A recommended read. How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party. newrepublic.com/article/2163... This is why I started to focus so often on the "savvy style" in political journalism" pressthink.org/2020/09/you-... The Consulting Class and the savvy style needed each other.

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"From 2012 through 2024, Democrats paid media consultants about $5.8 billion, and their cut of 15 to 30 percent comes in between $1 billion to $2 billion, taken for placing ads that move few votes ... we’d like to introduce you to the Democratic consulting industry." newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Michael Clanchy told people over 50 years ago not to fetishize writing, but he would not diminish the significance of writing today because he knew well that it now equates to power and to eschew it is to disempower one's self. I mention this bc we are seeing the emergence of an arch stance on GenAI

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instantification comes for everything "Their bite-size format appeals to busy studio executives facing mountains of scripts. Buying unpublished stories also allows producers to avoid the hassle of optioning novels, whose fans often expect a faithful adaptation."

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