Nate Silver Made Enemies at The NY Times
By now you know that Nate Silver is leaving The New York Times for ESPN. And you’ve probably read 73 articles about why he left. Well, courtesy of Margaret Sullivan, the Times public editor, we have more information on his departure. Apparently, quite a few people at the Times didn’t like ol’ Nate.
In a column, Sullivan writes that Silver’s method of covering politics — an emphasis on numbers, not blabbering — rubbed some staffers the wrong way:
A number of traditional and well-respected Times journalists disliked his work.
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