Trump supporters photographed last month in New York City, where Fox News head Roger Ailes is currently in the process of being fired.
Trump supporters photographed last month in New York City, where Fox News head Roger Ailes is currently in the process of being fired. a katz / Shutterstock.com

Too much news is happening. It's making me queasy. As you just read on Slog, Donald Trump is officially the Republican nominee for president. The delegates have spoken.

Meanwhile, the putative-if-not-literal head of the Republican Party, Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, is being fired, we all just learned. Or as the New York Times much more delicately puts it, he and his bosses "are in the advanced stages of discussions that would lead to his departure." (For context: this and this.)

Also in New York right now, the Times is busily trying to get to the bottom of how Melania Trump ended up delivering a plagiarized speech last night. The brouhaha has set off "a cascade of finger-pointing and confusion," with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (now a CNN commentator) saying current Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort might need to resign, and a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign explaining Melania's speech by saying: "She really wanted to communicate to Americans in phrases they’ve heard before."

Bahahahahaha.

Since the plagiarized speech had social media convulsing last night like the second coming of a gold/white/black/blue dress, I wondered, as I went to bed last night, how the Seattle Times was going to deal with it on their cover this morning. They're not as bad as Fox News, but everyone knows Seattle Times skews right. Would they use the word "plagiarize"? Would they say something softer like "striking similarities to Michelle Obama's speech"? Would they mention this aspect of it? Plus what about all the floor craziness yesterday in Cleveland?

It's not like they were going to cover for Trump and pretend that stuff didn't happen under, say, a huge Hillary-bashing headline, right?

Uhhhh:

Can you spot whats missing?
Can you spot all the things that are missing? Ava Cole

The main thing that headline communicates is Hillary fury. Weird thing to make your main point about yesterday. Meanwhile, there's no headline describing the bedlam on the floor of the convention nor is there a headline about #MelaniaTrumpQuotes. But there is a huge headline (twice as big as "Trump's wife speaks") about baby herons.

Interesting choices.