“The Daily 202" is just a daily links round-up of whatever’s going on in the political sphere; I wouldn’t really call it “coverage.” By that metric, they’ve “covered” her recent allegations, too, as they were mentioned in a blog Q&A on their site. But they haven’t done their own reporting in either case, as they did…

Like, I can’t shake the feeling that if this story came out in 2018, or even 2019, or maybe even January of this year when the narrative was that Biden was struggling, more people would have been willing to openly explore it

I suspect they’re investigating it. The big outlets aren’t going to touch this without their own investigation/confirmation, and the virus probably throws up a lot of barriers to fact-checking. (Like ... Reade mentions reporting Biden to the Senate personnel office. If a reporter wanted to check if there was still evid…

, she didn’t lose ownership of her music, she never had ownership of it.

I don’t think the point is that Leo, specifically, is the emblem for toxic masculinity. The point is that Swift and DiCaprio have a lot in common—personally and professionally—but are treated very differently for it. Swift has a squad; DiCaprio has a “posse.” Both have reputations for serial dating. Both have worked…

The patriarchy has clearly worked just fine for Taylor Swift.

Interestingly, the Miss USA pageant—which is significantly more looks-focused than Miss America—is doing better than it is. (It’s still seen declines in ratings, but not as steeply.)

For rules purposes, they just have to be unmarried—they can be dating somebody. But Shrier is referencing the fact that if you win, you’ll be traveling for the next year straight. It’s not just a 9-to-5 job, it’s 24/7. There is no balance to maintain because the job is all-consuming.

There’s a long tradition of a) Atlantic City/NJ local families getting involved with the pageant and b) contingents from the state pageants/former competitors/etc. coming. Obviously with the pageant moving, there’s no real equivalent of the former in the new venue. And Carlson has managed to piss off so many of the…

Part of the problem is that there isn’t one traditional path to becoming a director. Most people go to film school, but some come up through other paths (like acting or screenwriting). Some start with directing shorts or very small-budget movies submitted to festivals or competitions, some start with directing commerci…

Natalie’s production company has released a grand total of something like eight films, the last of them three years ago. I don’t think it’s wrong to ask why she isn’t working with more female directors, given that it’s important to her, but I also don’t think it’s crazy that ... this might just be something that she’s…

The Iowa Democratic Party ignored Buttigieg’s request and used the counting mechanism that favored Bernie, though. He just didn’t have enough turnout in the last satellite precinct to make it matter.

It is 100% unethical and a conflict to have such close ties between the App creators and the campaign.

The biggest issue is that the first state gets blanketed in mailers, visits, advertising, etc. and to do that in a state like California requires an astronomical amount of money. It would effectively price all but the best fundraisers out of the race. If you want less money in politics, that’s not the way to do it.

She was a lot of people’s second choice, which means that she actually (if current standings hold) walks out with a solid number of delegates from Iowa—Buttigieg and Sanders each with 13 and her with 10 or thereabouts. The “winner” of each state matters less under the Democratic system than the Republican one, since…

Some of them work and lead to interesting interpretations—I kind of like the idea of making Frankenstein’s monster black, as it highlights the themes the story is already telling.

It probably goes without saying, but AI is not a particularly good mechanism for identifying the race of characters. 

As the 2012 Republican caucus showed us, that probably wouldn’t be for two weeks.

It’s also funny, because the evidence that they’re using to support “They’re not that close” is a) her mom won’t up and move to a new country just because her daughter did, and b) her mom only came to visit her once or twice a year when she was working in Canada. Those both seem ... very normal even for close…

It’s entirely possible that they’re not making that range anymore (as I said in my post). But they’re absolutely making a minimum of six figures/more than reporters. And Bruenig has other income streams on top of that (like her podcast, which makes close to $8K a month).