8/19/2023 0 Comments Daily kos![]() ![]() ![]() But in saying that, Vanity Fair's editors are also sending the message that right here, right now, its "Next" nominees are nobodies. True, the "Next Establishment" suggests that these are people who might matter in the future. It's a marvelous piece of New York media trickery - flatter the geeks by making them feel included, but corral them into a side room so the real power brokers aren't offended by comparison. more Facebook 1.3M Twitter 275.7K Frequency 13 posts / day FeedSpot 17.3K. Founded in 2002, Daily Kos is a digital media platform for news you can do something about. Kos Elections team provides detailed analysis on congressional elections, state, and local office races year-round. The consolation prize Vanity Fair offers: Its "Next Establishment" list, reserved for the likes of Twitter's Ev Williams. In addition to news and activism, the Daily. Walt Mossberg, now employed by New Establishment perennial Rupert Murdoch, also squeaked in. Silicon Valley gets similar short shrift: The names who make it there are predictable bigs like Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, or Hollywood-crossover types like Jeff Skoll, eBay's first employee turned movie producer. and New York today, but not in the Bay Area for another six days. Preeminent among the magazine world's kingmaking power lists is Vanity Fair's New Establishment, which appears in the October issue - on newsstands in L.A. Once again, Vanity Fair leaves geeks at the kids' power table And we'll cut through all the technical mumbo-jumbo and give it to you straight: He's basically the smartest pollster in America now, amazingly. So of course New York did a big story on this kid, what with his acceptable level of quirk. That's the level of thing that I'm talking about here, people. Nate Silver is the crazy kid who invented PECOTA for Baseball Prospectus and now he's made good in the political prediction world! Can I get a "Woop woop?" Baseball fans? Anybody? Well look, Baseball Prospectus is like The Bible to stat geeks, and PECOTA is like a particularly important passage in that Bible (John 3:16, for example), so the fact that this 30-year-old guy who made it up is suddenly the hottest thing in political polling is unlikely and heartwarming to sports fans and political obsessives alike, to say the least! Nate Silver started writing about how wrong polls were in a little Daily Kos diary, and lo and behold, he ended up predicting the primaries better than anyone! Then all the pros were like, who is this kid? When he revealed himself as a Baseball Prospectus writer, a very thin slice of stat geeks were all like, "ZOMG unbelievably awesome!" Imagine if you found out that Richard Lawson had been selected as the new announcer on Monday Night Football. ![]()
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