TBH, that doesn't look like a real Estonian classroom either. It looks like a staged classroom for a stock video that perhaps happened to have been shot in Estonia. I'm not sure Cornyn using the stock footage is any less authentic than an Estonian politician using it. I don't think there is a requirement of journalistic integrity for all campaign video imagery. There is no implication that the image is of a particular time and place. It doesn't need to be real school, just some visual stimulus that evokes schoolness. FYI, I found (after more effort than it should have taken -- I think the Cornyn campaign should work on their SEO) the 'Cares' video that Salon describes, and it looks like the Cornyn campaign has replaced the Estonian stock footage with some other footage. So I guess they heard the criticism. Link. I still hope Cornyn loses, but I get so annoyed by so much bs criticism in politics. There's real stuff to be critical about that we don't need to be writing articles about stock footage choices. His ad is fine. The problem is he wants to put kids back in schools but he doesn't want to spend the money to do what it would really take to make that safe.
Well, her job is not unlike that of Sisyphus. Push that rock, push that rock....s***, back to the bottom of the hill. Puuuuush that rock.... This being Texas, John Cornyn could get caught on camera stealing money from a bank, burning down Cheesecake Factory because they don't have "the one with the Oreos", and it'd still be a close race. In his favor. (He'd have to resign when found guilty of the bank robbery, but, still....)
Sure, for Hegar's part. For Salon though -- I'm sure they have their preferred outcome, but they do have a fig leaf of objectivity to maintain. I find my regard for them as a journalistic outfit has been eroding the last couple of years.
I think she needed a Beto style campaign where she drove around and hit as many counties as possible. Hell, would work perfectly if she could drive her bike into each town like she shows in her ads. COVID sort of stopped that, but I don't think she was ever going to do it anyway...only way I think she wins is if there's a huge non-GOP turnout in Texas and it turns blue.
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/02/go...a-giant-accused-of-price-gouging-covid-drugs/ GOP Sen. John Cornyn's ex-staffers lobbied for pharma giant accused of price-gouging COVID drugs Texas Republican has promoted Gilead's pricy COVID drug remdesivir, which multiple ex-staffers lobbied for
