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| By Mike Allen ·Nov 17, 2020 |
| ☕ Good Tuesday morning! Today's Smart Brevity™ count: 1,192 words ... 4½ minutes. 🏀 The NCAA plans to hold the entire men's March Madness tournament in a single city to mitigate COVID risks. It's in talks with Indianapolis. (Indy Star) |
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| 1 big thing: The race to out-Fox Fox |
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| Newsmax's Greg Kelly compared President Trump to Rocky Balboa last night. |
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| A new class of conservative outlets and networks is racing to capture the attention of disgruntled Trump voters, who feel abandoned by traditional news companies and censored by social media. - Why it matters: Fox News, for years, has been criticized for polarizing coverage. Now, there's a race unfolding among several conservative outlets who don't think Fox is pro-Trump enough.
Axios media trends expert Sara Fischer reports that in the days after the election, conservative favorites like Breitbart, Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics began to lose traffic share to Newsmax and Gateway Pundit, according to data from web analytics company SimilarWeb. - Last week, Newsmax overtook Breitbart to become the most visited right-leaning news site.
- TV ratings for Newsmax have surged — marquee host Greg Kelly has recently drawn as many as 1 million viewers a night — as President Trump continues to urge followers to abandon Fox News.
Chris Ruddy — who founded Newsmax in 1998, and took his channel to cable in 2015 — told me a flood of defections followed Fox News' early decision to call Arizona (accurately) for President-elect Biden, which infuriated Trump. - "It felt like it was an earthquake on election night," Ruddy told me in a 40-minute interview. "The walls have been breached."
- Ruddy, a member at Mar-a-Lago and Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, said the president, his longtime friend, called him Thursday to congratulate him on the Newsmax ratings — and complain about Fox News.
Trump has told friends he wants to start a direct-to-consumer, digital streaming media company to take on Fox News, as we scooped last week. - "Many great alternatives are forming & exist. Try @OANN & @newsmax, among others!" he tweeted Sunday. OANN (One America News Network) is a tiny, pro-Trump cable network that often peddles conspiracies.
Fox News has led cable ratings for nearly two decades, and continues to beat its cable rivals after the election, especially in prime time. - Fox News sees its competition as the broadcast networks, with wins in prime time since Memorial Day.
Between the lines: Fox News and other traditional conservative outlets face an identity crisis as they try to establish themselves for a post-Trump Washington. - As a successor to its "Democracy 2020" election branding, Fox News is now deploying the slogan "Standing Up For What's Right" in prime-time chyrons.
Share this story. - Go deeper: Real Clear Politics took a sharp right turn after funding sources changed, the N.Y. Times' Jeremy Peters reports (subscription).
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| 2. Biden Day 1: China damage control |
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| Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios |
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| During President Trump's last year in office, the administration reshaped the U.S.-China relationship, taking 159 China-related policy actions in 2020 alone, according to a White House list obtained by Axios' Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian. - Some of those actions have been criticized as counterproductive and damaging to U.S. values, such as restrictions placed on Chinese journalists and the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization, in part due to China's influence over the organization.
- The Biden administration will likely move quickly to unwind Trump-era actions seen as dangerous or immediately harmful.
What we're expecting: - Re-engagement: This could mean rejoining multilateral organizations, including the WHO, and pursuing limited cooperation with China on pandemic management and climate change.
- Restoring diplomacy: Look for President-elect Biden to overhaul the State Department and attempt to improve communication with Chinese counterparts.
- Removing restrictions on Chinese journalists in the U.S., and working with Chinese counterparts to restore U.S. journalists' access to China.
What to watch: Biden's approach to Taiwan. The China-Taiwan relationship sits at its riskier juncture in years, due to Beijing's harder line on Taiwan sovereignty. |
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| 3. 🍂 How it hit us: COVID peaks, by season |
 Data: CSSE Johns Hopkins University. Map: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios Most American counties — 58% of them — saw the peak of their coronavirus infections this month, and 76% of counties peaked at some point in the fall, Axios visual journalist Andrew Witherspoon reports. - 97% of Midwestern counties' cases peaked this fall.
