--- title: Are political journalists always wrong? | daily.dev description: A personal reflection on the inaccuracy of political journalism, prompted by UK Prime Minister coverage. The author informally tracked 'sources say' headlines... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/are-political-journalists-always-wrong--dacushl3j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Are political journalists always wrong? | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection on the inaccuracy of political journalism, prompted by UK Prime Minister coverage. The author informally tracked 'sources say' headlines... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/are-political-journalists-always-wrong--dacushl3j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DACusHl3j.png og:image:alt: Are political journalists always wrong? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Are political journalists always wrong? **[Terence Eden](https://daily.dev/sources/shkspr)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A personal reflection on the inaccuracy of political journalism, prompted by UK Prime Minister coverage. The author informally tracked 'sources say' headlines during a cabinet reshuffle and found roughly 85% were wrong. Drawing inspiration from The Economist's LLM-powered self-audit of its own forecasting accuracy, the author calls for someone to build a leaderboard ranking political journalists by the accuracy of their rumours using newspaper archives and a local AI model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devmandan** · 1 upvotes > There seems to be a spelling error in your title. > > `Are political journalists always spouting agenda driven bullshit?` > > There we go. Always proof read! **@ricktonoli** · 1 upvotes > We only have ourselves to blame, the success of "news" is now measured on emotional impact rather than factual accuracy, which often is an after thought. > > Marginally true with hyper sensation trumps factually accurate any day when it comes to the true value that every news outlet chases... attention! **@ezee** · 0 upvotes > They know that most people only read headlines so they "get away" with creating the narrative they want within the headline when the article says something different, (and the source says something different still). Been doing this a long time. Saying they are merely wrong is letting them off the hook, it's purposefully misleading. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Honestly after 15 years of hiring…](https://daily.dev/posts/honestly-after-15-years-of-hiring--uu5fabukk) · Justin Searls · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news](https://daily.dev/posts/the-consequences-of-relying-on-ai-for-accurate-news-mmnypcbmi) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-claude-gemini-and-grok-are-not-ready-to-brief-american-voters-l5k5tlnyb) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [We Thought We Had Predicted the World Cup.](https://daily.dev/posts/we-thought-we-had-predicted-the-world-cup--c9xqjvull) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/are-political-journalists-always-wrong--dacushl3j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Are political journalists always wrong?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/are-political-journalists-always-wrong--dacushl3j","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/are-political-journalists-always-wrong--dacushl3j"},"datePublished":"2026-07-30T11:36:08.164Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:04:31.675Z","description":"A personal reflection on the inaccuracy of political journalism, prompted by UK Prime Minister coverage. 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Always proof read!","datePublished":"2026-07-31T10:28:05.413Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/DACusHl3j#c-VCLLKWDkq","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel","url":"https://daily.dev/devmandan","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ypn2TBF9--/f_auto/v1786619820/avatars/avatar_qDApMJOupymFKtjAmmtB4?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"We only have ourselves to blame, the success of “news” is now measured on emotional impact rather than factual accuracy, which often is an after thought.\nMarginally true with hyper sensation trumps factually accurate any day when it comes to the true value that every news outlet chases… attention!","datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:04:17.355Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/DACusHl3j#c-chDKabFo7","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rick Tonoli","url":"https://daily.dev/ricktonoli","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1mKwVOZD--/f_auto/v1745813607/avatars/avatar_54gVqSdbL9DajhGSKNFpY"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"They know that most people only read headlines so they “get away” with creating the narrative they want within the headline when the article says something different, (and the source says something different still). Been doing this a long time. Saying they are merely wrong is letting them off the hook, it’s purposefully misleading.","datePublished":"2026-07-31T05:40:55.361Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/DACusHl3j#c-5M4VXwz9d","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"E","url":"https://daily.dev/ezee","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fCfktlbR--/f_auto/v1767451916/avatars/avatar_93JdfDmXtcEWkGXSGC1ne?_a=BAMAK+ZW0"}}]} ```