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Column: Notre Dame is justified in taking a stand against the College Football Playoff farce
The great farce that’s playing out in the College Football Playoff is likely to do lasting damage to Notre Dame’s relationship with the rest of the world.
But not everyone liked “Rudy” to begin with, so the idea that everyone would agree Notre Dame was unfairly bounced from the playoff field when the CFP committee changed its mind at the last minute was far-fetched to begin with.
There’s no such thing as “luck of the Irish” when it comes to selecting a playoff field, so in the aftermath of the unexplainable snubbing, Touchdown Jesus is taking a seat and Notre Dame justifiably said “no thanks” to a participation trophy.
When you’re Notre Dame — with all your bona fide 20th-century legends, from Knute Rockne to “the Gipper” to Joe Montana, along with a TV network doing the necessary myth-making to link the current team to its storied past — you’re used to taking the hits from critics.
But because you’re a unicorn in college football as an independent, and a Catholic university to boot, you’re supposed to shut up and count your blessings: all that TV revenue that doesn’t have to be shared and a national fan base that never stops watching.
Sometimes, however, you have to take a stand. And that’s what Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua is doing by declining a bowl invitation and slamming the process that left the Irish as the odd team out of the CFP field.
Notre Dame is no saint of the college football world, or else it wouldn’t have hired Brian Kelly to lead its program a decade ago. But Kelly is long gone, and if you removed the name “Notre Dame” from this CFP saga and replaced it with a less polarizing school like Vanderbilt, the entire college football nation would be outraged by the decision to leapfrog one team over another for the final at-large spot without either team having played.
Now the question is what is Notre Dame going to do about it, without looking too much like … you know, Notre Dame. It’s the Frasier Crane of universities, always acting a little loftier than the rest.
Bevacqua is scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday in South Bend, Ind., which should provide some answers. Notre Dame’s first move was to remove itself from ESPN’s bowlfest of non-playoff games that serve as appetizers for the main meal, a controversial decision that affects the program’s revenues while ending a great season on a down note for seniors who won’t go on to a pro career and wanted one last hurrah.
The Irish reportedly were invited to play BYU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, in which the winning team gets to eat a giant Pop-Tart. The Irish decided it was more prudent not only to avoid ultraprocessed foods for the holidays, but also to make a stand on the snub heard ’round the world.
Notre Dame was mocked on cue for bringing back the old-school “it’s our ball and we’re going home” strategy that we all enjoyed during childhood games. But it makes perfect sense. Why would the Irish want to play in an overhyped, third-tier bowl game when they were deserving of a spot at the big table with the rest of the top teams?
It’s a tribute to the character of several Notre Dame players who agreed to take this stand knowing their playing days might be over. This is bigger than football and something they’ll carry the rest of their lives. Hopefully Bevacqua brings some of the student-athletes to his news conference and lets them explain why they believe it’s the right thing to do.
Answering questions is something the committee members surely won’t do. CFP Chairman Hunter Yurachek, who is also Arkansas’ athletic director, said he told the committee members to rewatch the Miami-Notre Dame game, which happened in Week 1. That suggests he believed the Hurricanes needed another look before the final ranking, which might have stuck in the committee’s minds even though it was more than three months ago.
Apparently he didn’t tell anyone to rewatch Alabama’s loss to Florida State, also in Week 1, which was far worse than either of Notre Dame’s losses to Miami and Texas A&M.
“College GameDay” hosts Nick Saban, left, and Kirk Herbstreit speak on air before the Michigan-Ohio State game Nov. 29, 2025, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
“I just think there was one team left out that I just don’t think should have been left out in some kind of way,” ESPN analyst Nick Saban said Sunday. “But there was no way around it.”
Well, there was one way. The committee could’ve left out Alabama considering the Crimson Tide fell behind both Notre Dame and Miami in the final AP poll and lost by 21 points to Georgia in the SEC title game. Saban, the Alabama legend, didn’t think that was necessary to mention. Roll Tide!
Fans often shout, “Join a conference!” to Notre Dame, and ESPN talking heads Stephen A. Smith and Paul Finebaum predictably did just that Monday when discussing Notre Dame’s complaint that it was jobbed. Finebaum called the Irish “whining, crying, sniveling” over their fate, after earlier saying it would have been “egregious” to leave out his beloved Alabama.
There are still a few weeks left in 2025, but Finebaum might be the favorite for Disney Co.’s Employee of the Year for bolstering the ESPN/SEC marriage.
In the modern-day, NIL-era version of college football, Notre Dame isn’t really saying “it’s our ball and we’re going home” by declining a bowl invitation but pointing out that “it’s our brand and you need us.”
It’s not so much the game they’re depriving us of since stars like Jeremiyah Love probably wouldn’t even have played. It’s the ratings they’re depriving ESPN of, not to mention the fine folks at Mars Inc., which is in the process of acquiring Kellanova, which makes Pop-Tarts, Cheez-It, Pringles and other products craved by couch potatoes everywhere.
Sorry, ESPN and Mars, but you’ll have to suffice with BYU-Georgia Tech in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.
Meanwhile, Bevacqua on Monday told “The Dan Patrick Show” that the school’s relationship with the ACC was “permanently damaged” by what he called “attacks” on Notre Dame during the weekslong run-up to the final ranking.
Does that mean a bitter divorce is likely? Bring lawyers, guns and money, just in case.
Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, pictured when he was CEO of the PGA of America, during a news conference at The Players Championship on May 6, 2015, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
Bevacqua is being oversensitive. The ACC did lobby for Miami over Notre Dame, but that’s not a big surprise. Sure, the ACC Network aired a replay of Miami’s win over Notre Dame 12 straight times to prove the conference’s point that the Hurricanes deserved a spot ahead of the Irish, but so what? It doesn’t have much other programming to offer besides infomercials and Dabo Swinney’s diatribes.
ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips certainly touted Miami, but Phillips was once associate AD at Notre Dame and isn’t known to be a leprechaun hater. Bevacqua’s beef should be with the SEC lobbyists from ESPN as much as with the ACC, so perhaps he can have a beer summit with Phillips to try to mend fences.
