It's not incumbent on me personally to do this, I am making a claim about the AP's lack of transparency.
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Apparently some data journalism is worthy -- but AP revealing their data is not.
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this is not a data journalism question. this is a news org calling people & reporting what they say.
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Thats just your opinion. This is data they've collected and are now concealing.
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ideally, yes, we'd have complete transparency. whether AP would be able to get a count with it is relevant.
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Replying to @derekwillis @mtracey
Why not have every congressional leg vote undisclosed? Media can just call each lawmaker, declare which bill succeeds?
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b/c that's a gov function. parties are not government bodies.
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Replying to @derekwillis @mtracey
So b/c Dem party is a private org they can set arbitrary rules w/no journalist oversight? http://www.naacpldf.org/case/smith-v-allwright …
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constitutional questions are one thing. AP is trying to provide some oversight here by contacting SDs, imo.
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Replying to @derekwillis @mtracey
Derek, big fan of your work. I'm just surprised you'd defend AP's secrecy here given its crude impact on election.
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but sounds like we'll have to disagree on this, fellas. would love to see more transparency, but understand why not.
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Replying to @derekwillis @mtracey
"The work" here historically is one candidate helping to manufacture the news by getting supers to call news orgs.
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