True! I was making a prospective claim—that the widespread media presumption that such conflicts are self-evidently…
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…problematic may not be shared by many voters, who both assume this sort of behavior is endemic, and are inclined…
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…to overlook such behavior, or even to applaud it, when they think it reinforces incentives to serve their interests.
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That doesn’t reduce the responsibility to document them. But it’s one more case in which basic premises aren’t shared.
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Replying to @YAppelbaum @BrendanNyhan
No, I totally understand that. But journalists/media who failed before are now looking for this very excuse.
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Yesterday, NYT reporters kept telling me "it wouldn't chance the outcome" to my objection to lack of coverage.
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I understand your frustration; that wasn’t the conversation I was trying to weigh in on. One conclusion to draw from…
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…from the analogy is that documenting *what* he has done is insufficient without also arguing *why* it’s objectionable
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I have no manual for the future. But I like to use the past to unsettle my assumptions about the present.
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Replying to @YAppelbaum @BrendanNyhan
There are examples when corruption and conflict of interest brought down leaders, and others when it didn't.
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Probably don't disagree is not a clear guide of how these things play out; I think should be framed that way.
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