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> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The twee
by baddox 6y ago
> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The tweet about the press release is worse. The tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release are terrible. Each one loses more of the critical context we need to actually understand what’s going on. Only the paper itself is a primary source. If you want to know what the paper’s about, you gotta read the paper!
And what about this article, which is about the tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release?
- GavinMcG 6y agoIt's about discourse, not the paper, so it would likely tell you to read the paper.
- alextheparrot 6y agoI know this isn’t a serious comment, but given he actually read the paper the shortest path from the paper to the author isn’t through that route
- samatman 6y agoI'll freely admit that the article about the tweets dunking on the press release for the paper, is as much as I'll ever want to know about this particular kerfuffle.