Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Can you imagine how much good journalism the New York Times and other media outlets ...

Can you imagine how much good journalism the New York Times and other media outlets could do if they stopped spending vast amounts of money and journalistic resources on polls?

Survey research is an important tool in society, but its use in political journalism is nothing more than generating easy, expensive, and often wrong "news" instead of doing the hard work we need.