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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY A few afternoon showers Cloudy, showers around; cooler 64° 41° 52° 34° THURSDAY FRIDAY Mostly cloudy Times of clouds and sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 51° 31° 50° 36° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 34° 63° 43° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 66° 54° 78° (1934) 32° 34° 14° (1906) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.52" 0.46" 2.85" 4.68" 2.97" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 64° 57° 77° (2003) 0.00" 0.12" 0.38" 1.75" 3.81" 2.62" SUN AND MOON Mar 24 Bend 55/33 Full Mar 31 7:12 a.m. 6:58 p.m. 5:25 a.m. 3:13 p.m. Last Caldwell 68/45 Burns 57/33 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Lo 39 40 33 41 33 38 37 40 43 39 29 39 38 37 41 41 45 42 41 42 32 40 41 35 42 45 37 W r c r r sh c r r c sh r c c r r r c c sh r r r c c r c r Hi 51 51 44 50 46 47 51 49 56 49 36 49 46 51 50 51 55 57 52 54 48 53 48 45 52 54 57 Lo 35 31 24 39 27 30 33 32 34 31 21 33 31 32 38 38 37 36 34 36 25 36 34 28 35 39 32 W r sh sn r sh sh r sh sh sh sn sh sh r r r sh sh sh r sn r sh sh r sh c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 49/29 Hi 71 76 66 52 81 35 54 60 62 72 62 Lo 44 67 50 40 52 22 41 42 46 68 50 W s s pc pc s pc r pc s c s Wed. Hi 71 75 68 55 77 30 59 60 65 77 67 Lo 46 66 47 46 53 24 46 46 49 68 52 W pc pc s pc pc c pc s s pc s REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today into tomorrow. Thursday: periods of rain, some heavy. Eastern and Central Oregon: Rather cloudy today; showers; however, dry in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Rain at times today. A little rain tonight, except dry at the coast. Apr 8 Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today. A shower across the south and toward the Cascades; rain and drizzle in central sections. Cascades: Cloudy today with occasional rain. A little snow at times tonight. Northern California: Snow today, accumulating 1-3 inches in the interior mountains; rain possible in central parts. Showers around at the coast. Today Wednesday NNE 6-12 SSE 7-14 SSW 6-12 WSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 1 2 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 52 61 55 52 57 60 54 63 63 64 49 61 59 55 52 54 68 63 64 53 60 54 61 60 53 64 57 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. WINDS Medford 55/37 PRECIPITATION Mar 17 John Day 64/39 Ontario 68/45 28° 33° 11° (2009) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 53/40 Eugene 54/37 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 55° 39° Spokane Wenatchee 61/41 51/39 Tacoma Moses 54/40 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 62/42 61/40 51/41 53/38 57/37 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 54/40 64/45 Lewiston 62/44 Astoria 68/45 52/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 53/42 Pendleton 60/38 The Dalles 63/43 64/41 57/39 La Grande Salem 61/39 54/40 Corvallis 54/38 HIGH 55° 33° Seattle 55/43 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 54° 34° Today SATURDAY Some sun with a few showers 49° 33° Tuesday, March 13, 2018 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: A nor'easter will deliver blizzard conditions to eastern New England as flurries and squalls riddle areas farther west to the Great Lakes. A storm will bring rain and mountain snow to the Pacific coast. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Thermal, Calif. Low -4° in Dunkirk, Mont. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 64 54 45 46 47 55 68 33 61 39 36 35 65 56 37 72 35 32 78 70 37 64 49 78 59 67 Lo 42 32 31 27 28 31 44 30 36 24 22 24 42 31 22 48 19 19 73 46 22 36 26 57 31 54 W pc pc pc pc s pc c sn s sf pc sf pc s sf s pc pc sh s sf s s pc s sh Wed. Hi 67 51 43 42 49 54 53 41 56 37 46 35 69 69 40 73 30 36 80 71 42 63 63 69 61 64 Lo 43 34 31 28 30 34 38 32 33 28 29 29 50 40 28 57 15 13 72 51 31 32 42 51 39 51 Today W pc s pc pc pc s sh sf s sf pc sf s pc pc pc c s sh pc pc s s pc s c Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tucson Washington, DC Wichita Hi 43 54 73 34 37 49 64 42 57 44 44 84 33 34 47 52 61 60 44 67 69 60 55 82 49 56 Lo 25 31 54 23 23 28 46 32 32 26 29 62 30 29 27 28 37 44 25 51 60 48 43 57 31 30 W c pc pc pc s c s sn s pc pc pc sn sn s pc r r pc pc c r r pc pc s Wed. Hi 43 55 74 46 44 50 65 41 64 65 41 82 39 40 44 57 47 57 52 67 66 56 51 82 44 67 Lo 36 40 51 29 25 37 44 30 46 31 29 57 29 31 27 25 32 41 40 41 55 46 36 55 31 46 W s s s pc pc s s pc s s pc pc sf pc pc s sn sh s c c sh r pc pc pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 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FOLEY Associated Press An Idaho state lawmaker urges her constituents to submit entries for her “fake news awards.” The Kentucky governor tweets #FAKENEWS to dismiss questions about his purchase of a home from a supporter. An aide to the Texas land commissioner uses the phrase to downplay the significance of his boss receiving donations from employees of a company that landed a multimillion-dollar contract. President Donald Trump’s campaign to discredit the news media has spread to officials at all levels of government, who are echoing his use of the term “fake news” as a weapon against unflat- tering stories. It’s become ubiquitous as a signal to a politician’s supporters to ignore legitimate reporting and hard questions, as a smear of the beleaguered and dwindling local press corps, and as a way for conservatives to push back against what they call biased stories. “When Trump announced he was going to do his fake news awards, a group of us conservative legislators said, ‘We need to do that, too,’” said Idaho state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, who has urged supporters to send examples of “biased, misleading and fake news” and plans to announce her awards March 18. “We need people to wake up to the fact that just because it’s on the front page of the Boise newspaper doesn’t mean it’s 100 