‘Monitoring the Situation’ Is How the Internet Handles Crisis
It’s easy to understand the allure of data dashboards amid the Iran war.
Over the weekend, the prediction market Polymarket ran a pop-up bar called The Situation Room to capitalize on a meme of the moment. In a new Buying Power column, Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Amanda Mull writes about the news-as-entertainment trend. You can read an excerpt below and find the whole column here free. Plus: Black business leaders discuss the DEI backlash, and John Ternus emerges as a candidate for the next Apple CEO.
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