According to Notre Dame’s agreement with the ACC — of which it is a member in every sport except football and men’s ice hockey — it is contractually obligated to join the conference in football if it decides to give up its independent status by 2036. But even if the Irish do change their stance on football independence, it seems unlikely now they would join the ACC, a loser in the high-stakes game of conference realignment.
The best option might be to end the agreement in which Notre Dame plays five ACC teams annually and bring in a bigger slate of games versus Big Ten teams. Adding strong programs such as longtime rival Michigan, would-be in-state rival Indiana and Ohio State to the schedule, along with good, old, reliable Purdue, would make it even harder for Notre Dame to make the CFP field. But it certainly would be great theater for college football fans.
As for the committee members who blundered their way into CFP history, no one appears accountable because the votes never will be revealed. Conspiracy theories were perhaps inevitable, including one that Alabama was a lock to remain in the field because of Yurachek and other members with SEC ties: Former coach Mike Riley played on Alabama’s 1973 championship team; Wesley Walls was a tight end at Ole Miss; Virginia AD Carla Williams was an All-SEC basketball guard at Georgia; and former Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was brought to East Lansing, Mich., by Saban, the current godfather of SEC football.
This is just a coincidence, I believe, since most members have ties to multiple schools and only Riley is truly connected to Alabama. It would benefit the committee members to release their votes for full transparency and to dispel any speculation of a pro-SEC bias, but don’t hold your breath.
So the show goes on, without the Irish.
Take a hike, Rudy. Your happy ending has been rewritten.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/notre-dame-college-football-playoff-farce/
Faithful honor Mexican patroness in Guadalupe horse pilgrimage, but numbers lower after ICE raids
As they sat atop their horses to begin their hourslong pilgrimage on Saturday, many Catholic faithful reflected on the Virgin Mary, revered by Mexicans as Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The riders had congregated in Dam No. 1 Woods, a Cook County forest preserve in Northbrook, near Wheeling. Though they were significantly fewer in number than in previous years — which some attributed to fear generated by the recent federal immigration raids in the Chicago area —they readied for the roughly 5-mile procession to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines.
Many came wearing thick jackets, boots and hats. One carried a framed picture of his late brother, who rode horses too; another, a banner bearing an image of Mary.
They had come, in trucks and trailers from across Chicagoland and beyond, to give thanks to the Virgin of Guadalupe. “Mother to all Mexicans,” Sergio Valencia, 32, said from atop his horse, Festivo.
“Whenever you need a miracle, you ask her,” he added.
The riders brave the chill to thank Mary, said Valencia, a Catholic who grew up and still lives in Mundelein. He’s thankful for a lot this year, including his wife, his newborn son and his 2-year-old son, whom he named after his grandfather.
Many of the riders, including Valencia, came from Club Los Vaqueros Unidos, or the United Cowboys Club. And, on a pilgrimage tied to motherhood and family, riders like Valencia recalled how their relatives taught them how to ride.
In Valencia’s case it was the childhood visits to his grandfather in Mexico.
“The only way to get from the town to the mountains where he would harvest was horseback,” Valencia said. “There wasn’t any motorcycles. Cars didn’t really make it up there. So if I wanted to go with them, I needed to learn how to ride.”
His grandfather taught him. Now Valencia thinks of him whenever he rides.
At a pilgrimage on horseback for the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Alejandro Carrara holds a framed picture of his late brother, who participated in the pilgrimage. Carrara and others gathered at Dam No. 1 Woods in Northbrook on Dec. 6, 2025, preparing to ride their horses to the shrine in Des Plaines. (Shun Graves/for Pioneer Press)
This year brought the pilgrimage’s 14th annual rendition. But the origin of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back nearly five centuries.
In December 1531 an apparition of Mary appeared before Juan Diego, a peasant, in present-day Mexico City, according to Catholic tradition. She spoke to him in his native Nahuatl, and more apparitions followed. She healed Diego’s ill uncle, left her image on his cloak and revealed her title, “Guadalupe.”
She would become a potent symbol in Mexican culture and its diaspora, and for Saturday’s cavalcade pilgrims. During his papacy, St. John Paul II named her the Patroness of the Americas, according to Catholic News Agency.
“She’s the one who brings everybody here, like a good mom,” Deacon Miguel Vargas told Pioneer Press. “You have a good mom, and the sons, the daughters, they would like to be there.”
This year’s horseback pilgrimage comes nearly a week before Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Dec. 12 feast day, when crowds typically overwhelm her shrine in Des Plaines. And since Dec. 12 falls on a Friday, the pilgrimage on the Saturday before the date allowed riders to not miss work, Vargas said.
Catholic Deacon Miguel Vargas preaches Dec. 6, 2025 during a prayer service at Dam No. 1 Woods near Northbrook. It marked the starting point for Marian pilgrims in a horseback procession to the Des Plaines shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, honored by Mexican and other Catholics, for her feast day. (Shun Graves/for Pioneer Press)
Around 400 horses were in attendance, the Archdiocese of Chicago estimated. That’s hundreds fewer than in previous years.
Some people likely decided not to “risk it,” Vargas said, after the recent federal immigration operation, “Operation Midway Blitz,” targeted the Chicago region. It resulted in chaos, violence, detainments and arrests in neighborhoods like Little Village in Chicago to Elgin and northern suburbs like Evanston, Skokie and Wilmette and elsewhere.
The chilly weather may have posed another, but lesser, disincentive, Vargas added.
Snow covered the ground surrounding the open-air pavilion where Vargas preached in Spanish to the crowd on horseback. He’d spoken to them about the power of grace that Jesus offered to his disciples, and thus to the faithful, he told Pioneer Press.
Ana Pozo, her parents and two sisters offered the riders hot chocolate, coffee and tamales to combat the cold. She and her family had traveled from Carpentersville, as they’ve done for more than a decade. They’d started preparing a few days before, she said.
The riders surely bundled up. But Valencia, the Club Los Vaqueros Unidos member, said the chill still hits.
“As far as warmth goes, your body will be warm, but your coldest is at your feet,” Valencia said. “Because that’s where all the wind is hitting it. I mean, you’re not using them, so the blood rushes down there, and it gets cold.”
Alejandro Carrara rode his steed carrying a framed picture of his late brother, who had previously participated in the pilgrimage, on horseback.
Near him, Miguel Flores, from atop his horse, said he’s attended the pilgrimage since its beginning. The 52-year-old from Monee would come even if it rained.
