Nate Silver fundamentally misunderstands his own role in the information ecosystem. He and other journalists are primarily votaries to the mainline political my

Nate Silver fundamentally misunderstands his own role in the information ecosystem. He and other journalists are primarily votaries to the mainline political myths of our time. This idea that they should be skeptical is laughable on its face. They can't do that, not meaningfully. Mostly, they can't actually think outside the religion, but even if they could they can't write skeptically without losing their careers. There is an Overton window, and journalists are the Cerberus of the ideological superstructure of our society. If you're not familiar, Cerberus guards the gates of the Underworld and ensures that the spirits of the dead cannot leave the Underworld and that the living cannot enter it. That's basically the function of "journalists". Mainline newspapers and their scribblers share all the limitations of the governing classes and they never willingly place themselves in minority positions.