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In a dramatic confirmation of the relentless growth of online video, at the expense of the agonizing, slow death of conventional TV, YouTube said that its worldwide viewers are now watching more than 1 billion hours of videos a day, on pace to eclipse total US TV viewership over the next few years, a milestone facilitated by the Google aggressive embrace of artificial intelligence to recommend videos. By comparison, Americans watch 1.25 billion hours of live and recorded TV per day according to Nielsen, a figure that has been steadily dropping in recent years.

Update 2: according to the latest, at 11:35 AM PST: "We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue."

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2016 was a rough year for the so-called brick-and-mortar retailers with several mall-based apparel companies, including Aéropostale, Pacific Sun and American Apparel, being forced to seek chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  Meanwhile, The Sports Authority didn't even bother with a reorg plan as creditors decided that a liquidation was the best way to maximize value for creditors.

Newly-declassified documents show that a senior CIA agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence worked closely with the owners and journalists of many of the largest media outlets:

The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ED63A_hcd0

Wikipedia adds details:

Via Douglas Murray of The Gatestone Institute,