I don't know how SSRN selects. But this seems to be a NPR journalist publishing under the cover of social science. Not that someone not affiliated with a unive

I don't know how SSRN selects. But this seems to be a NPR journalist publishing under the cover of social science. Not that someone not affiliated with a university cannot write scientifically valid papers. On the contrary. But a journalist writing about journalists should in my mind at least warrant extra scrutiny.