Salon
"We don't have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed. And trying to stampede in effect the process," says
Tom Brokaw. "I think that the people out there are going to begin to make judgments about us if we don't begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding."
Glenn Greenwald notes: "The endless attempts to predict the future and thus determine the outcome of the elections ... is a completely inappropriate role for journalists to play, independent of the fact that they are chronically wrong, ill-informed, and humiliated when they do it."
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Pundits seemed ticked that their story line failed to materialize (WP)
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TV anchors, analysts struggle to reconcile NH predictions and results (BG)
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Kaplan: Pundit class forced to eat the words of its premature obits (HP)
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How does the news media come back after being so far off? (Politico)
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Don't fall for news media's "comeback" and "upset" headlines (Phoenix)
