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Il était une (dernière) fois dans l’Ouest..
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/il-etait-une-derniere-fois-dans-louest

Il était une (dernière) fois dans l’Ouest...

David Leonhardt, commentateur régulier (quotidien) du New York Times, n’est certainement pas, comme l’on dit, de notre parti. Libéral américaniste, c’est-à-dire progressiste-sociétal, globaliste postmoderne, atlantisteet ultralibéral du point de vue économique, il réunit toutes les “qualités” définissant un de ces postmodernes du parti des salonards que nous tenons comme les meilleurs auxiliaires du Système. La citation que nous faisons d’une de ses chroniques comme exemplaire d’une tentative d’explication du comportement de Trump, – dont Leonhardt est l’ennemi juré pour toutes les raisons habituelles de son courant de pensée, – n’en a que plus d’intérêt à nos yeux.

Cette explication nous paraît particulièrement juste, tout comme l’analyse du personnage-Trump ; (...)

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
DAVID LEONHARDT, The New York Times, le 7 août 2017
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html

Avec de superbes graphiques (que j’ai l’impression d’avoir déjà vu ici, mais pas de petite flèche qui s’affiche...)

#Pauvres #Riches #Inégalités #Enrichissement #Très_très_riches

“The Upshot” is the New York Times’ replacement for Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight - Quartz
▻http://qz.com/185922/the-upshot-is-the-new-york-times-replacement-for-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight

“The Upshot.” That’s the name the #New_York_Times is giving to its new #data-driven venture, focused on politics, policy and economic analysis and designed to fill the void left by Nate Silver, the one-man traffic machine whose statistical approach to political reporting was a massive success.
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David Leonhardt, the Times’ former Washington bureau chief, who is in charge of The Upshot, told Quartz that the new venture will have a dedicated staff of 15, including three full-time graphic journalists, and is on track for a launch this spring. “The idea behind the name is, we are trying to help readers get to the essence of issues and understand them in a contextual and conversational way,” Leonhardt says. “Obviously, we will be using data a lot to do that, not because data is some secret code, but because it’s a particularly effective way, when used in moderate doses, of explaining reality to people.”

#sites_de_presse #data_journalism

The Times Is Working on Ways to Make Numbers-Based Stories Clearer for Readers
▻http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/the-times-is-working-on-ways-to-make-numbers-based-stori

Concernant les chiffres, le New York Times décide de ne plus en parler isolément sans les mettre en perspective,

Toward that end, I just finished speaking with David Leonhardt, someone who is well positioned to do something about this. Not only is he the Washington bureau chief, but he also is a Pulitzer Prize-winning economics writer. (...)

He agrees that there is a problem, and told me that The Times is already working on a solution. A small group of editors is “thinking through a whole set of issues about how we present numbers,” he told me. The results, he said, will probably be determined within a couple of months. They might take the form of new entries to the stylebook, announcements within newsroom departments or e-mails laying out new guidelines to the whole news staff.

Ceci après une série de critiques,

And while he noted that the recent pressure for change is “coming from the left,” specifically the economist-writer Dean Baker and MoveOn.org – which now has more than 18,000 signatures on a petition — this is not a partisan issue.

Réaction de Dean Baker,

Numbers in Context : Big Congrats to the New York Times and Margaret Sullivan
▻http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/numbers-in-context-big-congrats-to-the-new-york-times-and-margaret-sullivan

Anyhow, we will see exactly how the NYT ends up dealing with the issue, but they deserve a great deal of credit for recognizing the problem and trying to address it. Margaret Sullivan, the paper’s public editor, deserves special credit for taking this one on and pressing it with the paper’s edtors. Also Bob Naiman, at Just Foreign Policy, played an important role in initiating a petition at Move-On on this issue, which eventually got almost 19,000 signatures. That’s pretty impressive for the ultimate wonk petition.