percent true.” The winners of the contest, it turns out, will be announced at the end of Sunshine Week, an annual focus by the nation’s news media — Brendan Nyhan, Professor of government at Dartmouth College in dozens of other incidents by protesters, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. “I worry about the ongoing attack on the legitimacy of the AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File media by President Trump and In this Feb. 13 file photo, Gov. Paul LePage delivers the State of the State address to the Legislature at the State House in Augusta, some of his supporters. The press Maine. President Trump’s campaign to discredit the news media is hardly perfect, of course, but it has spread to state and local officials, who are echoing his use of is also an important mechanism of the term “fake news” as a weapon against unflattering stories and accountability for people in power,” said Brendan Nyhan, a professor of information that can tarnish their images. government at Dartmouth College. on government transparency and “This kind of rhetoric is potentially the importance of a free press. corrosive to trust in the media and Rhonda Prast, editor of the to people’s willingness to accept Idaho Statesman in Boise, said it information that is critical of poli- was ridiculous for anyone to assert ticians they support.” that it would publish a story it knew Nyhan was among the authors contained falsehoods. of a recent study for the Poynter “The Statesman has a long- Institute that found partisan standing reputation as a reliable divisions in the public’s attitudes paper of record — going back toward the press. More Democrats 154 years — and our standards for now have more faith in the press, accuracy and fairness have never while Republicans have far more changed,” she said in a statement. negative views and are “more likely “The allegations of ‘fake news’ are to endorse extreme claims about unjust attacks on a free press.” media fabrication, to describe jour- Giddings used the term herself nalists as an enemy of the people, last year to dismiss a report from and to support restrictions on press another newspaper suggesting she freedom,” the study found. AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi may have been unqualified to run The routine labeling of factual for office because she was claiming In this March 1photo, Idaho reporting as “fake news” comes as a homeowner’s exemption outside Republican state Rep. Priscilla actual fake news proliferates on the sits at the Capitol in of her district. She said she’s Giddings internet. Boise. submitting paperwork to prove the Media researcher Craig break was legitimate. lack of trust in media by conser- Silverman helped popularize Experts on the press and democ- vatives and contributed to hostility the term in 2014 as a label for racy say the cries of “fake news” that sometimes turns violent. completely fabricated stories could do long-term damage by In the last year, at least three written and spread by individuals sowing confusion and contempt political figures have been seeking profit. Now the news for journalists and by undermining implicated in physical assaults on media editor at BuzzFeed, he wrote the media’s role as a watchdog on reporters asking questions, while recently that he cringes when he government and politicians. They journalists have been attacked hears anyone use the term, which say it’s already exacerbated the he said became a partisan weapon Large fire torches Portland scrap yard PORTLAND (AP) — A massive fire ignited Monday at a Portland auto-wrecking yard and spread to an apartment building and a duplex. No injuries were reported in the eight to 10 units that were destroyed, but firefighters said more than a dozen cats died. The blaze started at about 9 a.m. on a breezy, unseasonably warm day. Portland Fire & Rescue said piles of scrap cars caught fire, and the blaze was difficult to fight because of the wind, flammable materials and an inadequate water supply in that part of northeast Portland. Stop By and See Our New Garden Area! Plants & Home Decor Put a smile on the heart with the power of flowers. HWY 395, HERMISTON 541-567-4305 after Trump’s election in 2016. Silverman wrote that political figures are manipulating social media to “literally brand real things as fake” and manufacture reality for their followers. Politicians who have used the term in recent months in response to news reporting include the governor of Maine, a New Mexico congressional candidate, the Georgia secretary of state and the vice chairman of Trump’s now-dis- banded voter fraud commission. A California school board president repeatedly used the term to attack a journalist investigating the area’s high rate of teenage pregnancy and its sex education policies. The cries of “fake news” create a quandary for reporters, who want to defend their stories while also not giving credence to the charge. “Our members, many of whom work for small news outlets, are bearing the brunt of these unwar- ranted attacks, and it’s completely unfair. These are people who are serving the community,” said Rebecca Baker, president of the Society of Professional Journalists. “Some are just ignoring it, and some are fighting back.” Baker suggests that journalists respond to the attacks by showing their work as much as possible — by sharing the audio, video and documents that back up their stories. She wonders whether the term is starting to lose its clout from overuse, but also worries that whichever party controls the White House, Congress and state govern- ments in the future will continue to use the tactic. “This is part and parcel of the polarization of our politics right now,” she said. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sin- cerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Outsmart Mother Nature With: Patio Covers · Pergolas · Patio & Sunrooms Awnings · Screen Rooms Sun/Solar Shades · Screens & More! 10 % OFF Beat The Rush Sale! 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