We were surprised to discover we had slept pretty well after a startling disruption to the evening. We had stayed up late attempting to process the news. We had been working on a draft for a story to be run to bridge the messaging of the NATO Summit week to the rising torrent of reporting […]

This is the product of a fun outing after the Production Meeting yesterday. You are aware of the developments in the Campaign, and they have been spectacular. One columnist attempted to draw a parallel to the media treatment of other world leaders. That special treatment was deemed necessary to maintaining order and stability. The trajectory […]

13 July, 1960: John F. Kennedy nominated for presidency. Here we go again. In this moment, the emotion is too profound for comment. The minutes were electric as Mr. Trump disappeared from view, and we thought in horror that a situation that was already bad had somehow just lurched into something much worse. The laptops […]

We don’t know if you stayed up for the event last night. We felt obligated to do so, since the coverage of everything has been as much the topic under discussion as the discussion of the topics that are supposed to be under discussion. Confused yet? We are. That was the point on tuning in […]

Another morning in the cavalcade of chaos that has enveloped us all this year, regardless of which side of the aisle on which you seated, and of course whether your chair is facing the front or rear of the room in which the seating is placed. Did you forget there was a GOP Convention this […]

All the stuff on the slide above is in progress. A part of the campaign chaos here included some coverage of the NATO show in town. One headline read: “Biden awards Medal of Freedom to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg” We saw part of the event on the flatscreen, at the suitability of this event for […]

There is enough tumult and confusion abroad in our land and the world we share that we decided to take a break and have surgery this morning to relax. The current events’ part? Lordy, these are historic times, and ours are reflected by ones elsewhere. NATO is in our town- your nation’s capital- to chat […]