Sorry Not Sorry: The Media's Hollow Year-End Ritual

Semafor's latest "mistakes" roundup proves accountability is dead.

Let's talk about Semafor's annual "The things we got wrong" piece, which manages to be a perfect case study in everything it claims to address about media mistakes and accountability.

The setup is simple enough: 48 media figures reflecting on their incorrect predictions from 2024. But what could have been a genuine moment of accountability instead reads …