Hillary Clinton sets out ideas in new book ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’

NEWS AND OPINION:

Former first lady and onetime presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has a new book on the way — titled “Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty.”]

It arrives Sept. 17.

“Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach,” said publisher Simon & Schuster in advance notes for the book, which is 352 pages long.

“We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, ’Something Lost, Something Gained’ is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better,” the publisher said.

There was no explanation of the aforementioned “warning” to voters, however.

Mrs. Clinton, also a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, will embark on a five-city book tour in September and October. Notably, it begins in the nation’s capital, with later stops in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle.

“At each event, Secretary Clinton and a moderator will take the audience on a journey of unvarnished exchanges on politics, democracy, the threats we face, as well as friendship, aging, marriage, and how we can all work together to shape a future to be proud of,” an advance press release states.

“I hope you can join me for wide-ranging conversations that go behind the scenes and include never-before told stories,” the author said in a written statement.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVOLVES

The news media continues to evolve. The Associated Press announced Tuesday that it will create a sister organization to raise money for and to support state and local journalism.

“Governed by an independent board of directors, the 501(c)3 charitable organization will help AP sustain, augment and grow journalism and services for the industry, as well as help fund other entities that share a commitment to state and local news,” AP said in a statement.

“The new organization builds on AP’s work over more than five years to augment its journalism with philanthropic support. Such support has allowed the global news organization to deepen reporting on key areas such as climate, religion, democracy, education and more. AP retains complete editorial control in all journalism it produces with philanthropic funding,” the news service said.

The announcement follows several content sharing collaborations AP has recently embarked upon with nonprofit news outlets across the U.S. such as CalMatters, the Texas Tribune, South Dakota News Watch and Honolulu Civil Beat.

“These collaborations are aimed at expanding the reach of local journalism ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election,” the AP said.

“The crisis in local news is only exacerbating. It’s AP’s role as the cooperative at the heart of the news ecosystem to both reinforce our own state and local reporting as well as support other organizations who share our commitment to local journalism,” said AP President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham.

“State and local news is essential, both to the democratic process and in combating misinformation. Simply put, it’s a public good,” she said in a written statement.

ADVICE AND PREDICTIONS

The debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday is a proverbial clash of the political titans — and the news media are already revving their engines for the event.

Coverage of the much anticipated event is not exactly at fever pitch — but it is noisy, and incorporates both advice and predictions for both of the combatants. The advice giving, in fact, has gone on for several weeks. Here are a few headlines of note from the last 24 hours:

“How Trump and Biden might attack each other” (The New York Times); “Russian lawmaker offers Donald Trump advice” (Newsweek); “Dear Donald Trump: Here’s how to win this week’s debate, and the election” (New York Post); “Hillary Clinton’s advice for Biden on how to debate Trump” (NJ Advance Media); “Why Trump is suddenly talking up Biden after months of slamming his cognitive capacity” (CNN); “Hillary Clinton warns Biden about Trump debate: It won’t be a ’normal’ TV faceoff” (USA Today); “Greg Gutfeld offers debate advice to former President Trump” (Fox News); and “Debate questions they’ll never ask Biden, Trump” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

FOXIFIED

In the week of June 17-23, Fox News marked 175 consecutive weeks besting its cable news competition with both prime-time and daytime viewers, according to Nielsen. Indeed, the network is No. 1 in the overall cable ratings ub both time periods, besting news, entertainment and sports programming as well that week.

In prime time, Fox News drew a daily average of 2.1 million viewers, compared to MSNBC with an average audience of 956,000 and CNN 464,000 viewers. During the day, the Fox News audience averaged 1.5 million viewers while MSNBC drew 672,000 and CNN 385,000.

“The Five” continues to reign as the most watched cable news show of all, with 3.1 million daily viewers on average. “Jesse Watters Primetime” followed with an audience of 2.6 million, along with late-night favorite “Gutfeld” (2.3 million), “Hannity” (2.2 million), “The Ingraham Angle” (2.1 million) and “Special Report With Bret Baier” (2 million).

The aforementioned funnyman Greg Gutfeld continues to best his late-night competition — and here are their audience numbers: CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (1.9 million viewers), ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (1.5 million) and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (1.2 million).

POLL DU JOUR

• 22% of U.S. adults say they trust the federal government in Washington to do the right thing “always or most of the time;” 11% of Republicans and 35% of Democrats agree

• 19% of Whites, 27% of Blacks, 30% of Hispanics and 36% of Asians also agree.

• 59% overall say they trust the federal government to do what is right “only some of the time”; 62% of Republicans and 57% of Democrats agree.

• 62% of Whites, 59% of Blacks, 53% of Hispanics and 56% of Asians also agree.

• 17% overall say they “never” trust the federal government; 26% of Republicans and 8% of Democrats agree.

• 18% of Whites, 14% of Blacks, 16% of Hispanics and 8% of Asians also agree.

SOURCE: A Pew Research Center American Trends Panel survey of 8,709 U.S. adults conducted online April 8-14 and released Monday.

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