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How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article? Who decides how much time is "enough"? You could technically send out an email, and then i

• flangola7 4y ago
  > How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article? Presumably the normal amount of time? Do you think journalists just go publishing things haphazardly? I get the feeling you have no experience in the world of reporting.
  • newfriend 4y ago
    And I suspect you've spent too much time in the world of reporting if you think that journalists are some paragons of truth and honesty.
    • viraptor 4y ago
      It really depends where you are. On one hand side, Matt Levine is a journalist. On the other, so are people in the Daily Mail. Yet, there's a massive difference there.
  • RichEO 4y ago
    Having been on both side of press like this “immediately” means a couple of hours at most. Sometimes it means “I spoke to someone, they said they’d come back to me, but I didn’t want to wait”. I’ve seen cases where emails are sent outside of work hours on a Friday/Weekend so the journalist can claim that the subject “did not respond to repeated requests for comment” on Monday morning. Journalists often have a story they want to tell. They intentionally arrange things to support their story.