Absolutely. My undergrad students often think they can add value in papers and theses by interviewing the authors of written ideas. I tell them that this would be bizarre and to engage with the written idea. We send our ideas out there to stand on their own.
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I generally ask for comment if time has passed since whatever it was was written.
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If it's a really old piece, it's fairer to find out if the writer still stands by it. Obviously my training as a lawyer is to pin someone down publicly on what they wrote first, then have a further back & forth to deal with the explanation.
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Plus I think we all know everything we need to know about the 1619 Project. NY Times made sure of that. No need for further clarifications, we get it.
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This is because the NYT has apparently forgotten that there is a difference between opinion/advocacy and news/reporting. This NYT clown expects opinion advocates to be news reporters, which makes sense in their workplace where news reporters are opinion advocates.
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Division btw "opinion/advocacy and news/reporting" is a little grayer than you portray. While "opinion" should be firmly on one side and news/reporting on other, long tradition of newspaper "advocacy" -- focus on specific topic: drugs? Infant mortality? Corruption? -- overlaps.
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