“To visit her, basically,” he said of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/mexican-patroness-guadalupe-lower-after-ice-raids/
La bolsa de NY retrocede tras descenso de Berkshire Hathaway y Netflix
Por STAN CHOE
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Los precios de las acciones en la Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York retrocedieron el lunes de sus máximos históricos.
El S&P 500 cayó 23,89 unidades, el 0,3%, a 6.846,51, en la que es apenas su segunda pérdida en los últimos 11 días, pero se mantiene a 0,6% del máximo histórico que alcanzó en octubre. El promedio industrial Dow Jones bajó 215,67 puntos, el 0,4%, a 47.739,32, y el compuesto Nasdaq retrocedió 32,22, el 0,1%, a 23.545,90.
Berkshire Hathaway pesó en el mercado y cayó 1,4% después de anunciar una reorganización entre sus altos ejecutivos. Todd Combs, quien había sido director general del negocio de seguros GEICO de la compañía, se va a JPMorgan Chase, mientras que el director financiero Marc Hamburg se retirará el próximo año.
Netflix cayó 3,4% después de que Paramount anunciara una oferta con la esperanza de superar el acuerdo de Netflix para comprar Warner Bros., anunciado la semana pasada.
Paramount indicó que ofrece 30 dólares por cada acción de Warner Bros. Discovery, al igual que una forma más rápida y sencilla para que los inversores obtengan sus dividendos. Paramount ofrece comprar todo Warner Bros. Discovery con dinero en efectivo, a diferencia de la oferta de Netflix de efectivo y acciones sólo por Warner Bros. tras su separación de Discovery, la cual aún está pendiente.
La junta directiva de Warner Bros. Discovery había aceptado la oferta de Netflix la semana pasada, pero ya enfrenta posible escrutinio por parte de los reguladores federales. El presidente Donald Trump declaró el domingo que una combinación Netflix-Warner Bros. “podría ser un problema”, en medio de preocupaciones de que una compañía del sector tenga demasiado poder.
Las acciones de Warner Bros. Discovery subieron 4,4% tras la oferta hostil de compra, y las de Paramount Skydance ascendieron 9%.
Por su parte, los títulos de Confluent se dispararon 29,1% después de que IBM informara que compraría la compañía, la cual proporciona una plataforma para vincular y procesar datos. IBM señaló que el acuerdo por 11 mil millones de dólares ayudará a los clientes a implementar herramientas de inteligencia artificial mejor y más rápido, y sus acciones ascendieron 0,4%.
El mercado de valores de Estados Unidos se ha tornado mucho más tranquilo recientemente tras semanas de oscilaciones bruscas y preocupantes. Podría permanecer en calma mientras los corredores aguardan el momento más destacado de esta semana en el ámbito financiero, cuando la Reserva Federal anuncie el miércoles su medida más reciente con respecto a las tasas de interés.
Por su parte, el rendimiento de los bonos del Tesoro a 10 años subió de 4,14% a 4,16%.
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Los periodistas de la AP Matt Ott y Elaine Kurtenbach contribuyeron a este despacho.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin.
The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good because profit is good, and profit is good because the profit motive is the engine of Capitalism which is the engine of global prosperity.
The problem with this logic is greed is not the same as profit. In the sanitized version of the story, the profit motive of each individual magically generates the best possible socio-economic outcome for all via the secret powers of The Invisible Hand of market forces.
This is a fairy tale, of course, for the most profitable arrangement isn’t a competitive free-for-all, it’s a monopoly that controls the market to its own advantage. Monopolies are by their nature centralized; monopolies snap up or steamroll competitors until they exert centralized power–if not in a single entity then in a cartel that centralizes control of the market.
In the fairy tale about the magic of The Invisible Hand, individuals seek to maximize their private gains by increasing productivity and producing goods and services with more utility-value: higher quality, increased durability, etc. This narrative is core to The Mythology of Progress, which is the belief that Progress is 1) unstoppable and 2) a permanent force that advances as the natural order of things.
In the real world, entities maximize their gains by increasing the price while diminishing the utility-value of the goods and services: profits are maximized by reducing durability (planned obsolescence), reducing quality / quantity and manipulating a monopoly on information to modify the price to extract the maximum profit from each transaction–dynamic pricing is the seemingly harmless cover-term for this exploitation of information asymmetry: the buyer knows little or nothing, the seller knows everything.
This use of cover-stories and terminology is the foundational dynamic of Anti-Progress and Ultra-Processed Life: the authentic term (profit motive) is now the cover story for exploitation-driven greed, and Progress is now the cover story for Anti-Progress–the degradation of quality, durability, transparency and agency.
Greed is not the same as profit. Greed maximizes gains by exploitation, not increasing value. Greed is the operative driver of the current era. The socio-political-economic system is dominated by greed-driven concentrations of power: monopolies, cartels and states.
There are three mechanisms that greatly expand the potential for assembling monopoly / cartel centralization of power:
1) Technology by its very nature leads to centralized ubiquity due to the network effect–the technology that recruits the most users becomes the default access to participate in the economy–participation that is essential to function in a technology-dominated economy. This ubiquity generates monopoly (or quasi-monopoly) which then generates high stock valuations which then provide the money needed to maintain and extend the monopoly.
Technology companies’ access to the stock market via initial public offerings (IPOs) offers unique access to a nearly limitless source of “free money” to buy up competitors via issuing more shares of the company’s stock.
This immense pool of wealth enables technology companies to buy control of narratives and political power.
2) Credit. If an entity cannot create “free money” by issuing more shares of its stock, if it has access to nearly limitless credit, it can use this credit top buy up competitiors and buy political protection of its monopoly. This is why John D. Rockefeller was obsessed with gaining access to more credit: that was his pathway to establishing a monopoly in the oil industry.
3. The state. Those who buy (or gain by other means) political influence can then create monopolies or cartels via state regulations. To the degree that the state has a monopoly on centralized power, all monopolies and cartels are private-sector / state entities, as centralized privately controlled power can only exist if the centralized state allows it.
As I explain in my new book Investing In Revolution, we inhabit a world in which authenticity has been replaced by self-serving artifice, artifice which enriches those who own or reap gains from centralized, monopolistic, extractive, exploitive entities created by technology, credit/issuance of stock and the state.
