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I interact with journalists quite a lot and I have specific preferences. Not just for articles, but for behaviour. And journalists do behave pretty strangely at times.
This account comes from talking to journalists on ~10 occasions. Including being quoted in ~5 articles.
Privacy
I do not trust journalists to abide by norms of privacy. If I talk to a friend and without asking, share what they said, with their name attached, I expect they'd be upset. But journalists regularly act as if their profession sets up the opposite norm - that everything is publishable, unless explicitly agreed otherwise. This is bizarre to me. It's like they have taken a public oath to be untrustworthy.
Perhaps they would argue that it's a few bad journalists who behave like this, but how am I supposed to know which the good and bad journalists are? The general [...]
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(00:24) Privacy
(02:41) Preserving meaning
(04:42) Reporters vs pundits
(09:18) Accuracy
(14:16) My personal stance
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By LessWrongI interact with journalists quite a lot and I have specific preferences. Not just for articles, but for behaviour. And journalists do behave pretty strangely at times.
This account comes from talking to journalists on ~10 occasions. Including being quoted in ~5 articles.
Privacy
I do not trust journalists to abide by norms of privacy. If I talk to a friend and without asking, share what they said, with their name attached, I expect they'd be upset. But journalists regularly act as if their profession sets up the opposite norm - that everything is publishable, unless explicitly agreed otherwise. This is bizarre to me. It's like they have taken a public oath to be untrustworthy.
Perhaps they would argue that it's a few bad journalists who behave like this, but how am I supposed to know which the good and bad journalists are? The general [...]
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Outline:
(00:24) Privacy
(02:41) Preserving meaning
(04:42) Reporters vs pundits
(09:18) Accuracy
(14:16) My personal stance
The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
The original text contained 3 images which were described by AI.
---
First published:
Source:
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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