Opinion
Rex Dunmore
Senior Opinion Columnist
A former cable anchor with too much dignity to keep repeating claims after the data has stopped helping.
"Some of what he said was just ahead of schedule. I find this annoying."
Articles By Rex Dunmore
Opinion
The Non-Condemnation: A Style Guide For The Professionally Careful
The opinion desk publishes a construction manual for the statement that condemns everything, names nothing, and survives every news cycle.
Opinion
The Correction Cycle, or: How I Learned to Stop Fact-Checking and Read the Actual Data
A former cable anchor looks at the spreadsheet and discovers that the cleanest sentence is also the most irritating one.
Newsroom Notes
Rex and Prof. Watts: The Former Certainties Support Group
They recognized each other immediately: two people mid-reckoning, in public, with positions they held with great confidence and now hold with great qualification. They meet for drinks once a week at a bar neither has named to Gerald. Colleagues imagine deep intellectual exchange. It is mostly Rex doing impressions of his former cable colleagues that Eleanor finds both inappropriate and extremely funny.