From `Dewey Defeats Truman' to dropping the ball on Northwestern's comeback win over Minnesota, Chicago Tribune headline blunders offer a lesson in following the facts, not relying on presumptions.
The biggest upset in US political history happened in 2016 when Trump beat HRC. The headline writers by then had learned their lessons ... no one else did ... least of all the pollsters. So yes, "the Danger of Conventional Wisdom" rained big time on HRC's "break the glass ceiling" big Javitz Center election party parade which was a certainty ... until it wasn't. Now of course the "Conventional Wisdom" is so shredded, that (at least in American politics) there is NO conventional wisdom anymore.
Was the seeming omission of the word “ago” in your first line intentional irony? “Sports, journalism and mistakes (of one kind or another) have been recurring column themes since I launched The Inside Edge column six months.”
The biggest upset in US political history happened in 2016 when Trump beat HRC. The headline writers by then had learned their lessons ... no one else did ... least of all the pollsters. So yes, "the Danger of Conventional Wisdom" rained big time on HRC's "break the glass ceiling" big Javitz Center election party parade which was a certainty ... until it wasn't. Now of course the "Conventional Wisdom" is so shredded, that (at least in American politics) there is NO conventional wisdom anymore.
Was the seeming omission of the word “ago” in your first line intentional irony? “Sports, journalism and mistakes (of one kind or another) have been recurring column themes since I launched The Inside Edge column six months.”
Ha....you give me far too much kredit, Keith 😀. Thanks for the katch.