Area data journalist appears to be completely f––ing new here.
Silver is making the exasperating, pedantic error @resnikoff described the other day: mistaking the performance of a basic sort of bourgeois politesse for commitment to the clubby, fair-minded norms of trad journalism. https://twitter.com/resnikoff/status/1606061501256646656?s=46&t=euTFikp__h4OCyicZM2r_A
Ned Resnikoff on Twitter

“This stuff is just pure class politics. Anyone who is able to convincingly perform a basic sort of bourgeois politesse is "one of us." https://t.co/ZXiezkyBgf”

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Like, no: Weiss in no sense “values transparency,” as anyone with a casual acquaintance with her obfuscation-ridden work can detect. Come the f–– on. https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/1606051704906350593?s=46&t=euTFikp__h4OCyicZM2r_A
Michael Hobbes on Twitter

“Perhaps the answer to this question lies in, I dunno, the work she writes and publishes on her website?”

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