Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
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#2I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding.
I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
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#3Did the NYTimes just break a story about one of their own employees leaving? The tone of the article is really interesting.
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#4Interesting move. ESPN actually has a seemingly forward attitude to this sort of "technical" info in sports. They have a regular segment called "Sports Science" where they bring in athletes and hook them up to monitors and measure their output. Unfortunately, this just skims the surface in terms of the actual science since there are no write-ups or documentation on how the data was collected. Hopefully we can get some real stats in written form from Silver like we saw when he was at the NYT.
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#5I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding. I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day. Almost every post of his was frontpaged when political campaigns were in full swing. It's also important to note that Fox News is not in the same category that Reddit is in. Fox News reports new findings, Reddit is a social bookmarking website.
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#6I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding. I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News. Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day. Almost every post of his was frontpaged when political campaigns were in full swing. It's also important to note that Fox News is not in the same category that Reddit is in. Fo…
Still, most of Reddit's political frontpage posts are along the lines of "We can't have cute puppies on the frontpage anymore because Republicans just kill them and drink their blood".
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#7I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding. I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News. Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day. Almost every post of his was frontpaged when political campaigns were in full swing. It's also important to note that Fox News is not in the same category that Reddit is in. Fo…
> Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day.
Be that as it may, Nate Silver is actually thoughtful, articulate, and well-reasoned - three words which do not describe /r/politics, etc.
It's not just a matter of which opinions one holds; it's a matter of how intelligently one expresses them and defends them with data and evidence.
(The irony with Reddit's love of FiveThirtyEight - and with the right-wing criticism of FiveThirtyEight being 'partisan' during the 2012 election cycle - is that Nate Silver is not himself an entirely left-wing person as much as people often thing. You'd have to dig pretty deep back into the archives of pre-NYT FiveThirtyEight to notice this, but he holds rather somewhat moderate or right-wing views on a number of issues).
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#8I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding. I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News. Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day. Almost every post of his was frontpaged when political campaigns were in full swing. It's also important to note that Fox News is not in the same category that Reddit is in. Fo…
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Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#9Did the NYTimes just break a story about one of their own employees leaving? The tone of the article is really interesting.
I've always thought this was an interesting dynamic too. The Boston Globe recently had a front page article about who is buying the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/27/least-five-gr...
Re: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
#10Did the NYTimes just break a story about one of their own employees leaving? The tone of the article is really interesting.
I've always thought this was an interesting dynamic too. The Boston Globe recently had a front page article about who is buying the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/27/least-five-gr...
Each news organization is different. Bloomberg News editorial policy is to not cover anything involving the company -- even if a story appears in every other source, positive or negative, it's still off limits.