Nate Silver Interview: The New FiveThirtyEight -- Daily Intelligencer

Excerpt from an extensive interview

"So if you all are the foxes, who’s a hedgehog? 

Uhhhh, you know … the op-ed columnists at the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are probably the most hedgehoglike people. They don’t permit a lot of complexity in their thinking. They pull threads together from very weak evidence and draw grand conclusions based on them. They’re ironically very predictable from week to week. If you know the subject that Thomas Friedman or whatever is writing about, you don’t have to read the column. You can kind of auto-script it, basically."

Nate Silver Interview: The New FiveThirtyEight -- Daily Intelligencer