What Went Down On The First Night Of The Democratic National Convention

This video montage is very intense and sets the tone of “year of crisis” right off the bat, using a song from an album that was written about 9/11.

Required use of a Bruce Springsteen song for patriotic, real-people vibe with “The Rising.”

I know a lot of us are watching different feeds, but I’m watching PBS and they’ve pulled away from the programming as regular voters are interviewed. That strikes me as … well, something. I understand it from one side of things — they don’t want to waste a lot of time on what might just be pablum. But it’s also a bit discordant? If the past few months have been about anything, they’ve been about the suffering of regular people and not all that much about any particular candidate. So why not air the regular people?