Orwell called this substitution double-speak: greed is positive profit, Anti-Progress is positive Progress, extraction that enriches the few at the expense of the many is just good old profit driving Progress, and so on, a hall of mirrors that spins 24/7 in a digital carnival intentionally designed to be addictive.
Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin. We are closer to that phase-change than we imagine–if we can imagine such a phase-change at all.
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Ryan Coogler, Rose Byrne, Chase Infiniti y Joachim Trier reaccionan a nominaciones al Globo de Oro
Por The Associated Press
Los nominados a los Globos de Oro han sido anunciados — como siempre, un grupo ecléctico y de alto nivel con los nombres más importantes del cine y la televisión.
A la cabeza estaba “One Battle After Another” (“Una batalla tras otra”) de Paul Thomas Anderson con nueve nominaciones, lo que sumó al impulso de la favorita al Oscar y otorgó a Warner Bros. una victoria en medio del acuerdo de adquisición de Netflix.
En estrecha competencia: “Sentimental Value” (“Valor sentimental”) de Joachim Trier, un drama noruego sobre la familia artística de un cineasta, con ocho nominaciones.
Los Globos se entregarán el 11 de enero y se transmitirán por CBS y en streaming por Paramount+. Será la segunda vez para la presentadora Nikki Glaser, quien recibió buenas críticas el año pasado.
A continuación, algunas de las reacciones a las nominaciones de los Globos de este año. Las citas han sido editadas para una mayor claridad y brevedad.
Ryan Coogler, por “Sinners” (“Pecadores”)
“La lección más grande para mí, y va a sonar cursi, pero la lección más grande es cuánto amo mi trabajo. Profesionalmente estoy casado con el cine, y esta película se sintió como si estuviera renovando mis votos, si eso tiene sentido.
“Esto es lo mejor que he visto de (la estrella Michael B. Jordan). Es una locura decirlo, porque tiene algunos papeles bastante importantes en la cultura pop. Pero tuve la sensación de que este era el mejor que lo había visto en ambos papeles. Creo que este era un papel que solo podía interpretar ahora con este nivel de experiencia a esta edad. Y estoy increíblemente orgulloso de él.” — en una entrevista con Associated Press. Coogler fue nominado como director y productor.
Chase Infiniti, por “One Battle After Another” (“Una Batalla Tras Otra”)
Me desperté a las 5:30. Fui a revisar mi teléfono y estaba muerto. Así que estaba tratando de encontrar cómo conseguir un cargador y cargar mi teléfono antes de poder siquiera ponerme en contacto con mi familia o con mi equipo. … Me siento tan afortunada de tener la oportunidad de contar una historia increíble como esta. Me siento tan afortunada de estar donde estoy a los 25 años, y estoy en medio de vivir mi sueño. Todavía estoy procesando el hecho de que incluso puedo estar aquí.” — en una entrevista con AP. Infiniti está nominada a mejor actriz en una película, musical o comedia.
Rose Byrne, por “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (“Si pudiera, te daría una patada”)
“La película es un acto de equilibrio. El personaje es una película, y la película es un personaje. Así que nunca había hecho eso antes en un largometraje y fue extraordinario tener esa oportunidad de intentarlo. Me ha cambiado creativamente, y me ha hecho crecer de una manera que nunca había tenido la oportunidad antes.” — en una entrevista con AP. Byrne está nominada a mejor actriz en una película, musical o comedia.
Stephen Schwartz, por “Wicked: For Good” (“Wicked: Por siempre”)
“Sobre hacer de “Wicked” dos largometrajes: Esto es algo de lo que todos los involucrados en el espectáculo siempre hemos hablado. Fue una progresión natural comenzar a reconcebir cómo contaríamos la historia en términos cinematográficos. Tuvimos mucha suerte con las personas que nos ayudaron a contar esa historia … particularmente (el director) Jon M. Chu, cuya visión y guía han sido extraordinarias. Y siento que estas dos películas juntas son un logro realmente notable por parte de Jon que creo que será reconocido a lo largo de los años y resistirá la prueba del tiempo.” — en una entrevista con AP. Schwartz está nominado en la categoría de mejor canción por “No Place Like Home” y “The Girl in the Bubble”.
Amy Madigan, por “Weapons” (“La hora de la desaparición”)
“Sabes, en esta etapa de mi vida y tener un gran papel como este … se siente realmente bien porque cuando haces un buen trabajo, esperas que sea reconocido y eso no siempre es el caso.” — en una entrevista con AP. Madigan está nominada a mejor actriz de reparto.
Jared Bush y Byron Howard, por “Zootopia 2”
BUSH: “Este es un momento increíble para todos en Disney Animation. Setecientas personas se unieron para hacer esta película literalmente de todo el mundo. Creo que tenemos 25 países representados en las personas que trabajaron en esta película. Y pusieron sus corazones y almas en ella y crearon algo de lo que estoy inmensamente orgulloso. Y realmente lo hicimos juntos.”
HOWARD: “Hay mucha electricidad en el aire desde que salió la película y solo la emoción … He hecho películas en el pasado que la gente no ha ido a ver en masa, y es mucho mejor que la gente vaya a verla en masa, y te llame para decírtelo. Así que solo quiero decir gracias, por salir y verla.” — en entrevistas con AP. Bush y Howard están nominados a mejor película animada y también en la categoría de logro cinematográfico y de taquilla.
Joachim Trier, por “Sentimental Value” (“Valor sentimental”)
Estoy a punto de encontrarme con Stellan (Skarsgård) porque vamos a tener una proyección aquí en París y espero que tal vez esta sea una noche para champán. Estoy bastante seguro de que cuando estamos en el país del champán, ciertamente deberíamos tenerlo. …
“Es realmente una alegría y nos sentimos muy orgullosos y agradecidos. No es lo que esperas para una película noruega, pero dice algo sobre lo generoso que se ha vuelto el mundo del cine internacional que podemos hacer películas en diferentes países, diferentes idiomas y aún sentir que estamos presentados en el mismo contexto. Así que, estamos muy agradecidos por eso.” — en una entrevista con AP. Trier está nominado a mejor director de una película.
