By Miss Kubelik
THE BIDENS ARE GETTING A CAT.
Sorry, was there any other news today besides this? Because if so, we haven't seen it.
Oh, wait a sec — maybe we have. Seems that Benedict Donald thinks he's going to hold some sort of 2024 campaign event on Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's Inauguration Day. As with all things Trump, we'll believe it when we see it, because the story will probably change a dozen times between now and January 20. But for right now, let's assume that it happens. What should the news media do? We cats have some advice.
The story is the new administration coming in, not the old one going out. So the press must cover the Inauguration first and foremost. They won't have the usual stories to assign: coffee at the White House, and, thanks to the pandemic, big crowds at the Capitol and zillions of parade watchers along Pennsylvania Avenue. But the main story will be Joe and Kamala, full stop.
How they cover a Benedict Donald event is anyone's guess at this point. For example, where will it take place? Has anyone explained to Trump that if he flies out of Washington on Air Force One on the morning of January 20, his plane will no longer be designated Air Force One in the afternoon, after his rally? So will that have an impact on his site selection? Or should he just pick the godforsaken state of Florida, have some kind of dumb, COVID-busting event there, and go home to sleep in his own tacky Mar-a-Lago bed?
Whatever location Benedict Donald picks, the media should simply cover it later, as news that also took place during the Inauguration. In other words, after the fact.
We're confident that most reputable news organizations will follow that formula. But the interesting question is: What will FOX "News" do? They like to style themselves as a serious news organization. So we're guessing that they will resist any temptation to do split-screen and simply go with the Biden-Harris swearing-in. After all, the truly important people in America will be there. We cats PURR.
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