Don't count on Aphex Twin for a conventional news announcement.
While Lee largely kept mum on the appointment prior to Monday's announcement, conventional wisdom over the past few weeks had narrowed down the list of possible candidate to Olague and London Breed, the director of the African American Art & Culture Complex in the Western Addition.
The agency has spent about $500,000 to spread the word via more conventional advertisements, public service announcements and fliers, along with its 300 changeable message signs throughout the state.
In some areas, like this week's announcement of renewed conventional arms sales to Iran, his policies run directly counter to Washington's.
A conventional politician with a major announcement to make at short notice would summon one television crew for a "sit down" interview which would then be "pooled" by all the broadcasters who would run it at an agreed time.
Without descending into the Washington parlor game of conventional wisdom about what this announcement signifies for the horse race of who's up and who's down, I would like to reflect on the matter.
Indeed, merely the news that it would purchase government debt drove down long-term interest rates, just as the Fed's announcement did, an entirely conventional stimulus to demand.
Within hours of the announcement of Souter's resignation, conventional wisdom had pegged Sotomayor as the odds-on favorite for the nomination.
President Obama's bold announcement last week on Cuba has upended the conventional narrative that his administration, buffeted by foreign policy crises throughout 2014, had lost its ability to set the international agenda.
Announcements by power plant operators proclaiming that conventional power plants are to be decommissioned or not built at all in the short-to-medium term bear testimony to this development [3,6].
Most acutely, the campaign's decision to text-message the biggest piece of news of the summer season — the announcement of the running mate — ran counter to all conventional wisdom.
