Walt Mossberg

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3/ The smart thing to do is to wait another 60-90 days, extend and increase aid to small businesses and raise and extend unemployment payments for displaced workers to nearly their normal paychecks. And then decide on reopening. It’ll be cheaper in the long run and protect us... — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Some governors are reopening places that could become super-spreaders. There’s no way to truly secure a beach, an amusement park, a crowded nail salon. The pressure from big-business interests and science deniers is damaging us all... — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ New US covid cases keep rising, if you exclude the NYC area. It’s highly contagious, and may be an aerosol that travels farther and lingers longer. We have no cure. We have no vaccine. We still have way too few *reliable* test kits. We don’t know who’s infected. And yet... — PolitiTweet.org

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@KSheives @emiliesdc Have a great night! — PolitiTweet.org

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@cannoneyes This is horrible. I lived in Michigan for a few years in the 1970’s. It was a politically moderate state, a place where things got worked out peacefully and often in a bipartisan way. They elected liberal Carl Levin but also conservative Bob Griffin. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kvox @Twitter I totally agree. If only you knew someone there. — PolitiTweet.org

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@allansteele25 @RedSox @fenwaypark Definitely! — PolitiTweet.org

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Carl Yastrzemski was my hero in 1967. He carried the @RedSox on his back and made them real contenders for the first time in my memory. I skipped college classes to go to @fenwaypark to see him and his great teammates. — PolitiTweet.org

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He’s right. I’d rather have people say we overreacted but spared millions of people, than that we rushed to “reopen” the economy and relax restrictions and invite a new wave of cases and deaths. — PolitiTweet.org

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This launch was a great moment in @WSJ and news media history. Now almost everyone has subscriptions. Huge congrats to EIC @neilbudde, M.E. @richjaro & the entire team. I had a web-only tech Q&A column, Mossberg’s Mailbox, which years later migrated to the print paper. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottMAustin @BGrueskin @WSJ The launch was a great moment in @WSJ and news media history. Now almost everyone has subscriptions. Huge congrats to EIC @neilbudde, M.E. @richjaro & the entire team. I had a web-only tech Q&A column, Mossberg’s Mailbox, which years later migrated to the print paper. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottMAustin @BGrueskin @WSJ The launch was a great moment in @WSJ and news media history. Now almost everyone has subscriptions. Huge congrats to Managing Editor @richjaro and the entire team. I had a web-only column, which years later migrated to the print paper - the opposite of the typical direction. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkVenaTechGuy Only if it’s not premature and people maintain social distancing and mask-wearing. And those are huge ifs in the case of Florida theme parks. They could easily become new super-spreaders even at 50% capacity. I wouldn’t take my family there until the disease is much weaker. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: English teacher Erin Wilder is a news literacy champion and has used @Checkology with her high school students in Georgi… — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ At least back then, the White House beat was prestigious - especially on TV - but not as journalistically satisfying as covering the agencies or the Hill. // — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Instead, I preferred covering agencies like EPA, Treasury, Pentagon and State. You not only interviewed policy makers there, but you could meet with relevant WH officials like the National Security Adviser, who knew your work. Also key members of Congress in your issue area. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Related: when I was a Washington beat reporter long ago, for 18 years, I twice turned down the White House beat because you were mostly trapped in a briefing room with little access to policy makers. And this was in the era of decent press secretaries of both parties. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Here’s an excellent ⁦@Sulliview⁩ column on how Trump has played the press from the start, and how history won’t look kindly on this. https://t.co/4mM2lyqwtT — PolitiTweet.org

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@LaurenGoode @profgalloway @EERP @karaswisher @NYMag @nytimes @voxdotcom @Recode @allthingsd @nytopinion @voxmedia It’s true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EERP @karaswisher @NYMag @nytimes @voxdotcom @Recode @LaurenGoode @allthingsd @profgalloway You have this wrong. She’s continuing her @NYMag Pivot podcast with @profgalloway even as she starts her new podcast with @nytopinion. She’s also continuing to produce the Code Conference for @voxmedia. — PolitiTweet.org

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@patricknward @hulu According to Wikipedia, Goldman strenuously denies that rumor, including in his book. — PolitiTweet.org

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How great was the movie “Good Will Hunting?” We re-watched it tonight on @hulu and loved it as much as in 1998. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were young unknowns who won the Oscar for screenwriting. The late, great Robin Williams earned his supporting actor Oscar with every scene. https://t.co/jq4HXKPB2t — PolitiTweet.org

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How great was the movie “Good Will Hunting?” We re-watched it tonight on @hulu and loved it as much as in 1998. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were young unknowns who won the Oscar for screenwriting. The late, great Robin Williams earned his supporting actor Oscar with every scene. https://t.co/O6gvQuFP5j — PolitiTweet.org

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@CaseyNewton @nealmohan Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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@rfavali @RotoGut Unless the DH is universal, at least for 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RotoGut Would they use the DH or not? And please let’s not debate its merits or flaws here for the millionth time. I’m just asking a factual question. Would the DH exist in all or part or none of this potential 2020 scheme? — PolitiTweet.org

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I knew @karaswisher would amount to something someday. — PolitiTweet.org

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I knew she’d amount to something someday. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NathanBLawrence: You’re all so impressed by floating LCDs but you forgot where you came from https://t.co/5bIV1aUPRj — PolitiTweet.org

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“How remote learning is breaking parents.” Is the ⁦@nytimes⁩ right? https://t.co/et0MPWuZNO — PolitiTweet.org