A touch of tune-out

I enjoy watching Rachel Maddow's cable-TV news show, frequently learning things I don't know I want to know, until she tells me.

However, she has a passion for context that drives me away.

As Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, noted today, she has a habit of burying the lead. I wanted to know what DJT's 2005 tax return said, but after an eternity of context, I tuned out. I'm fast with the remote anyway, a bad habit, but my fraying attention span's overtaxed.

RM said today she doesn't care about the criticism of her DJT tax report. Duck's back, meet water. If only she could teach DJT how to react like that.

I worked for a couple of brilliant editors in my brief career as a newspaper reporter who would go bat-shit crazy over Ms. Maddow's treatment of the lead.

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