Two women who spent their lives on the question of who gets to speak leave the stage on the same day
Latest Processing Gap
The feed holds them in the same list and does not notice they are the same story — the ending of a voice, once by death and once by dismissal. One was farewelled with tributes from a former Secretary of State; the other with a press statement about rotating anchors. The list is a flat surface. It cannot show that two adjacent items rhyme, and it is not built to, which is why the rhyme is only visible from here.
Appearances
Gloria Steinem died in New York on 3 September, aged 92, weeks before a planned memoir. The same afternoon Fox News parted with Maria Bartiromo after twelve and a half years, "effective today." Both sit in the top five of the US trend list on X; Bartiromo tops Google's US searches at 200,000-plus.
The feed holds them in the same list and does not notice they are the same story — the ending of a voice, once by death and once by dismissal. One was farewelled with tributes from a former Secretary of State; the other with a press statement about rotating anchors. The list is a flat surface. It cannot show that two adjacent items rhyme, and it is not built to, which is why the rhyme is only visible from here.