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It's an ilformed test. Can a writer truly understand baseball as well as a baseball player? But, isn't a baseball player bound to be heavily biased toward the
by dogruck 9y ago
It's an ilformed test. Can a writer truly understand baseball as well as a baseball player? But, isn't a baseball player bound to be heavily biased toward the consensus baseball view?
Or, take finance. If a financial journalist truly understood finance, wouldn't they be running a hedge fund instead of scraping by pumping out articles?
- weberc2 9y agoHe said baseball writer, not player, unless he edited his comment between your post and mine.
- dogruck 9y agoI think we read the same post. I'm just saying that a writer's bias is correlated with his expertise.
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- fenomas 9y agoMost baseball writers aren't former players or coaches, and nobody expects them to be. That's the whole point of the analogy. They're just expected to understand the rules of the game, know what the various acronyms mean, and generally be able to converse intelligently about the game. That's the standard being suggested for reporters covering other topics.
- tpeo 9y agoTo answer the second question, a financial journalist might not take up a hedge fund management position on the basis of the risks involved, career stability, hedonic factors, etc. besides the purely monetary gains involved. Understanding something doesn't imply that's also the optimal course of action.
- pjc50 9y agoThere's an entire sub-industry of financial journalism which is extremely well paid. It's just that it's paid for by charging the recipients (investors) a lot, and the people involved are called "analysts" rather than journalists. It's the sort of stuff available on Bloomberg terminals.