Giving "embargoed" access to a hundred+ journalists one day ahead of release? Sure. That's basically giving people tools to write a better story when the news hits. Giving it to a single person or even a handful? No, no, no. We should not play that game. Let them hire PR agents.
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This isn't even good PR. This is basically Oversight Board saying we'll play the PR game more than we'll play the "we make decisions" game. Not that I was offered such early access (wonder why) but I'd personally refuse unless it was offered to most everyone else. Then it's fine.
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Yes. We already saw how access journalism ruined political reporting. As academics, the one thing we have is our independence. We should resist this *as a group*. I can easily pledge not to accept such embargoes unless I'm assured they're offered widely.https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1355925587311915010 …
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Facebook and ethics should never be thought of together.
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I don't want to respond to the substance either way because of the bigger problem. If the same embargo was offered to a broad range of journalists, there is nothing wrong with her publishing her own piece. I don't want us bickering when the decision maker here is the board.
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Quote from Mark: “You can be unethical and still be legal” What a world we live in.
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Unless it's almost everyone (i.e. journalists/writers who write on this topic) that group is being "groomed" and this should be treated like the terrible PR exercise it is. Incentives matter, and this is basically how independent thinking is destroyed. FB did this with data, too.
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