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Las entrevistas fueron realizadas por Jocelyn Noveck, Hilary Fox y Jonathan Mattise.
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República Dominicana recibirá a los Tigres en Santo Domingo antes del Clásico Mundial
ORLANDO, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — La República Dominicana recibirá a los Tigres de Detroit para un par de juegos de exhibición el 3 y 4 de marzo antes del Clásico Mundial de Béisbol.
Los juegos se llevarán a cabo en el estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal de Santo Domingo, anunció el martes el comisionado de béisbol Rob Manfred. Los juegos serán dedicados a la memoria de las víctimas del colapso el 8 de abril del techo del club nocturno Jet Set de Santo Domingo.
Octavio Dotel, ex lanzador de Grandes Ligas, y la hermana del ex jugador Nelson Cruz estuvieron entre las más de 200 personas que fallecieron.
Cruz, el gerente general de la selección dominicana, y Albert Pujols, el mánager del equipo, asistieron a una conferencia de prensa con Manfred para hacer el anuncio durante las reuniones de invierno. La idea comenzó con una discusión la temporada baja pasada entre Cruz y Omar Minaya, asistente especial de los Yankees de Nueva York y ex gerente general de los Mets de Nueva York y los Expos de Montreal.
Como parte del evento, MLB y el promotor UEPA donarán a la Cruz Roja Dominicana.
La República Dominicana debutará en el Clásico el 6 de marzo contra Nicaragua, como parte de un grupo que también incluye a Israel, los Países Bajos, Nicaragua y Venezuela.
Aunque se han jugado partidos de entrenamiento de primavera en la República Dominicana, no ha sido sede de partidos de temporada regular.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/deportes
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for US Senate in Texas
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats and a frequent target of GOP attacks, jumped into the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas. She is seeking the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn, who is running for reelection in the GOP-dominated state.
Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats to wrest control from Republicans next November, when most of the seats up for reelection are in states like Texas that President Donald Trump won last year. Democrats have long hoped to make Texas more competitive after decades of Republican dominance. Cornyn, first elected to the Senate since 2002, is facing the toughest GOP primary of his career against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt.
Crockett’s announcement came hours after former Rep. Colin Allred ended his own campaign for the Democratic nomination in favor of attempting a House comeback bid. She faces a March 3 primary against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, a former teacher with a rising national profile fueled by viral social media posts challenging Republican policies such as private school vouchers and requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
“It’s going to be a sprint from now until the primary, but in Texas you have to think about the voter base overall in November, too,” said Kamau Marshall, a Democratic consultant who has worked for Allred before and worked on other campaigns in Texas. “Who can do the work on the ground? After the primary, who can win in the general?”
GOP hopes to make Crockett’s style a liability
Talarico raised almost $6.3 million in the three weeks after he formally organized his primary campaign committee in September and had nearly $5 million in cash on hand at the end of the month, campaign finance reports showed. Crockett raised about $2.7 million for her House campaign fund from July through September and ended September with $4.6 million.
Crockett could test Democratic voters’ appetite for a blunt communicator who is eager to take on Republicans as Democrats pursue their first statewide victory in Texas since 1994. She did not issue a statement ahead of a formal announcement of her candidacy Monday afternoon in Dallas.
Republicans were quick Monday to try to turn Crockett’s penchant for public clashes with opponents into liabilities. Paxton called her “Crazy Crockett,” and Cornyn described her as “radical, theatrical and ineffective.”
Talarico welcomed Crockett to the Democratic primary but pointed to his fundraising and said he has 10,000 volunteers.
“Our movement is rooted in unity over division,” he said in a statement.
Democrats see their best opportunity to pick up the Texas seat if Paxton wins the Republican nomination because he has been shadowed for much of his career by legal and personal issues. Yet Paxton is popular with Trump’s most ardent supporters.
Hunt, who has served two terms representing a Houston-area district, defied GOP leaders by entering the GOP race.
Crockett is known for her viral moments
Crockett, a civil rights attorney serving her second House term, built her national profile with a candid style and viral moments on Capitol Hill. Trump has noticed and called her a “low IQ person.” In response, Crockett said she would agree to take an IQ test against the president.
She traded insults with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who announced last month that she would resign in January, and had heated exchanges with Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
She also mocked Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair — as “Gov. Hot Wheels.” She later said she was referring to Abbott’s policy of using “planes, trains and automobiles” to send thousands of immigrants in Texas illegally to Democratic-led cities.
Democrats’ best showing in a statewide race in the past three decades was in 2018, when former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke came within 3 points of ousting Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. It was the midterm election of Trump’s first administration, and Democrats believe next year’s race could be similarly favorable to their party.
A former professional football player and civil rights attorney, Allred was among Democrats’ star recruits in 2018.
Allred lost to Cruz by 8.5 points last year. He is running for the House in a Dallas-Fort Worth area district under a new map approved this year by the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature to meet Trump’s call for more winnable Republican seats. The district has some areas Allred represented for six years before his run for the Senate in 2024.
Allred says he wants to avoid a bruising primary
An internal party battle, Allred said, “would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers.”
Marshall said Crockett is a “solid national figure” who has a large social media following and is a frequent presence on cable news. That could be an advantage with Democratic primary voters, Marshall said, but not necessarily afterward.
Talarico, meanwhile, must raise money and build name recognition to make the leap from the Texas House of Representatives to a strong statewide candidacy, Marshall said.
A winning Democratic candidate in Texas, Marshall said, would have to energize Black voters, mainly in metro Houston and Dallas, win the kind of diverse suburbs and exurbs like those Allred once represented in Congress, and get enough rural votes, especially among Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley.
“It’s about building complicated coalitions in a big state,” Marshall said.
New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims in settlement
The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge that follows years of negotiations.
Richard Trahant, an attorney representing victims in the case, and a spokesperson for the archdiocese both confirmed approval of the settlement to The Associated Press by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith Grabill.
Archbishop Gregory Aymond, the head of the archdiocese, told reporters outside of a federal courthouse on Monday that he’s pleased “this is the end of this process” and hopes that survivors will “find some closure.”
“We hope and pray that they will be able to not only receive what is given to them but they will know the healing of God’s love,” Aymond said.
