NYT Makes Changes To ‘Election Needle’ So Readers Won’t Cry – IOTW Report

NYT Makes Changes To ‘Election Needle’ So Readers Won’t Cry

DC: The New York Times is changing a voting data graphic that many readers claim led them to falsely believe then-candidate Donald Trump would lose the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.

TheNYT is working to avoid triggering panic attacks among people who felt the election needle duped them into believing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily win. The needle supposedly created confusion between real-life election data and flawed predictive polling.

“Until we get a sufficient sampling of early results to make that model meaningful, we won’t even surface the needle,” Managing Editor Joe Kahn told Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo Monday. There will now be two needles – one for the House and one for the Senate – and neither will be placed high up on the front page, he said. MORE

12 Comments on NYT Makes Changes To ‘Election Needle’ So Readers Won’t Cry

  1. In other news, the New York Times will also be censoring final scores of all Knicks, Nets, Mets and Jets games so as to avoid triggering New York sports fans. The Times sports page will now be devoted solely to the Yankees and women’s figure skating.

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  2. Am I missing something here?

    2 years after the prior election, and I still don’t know what the fcuk an ‘election needle’ is?

    What fcukin planet is this?

    Are we talking about a graph, or are we crocheting more pussy hats and banana hammocks?

    What kind of millennial bullshit is this?

    It’s a clock you fcuking retread! The big hand doesn’t say shit!

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