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Journalists can get charmed just like us normals. Their main bias is they are constantly in search of narratives and aim to frame information in that way (caus
by fullshark 8y ago
Journalists can get charmed just like us normals. Their main bias is they are constantly in search of narratives and aim to frame information in that way (cause it makes their pieces interesting). "This tech will change the world" is an exciting narrative that a lot of journalists are more than willing to write a piece around.
- ghaff 8y agoThat's true but the bigger issue with a lot of trade press is that there's expected to produce a lot of pieces quickly, often across a rather broad range of topics. The better journalists still do a pretty good job of it; I'm constantly impressed with how much readable and, as far as I can tell even in areas I know a fair bit about, accurate prose some turn out. But you're not going to get much truly investigative journalism out of people who are on the hook for 2 or 3 stories per day. There are also often incentives to be provocative rather than "just the facts." But that's another issue related to incentives.