- 22% of the Northeast peaked in the spring, led by New York City.
- Western and Southern states saw peaks in summer.
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| 4. Pic du jour: History in space |
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| Photo: NASA TV via AP |
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| NASA astronaut Victor Glover is greeted by astronaut Kate Rubins early today as he enters the International Space Station from a vestibule connecting the SpaceX Dragon capsule. - Glover, a Navy commander and test pilot, will be the first Black crew member taking part in an extended stay on the station, per the N.Y. Times. (Bio)
Go deeper: Crewed SpaceX capsule docks to International Space Station, by Axios' Miriam Kramer. |
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| 5. Pandemic split screen |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| We're living in a pandemic split screen, Axios health care editor Sam Baker writes: - There are now two coronavirus vaccines in the late stage of development that appear to be highly effective.
- But the first Americans will likely receive them against a backdrop of yet-to-be-seen pandemic horrors.
Moderna announced yesterday that its vaccine is nearly 95% effective — a week after Pfizer made a similarly encouraging announcement. What we're watching: Both vaccines will likely file for emergency FDA authorizations over the next few weeks. The two companies combined are expected to produce enough doses for 35 million people by the end of the year. |
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| 6. Axios-Ipsos poll: Virus reality hits GOP |
 Data: Axios-Ipsos poll (±3.1% margin of error for November, ±3.3% for October). Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios The virus surge is prompting more Americans — Republicans in particular — to be more careful, health care editor Sam Baker writes from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index (1,092 U.S. adults.; margin of error: ±3.1 points). Republicans and independents are beginning to come around on the risk of indoor dining and socializing: - Over 80% of Democrats already thought those activities were high-risk in our last survey.
- 52% of Republicans now see in-person gatherings as risky, up from 40% in late October.
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| 7. Exclusive data: COVID is spiking, attention is waning |
 Data: NewsWhip, The COVID Tracking Project. Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios Ahead of Thanksgiving travel, new coronavirus cases in the U.S. have never been higher, but online interest in the pandemic has never been lower, Neal Rothschild and Sara Fischer write from NewsWhip data provided to Axios. - It's partly because of distrust of media — people are literally tuning out stories they see as scaremongering. And the election is dominating news.
Over the past two weeks, articles about the pandemic generated the lowest number of social-media interactions (likes, comments, shares) since early March. |
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| 8. 🇮🇷 Trump eyed post-election Iran attack |
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| Via MSNBC |
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| "President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran's main nuclear site in the coming weeks," the N.Y. Times reports in a five-byline story (subscription). - "The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country's stockpile of nuclear material."
- Advisers — including Vice President Pence, SecState Pompeo, acting SecDef Chris Miller and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley — dissuaded him by warning that such a strike "could easily escalate into a broader conflict."
Go deeper: N.Y. Times, "Trump Is Said to Be Preparing to Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia" (subscription). |
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| 9. 🔋 Milestone: Tesla joins S&P 500 as biggest new member |
| Tesla will join the S&P 500 as the index's 10th biggest component, ahead of Johnson & Johnson, Axios markets reporter Courtenay Brown writes. - Why it matters: One of the most valuable U.S. companies by market cap — and the most valuable automaker in the world — is joining the main benchmark of the stock market as its biggest new member ever.
What happened: The company met the final requirement for eligibility — four consecutive quarters of profitability — when it reported its Q2 results in July. |
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| 10. 🍽️ How we're eating |
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| Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images |
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| This is an increasingly common sight in big cities as the air gets nippy. - These igloo dining tents are set up at the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park in Manhattan.
"Yurt Villages" ... Axios' Glen Johnson spotted this: The reservation service Resy announced "cozy winter pop-ups" (heated tents) at 13 restaurants nationwide. |
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