Sign me up for the Rost Encyclopedia i was just thinking how much id love to work on an encyclopedia
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Of course this was exactly Vox's founding mission so it's worth considering how that's worked/failed
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Replying to @tophtucker @lisacrost
Vox looks to me like punditry with a data veneer. 538 is much better, and ourworldindata is much better still.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @tophtucker
when you just react to news, like Vox and 538, you'll never explain child mortality & other topics Max covers.
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Replying to @lisacrost @tophtucker
I like the term "reactive news"! Implies "proactive news", or something like that.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @tophtucker
but Max doesn't work in the news business at all, no? I like the terms, but he's not writing proactive news IMO
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Replying to @lisacrost @tophtucker
It's a question of definitions, but at least as I think of it, Max is in the news business.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @tophtucker
so let's go there: how do you define news?
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Replying to @lisacrost @tophtucker
which aim to convey & contextualize the current state of human affairs. "Current" is a rather loose term, here.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @tophtucker
Wow. In which sense do you think that your long-term definition of news is more useful than the short-term one?
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These justifications are partially (though only partially) post hoc.
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