nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...
It reminds me of the way tabloids (back when they were distinct from “real” newspapers) used to have annual psychics’ predictions for the coming year in Dec, but never managed to include a scorecard of accuracy of those predictions at the end of the year. So easy to dream, so hard to be right.
