SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

AGAIN – FROM FOX:   A Tacoma, Wash. police officer died late Wednesday after being shot several times while responding to a domestic violence call, officials said.  The male officer, who has not been identified, was shot by a suspect believed to be barricaded inside a home on Tacoma's east side with a gun. The officer was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. local time after undergoing emergency surgery at Tacoma General Hospital.  "We've suffered a great loss and I think the community has suffered a great loss," police spokesman Loretta Cool said. "I don't know how to put that into words."  Let's see if the mainstream media takes any interest.

WHAA..? – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:   CNN is just losing its mind at this point.  In a recent segment, CNN brought on a Muslim woman to talk about how she doesn’t “feel safe” wearing a hijab in public anymore because President-Elect Trump.  “Maybe there will be a movement where people wear the head scarf in solidarity. You know, even if you’re not Muslim,” suggested CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s “New Day,” WND reports.  “Maybe it’s the way people shave their heads, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who is going through something,” she said.  So non-Muslim women should start wearing the hijab to help Muslims feel safe? Sounds like Sharia Law.  So to show “solidarity,” CNN’s Alisyn Camerota says American women should all wear the hijab to show “solidarity” with Muslim Americans.   CNN is giving up all its credibility.  It is now just a trendy, left-wing network, speaking to a declining viewership.  And they don't seem to care.

DEATH OF A GIANT – FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:   Grant Tinker, who produced “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and other television hits in the 1970s and transformed NBC from a perennial ratings loser to a powerhouse of literate, sophisticated network programming that helped change America’s viewing habits in the ’80s, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90.  NBC confirmed the death on Wednesday.  To a generation whose tastes were shaped by the tube, Mr. Tinker was the unseen hand behind many of the most stylish, critically acclaimed sitcoms and dramas on television. He did it by giving his writers space to thrive, shielding them from those foolish studio and network executives who said they liked the story, all right, but wanted to change the boy to a dog — and usually got their way.  One of the great executives in television history.  He had taste and class, and raised the level of his industry. 

November 30, 2016