WEATHER
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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
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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
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sn
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sh
sh
r
sh
sh
sh
sn
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sh
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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
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pc
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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32
31
27
28
31
44
30
36
24
22
24
42
31
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48
19
19
73
46
22
36
26
57
31
54
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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
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28
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38
32
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72
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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
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Wed.
Hi
43
55
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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
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32
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40
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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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‘Fake news’ smear takes hold among politicians at all levels
As Sunshine Week
begins, politicians
levy attacks on
unflattering stories
“This kind of rhetoric is
potentially corrosive to
... people’s willingness
to accept information
that is critical of politi-
cians they support.”
By RYAN J. 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
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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
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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.
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