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Nate Silver's justification for NYT's embarrassing headline cave is definitely not the slam dunk he thinks it is

Earlier today, former Clinton adviser Mark Penn expressed concern over the New York Times’ decision to cave to the Outrage Mob and change a straightforward, objective headline about Donald Trump’s post-shooting remarks to something a little less straightforward and objective:

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But FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver really doesn’t see what the big deal is. As far as he can tell, the New York Times is just being responsive to subscribers:

Oh, is that all it is?

Basically.

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Welcome to modern journalism, where the only news that’s fit to print is the news you want to hear.

That’s been happening a lot today.

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Guess so.

Meh. That would require shame. We’re not sure he has any.

Guess that’s all we can do now. Oh well.

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