Beside journalism’s addiction to prediction lies another comorbidity: its presumption to set expectations.Of course, we are well familiar with this co-occuring condition in coverage of politics, where journalists think they bring value to public discourse — which they do not — when they predict who will win an election. In the process, they set expectations about what a candidate must do to meet the pundit’s definition of “winning.”

Origen: The Journalism of Expectations. Beside journalism’s addiction to… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither news? | Jan, 2022 | Medium

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