David Pakman

What would fix it?

At some kind of basic level, you need to rebuild an accountability, an accountability loop, and it has to be part of normal political media.

If someone makes a prediction, you've got to revisit it.

If someone makes a claim, we have to go back and compare it to what actually happened.

And then when people get it wrong, we've got to make it visible.

We're not doing gotchas.

It's called having standards in any other field.

If you were wrong, as often of some of these political people are trust in you would decline your ability to earn an income with your predictions would decline in politics, especially in the Trump era.

It has no consequences.

And in fact, it often is rewarded.

Say whatever gets attention right now and then you never have to look back.

I don't believe in just blaming the average person.

But it takes two to tango.

And if audiences don't hold their elected officials or media figures to some kind of standard of truth, then it follows naturally that they would keep doing it because they keep getting away with it.

So we have to do our part as audience members.

And I say that as someone who consumes content.

I have to do my part as a content creator, but we do need to push for truth to matter and for getting it wrong to destroy people's credibility.

Now, if you are analyzing something thoughtfully and you say, hey, listen, I'm like 60 40, I think this is more likely.

That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the confident this will happen.