That massive long-ago mistake has instilled in me a quality that is sadly too rare in today’s political journalism — humility.
- Walter Shapiro of Roll Call,
recalling
the night he blew the 1984 New Hampshire Democratic primary call
for Newsweek. I don't know if he's ever flubbed a primary
prediction since, but at least he's now able to reflect with some
modesty that humility like his is a pretty rare thing in his line of
work. So I suppose that must ease the sting of that memory at least a
little.
Perhaps he meant it in the Hemingway sense.
Perhaps he meant it in the Hemingway sense.
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