Almost Everyone's Instinct Is To Be Overconfident

If The State Polls Are Right, Then Mr. Obama Will Win The Electoral College. If You Can't Acknowledge That After A Day When Mr. Obama Leads 19 Out Of 20 Swing-state Polls, Then You Should Abandon The Pretense That Your Goal Is To Inform Rather Than Entertain The Public.

I Know It's Cheaper To Fund An Op-ed Columnist Than A Team Of Reporters, But I Think It Confuses The Mission Of What These Great Journalistic Brands Are About.

The Protestant Reformation Had A Lot To Do With The Printing Press, Where Martin Luther's Theses Were Reproduced About 250,000 Times. And So You Had Widespread Dissemination Of Ideas That Hadn't Circulated In The Mainstream Before.

A Lot Of The Time Nothing Happens In A Day.

A Lot Of Journalism Wants To Have What They Call Objectivity Without Them Having A Commitment To Pursuing The Truth, But That Doesn't Work. Objectivity Requires Belief In And A Commitment Toward Pursuing The Truth - Having An Object Outside Of Our Personal Point Of View.