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she's actually anna nicole smith. >> this morning, tragic beauty. >> anna nicole smith died. >> anna nicole smith has died. >> she might have been one of the most famous faces in the world. >> it makes anna nicole smith a star. >> va-va-va-voom. wow. >> she was ridiculed, but there's a whole story the public doesn't know. >> people have a perception that she was this dumb blond. she wasn't. >> i'm fine, i'm well, i'm here. >> every single thing i touch t. >> she snagged a very rich man who was near death. >> one of the world's richest men. >> anna never gave [ bleep ] abou >> he left her nothing. zero. >> she is one hot mess, except maybe she's not that hot anymore. >> make me beautiful dress. >> anna nicole smith just gave birth to a baby girl only to have her 20-year-old son daniel die at her maternity bedside. >> and then the unimaginable happens -- anna herself dies just five months later. >> the question of why no one called 911 sooner is never fully answered. >> do you know what this even is? >> i thought it would be important to show dannielynn a little bit about where her mom

by the time the husband announced nicole anna jones would be joining the faculty, everyone at the schoolthe same page, going to have a five-year contract professor contract and at the same time in the future she be able to be up for tenure but that has been a lot of misconception. >> that misconception has continued even though i know you've written about this how this occurred, peter know if you've written an extensive piece about this as well, do you feel the narrative of tenure denied is still hanging on even though that's not really what happens? >> i think it is in the media, it's so sensational. tenure was revoked, it is a fictional story. the articles and major media outlets were never collected so if you google the call hannah jones tenure and you get to the daily mail or fox news, you're still getting incorrect from they did a correction so i think still hanging out there in the national media everyone council and local people, news and observer have the story right at this time. >> peter i know you did extensive research on this and wrote an interesting piece on the whole quest

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they were sing the nicole anna jones had been hired as the night chair and they do not specify whether she had tenure, just that she was in my chair and they were very excited about it. at that point martin center wrote that this was a bad decision made by the chapel hill in school. an organization here north carolina, found out later that the position was untenured and incorrectly assumed that it was because of the criticisms. and so that article went viral and national media picked up on it and said that she had tenure and it was terrible and vote really happenedd is that when te school submitted the information to the board of trustees, way back in january, the committee that looks at tenure, asked the journalism school about nicole hannah jones experiences we really don't have that information, it is protected of personnel information and a need more information before the make the decision and instead of by going through that, the journalism school offered her a five year contract with the possibility and she accepted that instead by the time the school announced that nicole hanna

[ laughter ] anna nicole smith's memorial service? [ laughter ] [ groans ] too soon? too late?oo middle? some of these headlines are just hurtful. "guess which former snl cast members still wet the bed?" [ laughter ] i don't still wet the bed. i just started wetting the bed. [ laughter ] that's not a story. "10 celebrities whose penises were mangled by farm machinery." [ laughter ] how about "10 celebrities wearing that sweater still"? "time was not kind to these women." [ laughter ] rude. "10 signs that your kidneys aren't working properly." [ laughter ] me again? "heidi klum's best halloween costumes." [ laughter ] "we were shocked to learn who visited jeffrey epstein in prison." that's me. boy. "you won't believe what the monkey from 'the hangover' looks like now." [ laughter ] [ applause ] all right. we've got a good show for you guys. my former lovely "snl" castmate molly shannon is here. [ cheers and applause ] we've got 20-year-old tiktok sensation addison rae who's not a big movie coming out. [ cheers and applause ] i actually joined tiktok myself. i'm like the old guy