BRETT KAVANAUGH/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Senate testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh unspooled over nearly nine hours on Thursday [9-27-18]— about the length of a prestige mini-series, binged Netflix-style in one wrenching, riveting sitting. The mini-series contained multitudes. It was a political drama that doubled as a reality show. It was an interrogation of gender, class and power in #MeToo America. It was a duel of clashing narrators. And it had elements of a major sports broadcast, a showdown between rival squads complete with halftime commentary. As much as the proceedings reflected a nation bitterly divided — ‘This is hell,’ Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, declared around hour seven — it also produced a rare collective civic moment. Every major broadcast and cable network suspended regular programming to carry gavel-to-gavel coverage. Americans gathered with friends and co-workers to watch. Twitter filled up with photos of airplane cabins, seat-back screens aglow with Dr. Blasey’s visage.”
–Michael M. Grynbaum, “Kavanaugh Hearings on TV Offer Riveting Drama to a Captive Nation,” The New York Times online, September 27, 2018