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A $2.00 additional charge will be applied to all subscriptions for the Thanksgiving Day edition NEWSROOM CONTACTS To report a news tip or a correction, call 587-4491 or email [email protected] Letters to the editor: [email protected] Obituaries, club, business and society news: [email protected] Sports: 582-2690 or 587-4491 after business hours, [email protected] Newsroom FAX: 582-2656 ADVERTISING Classified advertising: 582-2600 or (800) 275-0401 [email protected] • FAX: 587-7995 • Hours: M-F 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Retail advertising: 582-2616 The Chronicle promptly corrects substantial factual errors. To report an error, call the city desk at 587-4491 or e-mail [email protected]. CORRECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ again delays summer release LOS ANGELES (AP) — With reported cases of the coronavirus surging, War- ner Bros. on Thursday postponed the release of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” further delaying Hollywood’s summer kickoff. The sci-fi thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson will move from July 31 to Aug. 12, a Wednesday. In a statement, the studio stressed the need for flexibility. “We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement. Movie theaters had been pinning their hopes on the film as a major July release that could bring audiences back to theaters. Warner Bros. had planned to re-release Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster “Inception” in early July as a way to lead in to “Tenet.” “Inception” will now open on July 31, the studio said. Movie theater chains had planned the widespread reopening of cinemas partially around the return of new re- leases like “Tenet” and Disney’s “Mulan.” The latter is currently scheduled for July 24 but it, too, is widely expected to be postponed again. On Wednesday, Disneyland in California also pushed back its reopening. With reported COVID-19 cases surg- ing in Texas, Arizona, Florida and else- where, the earlier plans for a nation- wide mid-July cinema restart became uncertain. On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York would delay reopening cinemas while it continued to research the safety of indoor, air-conditioned venues. Even before virus, communities feeling loss of newspapers NEW YORK (AP) — If Penelope Muse Abernathy can take any solace in her grim work of counting how many newspapers across America have closed, it’s that more people are becoming aware of the problem. The North Carolina journalism professor’s latest report out this week details the industry’s decline from 2004 through 2019, a period that saw the loss of more than 2,000 newspapers and a 44% drop in circulation overall. The result has left many communi- ties without a local paper, a shift she said is being recognized by a broad range of people who notice a lack of strong local news coverage contributes to societal divisions and an erosion of trust in institutions. “I see a big difference in awareness of the issue by community activists, government officials, by ordinary citi- zens and politicians,” said Abernathy, professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the Univer- sity of North Carolina and author of “The Expanding News Desert” report released Wednesday. The report does not cover the coro- navirus shutdown, which has led to 35 newspapers across the country shut- ting down the past few months. Also lost: a chain of 14 community newspa- pers around Chicago, according to the Poynter Institute think tank. They include the Journal News in Knoxville, Iowa, founded by a Civil War veteran who was a friend of Abraham Lincoln, and the Edmond Sun, in Edmond, Oklahoma, which began in 1889, Poynter said. Other closures included the Hen- dricks County Flyer in Indiana, the Merkel Mail in Merkel, Texas, the Havre Herald digital site in Havre, Montana, and the Mesquite Local News in Mes- quite, Nevada. The Waterbury Record in Vermont started in 2007 to fill a local news void but found good intentions only count so much. “That never translated into wide- spread advertising support,” publisher Greg Popa told readers. Abernathy’s research shows the harsh environment many outlets were facing before COVID-19 spread throughout the U.S. Among the find- ings: — The number of newspapers in the United States declined from 8,891 in 2004 to 6,736 at the beginning of this year. Most are in small communities. Volume 112, Number 288 D ALLAS (AP) — American Airlines will start booking flights to full capacity next week, ending any effort to promote social distancing on its planes while the United States sets records for new reported cases of the coronavirus. American’s move matches the policy of United Airlines but contrasts sharply with rivals that limit bookings to create space between passengers to minimize the risk of contagion. American said Friday that it will continue to notify customers if their flight is likely to be full, and let them change flights at no extra cost. The airline said it will also let passengers change seats on the plane if there is room and if they stay in the same cabin. Since April, American has limited bookings to about 85% of a plane’s capacity by leaving about half the middle seats open. However, the airline will start selling every seat it can beginning next Wednesday. Delta says it is capping seats at about 60% of capacity and Southwest at about 67%, both through Sept. 30. JetBlue says it will leave middle seats empty through July 31 unless the person is traveling with a passenger in an adjoining seat. United, Spirit Airlines and now American, however, are taking a different approach, arguing that other steps — including stepped-up cleaning procedures and requiring all passengers to wear face coverings — eliminate the need to block some seats. United CEO Scott Kirby has said social distancing is impossible on planes anyway; that even with empty middle seats, people are less