NYT Pitchbot is satire (which I guess is not parody? Who knew Elmo was so subtle?). This is real:Fine. Elon can shut Twitter down now. This is the perfect Tweet. https://t.co/nq8f54TZvx
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 13, 2022
2/ This is needless to say quite a way to approach the election result. But there’s a broader issue, shortcoming this highlights. There’s a tendency in a lot of commentary to say. Well, Democrats just cldnt shoot straight and ran a terrible campaign. But they ended up …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 13, 2022
4/ they have a set of values they believe in and want to protect and they work to convince other people that those values are worth believing in and protecting. The core of politics isn’t about campaign running. That’s implementation. Most people don’t get into politics …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 13, 2022
Shorter JMM: it’s still all about the horse race. At least for political media. Because “implementation” is policy is disagreement and opinion (“Are these things right or wrong?”). The horse race is simple objective fact (who won, who lost, and how much was spent?). In the end it has bugger all to do with the rest of government, but it’s the path of least resistance.6/ So to the extent we’re saying well, the Dems just got lucky because people didn’t want to lose all their rights, well, that’s a good way to get lucky.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 13, 2022
The media should understand the perils of trying to predict the results in a horse race and politics is never as neatly settled as a horse race. I think things went seriously wrong when they made the movie of All the Presidents Men and affluent kids who shouldn't have been in college because they had no serious interests in studying decided they were going to be Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. It's been downhill from there. There and 1970s show-biz happy talk started the headlong pitch into the abyss of what "journalism" has become.
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