TRAVEL + LEISURE Friday February 23, 2024
Have you made travel plans for the upcoming solar eclipse? Days Inn by Wyndham may be able to help. The hotel brand is launching a contest to select two social media–savvy travelers to photograph the total solar eclipse from a private helicopter in San Antonio, Texas, The two winners will travel to San Antonio, Texas, for the big photoshoot on April 8, with a two-night hotel stay and a travel stipend included. They'll also be given a nature and landscape photography course from a photo expert, some Days Inn swag, and $5,000 cash each, notes Travel + Leisure. Go here to apply.
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Kehrer Verlag Friday February 23, 2024
Since 2011, photographer Michael Joseph has been documenting a nomadic American subculture—men and women who abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Along their personal journeys driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, these American Travelers find a new family in their traveling friends, notes Kehrer Verlag, which has collected Joseph’s images and stories in the book Lost & Found. The photographs show that the freedom of the road can come at a cost, adds The Guardian.
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Reuters Friday February 23, 2024
TikTok has announced it will ramp up its fight against fake news and covert influence operations in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June, notes Reuters. The social media platform will provide local language apps in 27 countries to better inform Europeans about the electoral process. Tiktok said the individual local language "election centers" build on work it first started in 2021. Some 30 percent of European Parliament lawmakers use TikTok, the company said.
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Reading the Pictures Friday February 23, 2024
Michael Shaw’s Reading the Pictures blog — which looks at the visual culture and its impact on politics — is back with thoughts on the “special hell” unleashed by Special Counsel Robert Hur's controversial statements regarding President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. Shaw focuses on the visual imagery that has accompanied the coverage of the report, ”which,” he notes, “on the one hand, exonerated the President on the issue of classified documents yet, on the other, took the unqualified liberty to attack and attempt to discredit” the president.
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