Brought to you by the guy who spent several years as an editor at the magazine that published a serial journo-hoaxster so famous they actually made a movie about him
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Replying to @CathyYoung63
You do know that was two decades before I worked there?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Of course I do. That mitigates the irony slightly. It's still a cheap shot, considering that hoaxes (usually driven by confirmation bias) have happened at a lot of high-prestige publications.
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Replying to @CathyYoung63
More broadly, I've never been a fan of these scams & pranks (Sokol) because all they prove is that all social life is based on trust, so it's easy to manipulate systems where people assume you are a good faith actor. But in this case, Q. had itself promoted pranks as meaningful.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I think they serve a useful purpose. If nothing else, pranks encourage a healthy skepticism toward bias-confirming narratives. Better a hoax that gets quickly exposed than a fabulist who wants people to believe the fables.
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Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet
I lean against. A social enterprise, a newspaper, a magazine, is held together more by a glue of trust than by systems. When I was NY bureau chief for the WPost, who was to say if I had gone where I said I had, and spoken to those who I named? They trusted me and I reciprocated.
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The NYT spent a lot of time beating itself over the Blair travesties but honestly it was not difficult to pull off if you're a pathological liar. (this happened well before I got there so I was just a rubber necker at that crash ... )
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I agree with that -- especially if it's not a print magazine (where super-rigorous fact checking systems are in place). Social life is based on trust, which is why con men can sometimes flourish.
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