Jack Shafer at Politico:
"The over-reliance on predictive journalism does a disservice to everybody."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/20/pundits-blew-midterm-results-00069539
One thing he misses: The press organizes election coverage around the "who's gonna win?" for many reasons. It's easy. It's portable. It sells. But it's also that "who's gonna win?" feels to them like a non-ideological question.
That makes it "safe" for journalists to dive in, even though the predictions themselves are risky— and often end in ridicule.
@jayrosen_nyu It's covering an election like it's a football pre-game show.
