# Going AWOL #Omnivore ## Colophon title:: Going AWOL type:: [[clipped-note]] tags:: [[&omnivore]] 98._-GA-GSA Newsletter 90._Substacks 90.Just_Read 12._People url:: https://prempanicker.substack.com/p/going-awol archive:: https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3 date:: [[2024-08-15]] ## Highlights tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">issue is with bad drafting of the law, and not with the contents.</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3#5b619d68-d12f-4e7b-9a28-bd790cf1c088) ^5b619d68 Familiar story tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">This is not to diss Sanjay Gupta or even Barkha, but the episode taught me two things: One, to read into any document only what is there, and not what I wish was there and, two, as a media professional, to not get carried away by what I read on social media.</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3#adbde1cd-5e46-492e-af25-91943ecc09c0) ^adbde1cd tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">But the stat that took [my breath away was this](https://substack.com/redirect/c4993c2d-3eec-4976-922b-464a65ebfd04?j=eyJ1IjoiZHI5OW4ifQ.TkB5aaK3urcRAoIqMo7i4RAYnb5GuIc-u8FFruB7GjU): Athletes from four California universities won 89 Olympic medals, out of the total 126 won by the United States. And this, with emphasis: **Athletes from Stanford University alone won more medals — 39 — than all but seven countries in the world.**</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3#9f42d1d6-d5e5-4e28-82a3-a05c5a83c74b) ^9f42d1d6 tags:: > <mark class="omni omni-yellow">What, I now wonder, was the point of writing all this, though? Santosh Abraham put it best when, reacting on Twitter to my piece, **[he said](https://substack.com/redirect/d74c09bb-87c8-4a57-9ca3-f31b4ad07186?j=eyJ1IjoiZHI5OW4ifQ.TkB5aaK3urcRAoIqMo7i4RAYnb5GuIc-u8FFruB7GjU)**:</mark> ><mark class="omni omni-yellow"> Excellent article! One of those where everything said and suggested is so right that obviously, nothing will be actually implemented.</mark> <mark class="omni omni-yellow">Ah well — I’ll do an updated version of this piece in 2028\. Until then…</mark> [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3#5afa79e9-9049-4862-943c-e51f72a331ce) ^5afa79e9 [Read on Omnivore](https://omnivore.app/me/going-awol-191557280a3) [Read Original](https://prempanicker.substack.com/p/going-awol)