andrew cuomo has usurped the role of determing the religious calendar for all invluding the orthodox church snd non believers. please remind him that his actions are religiously wrong and likely not in accordance with the constitution of the state of new york. perhaps he is being funded by the russians or the church?
Pope Says Fake News Is Devil’s Work
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Sunday, April 1, 2018
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| GP | GULFSTREAM PARK | 72 | 0 | 1:15 PM | 1:15 PM | EDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 120 | 0 | 2:30 PM |
First papal document on the subject calls for greater accuracy by journalists
The pope called on journalists to serve as “protectors of news” by practicing accuracy and fairness, which he called essential to promoting world peace, in remarks published Jan. 24. PHOTO: GIUSEPPE CICCIA/PACIFIC PRESS/ZUMA PRESS
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
The pope’s remarks, published Wednesday, came in his annual message for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Social Communications, May 13. It was the first papal document on the subject of “fake news.”
Defining fake news as “disinformation online or in the traditional media,” Pope Francis wrote that it commonly exploits “stereotypes and common social prejudices” and thrives in “homogenous digital environments” such as social networks where it is unchallenged by other information sources.
The pope wrote that fake news can serve political or economic interests, but he did not refer or allude to specific cases.
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“The tragedy of disinformation is that it discredits others, presenting them as enemies, to the point of demonizing them and fomenting conflict,” the pope wrote, whereas true statements tend to “promote informed and mature reflection leading to constructive dialogue.”
The pope portrayed latter-day makers of fake news as followers of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the devil, who persuaded Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thus ushered in the “tragic history of human sin.”
Pope Francis praised education and regulation to combat fake news, and encouraged tech and media companies in efforts to verify the “personal identities concealed behind millions of digital profiles.”
But the pope laid the greatest responsibility with journalists, whom he called on to reject “falsehoods, rhetorical slogans and sensational headlines” in favor of a “journalism of peace.”
Wednesday’s document isn’t the first time the pope has called on journalists to raise their standards. In a December 2016 interview, he likened the interest in scandal among the press and the public to coprophilia and coprophagy—sexual and eating disorders involving excrement.
Write to Francis X. Rocca at francis.rocca@wsj.com
