If you are put on the spot and asked a question that you don't know the answer to, what is your answer? (as if I don't know already)
To be fair, if scientists had to work under the same time pressures as journalists, we'd get everything wrong too.
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'I don't know' is my go-to reply when I don't know.
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Perhaps we need to take more conscious effort to highlight outlets that don't jump the gun on a given story? It'd help change the incentives some. As of now screw-ups just get media outlets more attention, even if negative, and if Gillette is any indicator, that only helps them.
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Maybe the journalists should take a note from the scientists
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If the story didn’t fit there narrative, somehow I think they would of been more patient
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Yes, specially since the raise of social media, but they also tend to go fast rather selectively. They cover quickly stories that prove the narratives they want to push. How quickly and thoroughly did the media covered the Evergreen events that involved
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So there are two problems: they are unable to recognize their bias and they are under pressure to report before properly finding out all the facts. That provides a very nice feedback loop.
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Perhaps less comfortable with getting it wrong? Perhaps more willing to accurately correct, when the facts become available? Perhaps a little more willing to be late and right than early and wrong, when people could get hurt by the mistake?
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Yes. It’s unfortunate but journalists must work in the strange, cut-throat business we call “media”.
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@lieberman_jason An excellent point in favor of journalists which I've never heard anyone explicitly point out before. Apply this same reasoning to the plight of a typical primary care physician...dozens of patients per day, minimal amount of time per patient ----> errors.
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