearly what happens to your stomach, especially if you daily drink it. Moreover, the flavors are not yet known, but E’s known contained by Coca Cola, namely: E330, E338, E951, E950, E952 and E150d. But in any negative thing is a good thing and you should know that Coca Cola contains a specific dosage of ingredients that makes it a tremendous solution to clean. Here’s what you should do with this drink.
How to use Coke to clean your house:
The amount of acid in the soda is large enough to remove your tooth enamel and cause decay. To show you a few ways in which such carbonated drink is not good for your body, we will show you some aspects where Coke is brilliant:

1. Coca Cola remove grease from clothes and fabrics. You didn’t see that coming, right?
   2. Remove blood stains on clothing and fabrics, and even rust stains with a technique well planned.
   3. Cleans the burned pan if you let it soak for several hours in the black drink, then rinse.
   4. Clean battery terminals (if you gently wipe with a cloth soaked in Cola).
   5. Coca Cola cleans your engine. No, not an advertising campaign slogan, but one of the benefits of this drink content.
   6. Makes money shine. If, for some reason, you want your coins to shine, soak them in Coca Cola.
   7. Removes chewing gum from hair. If a chewing gums gets into your hair, don’t rush to the salon to get a haircut! Put coca cola in a bowl and soak your hair in drink. After several minutes, wash your hair.
   8. Even hair dye can be removed with some Diet Coke.
   9. This black drink removes marker stains on the carpet. Leave to soak for a while, then rinse thoroughly with water and detergent.
   10. Last but not least, Coca Cola cleans your toilet. You can use the drink just like using other cleaning products (more expensive), pouring down the side of the toilet and letting it act.
   The fact is that you need to remember what Coke contains but not for everyday pleasures or for parties. Coca Cola is wonderful if it is used in cleaning, and only there!

http://cleaningtips.info/use-coca-cola-household-cleaner/