Nate Silver out at Five Thirty Eight

[shadow puppet]

Nate Silver now out at Five Thirty Eight as Disney layoffs hit. Supposedly ABC will keep the data driven site through the 2024 election.

Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division

ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Cmaier]

Nate Silver now out at Five Thirty Eight as Disney layoffs hit. Supposedly ABC will keep the data driven site through the 2024 election.

Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division

ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Yeah, but if his predictions were so great, how come he didn’t see this coming?!?!?!

Oh, he did?

Never mind.

 

[shadow puppet]

LOL. I'm not a follower, just adding his name to the latest firings.

 

[Herdfan]

Since he created it, what stops him from just starting it over?

 

[Yoused]

Since he created it, what stops him from just starting it over?

fivethirtyeight is not going away, just Nate Silver. He can make a new site, but it will be a bit of an upward schlep, as fivethirtyeight has at least two decades of name recognition. It will become like that rice cooker I bought some years ago, thinking that "Cuisinart" was a well-known brand, how bad could it be (spoiler: whoever it was bought the name has turned their product line into overpriced garbage, IME).

 

[Herdfan]

He will be in the same boat as James O'Keefe. They created a thing, brought in other people who then forced them out.