I got tapped this morning to do Power Grid on CNBC’s Power Lunch as a follow up on my quote in the Wall St. J. and my blog post from yesterday. I think it went reasonably well, as these talking head debates go. We each made our points and followed the rules on time and avoided ad hominem attacks. Anyway, you can all judge for yourselves.
Stay tuned . . . .
Important coverage here of what the digital divide looks like in 2020 and yet another argument for treating the internet as a public utility.
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/internet/rural-broadband-coronavirus/
Republicans will use impeachment as their scapegoat, but here’s what they can never escape:
Donald Trump ignored the warnings, refused to prepare, and lied about it for weeks. We’re dying & losing our jobs because we weren’t ready. That’s on Trump. He owns our awful response.
Journalism today: stenography and live TV of his propaganda sessions. https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1245117346395697152
Trump, Feb. 26: "This is a flu. This is like a flu."
Trump, today: "It's not the flu. It's vicious."
Weird. My zen Gen X training has allowed me to stifle all need for human contact, stare at a screen for hours with the door locked, and live off microwave popcorn. I think I’m sprouting a rat tail.
“Going on Week 2 of quarantine, our kids are desperate to see, touch, feel, smell their friends. Weirdly, Gen Z could come out of this with a permanent, lifelong, forged-in-disaster appreciation for physical connections over digital ones.” https://nyti.ms/2JrhP8k
You predicted 0 cases a few weeks ago and now you’re telling us we should be glad if only 200,000 Americans die. How did you get the most important thing you’ll ever do completely wrong?
is the only question Trump should ever be asked
You did a great job.
You did a great job.
Too bad the format did not allow you to go into how much tax subsidies these guys have already been given in exchange for promises they failed to keep.
I look forward to seeing you on there again!
The format is a joke. How is it even worth your time to show up just to make a few 10-second comments.