Historically, Super Bowl week is a mockable target—a circus-like crush of media nonsense that mostly embarrasses everyone associated with it. But in 2019, how is it different than any other clown car pile-up in American public life? Is modern political coverage some sort of dignified enterprise when compared to football’s? Every machination of Washington, D.C., is breathlessly hyped like destruction’s eve. Social media is a shoelace fire atop a tire fire atop a garbage fire.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2019 20:37 UTC