Washington, DC – FamousDC today named Kathryn Lyons
as Managing Editor of the growing media company. In this new role,
Kathryn will launch a brand new video series and oversee all content.
Kathryn and the FamousDC video series, like all FamousDC
content, will provide a unique and exclusive insight into the events and
people everyone in Washington, D.C. is talking about.
“FamousDC has an amazing audience and reach. With Kathryn
on our team and our own video series, we will be able to engage with an
even larger presence at the events and spots shaping the conversation in
D.C.,” said Amos Snead,
Co-Founder, FamousDC. “Kathryn’s background in television production
will allow FamousDC to expand our video coverage of events and people
shaping the conversation in Washington, D.C.”
“We’re off to an incredible start to 2016 at FamousDC as the team continues to grow and improve,” said Josh Shultz,
Co-Founder, FamousDC. “We look forward to creating an interactive
series of video content and additional creative to bring the
behind-the-scenes stories to our readers.”
Kathryn joins FamousDC from NBC News where
she was the host of “The Lowdown with Lyons” as part of The Week Ahead
in Politics. She also spent time as a researcher for TODAY Show and a
production assistant for NBC Nightly News. She graduated from Florida
State University with a degree in Mass Media Communications.
Kathryn joins five other new and recently promoted members of the FamousDC team – Marie Formica, Vice President, Partnerships & Operations; Drew Ellis, Creative Director; Cody Simmons, Graphic Designer; Sarah Gunion, Communications Manager; Paige Gress, Events Producer.
FamousDC is a media outlet that covers the intersection of
politics, media and digital. The company has built a trusted audience
over the past several years and this allows FamousDC to convene
high-level events in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country.
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A 1994 illegal immigrant has been
picked by Google and Fox to deliver a question to the GOP 2016
candidates in Thursday’s Iowa debate.
The choice was likely intended to hit
Donald Trump, whose proposed immigration reform is opposed by many
company executives, including executives in Google and Fox. But any
question on immigration will also hit the other GOP candidates, who are
trying to balance the competing demands of business donors for more
wage-cutting legal and illegal immigration, versus the voters’
overwhelming demand for increased wages and salaries.
The questioner, Dulce Candy, is a young,
well-spoken, attractive and successful Latino who provides advice about
make-up to young women on YouTube in exchange for payments from
advertisers.
In a 2013 video, she says she was born in
Mexico but crossed the U.S.-Mexican border — through a river and over a
fence —with her mother and siblings in 1994, when she was six. Her
father was an agricultural laborer working for Californian companies.
“We jumped fences… there was a guy
helping us out, and we were just staring at the fence… some random guys
trying help us cross the border, but we also crossed a river in the
middle of the night…. some guy would carry us on his shoulder to the
other side,” she said.
Her video did not explain if, or how, Candy won residency and citizenship.
She did join the U.S. Army in 2006, and served for 15 months in Iraq as a mechanic and driver.
The 2013 revelation that Candy came into the country illegally spurred some criticism among her peers. “It’s not fair that they all get to break the law repetitively for free while Americans get punished when we commit crimes,” according to a comment from Kimberly West, a commenter on LipstickAlley.com.
Jackie Cavanagh, a spokeswoman for YouTube at MPRM
Communications in Los Angeles, did not respond to an email from
Breitbart. However, on Tuesday, a person told Breitbart that the “YouTube
creators were selected in collaboration with Fox based on things such
as audience size and their ability to bring a new, fresh perspective to
the most important issues of our time. Fox informed the party/candidates
of the format.”
Allison Moore, a press secretary for the RNC, told Breitbart that “We had nothing to do” with the choice of another YouTube questioner for the same debate. But neither she, nor Irena Briganti, a spokeswoman for Fox, responded when asked about the selection of the 1994 illegal immigrant.
The choice of a Latino illegal-immigrant questioner was
made by Google and Fox, whose top executives support increased
white-collar and blue-collar migration into the United States.
In March 2015, for
example, Google chairman Eric Schmidt told an audience in Washington
D.C. that the U.S. government should import more customers to offset the
slow growth of the population in the United States.
In Japan, the population is expected to drop from 120 million to 80 million, Schmidt said.“Most
stock markets assume modest [population] growth… so how are you over a
couple of decades to deal with the fact that one third of your customers
[in Japan] are going to go away? Well, one [way] is produce more
customers through immigration,” he said.
Each year, roughly 4 million young Americans begin looking
for jobs. But the federal government also imports roughly 1 million
legal immigrants, plus roughly 700,000 temporary white-collar and
blue-collar non-agricultural workers, and it does little to stop new
illegal migrants, or to repatriate the resident population of roughly 11
million illegal migrants. The extra annual inflow of labor has helped
keep Americans’ income flat for many years.
The value of immigrants’ spending-power to companies is greatly boosted by welfare-payments
from American taxpayers. Thus large-scale immigration reduces
Americans’ income and increases their taxes, while also increasing
companies’ profits and stock-values.
Schmidt did acknowledge two other
alternatives to mass-immigration into the United States, saying his
future business-problem can be fixed by “more children… [or] you can
export” to foreign customers. But “I’m one of these people who think we are better off having more immigration than less,” he said.
Schmidt also called for a greater inflow
of foreign-graduates into U.S. workplaces via the controversial H-1B
visa program. In private, ”everyone [in Washington] actually agrees
there ought to be more H-1Bs… everyone agrees, in both parties,” he
declared. Currently, roughly 650,000 H-1B foreign professionals are holding jobs in the United States, and are competing down wages for Americans’ white-collar professionals.
The owner of Fox News,
Rupert Murdoch, also wants more immigrants to serve as customers and
lower-wage workers, especially for white-collar jobs where American
professionals can still earn a good living. In a June 2014 article in the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch called for an unlimited inflow of foreign professionals.
We need to do away with the cap on H-1B visas, which is
arbitrary and results in U.S. companies struggling to find the
high-skill workers they need to continue growing. We already know that
most of the applications for these visas are for computer programmers
and engineers, where there is a shortage of qualified American
candidates.
In contrast, Trump has said migrants should be sent home, and he has also called for a reform of the H-1B program that would reduce the inflow of foreign graduates by forcing companies to pay a higher-wage to foreign workers.
Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force
companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing
domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S.,
instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve
the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who
have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program.
One of the other YouTube personalities picked by Fox and Google is an Islamic advocate.
The pro-Islam advocate, Nebela Noor,
used a video to argue that Donald Trump, a New York real-estate
developer, is in agreement with Adolf Hitler, the national-socialist
dictator of Germany who started World World 2, and killed roughly 50
million people, including 6 million Jews and roughly 25 million
Russians. Read more about Noor here.
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