Headline of the Day

From theguardian.com:

Polar Bears Move Into Abandoned Arctic Weather Station

P.S. Click on the link—lots of good pictures.

Timothy Noah: “There are five headlines about presidencies, driven less by reality than by the political press’s addiction to a preset narrative arc”

From a story on newrepublic.com by Timothy Noah headlined “The Only Place Biden’s Floundering Is in a Sea of Journalism Cliches”:

There are five headlines about presidencies, driven less by reality than by the political press’s addiction to a preset narrative arc. President Joe Biden has arrived at number three.

Here are the Five Headlines:

Candidate Wins Mandate” This is a beloved cliché that’s objectively false in the twenty-first century, when presidents often win with a mere popular-vote plurality, and sometimes not even that. No presidential victor has exceeded a 53 percent popular-vote majority since incumbent Ronald Reagan in 1984 (59 percent), and nobody’s broken 60 percent since incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972. A more accurate cliché would be: “In Still-Divided Electorate, Candidate Narrowly Wins Presidency.”…