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Warning: You are entering a prediction-free zone
Mark Sappenfield
One of the less-helpful things the media does is predict things: elections, wars, economic trends. First, we鈥檙e usually wrong. Second, predicting doesn鈥檛 really help understanding.聽
Today鈥檚 Monitor presents an alternative. Many people are trying to predict what will happen in Gaza or Venezuela. What we do, instead, is look at where people are working toward outcomes.
Of course, we don鈥檛 know what will happen. But the future is made by those working to shape it. Wars will end. Elections will finish. Who is working toward that moment, and what variables are in play? That鈥檚 more than guesswork. It鈥檚 constructive journalism.
