I remember him well as a political analyst, he was pretty good at that. I think he still might be good at it (he was a more mellow Steve Kornacki). He was also a Russert man, which made him well connected. The problem was that he has never been qualified for any job he got after that. He was a bad WH Correspondent, and even worse than Russert at MTP (though he does less damage because his footprint is not as large).
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:13 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFyzTbo-YfBHJmQVXOsaySEmV9u%2B0TzLDjOvtiv8%3DnTrg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkY%2B9JbcHC%3D%2BYRoQo252qDfbMvjeTYspMcz%3DqxPX68a51yw%40mail.gmail.com.
