this is the ad the Florida Republican Party is running against the weed amendmentthis is the ad the Florida Republican Party is running against the weed amendment
My journalistic opinion on covering Trump making dick jokes at rallies is that if you omit it because it seems declassé or salacious and it's house style to avoid that sort of thing, the institution needs to revisit house style, and stop worrying about manners.
Let's say Harris wins and it is a decisive victory. How do we interpret the last two weeks. Does it become, "Harris had the momentum but we couldn't measure it?" Is it, "Harris recovered in the last days before the election?" Both is imposing a narrative onto things that we could not measure.
It's not even open! They closed it down and had pre-screened fans do the drive thru. It's a make a wish project
If something isn’t actively the subject of discussion it will be quickly displaced in the public mind by whatever is
My big takeaway from 2016 — and I seem to be the only one who had it — is that poll-driven "empiricism" can obscure the picture as much as it can reveal it.
"McDonald's franchise owner who's willing to shut the business down to help Donald Trump make a weird point" is the core Trump supporter
apparently the mcdonald's thing was even more of a stunt than it looked. location was closed down and they brought in fake customers
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Lot of bad decisions at the Times are driven by mid- and senior-level editors whose names are never attached to the stories + opinion essays that provoke criticism.
