Genuine q: I love the @NewYorker. I've been interviewed by several of their best journalists re COVID topics. Each time the fact checker contacts me there are numerous errors that have to be corrected: quotations out of context, describing me as a virologist, and more.
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I simply don't understand the process. No other news outlet I've dealt with, almost all of them working on longer deadlines than
@NewYorker, makes errors with this frequency. My only explanation is that their assiduous fact-checking creates moral hazard in the first drafts.6 replies 10 retweets 163 likesShow this thread -
As an interviewee it makes me super nervous.
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I wonder if it's because New Yorker stories are so long. That plus writers' well-known habit of procrastination must mean that many have to blow out first drafts that they barely pause to reread before handing to the fact checkers.
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