Re:The New York Times Is Eliminating Its Public Editor Role
by hsod on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:36PM
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> Whatever that number was about, it was pretty clear that 90% was not the right number
Was it? Maybe 90% didn't match up with your intuition, but NYT wasn't making that number up out of whole cloth. That's what the polls were saying, as analyzed by the NYT polling staff.
Maybe they were wrong (maybe they weren't-- things that have a 10% chance of happening happen all the time), but you certainly haven't demonstrated, or even really attempted to demonstrate, bias. All you've really said is:
* Trump won
* Your intuition told you he had a greater than 10% chance of winning before election day
> throughout the entire election cycle the narrative was NYT vs. Trump. News organizations and journalists should report stories but should not become the story.
It's important to remember that this narrative largely came (and continues to come) from Trump, and he benefited greatly from it.
Was it? Maybe 90% didn't match up with your intuition, but NYT wasn't making that number up out of whole cloth. That's what the polls were saying, as analyzed by the NYT polling staff.
Maybe they were wrong (maybe they weren't-- things that have a 10% chance of happening happen all the time), but you certainly haven't demonstrated, or even really attempted to demonstrate, bias. All you've really said is:
* Trump won
* Your intuition told you he had a greater than 10% chance of winning before election day
> throughout the entire election cycle the narrative was NYT vs. Trump. News organizations and journalists should report stories but should not become the story.
It's important to remember that this narrative largely came (and continues to come) from Trump, and he benefited greatly from it.