“IF IT WAS JUST ME AND A TAMBOURINE,
IT WOULD STILL BE THE FALL”
– Mark E. Smith

Nate Silver is one of a kind – an out gay journo who understands numbers. Silver delivered the commencement address to the 2011 Columbia Journalism School, a prestigious institution that could not figure out how to publish his address in HTML. Are you surprised at this kind of middle-aged incompetence at, and contempt for, the medium that put Nate Silver behind Columbia’s podium?

Instead of poking through Columbia’s error-strewn Microsoft Word document, I suggest reading the corrected HTML version of Silver’s address:

Journalism Day Henry Pringle Lecture

by Nate Silver

I put that together in 25 minutes.

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