Re:Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still re...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:24PM
(#29017069)
> It's a news story about a health patient, yet Naomi seems to expect NPR to act as Martha's personal insurer and care advocate.
No I think Wu just expects [0] NPR not to ignore relevant facts to construct a misleading narrative.
> Then Naomi would never have been given the chance to virtue signal for exposure.
Naomi Wu is hardly lacking in exposure opportunities or the ability to exploit them, so even if the basic false dichotomy you propose wasn't false, it wouldn't really be lose-lose for NPR and Wu. (NPR and Martha maybe, since the exposure, even starting in the misleading form NPR presented it, does probably make it more likely that her issue gets resolved, but that's where the false dilemma comes into play, since the story didn't actually have to be misleading.)
[0] in the normative, but emphatically not the predictive, sense of the word.
No I think Wu just expects [0] NPR not to ignore relevant facts to construct a misleading narrative.
> Then Naomi would never have been given the chance to virtue signal for exposure.
Naomi Wu is hardly lacking in exposure opportunities or the ability to exploit them, so even if the basic false dichotomy you propose wasn't false, it wouldn't really be lose-lose for NPR and Wu. (NPR and Martha maybe, since the exposure, even starting in the misleading form NPR presented it, does probably make it more likely that her issue gets resolved, but that's where the false dilemma comes into play, since the story didn't actually have to be misleading.)
[0] in the normative, but emphatically not the predictive, sense of the word.