CULTURE AND ARTS

LEVEL A

NEWSPAPER DROP 'DILBERT AFTER CREATOR’S ANTI-

Here we go. Newspapers across the country are dropping the Dilbert comic strip after its
creator, Scott Adams, went on a stunning racist tirade this weakened, calling black Americans a hate
group and advising white people to stay away from them. And as Polo Sandoval has the story this
morning for us, Polo, good morning to you. What’s up? With this? Yeah, guys, good morning to you. So
basically, he is doubling down on the comments that he made earlier this week saying that they were
completely taken out of context. The newspapers know that ran his strip for decades, are now severing
ties with him, saying that his comments were part of a racist tirade.

Yes. You know, nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people. That’s a hate group.

That was a comment that may have ended. Scott Adams his newspaper career, the Dilbert creator,
referencing a poll from the conservative firm Rasmussen Reports that indicated 53% of black Americans
agree with the statement it’s okay to be white leading the other 47% to say they disagree or aren’t sure.
The Ant- Defamation League has noted that phrase has a long history in the white supremacist
movement.

The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.

He continued to double down throughout his show, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA
Today, among the hundreds of newspapers that denounced Adams and quickly pulled Dilbert.

USA Today newspaper CEO Mike Read. It was, frankly, an easy decision. We found the remarks hateful,
hurtful, and then just crossed the line.

But not everyone agrees. Twitter CEO Elon Musk coming to Adams’s defense tweeting. The media is
racist. Adams has since tweeted that he was only advising people to avoid hate and suggested that the
cancelation of his cartoon signals that free speech in America is under assault.

We believe in free speech. We believe in creating a place for differing points of view. But there’s a line
that gets crossed where things become racism. And that’s not an area we choose to traffic in or
participate in.

But he rejected a company that was responsible for distributing that comic strip. Still waiting to hear
back, guys. But have to tell you, after watching hours and hours of his latest streams, it’s really hard to
gauge exactly how worried he is. I’ll tell you why he loves attention. It’s not me saying it. He actually said
it over the weekend on one of his streams. And he also recognized that he was completely aware that
this was basically going to open up the floodgates. And when he made these bombshell remarks, so he is
getting a bit of what he wanted. But the question will it be more than what he bargained for, especially
since he says that he expects to lose a majority of the income in the coming days? Right.

There are many times when people are taken out of context or they need explaining or whatever. But
his comments were that’s not what’s with these comments. He keeps saying that’s not what I mean to
say, but it is exactly what he calls it, useful provocation.

He wanted to start a conversation in guys. But there are many ways to start a conversation about race in
America that doesn’t include calling black Americans what he called them. So I think that this will be
certainly one to watch. And as you continue to hear major newspapers, not just here in the U.S., but
around the world, dropping the Strip. What will he do next?

Yeah, and it’s important to note that the poll that started all of this that he was talking about, they are
not talking about their data. There are people have cast doubt on how accurate it is and what it looks
like. And if people are trying to vote on it, to change the outcome of it. So I think that’s an also an
important context of what he’s even talking about in the first place. Really?

Does he say he’s being cancelled? Is that what he thinks?

That’s what he says. I wonder if he’s perhaps seeing himself as sort of this free speech martyr. Again,
we’ll have to see as more of these newspapers drop his work after decades and for 30 years, his speech
comes with consequences. Yeah. Thank you for that.

LEVEL B
'THE WHITE LOTUS' STAR REVEALS HOW HARD IT WAS
FOR CAST TO KEEP SECRET

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Kaitlin and I are super fans. The second season of HBO hit show The White Lotus. Sorry, I won’t
make it. Or if you’re just speaking the truth. It was a close last night. And we have to warm you, because
we’re going to this is a spoiler alert. So if you don’t want to know what happened, I would say turn the
volume down, OK? We don’t want you to change the channel I’ll just turn the volume down. So fans have
spent the entire season there and trying to figure out once question, who was that floating body? They
finally got their answer. It was last night.

You’ve had very bad luck. Best thing about Rocky is I can always change. Italy’s just so romantic. You’re
going to die. Okay, who’s going to die? I will Sharpe’s here. He plays the night Lotus. And we should note
that HBO is a unit. It’s a parent company to CNN. Okay so, I want to brother Disco. Wait a minute. What
about Discovery? We’re in the same company. Let’s get some distant cousins. So thank you for joining
us. You said. I know that you thought that you predicted. You’ve been telling everybody that things are
going to get messy. You said fans should expect fireworks and there were fireworks. I have to say, I was
wrong. This is a spoiler alert and take closure is I thought that you were the killer. I did.

