Journalists used to have a monopoly on the news. This power bred restraint; whatever their private feelings, they avoided overt personal attacks. Now this power and the consequent restraint are both evaporating. Now they're just Twitter users.
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Are the best (new breed) journalists either data led or data visualization specialists? Is that because the story more and more lies in the data - presumably because it is better able to resist fake news and political spin? In support of this case: Covid-19 excess deaths?
Interesting you mention that, because one area in which old school publications like the NYT and FT continue to do great work is in data visualization. I'm not sure what accounts for the difference. Possibly, as you say, data is harder to turn into clickbait.
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Wouldn’t experienced data viz/analysts be better at morphing data to align w/ their personal biases?
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Data is sunshine - and a disinfectant so anti-click bait !
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I guess the FT is heavily peopled by economists (ie. good with numbers as well as words) - I'm not familiar with NYT though, so that may be a different explanation?
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True - but the reason I chose the Covid-19 excess deaths data example is because at the beginning of the pandemic, this data was not the focus, but it became the focus because govts were not fully truthful (deliberately or accidentally).
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interesting you mention data, because i’m not seeing any to back up your assertions.
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Touché!
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