Thinking about the media environment
30 years ago if the president nominated a Supreme Court Justice that week’s Newsweek would have bits about her basically manufacturing consensus that this person and their history and perspective now mattered
15 years ago I would’ve been reading the Volokh Conspiracy as a group of professionals \u2013 with distinct bias and interests such that their writing became informationally denser with regular reading \u2013 had for months in advance mulled over who it could be, giving a foundational introduction to most of the possibilities
Today I see it mentioned in tweets that’re mostly trying to advance some greater agenda I have to pay long-term attention to the tweeter or at least their milieu to grok while actually still leaving the first-order effects of that particular jurist fairly opaque
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