Dem
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GOP
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The feedback on our proposed weekly humor item was about 90% positive, 10% negative. There will be some negative voters who don't write in, for various reasons, so support is likely not quite as overwhelming as it seems. However, even accounting for that, the consensus is pretty broadly in favor of keeping it. Hopefully, we will win over the doubters with the actual content. We'll run the second entry, and a list of potential names, later this week, or early next week.
Meanwhile, the feedback on Three Dot Journalism was something like 99.5% positive and 0.5% negative. And even then, there really weren't any outright negatives, just some "Maybe, maybe not, I don't know for sure." Anyhow, it's definitely clear that this should stay. But, of course, we need a name. We got many, many suggestions, and we've narrowed it down to these:
| Suggestion | Explanation |
| Odds and Ends | Self-evident |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | Monty Python |
| In Other News... | General reference to network news broadcasts |
| News Flashes | Tribute to Staff Dachshund Flash |
| Political Bites/Bytes | It's a website... with pixels... and data |
| Reality Bites/Bytes | Pun, plus... it's still a website... with pixels... and data |
We'd like to hear from readers; you can rank (up to) your top three here. Also, since the positive feedback was instantaneous, we began setting aside items for this feature immediately. That folder already has 27 stories in it, which leads to this question: Should we do this once a week, or twice a week? If we did it twice, it would be on Tuesdays and Fridays, working out (roughly) to a roundup of weekend news, and a roundup of regular-week news. It's not going to be more than twice, it will either be one or two, and that's it. Anyhow, you can also vote on that question at the link.
Please get your votes in by 10:00 p.m. PT. Tomorrow, we'll have a proper entry, under the permanent name. (Z)