The Iowa Reckoning: A Year’s Worth of Political Blather Told Us Precisely Nothing
Cross-posted on techPresident
Well, who was the big loser in the Iowa caucuses? It wasn’t Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton, and it certainly wasn’t Ron Paul. The big loser was political punditry.
Note that I did not say “political journalism,” even though I talked about the bandwidth limitations of traditional political reporting just a week ago. Political journalism was alive and well this season, particularly in reporter blogs such as The Trail at the Post and The Caucus at the Times. Many, many mainstream journalists did excellent work in Iowa, for instance by following local organizers or chronicling the amazing democratic spectacle of the caucuses themselves. Many nontraditional voices chimed in as well, including a few of us in the online political world, usually best focusing on some area of political communications or public policy in which we had a modicum of expertise.
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