# Who is the most thoughtful commentator? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-thoughtful-commentator/751065 "2016-04-03T12:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-thoughtful-commentator/751065/1 "2016-04-03T12:56:22Z")
The internet is full of people commenting on nearly everything. But who do you think is the most thoughtful commentator? Here are three that I’m always reading/watching: James Surowiecki - Writes the [Financial Page](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/inside-the-valeant-scandal) for the New Yorker. Nate Silver - Writes for [FiveThirtyEight](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-really-hard-to-get-bernie-sanders-988-more-delegates/). John Oliver - Host of [Last Week Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqvYhb3wf4). The reason I like them is that they start from the facts and then let their opinions follow the facts instead of the other way around. I might not always agree with them, but at the very least they are always very informed about the subject they are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-thoughtful-commentator/751065/2 "2016-04-03T15:29:42Z")
I like your suggestions. I read them and a few others like David Brooks and Paul Krugman from the NYTimes. But I don’t find any of them relatively more “thoughtful” than others - I read a bunch so I can play Metacritic and pull from all of them as I figure how _I_ feel about a variety of issues.