Media Transition Packet (p1); XLympic Games Begin

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WHPR Day 3177: Media Transition Packet; XLympic Games; War News

Dateline: Monday, August 1, 2016 (Day 3177)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House


In Today's WHPR:
: 1 : Media Transition Packet (part 1)
: 2 : War News
: 3 : Let the XLympics Begin
: 4 : The F4U Corsair
: Music :  Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon and the Animals (196😎

Editor's Note: eNPR hosted the August PotUS Debate, between top candidates Resoula and Tyler Bubblar, moderated by Press Secretary Aramec, last night on Beam.pro/enpr . Except for a dozen or so of you, you missed it, and should set aside some time to listen to it sometime before election day.
 
Secretary of Media's Transition Packet
by SecMed George Armstrong Custer

With a new President comes a new Cabinet, and with that comes a flurry of "transition packets" in which the outgoing Department heads bring their successors up to speed. This assures that the new President and staff are able to hit the ground running, to continue ongoing programs or know where they stand to institute changes, thus minimising "ramp up" time.

Your next SecMed will be either Paul Proteus, who has done the job before, or Ilene Dover, who has run Citizens Affairs the past couple months and has been active on my own media team. Neither, I think, really needs to be told how to do the job.. I'm confident that I could simply pass along the log-in info and templates, and they'll do just fine.

There we go-- transition package done.

But Chief of Staff Melissa Rose would never let me get away with that. So let's explore a few areas of the job a Secretary of Media does, and how I've been doing it. Let's start today with a general overview, then move on in the next two editions to cover the mechanics of production (in Wednesday's USAF Newsletter), and finally elements of style and content (in Friday's WHPR). 



The duties of the SecMed have changed over time, once lording over all aspects of official media representation-- not only the WHPR, but also a once-active IRC room and IRC bots (media notifications and the newly revived @orders command), and the official White House radio show eNPR. Partly due to less player activity, possibly an evolution of disbursement of power, most likely a result of lazy SecMeds, the job has become merely "WHPR editor." Today we find an autonomous Press Secretary, and eNPR production group, each as separate Presidential appointments rather than being hired and managed by the SecMed.

From the start of my current two terms on the job, I tried to expand the current job definition, with some degrees of both success and failure.
I found most "official government newspapers" to be... less than optimally utilized, and gambled that one large media team might be able to handle production and publication of nearly all of them.
I had already been running the USAF Newsletter, and there's simply not a whole lot of real USAF news to be had, so bringing that in was a simple scheduling shift to run it as basically a mid-week clone of the bookend Monday and Friday WHPRs. The Chief of Staff newspaper would once again become the home of the newspaper version of Press Secretary Aramec's forum based Press Briefings.

The Dept of Citizen Affairs has published quite steadily, and very well, so while I did initially ask to pick that up there really was no need. And while I did get access to the State newspaper, I did not get cooperation enough from that Department to develop any articles for it. Then there's the bane of my media existence, the Pony Express.. never could come up with a viable theme to revive that paper under.
As for the eNPR, I saw no place to interject myself into a crack team of professionals, and have simply made myself available as an on-air second-stringer.

As with any Cabinet position, the job is what you make of it. I chose to do more. You may choose to do less. Your President may have specific ideas of what is to be done, and how the job is to be done. Ultimately, you will be "the official voice of The office of the President and the White House," and all eyes are upon you.



War News



"We're going through the UK with no trouble whatsoever, and it appears that we'll achieved a complete wipe of them within the next 3 days. Where we go from here is not yet known."
~~ NSC Chairman Orikfrikai  


Let the XLympics Begin!
By eUS XLYMPIC Committee President, Chariman and Lord Commander Hadrian X

 
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!”

Greetings and salutations my fellow eMericans.
 
Summer’s a slow time on eRep, but we’re about to speed it up… or, heat it up.  Or… whatever.  We’re gonna do something cool.  In honor of that trash ridden Zika fest in Brazil, we’re having an epic contest of brains and graphic design wizardry and it shall be known as – THE XLYMPIC GAMES.
 
But Hadrian, are you drunk?  Or stupid?  Or drunk and stupid?

My answer is maybe both.  But that’s not the point. No one participates in these stupid eRep contests they say.  It’s a waste of time they say.  Well I say, I’m gonna do it anyway because I like doing stupid things and making them awesome.  So let’s do that thing I just said.  Sound good?
 
To prove it, we’re going to be giving away shiny metal colored medals for the best writing, graphic design, sick burns and more.  We’re also giving away a bunch of money.  For each gold medal, winners will get $2,000 cc.  $500 cc for a silver and $250 cc for bronze.  But I don’t want you to say, hey I can win $250 for coming in third place.  Don’t sell yourself short like that.  Go for the gold and get all those sweet sweet 2k cc’s for yourself.  The XLYMPICS are for winners.  You’re a winner aren’t you?  Aren’t you???
 
If you said yes, let’s spend the next three weeks (or four if I fall behind) competing with, insulting and judging each other for love of cold hard cash.  Oh and if you win, you’ll also earn the undying respect and admiration of your fellow eMericans and immorality on the webpages of this gypsy dumpster fire of a browser game.  I’ll also be your friend if you want.  Srsly.  I like winners.
 
If you’re a loser, you should totally compete anyway, since these competitions are way easy.  You don't have to write a fucking sonnet or anything (although for one event you do have to write a fucking sonnet).  But we also have a Mad Libs event where you just fill in the blanks of a sentence.  How hard is that?  Also, since we all know a lot of eReppers are kinda flaky, YOU could end up beating them when they stop playing and are disqualified.  Then you won’t be a loser any longer, you’ll be a WINNER!  And even better, then they will be the LOSER!  Sounds good, right?

Let’s do this…
See the full article here.



The F4U Corsair: The Bent-Wing Bird

Originally designed as a carrier-based fighter, the Corsair's difficult handling and landing characteristics caused the Navy to rely on the Grumman Hellcat instead. The Marine Corps benefited from this policy change, and its land-based units eagerly adopted the "Bent-wing Bird." The famous Jolly Rogers, the Navy's VF-17, also flew the Corsair during its tour in the Solomons. Late in the war, as the handling problems were resolved, both Marine and Navy pilots operated F4U's from carrier decks.

But its speed, firepower, maneuverability, and ruggedness cause many to rate it with the Mustang as the best fighter plane of World War Two.

Read the full article here.
Watch the Official Training Film here.



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WHPR Day 3177
www.erepublik.com/en/article/2607887/1/20
Media Transition Packet (p1)
XLympic Games Begin
War News; F4U Corsair


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