than six feet away from each other. Photos and videos of full flights on American and United have drawn criticism for their lack of social distancing. The number of confirmed new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 on Friday, eclipsing a record set on April 24, according to Johns Hopkins University. American is based in Fort Worth, Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday rolled back some steps the state had taken just two months ago in an aggressive attempt to re-open its economy. The airline announced the change deep into a press release that was mostly devoted to measures it is taking to clean planes and kill the virus. “As more people continue to travel, customers may notice that flights are booked to capacity starting July 1,” American said. Starting Tuesday, American will ask passengers to confirm that they haven’t had COVID-19 symptoms in the previous 14 days. Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst with Atmosphere Research Group, said American “is clearly putting its profitability ahead” of the health of both passengers and its own employees. “Packing an airplane 100% full without health testing in place is a risky business decision. If someone contracts the COVID-19 virus on a 100% full plane, they’re going to sue American Airlines,” Harteveldt said. “Just because another airline is doing it doesn’t mean it’s the right business decision.” But another expert, travel agent Brett Snyder, who writes a blog called Cranky Flier, said American probably has data to back up its decision from a business perspective. “If they are making this change to sell every seat, then they know that people talk a lot” about preferring empty middle seats, “but in the end they will still fly if the price is right,” Snyder said. Since April, American offered to rebook people whose flights might be full, but only about 4% of passengers have taken that option, according to the airline. Snyder said most people flying now are leisure travelers who have decided that it’s an acceptable risk. He said rules on face masks, extra cleaning measures, and high-efficiency air-filtration systems make planes “a relatively safe place.” Airlines have been devastated by the pandemic, as travel dropped by about 95% at its low point in April. Since then, traffic has picked up slightly — the number of people passing through security checkpoints at U.S. airports on Thursday was 77% lower than the comparable day a year ago. American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said the airline has been considering booking to full capacity for a few weeks as passenger numbers have risen. On Monday, American’s traffic was the highest since March, he said. Today is Saturday, June 27, the 179th day of 2020. There are 187 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 27, 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clar- ence Thomas to succeed him.) On this date: In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires. In 1880, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who lived most of her life without sight or hearing, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1942, the FBI announced the ar- rests of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island, New York. (All were tried and sentenced to death; six were executed while two were spared for turning themselves in and cooperating with U.S. authorities.) In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cher- bourg from the Germans. In 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North. In 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm was placed at 390, although a variety of state, federal and local sources have esti- mated the number of fatalities at between 400 and 600. In 1974, President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union. In 1988, at least 56 people were killed when a commuter train ran into a station- ary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in Paris. In 1988, Mike Tyson retained the undisputed heavyweight crown as he knocked out Michael Spinks 91 seconds into the first round of a championship fight in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 2001, actor Jack Lemmon died in Los Angeles at age 76. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property was constitutionally permissible in some cases but not in others. BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to ten murders that had spread fear across Wichita, Kansas, beginning in the 1970s. (Rader later re- ceived multiple life sentences.) In 2006, a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the American flag died in a Senate cliffhanger, falling one vote short of the 67 needed to send it to states for ratification. TODAY IN HISTORY American Airlines will book flights to full capacity AP PHOTOS TOP: In this March 31 photo, American Airlines planes are parked at Pittsburgh International Airport in Imperial, Pa. ABOVE: Travelers wear mask as they wait at the American Airlines ticket counter in Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport on June 16. GOING ALL IN The number of confirmed new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 on Friday, eclipsing a record set on April 24, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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A2 | Saturday, June , Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Publisher and President, Mark Dobie 582-2626 • [email protected]
Managing Editor, Nick Ehli 582-2647 • [email protected]
Advertising Director, Cindy Sease 582-2616 • [email protected]
Production Manager, Ed Renaud 582-2655 • [email protected]
Acting circulation manager, Billie Jo Leach • [email protected]
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (USPS 062-600) is published daily by Big Sky Publishing LLC, at 2820 West College in Bozeman. Periodical postage paid at Bozeman, MT, 59718. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to P.O. Box 1190, Bozeman, MT, 59771-1190.
