{"id":33555,"date":"2024-10-16T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/wednesday-headlines-the-myth-of-the-reasonable-man#id33262"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:44:00","slug":"wednesday-headlines-the-myth-of-the-reasonable-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wednesday-headlines-the-myth-of-the-reasonable-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday headlines: The myth of the reasonable man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#39;s appetite for an Iran-Israel war is said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/china\/2024\/10\/15\/does-china-welcome-or-dread-an-iran-israel-war\">to be limited.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Economist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five takeaways from Kamala Harris&#39;s interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-charlamagne-interview-trump.html?ogrp=ctr&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.Sk4.Mm6y.5HcXSEGkBbpN&amp;smid=url-share\">Charlamagne Tha God.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump turns a town hall into a 39-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/4dK01kt\">&#8220;living-room listening session.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Washington Post [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why does the media still struggle to portray Trump accurately? Partly because of the &#8220;myth of <a href=\"https:\/\/degenerateart.beehiiv.com\/p\/trapped-in-a-company-town\">the reasonable man.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Degenerate Art<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A reporter&#39;s road trip through the Southwest, talking to voters, finds that &#8220;Latinos are as American as anyone else, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-10-16\/caminos-del-southwest-latino-vote-us-mexico-border\">if not more so.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Farmers worry that Trump&#39;s proposed &#8220;mass deportations&#8221; will decimate the <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food-and-agriculture\/mass-deportation-food-trump-immigration-agricultural-workers-us-labor-supply\/\">US food supply.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Grist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: Russia to unveil a new statue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/back-to-the-future-russia-unveil-new-stalin-statue\/\">of Joseph Stalin.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Politico<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Billionaires are said to be dominated by existential crises, &#8220;although each displays nuance when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macguffinmagazine.com\/stories\/macguffin-plutocrat-archipelagos\">comes to confrontation.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ MacGuffin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who left the United States a $7 billion payment? Theories suggest a Texan investment manager, but it&#39;s maybe someone still alive trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/power\/who-died-and-left-the-us-7-billion-fayez-sarofim\/\">minimize their taxes.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Sherwood<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: There&#39;s no evidence the Internet Archive was hacked to edit history&mdash;but what <a href=\"https:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/2024\/10\/11\/filtered\">if it was?<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Interconnected<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: A video tour of New York City&#39;s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/10\/the-fake-buildings-of-new-york-what-happens-inside-their-mysterious-walls.html\">fake buildings.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Open Culture<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TikTok is turning users with relatively low follower counts into <a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2024\/tiktok-shop-influencers-us\/\">paid shopping influencers.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ rest of world<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new AI company enables users to create bots in the likeness of any person&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/characterai-has-a-non-consensual-bot-problem\/\">without their consent.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ WIRED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Old fashioned bookshops are now cool destinations for young people. &#8220;I can spend hours browsing&mdash;I think that&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/oct\/11\/i-love-the-whole-atmosphere-and-can-spend-hours-browsing-how-did-bookshops-suddenly-become-cool\">a big part of it.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Writers and authors create adhoc writing programs to compete with <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2024-10-12\/the-living-room-m-f-a\">institutional workshops.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Airmail<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicists are &#8220;exulting&#8221; in new findings about the universe&#39;s first billion years, such as an image of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-beautiful-confusion-of-the-first-billion-years-comes-into-view-20241009\/\">earliest known galaxy.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Quanta Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Video and photos of 14,000 prescription lenses dangling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2024\/10\/brown-garrett-omachi-city\/\">a Japanese forest.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Colossal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/wednesday-headlines-the-myth-of-the-reasonable-man\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    China&#039;s appetite for an Iran-Israel war is said to be limited. \/ The EconomistFive takeaways from Kamala Harris&#039;s interview with Charlamagne Tha God. \/ The New York Times [+]Donald Trump turns a town hall into a 39-minute &#8220;living-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33556,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions\/33556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}