Riding on His Rims

TV news can make a really big story just plain ridiculous

Brooke Ramey Nelson
Politically Speaking
7 min readMar 16, 2021

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It never rains, it pours. And while everyone exaggerates a little bit, the sum is always greater than a story’s parts, if television news has anything to say about it — even if that story travels way beyond the arc of mere plot and becomes a spectacle in its own right.

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Brooke Ramey Nelson
Politically Speaking

Native Texan & Mizzou Journalism grad. I’ve worked in newspapers, politics, PR & as a high school pubs adviser/AP English teacher. TOP WRITER?