Nate Becker
@natebecker.bsky.social
Biz Editor at Sherwood News. WSJ, The Information alum. Polite Midwesterner.
Agreed, he should have political expertise. I also don’t expect him to know everything.
But none of that adds up to saying the writer “didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing.”
That’s just more dumbing down, while complaining about dumbing down.
But none of that adds up to saying the writer “didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing.”
That’s just more dumbing down, while complaining about dumbing down.
February 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Agreed, he should have political expertise. I also don’t expect him to know everything.
But none of that adds up to saying the writer “didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing.”
That’s just more dumbing down, while complaining about dumbing down.
But none of that adds up to saying the writer “didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing.”
That’s just more dumbing down, while complaining about dumbing down.
I don’t read this newsletter so I don’t have the context here, but it kinda feels like THIS is a dumbing down of its own. Distilling “guy basically saying ‘admittedly, I didn’t realize FDR did so much in his first 100 days’” into “this guy didn’t even know who FDR was!” seems kinda silly, no?
February 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I don’t read this newsletter so I don’t have the context here, but it kinda feels like THIS is a dumbing down of its own. Distilling “guy basically saying ‘admittedly, I didn’t realize FDR did so much in his first 100 days’” into “this guy didn’t even know who FDR was!” seems kinda silly, no?
yeah, it sure feels like there will be plenty more written (and honestly probably more disclosed too) about this!
November 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM
yeah, it sure feels like there will be plenty more written (and honestly probably more disclosed too) about this!
i meannn, the company statement says they “made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide” the expenses. I don’t think they’d say “to hide” if it was just a mess-up, but who knows?
November 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
i meannn, the company statement says they “made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide” the expenses. I don’t think they’d say “to hide” if it was just a mess-up, but who knows?