Just hours after being transported to space on Tuesday on Blue Origin’s first human flight, Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced CNN contributor Van Jones and celebrity chef José Andrés as the inaugural recipients of the $100 million Courage and Civility Award.

Jones and Andrés will each give $100 million to the charity of their choice or “they can share their wealth. It’s all up to them,” said Bezos during a press conference in Texas following the historic 10-minute space flight that also included his brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen. Funk, 82, became the oldest person to fly into space 60 years after being denied the opportunity by NASA to do so because of her gender, while Daemen, 18, became the youngest person to travel to space.

Jones, obviously well known for his advocacy in addition to his political work, founded the non-profit Dream Corps, focusing on criminal justice reform, environmental issues, and tech equity. "If you take people on front lines and their wisdom and their genius and their creativity and you give them a shot, they're not just gonna turn around neighbors, they're gonna turn around this nation," he said, in emotional remarks on receiving the award.

Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, said, “This award itself cannot feed the world on its own, but this is the start of a new chapter for us.”

The award is big win for Jones, Andrés, and their organizations of course. It's also a win for the many people who will benefit from that work. It was a good day.

CNN reported on Tuesday that there have been “regular, high-level conversations” between the Biden administration and Fox News over the network’s vaccine coverage. But that is not so, say all parties involved.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Brian Stelter reported Tuesday on talks between the network and the White House. "The White House is trying to fix the problem of slowing Covid-19 vaccinations by engaging with an unlikely source," the article begins, referring to Fox News.

CNN in general and Stelter in particular routinely run content about Fox News. The network has been aggressively critical over anti-vax sentiment, even asking the Surgeon General if Fox is "killing people." Their report was framed as a WH intervention and pressure to change the coverage, and timed with multiple recent on-air vaccine endorsements on Fox.

Fox News was first to deny the report in a statement calling it inaccurate, and definitively stating that there were "no high level conversations between FOX News Media and the White House regarding our coverage.”

Collins followed up on Twitter hours after the initial report and said, “I previously described the levels of contact between the White House & Fox News on pandemic coverage as ‘high level’ but both sides have subsequently disputed the discussions were.”

Disputed by both Fox and the White House, the thrust of the Collins and Stelter story - that the White House was taking specific, corrective action against Fox News at the top - is essentially debunked.