Challenges to Mainstream Journalism in Baseball and Politics
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Greg Marx
The increasing acceptance of “sabermetric” perspectives by sports media outlets provides a useful framework to think about the relationship between political science and political journalism. In many ways, the experience in the sports world, in which the conventional journalistic narrative proved flexible enough to accommodate quantitative methods and new analytical frameworks, represents an optimistic model for those who hope to see political reporting become more informed by scholarly research. On the other hand, there are important differences between the two cases. For example, political science poses a much larger challenge to the prevailing approach among journalists to everyday reporting than sabermetrics did. For this reason, it have the field may have less influence on practicing journalists than its supporters hope.
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Articles in the same Issue
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- The Media Game: New Moves, Old Strategies
- How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists)
- Challenges to Mainstream Journalism in Baseball and Politics
- Promoting Policy in a Mediated Democracy: Congress and the News
- Polarized Populism: Masses, Elites, and Partisan Conflict
- Advancing a Social Policy Agenda through Economic Policy: Obama's Stimulus and Education Reform
- The Economic Records of the Presidents: Party Differences and Inherited Economic Conditions
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