The Rose in the Worm

It's not just technology that brought American journalism down. We have seen the enemy and he is us. I'll try to explain it here
Mon Jun 9

“The polls aren’t there to tell the real story; they are there to support the various different stories that the commentators want to tell. The market is not for the hard truth, because the hard truth this time round is that most people are voting with the predictability of prodded animals.” David Runciman, London Review of Book, June 5 2008