Your weekend long-read  Spend time with Ellen Barry’s story in the New York Times about The Jungle Prince of Delhi.
“‘I am Cyrus’: For years reporters chronicled the tale of eccentric aristocrats who lived in a ruined Indian palace. It was an astonishing tale. But was it true? A blockbuster from @EllenBarryNYT, who went into the woods to meet The Jungle Prince of Delhi,” Yonette Joseph praised.
A note on Joe  Are Joe Biden’s Debate Stumbles Simply the Result of a Stutter? John Hendrickson, who wrote the piece in The Atlantic, explained: “I asked Joe Biden to talk about the way he talks, which is also the way I talk.” Nora Kelly called it “an extraordinary piece from an extraordinary writer, @JohnGHendy. Do yourself a favor and spend time with this today.” Yoni Appelbaum praised: “This is the story @JohnGHendy was born to write—not just insightful and beautifully constructed, but incredibly moving.”
Save journalism  Margaret Sullivan’s Perspective at the Washington Post this week covers the death knell for local newspapers, which she says is perilously close. Todd Wallack shared this quote from her piece: "as Duke University researchers found recently, it’s still local newspapers that are doing the heavy lifting in providing original local journalism..."
Shepard Smith, who only recently left Fox News, just gave $500,000 to a free press group, Michael M. Grynbaum reported at the New York Times. Now back to the impeachment  Fiona Hill Viewed Serving Trump as Risky. Now She’s an Impeachment Witness, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported at the New York Times. “A friend of Fiona Hill tells the NYT: ‘The risk was what we see playing out in front of us — that something wrong would happen, that she would do the right thing and other people wouldn’t, and there would be a reckoning,’” Lauren Gambino tweeted.
For more on Hill, we move over to the Washington Post, where Greg Miller reported about an impeachment witness who warned that conspiracy theories advance Russia’s agenda as they divide Americans. “Fiona Hill’s testimony was about far more than Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine. It was about America’s descent into the conspiracy mire, its failing grip on things like facts and truth,” Miller wrote. On the topic of Russia, this CNN story from Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez says an FBI official is under investigation after allegedly altering a document in the 2016 Russia probe. And CNN’s Jake Tapper pulled these quotes directly from a 2-month-old White House transcript that included Remarks by President Trump Before a Marine One Departure: “Q: Mr. President, what exactly did you hope Zelensky would do about the Bidens after your phone call? Exactly. TRUMP: Well, I would think that, if they were honest about it, they’d start a major investigation into the Bidens. It’s a very simple answer.” ‘The president’s racism and corruption’ /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65738662/GettyImages_1183630735.0.jpg) In her analysis for the AP, Julie Pace broke down two weeks of public hearings to conclude that the mountain of impeachment evidence is beyond dispute. "Hours of televised testimony paint a portrait of an American president willing to leverage his powerful office to push a foreign government for personal political help."
At The Atlantic, Adam Serwer presented evidence to support Trump's Conspiracy Against Democracy. Serwer also tweeted: “The evidence produced by the impeachment inquiry is not going to convince Trumpists or those beholden to them, because they are not operating from a moral framework that allows Trump to be culpable of wrongdoing.” Yoni Appelbaum shared another quote from the article: "The broken reputations of weak, conniving men litter the Trump era like corpses on a Civil War battlefield. Each believed … the president’s racism and corruption might be bent towards legitimate ends, and each of them has paid the price for their folly.” Politically inflammatory flame bait  According to Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times, Americans stole the Kremlin’s playbook, both for clicks and profit. “Our investigation found a former Fox News executive has been hiring Macedonians to pump out politically inflammatory flame bait, petitions, and the occasional conspiracy theory to Americans,” Perlroth explained in a tweet.
Betsy Woodruff Swan reported in The Daily Beast that Lev Parnas Also Attended Rudy Giuliani’s Madrid Meeting With Zelensky Aide Andriy Yermak. If you don’t remember, Parnas is one of two Giuliani associates who, along with Igor Fruman, was arrested in October and charged with planning to direct funds from a foreign government "to U.S. politicians while trying to influence U.S.-Ukraine relations.” “Well, well, well,” Noah Shachtman reacted. The R.N.C. Spent Nearly $100,000 on Copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s Book, Alexandra Alter and Nicholas Confessore reported at the New York Times. “Gotta cheat at everything,” Rakesh Agrawal concluded. And according to Ben Collins and Dylan Byers at NBC News, Trump hosted Zuckerberg for an undisclosed dinner at the White House in October. Also at the secret dinner? Peter Thiel. 'The greatest propaganda machine in history'  Speaking of Zuckerberg, Sacha Baron Cohen Used his ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg, according to Matt Wilstein at the Daily Beast. "This is not about limiting anyone’s free speech. This is about giving people, including some of the most reprehensible people on earth, the biggest platform in history to reach a third of the planet," Marlow Stern quoted. Amrita Khalid shared another: “Under this twisted logic, if Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ‘solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem.’"
You can also read Cohen's entire keynote address on anti-semitism and hate on ADL's website. Here is one more quote from the comedian, which Mike Isaac tweeted: "...one thing is pretty clear to me. All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history." Tesla’s big oops  “I couldn't sleep because I've been thinking about Cybertruck so I did a play-by-play analysis of the Cybertruck disaster. I love Cybertruck. Cybertruck forever,” Ryan Mac admitted. Help, I Can’t Stop Watching A Video Of Elon Musk Breaking His Cybertruck Windows is his resulting piece for BuzzFeed News. “@RMac18 stayed up till 3 am to bring you some extremely important content,” Pranav Dixit shared.
At Bloomberg News, Thuy Ong and Natnicha Chuwiruch kept the story semi-serious and wrote: Tesla Truck Demo Goes Awry as Shatterproof Windows Break. “Oh no (we covered #cybertruck),” Ong tweeted. International desk  Reuters published a piece about how jihadists struck gold in Africa’s Sahel. Ryan McNeill explained: “@DG_Lewis and I show how Islamist groups are establishing a presence across some of Burkina Faso's richest gold mining areas. Nearly half of the country's 2,200 potential mining sites are within 25 km of documented Islamist activities.”
Over in England, Gary Younge pledged that a brighter, more equal future is Labour’s greatest manifesto pledge and he did so in The Guardian. Also in The Guardian, Sam Cowie got the exclusive from former Brazilian president Lula da Silva who says that current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is turning back the clock on Brazil. "I'm a Corinthians supporter. But I can't fight with a Palmeiras fan – I have to learn to live with him,” da Silva said. Rohini Singh at The Wire in India broke the news that the Bhartiya Janta Party took a large donation from a company that is now being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for facilitating “terror funding.” Two more updates Attorney General William Barr called Jeffrey Epstein’s death a “perfect storm of screw-ups,” according to Michael Balsamo at the AP. Barr also said in the interview that the evidence proves Epstein killed himself. Barr personally reviewed the security footage and confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died. Tony Robbins was accused of sexually assaulting a high schooler at a summer camp. Katie J.M. Baker and Jane Bradley published the story in BuzzFeed News as part 6 of their ongoing investigation into the self-help guru. | 
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