Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms

What the coverage shows

TechCrunch is the only outlet to foreground Palmer Luckey personally, with the headline and extract saying he plans to stay in California and keep fighting the wealth tax. The New York Times instead frames the topic as a broader fight by billionaires over Prop 40, with an extract about a political ad machine engaged in next week’s elections. Reason stands apart with a headline focused on the tax’s projected cost to the state, not on Luckey’s stance.

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.