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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Every author of note insists on print (email, etc.) exchanges. The Paris Review, by far the standard, has basically been forced to adopt this as a primary policy since the 50s. But most other interviewees aren't swinging for the historical fences, I suppose, nor should they.


