What a darn week! The account has to begin with the attempted assassination and the maelstrom of messaging about it in all directions. Attempted murder on national television, bitter political strife and a variety of legal battles were all reflected in a swirl of highly amplified messages. Our Legal section saw the first draft of […]

The GOP convention is wrapped up in short order. We think they will adjourn today or tomorrow, but all the big news and messaging is already done. Candidate Trump is now the official nominee, and appeared bandaged with his running mate, the first Millennial and first former enlisted Marine to be on a major ticket. […]

Both Legal and Marketing had sent representatives who were waiting while we finished posting the astonishing morning blather that had superseded the plan to make a significant announcement. Then we got snagged on another development further down the list of Big Things (BTs).\ So, that trumped what we were in the middle of as the […]

We were a little startled by the news, and perhaps you were as well. The tempo of things since …what are we calling it? The messaging varied at first. “Incident” and “Event” were first, though it transitioned to something of general agreement as an “attempted assassination.” You know how our collective recollections start like that […]

It was a decent night’s sleep, according to reports from across the nation and as far away as Australia. We did not know how it was going to go as our last act of the day was to attempt to absorb the address from the Oval Office about the assassination attempt that has roiled us […]

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 […]