To be fair, "we listened to some experts who misled us, but only because we *really* wanted to kill that particular messenger" is indeed a pretty hard sell in an industry supposedly built on credibility
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Vox can't admit this because the story it whispers to itself at night is that its primary function is speaking truth to power. Admitting it served as a loudspeaker for entrenched powers — in part to take swipes at its favorite bugbears — would mangle its institutional mythology.https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1243580450599309312 …
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I think it has something to do with admitting to being wrong is seen as a weakness in our society. Changing our minds is a sign of weakness, so, “oh we changed our mind, because they changed their mind.” Implying they can’t think for themselves at the same time.
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The problem isn't admitting that you were wrong. The problem is in admitting "the other side" were right. The key problem that Vox faces is that the people who were ahead of the curve on this were the "techbros" and "rationalists" that they pillory on a regular basis.
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Hmmm...makes me wonder how much of institutional rot/systemic maladaptivity is because of a sort of fundamentalism in regards to institutional mythology?
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Vox is a very high variance publication. They have exceptional writers like
@dylanmatt and@KelseyTuoc (who wrote a long Twitter thread about why she was overly cautious in public in her Corona writing). -
I do find the stance some of their journalists are taking about their previous writing on Corona completely baffling though - like - the tweets and articles are archived. It's pretty hard to deny how badly they botched both the tone as well as the content early on.
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Chinese buy a lot of advertising.
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The function of Vox is to speak power to truth. People who discover truths outside of the approved narrative are subject to ridicule to keep them silent. Kelsey Piper eloquently describes the process here http://archive.is/dLd1i pic.twitter.com/Zh6tH4N4IT
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