Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 stories

Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by takoid on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:51PM (#36923269)

I’m curious how you got the impression that Ed Yong “covers all viewpoints.” Going through the list of stories he wrote for Atlantic [1] seems to tell a different story, particularly in regards to his covering of the COVID pandemic. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with what he wrote, but to claim he “covers all viewpoints” seems disingenuous.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ed-yong/

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by antoniojtorres on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:02PM (#36923368)

What are some viewpoints that you think he should have covered in order to justify the “covers all viewpoints” claim? Could you elaborate on why they would be important to cover?

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by sunshinesnacks on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:06PM (#36924013)

That sounds like a list topics that he hasn’t covered, or that he hasn’t provided updates on, rather viewpoints on a topic that he hasn’t covered. Unless he’s recently written on those topics and I’m missing some context.

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by morelisp on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:25PM (#36924191)

> He hasn't written... that an estimated 15 to 20% or more of health care workers left their jobs

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/the-mass-...

> rather than get the vaccine

Even your own (non-medical) source doesn't go this far with its claim, concluding There is really no specific way to determine the exact number of nurses who left the profession due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by tptacek on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:07PM (#36924025)

I'm not especially a fan of Yong's COVID reporting (Zeynep Tufekci was my most reliable source), but this isn't a good criticism. COVID's origins are of less importance to The Atlantic's readership than the other COVID topics he wrote about, and the science is much less settled than the typical topic Yong writes about.

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by bmitc on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:14PM (#36924094)

What is a paper mask?

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by tiffanyg on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:57PM (#36923936)

A fair point - I'm not sure disingenuous, and, I have a sense of what the parent commenter means in informal language about "covers all viewpoints", but, really, doing so in any stricter sense is almost certainly impossible, even for far simpler stories / events than those he has tended to cover.

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Re:Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic after 8 years and 750 sto... by justnotworthit on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:58PM (#36924498)

"all viewpoints" depends on how open your Overton window is, right?

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