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USAA says it will reinstate ads on ‘Hannity’

DAVID BAUDER and it didn’t help when the conservative Media
AP Television Writer the company’s advertis- Research Center, said he
NEW YORK (AP) — The ing on other opinion shows wasn’t surprised by USAA’s
USAA financial services was pointed out. decision, “given the ava-
firm is reinstating its ad- USAA said it wasn’t trying lanche” of protests. His
vertising on Sean Han- to favor one set of politi- group was behind mobiliz-
nity’s Fox News Channel cal views over another. ing that backlash, and said
program after receiving “We heard concerns its members generated
heavy criticism for its initial from many members who more than 1,600 phone
decision from many of the watch and listen to these calls to USAA within 48
military members and vet- programs,” USAA said in hours.
erans that it serves. a statement on Tuesday. “They did the right think in
The San Antonio, Texas- “Our goal in advertising going back on that show,”
based company said has always been to reach he said, “and so long as
Tuesday it will also start members of the military the other side isn’t partici-
advertising again on oth- community who would pating in personal smears,
er programs where it had benefit from USAA’s well- they should participate on
suspended ads, includ- known commitment to those shows, too.”
ing “Hardball” and “The service. Today, the lines Angelo Carusone, presi-
Rachel Maddow Show” between news and edi- dent of Media Matters, In this March 4, 2016 file photo, Sean Hannity of Fox News ap-
on MSNBC, and Jake Tap- torial are increasingly said the incident illustrates pears at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in
National Harbor, Md.
per’s “The Lead” on CNN. blurred.” his belief that Hannity is Associated Press
Following Hannity’s report- The advertising is return- volatile and dangerous for
ing on a discredited con- ing while the company advertisers to be involved periencing firsthand that brand to one potential PR
spiracy theory involving reviews its policy about with. doing business with Han- crisis after another,” he
the death of a Democrat- avoiding the opinion “Many are currently ex- nity means subjecting your said.q
ic National Committee shows.
staff member, the liberal Hannity was due to return Collection of Jack Reacher
advocacy group Media to Fox Tuesday following
Matters last week posted a brief vacation. He had
a list of his show’s advertis- said he would no longer short stories is a fun read
ers — and USAA was one talk about the shooting
of 10 to say it was pulling death of Seth Rich last
its commercials. At the year following pleas from JONATHAN ELDERFIELD fully formed and ready for
time, the USAA said the the man’s family, although Associated Press battle. As a young man we
company’s policy was to his network had retracted Do you recall that fa- find Reacher already solv-
avoid politically opinion- an online story about Rich mous line from the “Forrest ing crimes and of course
ated shows. because it hadn’t met its Gump” film? “My momma knocking the base bul-
But many of USAA’s cus- reporting standards. always said, ‘Life was like lies down a peg. We also
tomers reacted angrily, Brent Bozell, president of a box of chocolates. You come across Reacher in
never know what you’re New York City, the author’s
gonna get.’” That might hometown, taking on a
Olivia Newton-John be true, except when it mob boss during the Sum-
comes to Jack Reacher. mer of Sam and the 1977
says she has breast With Reacher, life might blackout as well as in a jazz
be a box of chocolates, bar facing a room of Rus-
cancer; cancels tour but you are going to get sian bodyguards.
the same sweet treat every The story lines in these shorts

NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia time — an epic beat down, are sketches rather than This cover image released by
whether it’s an elbow or a fully formed stories. Child
Newton-John says she has kick to the head, a broken seems to be testing out var- Delacorte Press shows “No
a breast cancer and is arm or leg. ious scenarios for Reacher Middle Name: The Complete
canceling her June tour. You are also going to get to experiment in — the Collected Jack Reacher Short
Stories,” by Lee Child.
The 68-year-old singer Reacher’s signature self- highlights, of course, being
said Tuesday she initially confidence — in both his the balletic fight sequenc- Associated Press
thought she was suffer- moral compass and his es. Reacher can always as- tives and painkillers, from
ing from back pain, but masculine strength. sess the situation — reading the comfort of his bed.
learned it was “breast can- “No Middle Name: The the room and making the “No Middle Name” is a vi-
cer that has metastasized Complete Collected Jack first move — and when the tal addition to a Reacher
to the sacrum.” Reacher Short Stories” by fists start to fly, the action is groupie’s bookshelf. For the
Newton-John said she will In this Nov. 2, 2016 file pho- Lee Child features 12 pub- choreographed to perfec- casual fan, it’s a fun read
complete “a short course to, actress and singer Olivia lished stories including tion like a Guy Ritchie film. but by no means essen-
of photon radiation thera- Newton-John attends the 50th “High Heat,” ‘’Deep Down” However, one curious story, tial. The novels are like the
py” and hopes to perform annual CMA Awards in Nash- and “Second Son,” and “Everyone Talks,” defies be- fully mature Jack Reacher
later this year. She said ville, Tenn. the previously unpublished lief. It features Reacher in that Child describes, com-
she will be treated by the Associated Press story “Too Much Time.” a hospital bed after he’s plete and strong, while the
medical team at the Olivia therapies after consulta- One of the stories features been shot. “Has he ever short stories more resemble
Newton-John Cancer Well- tion with my doctors and Jack at age 13 on a Ma- been shot in one of the the version by actor Tom
ness and Research Centre natural therapists.” rine base in Okinawa, as novels?” I asked myself. Cruise, full of heart, but
in Melbourne, Australia. Ticket buyers will be re- self-assured as ever — and Reacher somehow takes short of stature and not fully
Says Newton-John: “I de- funded for the canceled you are left to wonder if down the bad guy, all the satisfying to the true fan.q
cided on my direction of shows.q he came out of the womb while doped up on seda-