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Sunday Morning Sunday Shows Coming Down
I’ve completely cut Sunday shows out of the rotation and Sunday morning has been fully reclaimed as mine. And I’m not alone…
To do what we do as far as producing output for writing, media, and commentating on culture and politics — or at least to do it half-way responsibly — one has to do a large amount of intake. Consuming breaking news, headlines, analysis, is all part of the gig. Someone long ago told me the prep ratio should be a baseline of 3-to-1, three times more in than the one thing you produce out. Since my brain doesn’t function right my ratio for writing, radio, and media hits is usually a lot higher than that, but I love the grind of such things and tend to overprepare. I consume massive amounts of print news, news media, featured writing, trending stories, on and on and on…
Except for the Sunday morning talking head shows. I’ve completely cut Sunday shows out of the rotation and Sunday morning has been fully reclaimed as mine. And I’m not alone:
For decades, Sunday morning’s Big Four — NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” ABC’s “This Week” and “Fox News Sunday” — were an integral part of the Beltway news ecosystem. Leading political figures, hungry for the big soapbox and…
