Category Archives for political journalism
Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge
The more I think about the rift between political journalism and Nate Silver, the more it seems that it’s one that’s fundamentally an issue of epistemology — how journalists know what they know. Here’s why I think that’s the case. When … Continue reading
This week in media musings: Obama v. Fox News, and NPR’s social media tact
As Jay Rosen surmised after my last Media Musings, this review is largely curated from Twitter, with some RSS thrown in there to catch anything I might have missed. But because I’ve been out on the road and mostly off … Continue reading