Earlier this month, some of the survivors behind the more than 500 abuse claims testified in court, saying they are still affected decades later by the painful memories they shared publicly. The archdiocese had filed for bankruptcy in May 2020 rather than handle each abuse claim separately. Survivors noted that doing so enabled church leadership to avoid tougher questions they would have to face in court.
Some recalled battling substance abuse, struggling with intimacy and wondering whether they themselves were to blame for what happened. Some said they forgave the church, while others could not.
In her testimony, Kathleen Austin recalled being abused hundreds of times as a child and watching the perpetrator continue in a role within the Catholic Church even after its leadership knew what he was doing. She expressed skepticism that the church would hold clergy accountable in the future given how much she said it resisted responding to her experiences.
“Why has it taken so long to get to this point and at such a high cost?” she asked.
The Associated Press doesn’t generally identify people who are victims of sexual abuse unless they come forward publicly, such as those who testified in New Orleans.
Aymond, who is handing church leadership to a successor, listened to the survivors’ testimony last week.
“I also apologize for the church, that I’m embarrassed by what has happened in the church,” Aymond told reporters afterward.
Chris Naquin testified that his abuse began when he was 4 years old and that he cycled through decades of mental institutions and prisons.
“I don’t think I will ever, ever get over it. There’s no amount of money in the world,” Naquin said as he teared up. “I never had a childhood and I’m just now starting my adult life at 56 years old.”
Billy Cheramie, who said he felt he died the day he was abused as a little boy, told the archdiocese he forgave it for what he went through. He said God later helped him realize the abuse he suffered was not his fault, thus allowing him to release some of the anger that had propelled him to join the U.S. military to learn how to kill.
“Killing did not fix the pain and the memories,” he said.
Neil Duhon testified that he still struggles with the idea of forgiveness.
“This legal thing will maybe end but what it has done to us, the trauma it has done to us, will not ever end,” Duhon told the court, saying his perpetrator, former priest Lawrence Hecker, received a life sentence after pleading guilty to charges including rape and aggravated kidnapping.
Aymond, 75, had long resisted calls to resign from survivors who said the church did not take action against credibly accused perpetrators. The accusations of clergy abuse triggered a sweeping FBI probe and a cascading crisis for the Catholic Church, which drew on help from New Orleans Saints executives to help behind the scenes with damage control, an AP investigation revealed.
The finalized settlement plan, which received overwhelming approval by survivors during a vote in October, includes policies intended to prevent abuse from occurring in the future.
A survivor will have a seat on the archdiocese’s internal review board that handles claims of sexual abuse. An outside expert is to monitor the church’s child abuse prevention practices. The church also is adopting a survivors’ bill of rights and survivors will have a direct line of communication to the archbishop to direct complaints of misconduct. And a public archive will be established to share long withheld documents related to abuse claims.
In September, Pope Leo XIV named Bishop James F. Checchio, of the diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, as coadjutor archbishop of New Orleans in line to succeed Aymond when he retires. A spokesperson for Aymond said on Monday that there is no confirmed timeline for the archbishop’s retirement.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/clergy-abuse-settlement/
“Things Are About To Snap”: China’s Trade Surplus Tops $1 Trillion For The First Time, Sparking Global Howls Of Outrage
“Things Are About To Snap”: China’s Trade Surplus Tops $1 Trillion For The First Time, Sparking Global Howls Of Outrage
With Europe finally realizing – very belatedly, as usual – that Trump was right all along in his crusade to hammer Beijing’s relentless dumping of exports to flood foreign markets with its below-cost wares as China no longer has nearly the required demand for goods and services and so has to crush and dominate foreign markets by selling at far below market prices, overnight we learned that China’s trade surplus in goods surpassed $1 trillion for the first time, highlighting the ongoing boom in the country’s exports despite US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
Exports rose 5.9% in November on a year earlier, reversing October’s rare decline, while imports rose by 1.9% according to data released by China’s customs administration, which covers goods but not services.
The November surplus came in at $112 billion, the third-largest ever accumulated by China in a single month and far more than forecast by economists.
For the first 11 months of the year, China’s exports increased 5.4% from the year-earlier period to $3.4 trillion, while the country’s imports declined 0.6% over that same stretch to $2.3 trillion. That brought the country’s trade surplus this year to $1.08 trillion, China’s General Administration of Customs said Monday. The equivalent figure for the full year last year was just shy of $1 trillion. The record surplus comes in the wake of a de-escalation in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, which agreed a year-long truce in October.
That remarkable surplus, never before seen in recorded economic history, is the culmination of decades of industrial policies and human industriousness that helped China emerge from a poor agrarian economy in the late 1970s to become the world’s second-largest economy.
What is remarkable is that China navigated the trade war and growing economic protectionism around the world, and needed just 11 months to catapult it past the full-year record set in 2024. While shipments to the US plummeted 29% in November…
…. the eighth month of double-digit declines and the biggest since August, strong growth in sales to regions like the European Union and Africa more than offset the slump.
Lynn Song, chief Greater China economist at ING Bank NV, said the rebounds in shipments to the EU and Japan were “perhaps a little surprising.”
“The November export data came in a little stronger than expected, despite a further deceleration of exports to the US,” Song said.
Shipments overseas – in many cases to regions such as Vietnam which then transship to the US – have boomed for much of this year, in spite of Trump’s launch of a trade war early in 2025. The world’s second-biggest economy has emerged largely unscathed from the standoff, as it delivered more goods to markets other than the US, which have then proceeded to ship Chinese imports onward to the US.
The display of export dominance is stirring waves of resentment abroad, especially among countries which are forced to shutter domestic industries as they fail to compete with much cheaper Chinese imports.
China’s industrial heft has long been well-known to its trading partners, becoming a central point of contention in its relations with the world. Last year, its trade surplus rose to a record $993 billion. Topping the $1 trillion milestone throws the magnitude of China’s export dominance into even starker relief and is likely to draw more attention to the growing imbalances.
“It is so big that it’s obvious that it’s not just the United States or Europe but the whole world that will have to fund that gap,” Jens Eskelund, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, told the WSJ.
On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron, who just returned home after an otherwise cordial three-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing and Chengdu, warned that the EU may take “strong measures” including by imposing tariffs, should Beijing fail to address the imbalance.
