I wonder many experts this “reporter" had to hunt through to get this quote, or if she just made it up. FYI, the toilet paper shortage is because people were previously using a lot of toilet paper at work, not home, and commercial dispensers use different shapes and supply lines.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1246434890222129152 …
One of the most egregious things I've heard from journo world, straight from the subject: they recorded an interview for over an hour; the journalist took a sentence fragment from the first half and another from the second half, then strung them together to get the money quote.
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You can also get a money quote by taking out critical words.
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They constantly do this, and they never apologise. What was it that Luke said about the scribes? Oh right it was this!pic.twitter.com/ptH23SJTrH
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This happened to me too. (Although in my case I later changed my mind to agree with the misrepresented opinion, so... success?)
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This has happen to me in the NYT. The quotes from me were not real quotes, and they weren't even in response to the context they're placed in within the article
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journalists as organic GPT2, taking a sample of actual text and generating anything based on it
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Pretty much every story I've heard about interacting with journalists.
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