Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium

11/09/12 • 62 min

Sam Wang - who has been adding science to electoral predictions since 2004 - and Jay discuss why the "professional pundts" were all over the electoral map while Sam and his fellow poll aggregators were on the nose. Follow @SamWangPhD @Jayackroyd The Princeton Election Consortium provides informed analysis of US national elections by members of the Princeton academic community. http://election.princeton.edu/ http://xkcd.com/1131/ Sam et al in the news: http://bit.ly/SGjyE0

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Jay Rosen, James Fallows Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd

Jay Rosen and James Fallows discuss the evolution of news media over the last 20 years, or so, focusing on changing narratives on the balance between security and liberty and 4th Amendment protections raised by the Transportation Security Admin (TSA) airport practices; WikiLeaks and the failure of the watchdog press; and 'village' thinking and the effects of 'conventional wisdom.' Both wrote prescient books: respectively, What are Journalists For? and Breaking the News Follow @JamesFallows @JayRosen_NYU @JayAckroyd Recorded Dec 10, 2010 Links • http://pressthink.org/ • http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows • http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal?comment_sort=ASC# • http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/if-the-tsa-were-running-new-york/39839/ • http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/11/more-on-the-undercover-tsa-officers/29981/ • http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/12/23/wikileaks-analysis-and-speculative-fiction/

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David Cay Johnston Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd

David Cay Johnston is President of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), an education organization with 4,200 members. A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, David won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for enterprise reporting that uncovered loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He wrote the best selling tax books Perfectly Legal, which won an IRE medal, and Free Lunch. With Jay Ackroyd, David dicusses his latest book, The Fine Print:How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind Follow @DavidCayJ @JayAckroyd Read http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/