Knee-deep in politics: A Democrat Party member pointing to a picture of Donald Trump on a door hanger with a voter registration list ahead of the California Primary election in Santa Ana, California. — Reuters
ONE of the funny things about a newsroom is that you will occasionally hear journalists speak with great authority about breaking news or an electoral prediction that their absolutely reliable source has given them.
I remember being assured numerous times between 2011 and 2013 about both the timing of GE13 and the impending fall of the Selangor state government, for example. Predictions in which the confidence of the assertion was exceeded only by the substantial scale of error, and speed and conviction with which said error was brushed aside.
