On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:40 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Im just going to leave this Tweet here (which leads to MANY others) > detailing how Chuckie Todd got his ass handed to him today by Symone > Sanders. Wish more cable news guests would do this. > > https://twitter.com/montyboa99/status/1263924878350209025?s=21 >
Following the success of the Moneyball approach in sports and Freakonomics approach to economics, there was a move to a more data driven approach in other fields. Nate Silver led this in political analysis, and there was backlash in other fields, the mainstream news media pretended it was for amateurs and hobbyists. Chuck Todd took it seriously and as the approach proved its worth Todd's image began to rise in NBC News. Todd didn't build his own data driven models or even understand how the models were built. In his early days he would appear on panels on political news shows and where other journalists would report from their sources, Todd would report from FiveThirtyEight or other publicly available sources. It made Todd appear innovative and forward thinking even though he wasn't the one analyzing the data. Now that the news media have all accepted the FiveThirtyEight approach as mainstream Todd doesn't stand out from the pack. So Todd doesn't (and can't) bring anything new to Meet The Press. His political instincts and biases are the same as all the others'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFyzTbo-YfBHJmQVXOsaySEmV9u%2B0TzLDjOvtiv8%3DnTrg%40mail.gmail.com.
