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If the people from the magazine really threw away all their work because the guy wasn't the "archetypal Black entrepreneur to hang the story around".... that's
by jakobegger 10y ago
If the people from the magazine really threw away all their work because the guy wasn't the "archetypal Black entrepreneur to hang the story around".... that's quite sad?
I mean, they have a journalist shadow the guy for two months, and then they decide that the material doesn't fit their story and they toss it?
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Do the research first, write the story afterwards?
I worry that a lot of journalism really suffers from this. The magazine has an idea what kind of story they want to write, and then they look for sources / people / material that corroborates their story.
That won't lead to stories representative of the real world...
- jpttsn 10y agoIt's almost like magazines aren't trying to educate people.
- PeterisP 10y agoThe magazine has an idea of what kind of story their audience wants to read, and then they look for sources / people / material that would work for that. If some story represents the real world but isn't particularly interesting for their audience, then there's no place for it in the magazine; just as the classic example of why "dog bites man" isn't a good story but "man bites dog" is, exactly because it's not representative of the real world.
- paulajohnson 10y agoThere is a reason why the things we read in magazines and newspapers are called "stories".