• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Dude got nominated like an hour ago. How are they putting out articles like this?

    Like the average person ain’t even got home from work on the east coast.

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      10 months ago

      People had a week to draft one for each VP candidate being vetted.

      Like Carter’s obituary - write it now so you can publish it early.

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      10 months ago

      They are preloaded and ready to go. They probably have other articles in the can for the other names that were being considered as well.

      It might also surprise you to know that major news networks pre-tape celebrity obituaries just in case that person dies.

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      10 months ago

      Big news sites will do things like write up a story announcing a presidential win for each of the candidates, then only publish the one that matters after the election. This way they can have a story on the front page within minutes (seconds these days) of having official results.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if Vox had 1 of these lined up for each of the likely VP picks. If not that, it certainly wouldn’t be unusual for a journalist to do their homework on all of the candidates and to have the rough outline and some key facts ready to go for each. If you’ve already done most of the research, assembling the final story shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours.

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      10 months ago

      Its like how obituaries are written well in advance of notable people dying. They had this article written up for each person on Harris’s list.

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      10 months ago

      Well, he didn’t just crawl out of a hole, he has a record. The article is making the claim that he has the potential to bring together different elements of the democratic party, which ultimately is the party of everyone else that isn’t voting Trump. This is a big tent with a lot of perspectives, and while democrats are largely united against Trump, that doesn’t inherently mean they’re just as united behind the candidate (as we just saw), and those kind of things are ripe for Republicans to pick at and promote infighting.