Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[mtutiger]

1 hour ago, pfife said:

I think Silver really went wayward when he started deviating from data analytics based proclamations to opinion based proclamations. 

This is right, and it manifested itself in a number of realms - both political and on COVID. It really got, and continues to be, old to have NYC resident Nate Silver pontificating to many of his readers who don't live on the coasts about what "Real Americans" think. Or hearing him talk about COVID experience from his POV when it didn't necessarily match the experience of everyone in the country.

The nuts and bolts of what he has done on data is extremely valuable and I don't hold him in as low of regard as I do as The Cook Political Report set (ie. Wasserman, Walter), but the site has been a lower priority than in the past because of that and just the tendency of the journalism there to be a bit repetitive.

[chasfh]

7 hours ago, The Ronz said:

I thought his name was "Quicksilver" - the whole word and not an abbreviation.

Anywho, I think he worked for the Government.

Did Nate Silver ever work for the Government?

 

I thought I remember it being qksilver?

[The Ronz]

You and Lee could be right.

I honestly don't remember exactly what it was, but it seemed to be more than just Qslvr or something like that.

 

 

[oblong]

Maybe quicksilvr?

[gehringer_2]

9 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't remember.  I thought it was an abbreviation, but that could have just been what people called him.  

The correct abbreviation for Quicksilver would have been Hg.

🤔

[romad1]

This guy definitely will convince a major news organization to spend a lot of money to wreck their network

 

[chasfh]

Thank you, Wayback Machine.

[Jim Cowan]

Garth McKinney, wow.  1 for 4 at West Michigan with a double, a walk, a stolen base, and 2 strikeouts.  I wonder where he is working now.

[oblong]

3 minutes ago, Jim Cowan said:

Garth McKinney, wow.  1 for 4 at West Michigan with a double, a walk, a stolen base, and 2 strikeouts.  I wonder where he is working now.

With a name like that I assume Toronto?

[Jim Cowan]

1 minute ago, oblong said:

With a name like that I assume Toronto?

More likely he stayed in Grand Rapids and is selling cars?  

[mtutiger]

Credit to Silver on this one.... one of many perplexing moments from the 2022 Midterm Cycle for the Analyst class

[oblong]

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[smr-nj]

Well, also according to her today, if you’re an adoptive or a step-parent, you’re not a real mom or dad.

Can you even believe the f’ing nerve of her?

[Motown Bombers]

 

[CMRivdogs]

Former mayor of Cincinnati, and King of Trash TV

 

 

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Wait until this Supreme Court reinterprets the First Amendment to extend responsibility for it beyond just government to media. Wouldn't that be a great day for America.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Comforting though this might be, I have my doubts as to whether this is immutable law. Someone somewhere is going to turn this assumption on its ear.

[pfife]

Sad

 

 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, pfife said:

Sad

 

 

Is it? Something always felt off about the company's product to me.

[RatkoVarda]

CNN ready to amplify Trump's lies without any push back

 

[ben9753]

Yay get ready for the great whitewashing. CNN is being used by Trump and they’re either too stupid to see it or too craven to care. Not sure which is worse. 

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

Yay get ready for the great whitewashing. CNN is being used by Trump and they’re either too stupid to see it or too craven to care. Not sure which is worse. 

Licht strikes again. Trump always finds suckers in the US media to supply his oxygen.

[Tigerbomb13]

CNN is awful

[RatkoVarda]

This will be a train wreck and CNN won't care.