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Packy McCormick
Digital CultureWho is Packy McCormick in the Agency editorial?
Packy McCormick is an American writer, the author of Not Boring, a newsletter about business and technology published on Substack. Issue.14 names him once, in the author's prose, as the place where a set of graphs about news headlines was first seen: the Not Boring issue called Weekly Dose of Optimism #40.
In short
Packy McCormick is an American writer, the author of Not Boring, a newsletter about business and technology published on Substack. In the Agency editorial he appears in a single sentence of Issue.14. The section called Objective Reality opens with graphs credited to Rozado, Hughes and Halberstadt in PLOS, and the author writes that they were first seen on the Not Boring Substack by Packy McCormick, specifically in the Weekly Dose of Optimism #40. The edition uses the graphs to say that negative sentiment in news headlines has been growing. It says nothing else about McCormick.
Key facts
- Who is Packy McCormick?
- An American writer, the author of Not Boring, a newsletter about business and technology published on Substack.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Packy McCormick?
- In Issue.14, in one sentence at the start of the section called Objective Reality, as the source where the author found a set of graphs.
- What does Issue.14 say about him?
- Only that the graphs were first seen on the Not Boring Substack by Packy McCormick, in the Weekly Dose of Optimism #40. The graphs themselves are credited to Rozado, Hughes and Halberstadt.
Who is Packy McCormick?
Packy McCormick is an American writer. He is the author of Not Boring, a newsletter about business and technology published on Substack; the Weekly Dose of Optimism is a recurring series of that newsletter. No dates or other card facts are given for him here.
How does Packy McCormick appear in Issue.14?
Issue.14 has a section called Objective Reality. The author says that the first time he saw a certain set of graphs, they confirmed many hypotheses he had about the reality around us, and that the material was first seen on the Not Boring Substack by Packy McCormick, specifically in the Weekly Dose of Optimism #40. The graphs, credited in the caption to Rozado, Hughes and Halberstadt in PLOS, analyse the sentiment of news headlines over two decades. McCormick is named as the place where the author found them and is not mentioned again.
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