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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDan Pfeiffer for the win:
The media's obsession with optics is a self-fulfilling prophecy and a lazy crutch when the substance is too complicated to explain in 30 seconds or 280 characters
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jayfish
(10,039 posts)put Mueller in front of the camera (America) and have him explain his report. Since the information already exists in a publicly viewable format; optics were everything. How are we not getting this?
onetexan
(13,058 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)I remember this from 10 years ago, and thought he was a vain, chickenshit piece of crap for weaseling out on something so trivial:
https://www.newser.com/story/72443/chuck-todd-chickens-out-on-goatee-bet.html
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Is a "disaster" looking for YOU, Chuck?????
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)If it is not a 10 second soundbite it is far too complex for the likes of the bulk of the TV Media. Besides they have ads for drugs we never knew we needed to run. The rest is just to fill airtime between those ads.