red states rule
08-27-2008, 05:23 AM
More news that will make the left flip out.
Conventional Wisdom
A political convention is like the prom for the pundits. Our pseudoscientific commentariat popularity contest.
It’s not just a big two weeks for Barack Obama and John McCain; it’s a big two weeks for the pundit class, who’ll spend four days in Denver and then four days in St. Paul incessantly chattering about everything the two candidates—and their entourages—say and do. And with some 15,000 credentialed media folk at each convention, the opinionmongers will be trying hard to stand out from the crowd. Who’s most popular? We developed a highly scientific formula to measure their star power, counting blog, newspaper, magazine, and TV-news mentions so far this year, Google hits, and how many presidential debates (in the primaries or planned for the general election) they moderated. Then, each pundit’s popularity in each category was calculated as a percentage of the highest score, and those five percentages were averaged. (So, theoretically, a dominating pundit who topped each tally would end up with a popularity score of 100.) Here’s the top 40.
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/49528/
Conventional Wisdom
A political convention is like the prom for the pundits. Our pseudoscientific commentariat popularity contest.
It’s not just a big two weeks for Barack Obama and John McCain; it’s a big two weeks for the pundit class, who’ll spend four days in Denver and then four days in St. Paul incessantly chattering about everything the two candidates—and their entourages—say and do. And with some 15,000 credentialed media folk at each convention, the opinionmongers will be trying hard to stand out from the crowd. Who’s most popular? We developed a highly scientific formula to measure their star power, counting blog, newspaper, magazine, and TV-news mentions so far this year, Google hits, and how many presidential debates (in the primaries or planned for the general election) they moderated. Then, each pundit’s popularity in each category was calculated as a percentage of the highest score, and those five percentages were averaged. (So, theoretically, a dominating pundit who topped each tally would end up with a popularity score of 100.) Here’s the top 40.
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/49528/