Observations on the July Democratic Debates — Second Night

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I watched this debate at a bar in the West Village with my friend. There were two advantages to doing so: watching the debates on television with an audience, and alcohol. The first of these reinforced my utter contempt for television news: CNN and NBC are treating the debates not as news but as television — reality television, to be more precise. Moderators —…

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.

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Laura Nelson

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.