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Re:SlateStarCodex Is Back Up by baryphonic on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:23AM (#23914452)
I have to imagine the NYT staff, as biased and (IMO) as poor as they are at news-writing, must take no pleasure in being asked to doxx subjects of their stories on the arbitrary and capricious whims of management. Most journalists I know are good people, even when they perpetuate a bad system. They tend to be quite left and sometimes (many times) blindly biased, yet pursuit of the truth is the main goal for the bulk of journalists. Most editors, by contrast, seem genuinely terrible. They thwart honest journalists at every opportunity to sell something fake but salacious. (Something similar can be observed about academia and the faculty vis-a-vis the deans and university administration.)

I imagine many in the NYT are looking at Carlson or Scott Alexander and are saying, "hmm, would I want my own personal details published?"

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Re:SlateStarCodex Is Back Up by majewsky on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:31AM (#23915341)
Without dismissing your experience, I want to offer a counter-anecdote.

I'm occasionally doing PR for a local branch of the Chaos Computer Club, a German NGO that's like a mashup of the EFF and a hackerspace network. I encounter journalists when they ask me to appear on a radio show or give soundbites for a TV segment. My experiences have all been positive so far. The journalists that I have worked with appreciate that I can present technical topics in a succinct manner that's understandable to their audience. And I haven't had any experiences where they tried to twist my words during editing, though admittedly I haven't talked to them about particularly politically charged topics yet. (Most engagements were for segments that gave general advice on data protection and IT security.)

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Re:SlateStarCodex Is Back Up by appleflaxen on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:22AM (#23915292)
> They all relish the idea of a salacious story.

Does that make you a horrible person? It's not the most flattering character trait, but in my experience, all of humanity has some appetite for the salacious.

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Re:SlateStarCodex Is Back Up by bananaface on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:41AM (#23915649)
I meant them as independent observations. But yes, throwing people under the bus for clicks is awful in my opinion.
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