For me, the point isn't whether Silver was right or not (which he was, in spades), but how much (and well) the right has worked the refs so that the traditional media have been utterly cowed into not covering any story in such a way that they can be called for "liberal bias."
I think most reporters and journalists are "leftist" by nature (at its best, journalism should question the status quo, imo), but years of pressure have led us to "one side says this/the other side says that" reporting, so I don't expect "the media" to apologize or contextualize Silver's predictions any more than I expect them to anathematize Dick Morris for his own ludicrous predictions, the Sunday yack shows to stop booking McCain, or Beltway pundits to stop emitting risible gas. --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 1:16:11 AM UTC-8, PGage wrote: > > After a long (and exhilarating) day and night following the election > returns (I got home early from work and set up in my home bunker about 2:00 > pm PT, and am just now about to leave my bunker (to get some lectures done > for class tomorrow) at 12:47 am PT. > > I wound up watching a lot of CBS, CNN and NBC/MSNBC. As suspicious as I > was going into this about the quality of the coverage, I thought all 4 of > these organizations did a fair to good job, at least compared to my very > low expectations. > > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
