Election Polls Are Increasingly Useless. Can We Get Rid of Them?
Once upon time, daily TV ratings reports were quite significant. Every weekday morning, The Hollywood Reporter would compile the Nielsen overnight ratings and search for an intriguing narrative hidden within the data. This kind of coverage was highly valued across all trade publications in the industry. However, as the era of streaming and on-demand content emerged, the importance of a show’s initial performance dwindled. As a result, by 2020, The Hollywood Reporter started reporting only the overnight ratings in exceptional cases, as the numbers were becoming increasingly irrelevant.