Media Irony

Analysis | International

Michelle Beisner-Buck: Sideline Siren of a Sinking Superpower
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

Michelle Beisner-Buck: The Sideline Reporter Who Accidentally Became a Geopolitical Barometer By the time most of the planet’s 195 nations had finished arguing about the shape of the COP28 negotiating table, Michelle Beisner-Buck was already on a tarmac in Qatar, squinting into a desert sunset and asking an NFL linebacker how he planned to “finish…

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Analysis | International

From Schrute to Global Guru: How Rainn Wilson Accidentally Became the UN’s Favorite Climate Comic
ByDaveslocker 8 September 2025

Rainn Wilson: How a Paper-Selling Schrute Became the Planet’s Unlikely Moral Compass By Our Man in Copenhagen, Still Wondering When Satire Died If you had told a roomful of mid-2000s cubicle drones that the beet-farming, Battlestar-loving oddity on their screens would one day be schooling the United Nations on climate grief, they’d have assumed you’d…

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