NEED A PAPER?For questions regarding your subscription, please call customer service at 587-4506.
A $2.00 additional charge will be applied to all subscriptions for the Thanksgiving Day edition
NEWSROOM CONTACTS To report a news tip or a correction, call 587-4491 or email [email protected]
Letters to the editor: [email protected]
Obituaries, club, business and society news: [email protected]
Sports: 582-2690 or 587-4491 after business hours, [email protected]
Newsroom FAX: 582-2656
ADVERTISING Classified advertising: 582-2600 or (800) 275-0401
[email protected] • FAX: 587-7995 • Hours: M-F 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Retail advertising: 582-2616
The Chronicle promptly corrects
substantial factual errors. To report an error,
call the city desk at 587-4491 or e-mail
C O R R E C T I O N S
E N T E R T A I N M E N T
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’
again delays summer releaseLOS ANGELES (AP) — With reported
cases of the coronavirus surging, War-ner Bros. on Thursday postponed the release of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” further delaying Hollywood’s summer kickoff.
The sci-fi thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson will move from July 31 to Aug. 12, a Wednesday. In a statement, the studio stressed the need for flexibility.
“We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement.
Movie theaters had been pinning their hopes on the film as a major July release that could bring audiences back to theaters.
Warner Bros. had planned to re-release Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster “Inception” in early July as a way to lead in to “Tenet.” “Inception” will now open on July 31, the studio said.
Movie theater chains had planned the widespread reopening of cinemas partially around the return of new re-leases like “Tenet” and Disney’s “Mulan.” The latter is currently scheduled for July 24 but it, too, is widely expected to be postponed again. On Wednesday, Disneyland in California also pushed back its reopening.
With reported COVID-19 cases surg-ing in Texas, Arizona, Florida and else-where, the earlier plans for a nation-wide mid-July cinema restart became uncertain. On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York would delay reopening cinemas while it continued to research the safety of indoor, air-conditioned venues.
Even before virus, communities
feeling loss of newspapersNEW YORK (AP) — If Penelope
Muse Abernathy can take any solace in her grim work of counting how many newspapers across America have closed, it’s that more people are becoming aware of the problem.
The North Carolina journalism professor’s latest report out this week details the industry’s decline from 2004 through 2019, a period that saw the loss of more than 2,000 newspapers and a 44% drop in circulation overall.
The result has left many communi-ties without a local paper, a shift she said is being recognized by a broad range of people who notice a lack of strong local news coverage contributes to societal divisions and an erosion of trust in institutions.
“I see a big difference in awareness of the issue by community activists, government officials, by ordinary citi-zens and politicians,” said Abernathy, professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the Univer-sity of North Carolina and author of “The Expanding News Desert” report released Wednesday.
The report does not cover the coro-navirus shutdown, which has led to 35 newspapers across the country shut-ting down the past few months. Also lost: a chain of 14 community newspa-pers around Chicago, according to the Poynter Institute think tank.
They include the Journal News in Knoxville, Iowa, founded by a Civil War veteran who was a friend of Abraham Lincoln, and the Edmond Sun, in Edmond, Oklahoma, which began in 1889, Poynter said.
Other closures included the Hen-dricks County Flyer in Indiana, the Merkel Mail in Merkel, Texas, the Havre Herald digital site in Havre, Montana, and the Mesquite Local News in Mes-quite, Nevada. The Waterbury Record in Vermont started in 2007 to fill a local news void but found good intentions only count so much.
“That never translated into wide-spread advertising support,” publisher Greg Popa told readers.
Abernathy’s research shows the harsh environment many outlets were facing before COVID-19 spread throughout the U.S. Among the find-ings:
— The number of newspapers in the United States declined from 8,891 in 2004 to 6,736 at the beginning of this year. Most are in small communities.
Volume 112, Number 288
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines will
start booking flights to full capacity next week, ending any effort to promote social distancing on its planes while the United States sets records for new reported cases of the coronavirus.
American’s move matches the policy of United Airlines but contrasts sharply with rivals that limit bookings to create space between passengers to minimize the risk of contagion.
American said Friday that it will continue to notify customers if their flight is likely to be full, and let them change flights at no extra cost. The airline said it will also let passengers change seats on the plane if there is room and if they stay in the same cabin.
Since April, American has limited bookings to about 85% of a plane’s capacity by leaving about half the middle seats open. However, the airline will start selling every seat it can beginning next Wednesday.