French President Emmanuel Macron in China
“I told them that if they didn’t react, we Europeans would be forced, in the very near future, to take strong measures and withdraw from cooperation, like the United States, such as imposing tariffs on Chinese products,” Macron said in an interview with French daily Les Echos.
“China is hitting the heart of the European industrial and innovation model,” he said. French officials have been particularly upset about the Chinese yuan, which has fallen by around 10% against the euro this year.
During a joint appearance with Xi in Beijing last Thursday, Macron said that these trade “imbalances are becoming unbearable.”
It was a remark that reflected sharpening French demands on Beijing to spur consumption and curb exports, and one Macron repeated to rapt Sichuan students and at a gathering with French and Chinese business leaders during his fourth trip to the country as president.
ING’s Song added that if “the EU indeed does follow suit with tariffs, it would represent a significant risk to the external demand outlook for China.”
France’s goods trade deficit with China has doubled in the past decade to €47bn in 2024. French investment in China over the same period is nearly quadruple China’s into France.
Paris is demanding Beijing recalibrate its trade and investment relationship with the EU, according to the FT.
“We are at the last stop before a crisis,” a French official warned. “If we don’t change course, we will worsen global fragmentation,” they added, suggesting Paris would have to consider “protective measures”.
Macron, who was accompanied on his trip by about 40 French business leaders, called for China to transfer technology to France in areas such as clean tech and batteries — a stark reminder of the shifting balance of power in crucial industrial sectors. The French president also defended EU trade investigations into Chinese electric vehicles, saying the bloc was taking a company-by-company approach.
“We need more tech neutrality and a European preference” for domestic industries such as automobiles, Macron said in Chengdu, capital of China’s south-western Sichuan province.
“This is not at all aggressive or protectionist. The Americans and other players in the North American market do it, the Chinese do it,” the president said. “The major risk for Europeans is accelerated deindustrialisation.”
But it’s not just France, says Eskelund of the European chamber, who points to a raft of bilateral trade complaints and actions leveled against China in recent months, including from not just the U.S. and its Western allies, but also from countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
“I have no doubt that we’ll see more, not less, in terms of all of these trade defense initiatives all over the world,” he said.
Eskelund says that China’s trade imbalance with the world is even more pronounced than the $1 trillion figure suggests, given the relative weakness of the Chinese yuan.
When calculated by value, China accounts for roughly 15% of global goods exports. But in volume terms, Eskelund estimates that every shipping container being sent from Europe to China is outnumbered by the four containers heading in the other direction. In volume terms, he estimates that China accounts for some 37% of everything being exported in shipping containers.
“Concern is growing,” he said, warning that, in the near future, we may “get to a point where things snap.”
The EU is considering setting “made in Europe” targets of up to 70% for certain products such as cars as it pushes to prioritise domestic goods and cut reliance on China. Brussels is also planning to tighten foreign investment rules to ensure Chinese companies do not gain advantage from the bloc’s open market without generating benefits for local workers and sharing technology.
For its part, China continues to make promises and deliver nothing. China’s commerce ministry on Friday repeated promises to eliminate restrictive measures in the domestic market and to spur consumption. But experts told the FT that Beijing has little intention of drastically altering its economic model. As a result, trade tensions between China and the bloc have sparked anti-dumping investigations in both directions.
The EU dairy sector is awaiting a ruling on a probe Beijing launched last year in retaliation against Brussels’ imposition of additional levies on Chinese EV imports. China could impose tariffs of as much as 40 per cent on dairy products on top of existing duties.
As Bloomberg notes, the trillion dollar milestone reached by China follows the recent de-escalation of tensions with the Trump administration. The huge surplus also underscores how Beijing is “struggling” to rebalance (as in it hasn’t even bothered to start) the economy away from its dependence on demand abroad, with net exports accounting for almost a third of economic growth this year.
“It does look like China’s export competitiveness is still standing firm against US tariffs,” said Michelle Lam, Greater China economist at Societe Generale, referring to robust shipments to other markets than America. Rising trade tensions with the EU are “a source of downside risk to watch out for,” she said.
After Macron failed to make any impression on Xi’s export aspirations, on Monday, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul arrived in China for a two-day trip, becoming the latest senior European official to visit for talks. China’s exports to the EU expanded almost 15% last month – the fastest since July 2022 – with sales to France, Germany and Italy all seeing double-digit growth as Chinese exporters grab market shares from domestic producers. Meanwhile, European domestic industries are being snuffed out in one brutal, manufacturing depression as they fail to compete with Chinese substitutes.
Wadephul said before the trip that he’d raise trade curbs, especially on rare earths, and “overcapacities” in electric vehicles and steel with his Chinese counterparts. China’s auto imports are down almost 39% in the year to date.
Shipments overseas have boomed for much of this year, in spite of Trump’s launch of a trade war early in 2025. The world’s second-biggest economy has emerged largely unscathed from the standoff, as it delivered more goods to markets other than the US.
The year-on-year increase in exports of electronic and machinery products rebounded to almost 10% last month, versus October’s rise of just over 1%, according to Bloomberg calculations based on China’s customs data. Declines in shipments of consumer goods narrowed.
Exports to Africa surged nearly 28% in November, while those to the Southeast Asian trading bloc gained only 8.4%, the least since February. Despite escalating tensions over the self-governing island of Taiwan, imports from Japan rose faster in November than exports to there, resulting in a $1.3 billion deficit for China.
The historic trade surplus will help boost growth in China’s GDP after months of deterioration in the economy. Retail sales are coming off their longest stretch of slowdowns since 2021 while investment just shrank by a record amount. Although the Chinese economy is expanding at a slower pace in the last quarter of the year, its strong performance earlier in 2025 means the official growth target of around 5% is likely within reach.
As Bloomberg notes, foreign demand has been the one consistent driver of Chinese growth, helping compensate for lackluster private consumption at home and the prolonged slump in the housing market. But the trade picture has become increasingly unbalanced, with China’s weak demand and increasingly innovative firms slashing demand for imports.
While it’s “ultimately essential” for China to embrace a growth model driven more by domestic demand, such a pivot will take time, according to ING’s Song. In reality it will likely take years, and by then Europe’s domestic production will be decimated.
