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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