Sounding More Like an Echo Chamber (and the Decline Continues)
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“I’ve listened happily for many years but have been disappointed by the absence of real and broad ranging dialogue over the past 18 months. Nate Silver still seems tethered to an honest read of the data wherever it leads but the others not so much.
Bring in alternative voices on a more regular basis or a new regular participant more in the style of Salena Zito.
Echo chambers are like comfort food in that they literally keep you in your comfort zone but at the same time make you less healthy if taken to excess. If you don’t address serious arguments seriously but instead resort to ad hominem attacks and obviously cherry picked and unchallenged facts, you get intellectually soft.
Update January 2022: The decline continues. It is becoming unlistenable unless they have guests. 538 continues to descend into an echo chamber of like minded urban progressives barely distinguishable from a group chat of low level DNC staffers and/or MSNBC/NPR interns. Here are two ideas. 1. Nate starts over with a bipartisan and intellectually and geographically diverse group of podcast partners. 2. They keep the existing echo chamber (that presumably provides welcome and unchallenging "comfort food" to their core audience) but at least bring in contrasting views on a more regular basis. This would go beyond the frankly lazy and intellectually dishonest straw man approach they currently love to use.”Read full review »
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01/05/22
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“I have never written an iTunes review before but I'm looking forward to following this podcast as the election progresses.”Read full review »
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“Bringing some clarity and level headedness to a topic full of hyperbolic claims with no evidence attached. Ahh the joys of data.”
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