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Monday, May 20, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: Hillary's Benghazi 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out

Today: Fact-Checking Dan Brown's 'Inferno': 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications , Mayer Hints Porn Can Stay on Tumblr , Fox News Reporter Could Face Charges
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

May 20, 2013
EXCLUSIVE

In his first interview, the only official at the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the Benghazi attacks tells The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin that he's been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton's team.

Historical Fiction

Bestselling author Dan Brown likes to claim that the historical events in his novels are "fact," but how much is true? Noah Charney finds 10 mistakes and oversimplifications in the new book Inferno.

It's Cool

Yahoo might have just upped its cool quotient—or at least CEO Marissa Mayer did. Speaking to investors on Monday morning, Mayer indicated that X-rated content on Tumblr would not be scrapped in Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of the media network. She stressed that Yahoo wants to "let Tumblr be Tumblr," even if that means Tumblr content is "not as brand safe as the rest of Yahoo," and that the tech giant would focus on balancing user and advertiser interests. In other words, Yahoo will ensure that certain marketers' brands won't end up on accounts like "Red Hot Porn" and "Secretary Sex." She also indicated that some of the NSFW content—or at least the network's diversity of content—is "exciting" and will be a good thing for Yahoo because it allows the company to "reach a far wider audience."  

BIG BROTHER

Note to the Justice Department: Fox News was already paranoid, so spying on one of the network's reporters might just feed into that. According to The Washington Post, the Department of Justice examined Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails, phone records, and visits to the State Department in order to investigate a leak of classified information. Rosen came to the attention of the DOJ after writing an article about CIA analysis of how North Korea might respond to sanctions. The DOJ traced the leak back to State Department worker Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, who now faces charges for leaking intel. Unlike the AP investigation, however, the reporter may also face charges as a "co-conspirator."

TORNADOES

A 79-year-old Oklahoma man was killed Sunday night when a tornado touched down on his mobile home in Shawnee, Okla.—one of a series of twisters to sweep through the Plains states as part of a severe weather system that stretched from Texas all the way north to Minnesota. At least 20 more were injured in Oklahoma alone. "It looks like there's heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour," said Oklahoma's Pottawatomie County sheriff, Mike Booth. "It's pretty bad. It's pretty much wiped out." A tornado touched down in Golden City, Mo., early Monday, but the extent of the damage—as well as the number of injuries—was not immediately clear. Another tornado touched down about 30 miles west of Des Moines, Iowa—the first to hit the state in nearly a year.


Slumburbia
More Poor People Now Live in Suburbs
Social services struggle to adjust.
Money Talks
Public TV Tries to Placate Koch
After critical documentary.
Media Moves
NBC Names Woman to Head News Division
Briton Deborah Turness comes from ITV.
NOT A JEDI MIND TRICK
'Star Wars' Gets Animated Series
Premiering on Disney Channel in fall 2014.
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
MacFarlane Not Hosting Oscars Again
Announces news in series of lighthearted tweets.
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