Welcome to my second post about a media firestorm following a Nate Silver tweet. He’s potent that way. In recent years Silver’s become a magnet for hysterical overreaction due to a range of reasons, mostly related to media neuroticism regarding politics. These days Nate muses on how a thing might be improved and boom! A certain type of media person goes insane because Nate didn’t “read the room” or whatever. This commentator just “knows” that Nate is “bad” now, and that it is important to snidely broadcast this to the peer group.
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