Okay. I think that’s fair. And I mean, I don’t know what kind of conversation Mike had with the rest of the
cast. I remember, you know, him being very upfront with me towards the beginning about how he did want
Ethan to be a kind of enigma, you know, especially towards the beginning of the series. And for it to be
like an available fare that maybe he is going to be there. So I guess I was mindful of that in the playing of
it, whilst also having an eye on the long game of how really play.

LEVEL C
Leaving her mark through paintings and
murals
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a Filipino-American painter and muralist is leaving her mark on the streets of New York City Camille
Herta who also goes by the name OG Millie has a visual impairment and has undergone eye surgeries
but that didn’t stop her from bringing color to the city Millie joins us now live via zoom from New York
good morning from Manila Millie and good evening to you “hi good morning good evening here it’s
great to have you Millie you know let’s take a few steps back uh it is a wonderful story that you have uh
you study graphic art back in college but you have trouble with computer screens I understand Amidst
uh you know a challenge dear to your vision you taught yourself how to make street art tell us more
about it million what cost if I can ask you what caused your visual impairment and how did you deal with
it yeah so um it happened in college or a high school and then college happened twice so I have rental
Detachment so I always wanted to do graphic design like you said um and I never really saw myself as a
street artist I never saw myself doing murals um yeah and then it just happened with one opportunity
um they had an organization that contacted me um to create a mural and I didn’t know what to do and
I’m a big risk taker so I just ended up doing it and I fell in love with um the bigger scale of working on
murals okay is there any is there an aspect to the larger scale the bright colors that you’re known for uh
you know how does how does that tie into the way that you go about your art you you’re not only about
the large-scale murals you’re also about your smaller scale uh vintage mirrors and we’ll talk about that
we’ll jump back to that too but um you know your visual impairment does that tie into the way you
approach your art yes so I love working in larger scale because it’s very thought provoking I love to take
the viewer on a visual Journey per se and um especially working with mirror s I think that’s um my
representation of my whole eye Journey because I love the way that the mirrors reflect and you have to
be now and in the present moment um I love how you know whenever you turn around you see
yourself and you see the artwork um sometimes I leave the eyes clear so you can see you know the the
whole eye journey I focus a lot on the eyes right then you’re not just a great artist that you’re also an
athlete you love basketball and you continue to enjoy that game tell us about that oh that was my first
love before art um I played in grade school I played in high school and I got full-ride scholarship to play
in college so that was my whole adolescent years I grew up my dad me and my dad share the love of a
passion of basketball and um yeah like that always speaks to me even when I do a mural like uh that
Jordan piece I have to play basketball at the same time good stuff all right well let’s go back to your art
now you have wide range Millie you go form like I said the small antique mirrors to large-scale murals
um which do you find uh where is your art now as far as your art journey goes uh would you continue
with the art that’s based on the canvas of the mirror you also do Canvas art of cause and of course the
you’re well known for your murals.

All right we’ll try to get Millie uh back on the line there we’ve got a little bit of a technical problem uh
some amazing art that we’re seeing uh here on screen Millie is well known her uh murals uh you know
adding color all over uh New York City and all over various cities uh in the US uh Millie are you there yes
and I don’t know what happened we had a small connection problem there in terms of your art journey
how would you define where you are now are you going to focus more on your small formats with the
mirrors or really stick to the larger format of mural art uh I um smaller mirrors are just more personal
works and then the murals are more you of my um know I work with companies I work with
corporations restaurants small businesses so that’s my mark on helping the community out right very
distinctive with your vibrant palette easy to spot your work it really does sort of fly proud you are uh
this is Beacon of Asian American representation in this field how important is it for you that you’re
recognized as being a you know a great representation of the Asian American people, oh it feels very
empowering um you know street art or murals in general are male dominated industry and I feel like I
broke the glass ceiling and especially being Asian American in let alone Filipina so it’s it’s empowering
for me and I feel like want to inspire other people who look like me you know well on the subject of you
know empowered and being empowered how would you uh you know convince people that they can
make their Mark and they should go out and sort of follow their dreams how do you um uh I don’t know
inspire people to empower themselves um I think it’s just more so taking a risk believing in yourself and
um at the same time don’t be afraid to show your work you know there’s always people going to be uh
criticizing it but at the same time you have to do it for yourself and um also you don’t have to have
everything figured out you know I never knew I was going to be an artist so I feel like um you know you
just have to keep trying things because you don’t know if you’re good at it if you don’t try it well Millie
you doing amazing work and we are so proud of what you’re achieving out there thank you once again
Camille for joining us this morning here on your day