The idea of bodycam footage for journalists is really intriguing and growing on me 🤔
The cop analogy is really strong
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I dislike phone chats so on the rare occasions journalists reach out to me I try to bump it to email. They usually agree. This has the interesting side-effect that I usually have a record I could publish if I was ever misrepresented. On the record should cut both ways.
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It’s happened a couple of time already... where people release their own recordings to undercut anticipated hostile journalism... Trump with Stahl, the Coinbase thing?
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Yeah let's please not make this the norm. I get the impulse, but I think the second order effects for legitimate journalism would be way too severe (actual sources would never talk, ever again, for fear of recordings leaking). The cops being taped is categorically different
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I’m talking mainly about subjects recording interactions for their own protection
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Someone I spoke to yesterday also noted the parallels to p-hacking and publish or perish in academia to narrative forcing and clickbait in journalism.
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Why don't journalists release all source material publicly, is it mostly lack of legal waiver from interviewees?
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Really no downside that I see; also great for cop/journalist interactions.
Yes, I think both professions should be required to wear them.





