This is not a story about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl
Well, maybe a little
This is not a column about Taylor Swift. It is possibly something more ridiculous, a column about all the columns about Taylor Swift. And yet attention must be paid, because so much attention is being paid. That is the ineluctable logic of the media-politics complex, a philosophical school of which Donald Trump is the American Aristotle. Ms Swift is no slouch, either.
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United States February 10th 2024
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- This is not a story about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl
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