One thing that's fascinated me over the years is how much journalists seem to be unaware of all of the myriad things that are in their newspapers (and now websites). It isn't all "straight journalism." There are opinion pieces. There's a real estate section. There's a book review section and maybe even a magazine with short stories. Pretty sure I spy a comic now and then. Stanley Fish occasionally discovers that carrots are orange and tells us about it. The point is that not everything that falls under the imprint of "The New York Times" or whatever closely follows some platonic model of whatever the hell "journalism" is supposed to be. So I don't even know what it means to not like what Nate Silver did at the Times. Did they not like Dick Cavett either?
I'm not equating the two, I'm just pointing out that the modern newspaper has long been a bundle containing a variety of types of writing.