Delta says it is capping seats at about 60% of capacity and Southwest at about 67%, both through Sept. 30. JetBlue says it will leave middle seats empty through July 31 unless the person is traveling with a passenger in an adjoining seat.
United, Spirit Airlines and now American, however, are taking a different approach, arguing that other steps — including stepped-up cleaning procedures and
requiring all passengers to wear face coverings — eliminate the need to block some seats. United CEO Scott Kirby has said social distancing is impossible on planes anyway; that even with empty middle seats, people are less than six feet away from each other.
Photos and videos of full flights on American and United have drawn criticism for their lack of social distancing.
The number of confirmed new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 on Friday, eclipsing a record set on April 24, according to Johns Hopkins University.
American is based in Fort Worth, Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday rolled back some steps the state had taken just two months ago in an aggressive attempt to
re-open its economy. The airline announced
the change deep into a press release that was mostly devoted to measures it is taking to clean planes and kill the virus.
“As more people continue to travel, customers may
notice that flights are booked to capacity starting July 1,” American said. Starting Tuesday, American will ask passengers to confirm that they haven’t had COVID-19 symptoms in the previous 14 days.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst with Atmosphere Research Group, said American “is clearly putting its profitability ahead” of the health of both passengers and its own employees.
“Packing an airplane 100% full without health testing in place is a risky
business decision. If someone contracts the COVID-19 virus on a 100% full plane, they’re going to sue American Airlines,” Harteveldt said. “Just because another airline is doing it doesn’t mean it’s the right business decision.”
But another expert, travel agent Brett Snyder, who writes a blog called Cranky Flier, said American probably has data to back up its decision from a business perspective.
“If they are making this change to sell every seat, then they know that people talk a lot” about preferring empty middle seats, “but in the end they will still fly if the price is right,” Snyder said.
Since April, American offered to rebook people whose flights might be full, but only about 4% of passengers have taken that option, according to the airline.
Snyder said most people flying now are leisure travelers who have decided that it’s an acceptable risk. He said rules on face masks, extra cleaning measures, and high-efficiency air-filtration systems make planes “a relatively safe place.”
Airlines have been devastated by the pandemic, as travel dropped by about 95% at its low point in April. Since then, traffic has picked up slightly — the number of people passing through security checkpoints at U.S. airports on Thursday was 77% lower than the comparable day a year ago.
American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said the airline has been considering booking to full capacity for a few weeks as passenger numbers have risen. On Monday, American’s traffic was the highest since March, he said.
Today is Saturday, June 27, the 179th day of 2020. There are 187 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 27, 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clar-ence Thomas to succeed him.)
On this date:
In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
In 1880, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who lived most of her life without sight or hearing, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
In 1942, the FBI announced the ar-rests of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island, New York. (All
were tried and sentenced to death; six were executed while two were spared for turning themselves in and cooperating with U.S. authorities.)
In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cher-bourg from the Germans.
In 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
In 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm was placed at 390, although a variety of state, federal and local sources have esti-mated the number of fatalities at between 400 and 600.
In 1974, President Richard Nixon opened an official visit to the Soviet Union.
In 1988, at least 56 people were killed when a commuter train ran into a station-ary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in
Paris. In 1988, Mike Tyson retained the
undisputed heavyweight crown as he
knocked out Michael Spinks 91 seconds
into the first round of a championship fight
in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In 2001, actor Jack Lemmon died in Los
Angeles at age 76.
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled, in a
pair of 5-4 decisions, that displaying the Ten
Commandments on government property
was constitutionally permissible in some
cases but not in others. BTK serial killer
Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to ten murders
that had spread fear across Wichita, Kansas,
beginning in the 1970s. (Rader later re-
ceived multiple life sentences.)
In 2006, a constitutional amendment to
ban desecration of the American flag died
in a Senate cliffhanger, falling one vote
short of the 67 needed to send it to states
for ratification.
T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y
American Airlines will book flights to full capacity
AP PHOTOS
TOP: In this March 31 photo, American Airlines planes are parked at
Pittsburgh International Airport in Imperial, Pa. ABOVE: Travelers
wear mask as they wait at the American Airlines ticket counter in
Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport on June 16.
GOING ALL IN
The number of confirmed
new COVID-19 infections in the
U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 on Friday, eclipsing a record set on April
24, according to Johns Hopkins
University.
