The Platner PR Nightmare: Five Ways He’s Changed the Democratic Party Forever

<![CDATA[Ah, hot-take political journalism. Call it the Stephen A. Smith/Skip Bayless Effect: Whenever big political news breaks, TV’s talking heads are delighted because they have something new to talk about. So they compete for the most virally explosive hot-take on the political controversy du jour, which is how things function in an attention economy. ]]>