Number of the Day

21%: The percentage of adult respondents who express "a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in" US television news in a new Gallup poll. "This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993."

I'm surprised it's still as high as it is, frankly. In any case, the fact that the US media is a garbage nightmare is partly why we can't have nice progressive things.

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