Donde Esta La Informacion?

It's going to be a light posting day... for me, anyway.  I never know what the other folks might be coming up with... so when I get home tonight there may be a few new things to read... but I'll probably post again about West Virginia results later tonight.

Til then, I only have a short one...

I used to read Matthew Yglesias a lot. This was in the "early days" of blog surfing - at least for me - when the bloggers were largely independent, even if they wrote for publications as well. Yglesias - young, hip, interning at The American Prospect - was the first place I saw someone talking about politics, and generating conversations in comments, like I wanted to talk about politics.

Even then, I tended to chalk things up to his youth - his enthusiasm for sports and sports metaphors, his not especially well developed notions of feminism, the often too conclusive nature of his thinking. Some of that has gotten better (like most of the Atlantic's blogroll - hi Andy - the mix of anti-Clitnon because she's her and/or because she's a woman gets muddled)... but one thing hasn't: the not especially deep way Matt sees polling and statistical analysis.

I think it's hard to be a writer and good at math: SAT scores tend to be higher in math than verbal, but the high verbal people often do terribly at math. And then you get out in the world, you start writing... and you have to interpret numbers. Oh dear.

All of which is to say I find this post on the notion of Spanish speaking television news having extra special seriousness in LA hilarious. Because the reason Univision is the number one local newscast in LA is probably because... there's a lot of Spanish speaking people in LA. (As mom reminds me, this is called "the simplest explanation is usually best".) And unlike New York (where the number one local newscast, still, is WABC), there's less assimilation... and less accommodation by the English speaking majority (WNBC, which is affiliated with Univision through parent Universal/NBC, makes the most concerted effort to have Hispanic on-air talent and outreach). And, as far as I can tell, the New York spanish newscasts are not particularly "news-ier" than the English ones. Or more successful.

Yet another reason, I guess, to pick NYC over LA.

As if I had a choice. :)  See ya on the evening side.