Every academic who comes to me in frustration over journalists says: "we talked on phone; I got misquoted". Too common.
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I understand this for big name politicians who have PR operations writing their "answers" but for more ordinary folks+
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"speaking on the fly" is often less representative of what they actually want to say, can lead to misguided "gotcha"s.
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Replying to @zeynep @johnjcook
I won’t defend misquoting, obvs, but this is an area where the source’s interests are not the same as the journo’s
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Replying to @jbenton @johnjcook
The journos interests should not be catching the source in a gotcha or badly phrased sentence—for non-practiced people.
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Replying to @zeynep @johnjcook
It isn’t. Bad work is bad work. But relying too much on email leads to a different kind of bad work
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Replying to @jbenton @johnjcook
Problem I see with email is that it allows people to not answer questions they don't want, and avoid follow-ups.
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But being able to write their best answer is a plus. Let people do that, maybe on the condition they take follow-up Q?
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Replying to @zeynep @johnjcook
Email will always have its place. Problem is young journos rely on it too much, hate the phone.
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Replying to @jbenton @johnjcook
I can see that. But the "reporter didn't understand my point over the phone" is #1 complaint I hear from academics.
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Arguably, academics should get better at talking over the phone, but it's not an easy skill: on-the-fly yet precise.
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