“We need to see what sort of concrete measures are put into place to boost domestic consumption, and how those measures to increase win-win cooperation and establish international consumption centers play out,” he said. “It’s quite clear at this point that relying on external demand as the main growth engine is a risky bet.”
Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/08/2025 – 17:20
Los Globos de Oro se adentran en los pódcast y evitan críticas cuidadosamente
Por MARK KENNEDY
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Los Globos de Oro de este año introdujeron una categoría de mejor pódcast y, como era de esperar, los nominados anunciados el lunes darán mucho de qué hablar.
Los seis nominados para el premio inaugural de mejor pódcast son “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard”, “Call Her Daddy”, “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”, “The Mel Robbins Podcast”, “SmartLess” y “Up First” de NPR. Representando una mezcla de noticias, consejos y entrevistas con celebridades, fueron seleccionados de una lista corta de 25 programas que los Globos habían considerado previamente elegibles.
Las nominaciones evitaron la política o la controversia al pasar por alto pódcasts populares de la lista corta, como programas de tendencia conservadora “The Megyn Kelly Show”, “The Tucker Carlson Show”, “The Ben Shapiro Show”, “Candace” de Candace Owen y, más notablemente, “The Joe Rogan Experience”, que encabezó la lista de pódcasts semanales de Spotify, Apple y YouTube este año. El pódcast de tendencia izquierdista “Pod Save America” también fue ignorado, al igual que los populares pódcasts de crímenes reales como “Morbid” y “Rotten Mango”.
Ben Bogardus, profesor y director del departamento de periodismo en la Universidad de Quinnipiac, dijo que parecía que el cuerpo de votación de los Globos —después de años de escándalo para la atribulada entrega de premios— quería evitar cualquier controversia, como invitar a un presentador de pódcast que pudiera aparecer y decir algo polémico.
“Están tratando de presentarse como un espectáculo de premios para las masas y no controversial, celebrando lo mejor del entretenimiento. Tener este espectáculo político, creo que simplemente querían evitar eso”, expresó.
La reacción al aparente desaire a los pódcasts relacionados con la política el lunes por la mañana fue ligera, con un puñado de usuarios de X que criticaron que programas de alto rango de personalidades como Rogan y el pódcaster del “manosphere” Theo Von habían quedado fuera del corte final. No hubo reacción directa de los propios presentadores.
Shapiro había lanzado una campaña publicitaria total para los Globos de Oro para su pódcast de una década, en el que ha hablado con personalidades como el Vicepresidente de Estados Unidos JD Vance y el Presidente de Ucrania Volodymyr Zelenskyy en el último año. Además de hacer rondas con publicaciones de la industria, Shapiro también aseguró un espacio masivo en vallas publicitarias en Times Square de la ciudad de Nueva York.
Los 25 candidatos potenciales —incluyendo “The Daily” de The New York Times y “Pardon My Take” de Barstool Sports— coincidieron en su mayoría con los programas más escuchados.
“Si así es como quieres elegir tu ‘mejor pódcast’, ciertamente es un punto de partida y una forma de hacerlo”, dice Karl Hughes, un veterano de 20 años en el mundo del pódcast que es director ejecutivo de The Podcast Consultant. “Creo que deja fuera muchas cosas. Deja fuera mucho matiz”.
Los pódcasts elegibles deben tener contenido original y haber lanzado al menos seis episodios entre el 1 de enero de 2025 y el 30 de septiembre de 2025, con una duración mínima de 30 minutos para cada episodio. El premio, que se entregará en la gala presentada por Nikki Glaser el 11 de enero, reconoce “la calidad, creatividad, compromiso de la audiencia e impacto” del pódcast, según los Globos.
Muchos expertos en pódcast se quedaron atónitos ya que los Globos no usaron ninguna categoría para su lista larga y fue un poco confuso sobre lo que constituía un mejor pódcast. ¿Calidad de producción? ¿Consistencia? ¿Las historias que se cuentan? ¿Números brutos?
“Es algo bueno para la industria obtener más reconocimiento y obtener reconocimiento en una ceremonia de premios importante es increíble”, dice Hughes. “Creo que es genial verlo. Pero la forma en que se hace, por supuesto, es un instrumento muy burdo”.
La controversia surgió casi de inmediato después del anuncio inicial cuando se reveló que Luminate Data, una empresa de seguimiento y análisis de entretenimiento, crearía la lista corta. Luminate pertenece a Penske Media Corp., que posee los Globos. Luego están los costos asociados con las campañas publicitarias tradicionales para el premio en las páginas de Variety y The Hollywood Reporter, también propiedad de Penske. La empresa no respondió de inmediato a las solicitudes de comentarios.
Mientras que galas de premiación más amigables con lo digital como los Premios Webby, los Ambies, iHeartRadio y The Shorty Awards reconocen pódcasts, el movimiento de los Globos marca la primera vez que los pódcasts han sido incluidos en una premiación importante.
Hughes dice que es un paso natural a medida que madura el formato podcast y comienza a atraer más dólares corporativos. Espera que el foco de los Globos haga que sea accesible para más personas.
“Abrirá la puerta para más individuos y empresas que quieran usar el medio para contar historias interesantes porque tiene un poco más de respeto, un poco más de gravedad, un poco más de atractivo general”, manifestó.
Tres de los seis títulos nominados provienen de SiriusXM, y los demás de Amazon, Spotify y NPR. Robbins, nominada por su podcast de autoayuda, se mostró agradecida en un comunicado.
“Ser nominada a este premio es surrealista. También demuestra una simple verdad: nunca es tarde para cambiar de vida. Tu edad, tu pasado y tus dudas no determinan lo que puedes crear a continuación”, afirmó.
Bogardus se maravilló de cómo la industria de los pódcasts ha crecido en los últimos 25 años, más allá de sus orígenes en la radio y dando a los presentadores una libertad que los creadores de contenido en otros medios no tienen: “Llegar a una preimación ahora realmente muestra que ha llegado a ser un tipo de comunicación que la gente consume, que puede estar a la par de la televisión, la radio, el streaming, los videos de internet, las redes sociales”.
___ La periodista de The Associated Press Meg Kinnard en Columbia, Carolina del Sur, contribuyó a este despacho. ___
Para más cobertura de los Premios Globo de Oro 2026, visite https://apnews.com/hub/golden-globe-awards.
