“What made Fox News so dominant for so long wasn’t just that Roger Ailes built a news network to tell just the right stories to gather a conservative audience, though he did make it a religion, but that his competitors in the news business had built theirs to drive that audience away.”
It’s often been said that he recognized a niche market that wasn’t being satisfied: half the country.
He won’t stop talking. He used to call me and bend my ear quite a bit. But he means well.
In the wake of last week’s conference, the 2017 report is out.
He epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the health-care debate.
To quote the president, no one knew health care could be so complicated.
Thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel and health care, from Jonah Goldberg.
Thoughts from Derek Lowe on the abundance of pre-cursors for life in the solar system (and probably universe).
George Will says he doesn’t even know what knowledge is:
As president-elect, Trump did not know the pedigree and importance of the “one China” policy. About such things he can be, if he is willing to be, tutored. It is, however, too late to rectify this defect: He lacks what T. S. Eliot called a sense “not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.” His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
The problem is that he thinks he has “a very good brain.” This is Dunning-Krugerish.
But I’m still relieved that she lost.
An interesting discussion and link roundup from Judith Curry.