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> The article pretty directly links to MDVP. Go look it up on Erowid My point is that this is a rather irresponsible journalistic statement. If they want to po
by chimeracoder 14y ago
> The article pretty directly links to MDVP. Go look it up on Erowid
My point is that this is a rather irresponsible journalistic statement. If they want to portray MDVP as a dangerous substance, that's a pretty terrible comparison that fails to get the point across to anybody who knows a thing or two about psychoactive substances.
- dsl 14y ago> anybody who knows a thing or two about psychoactive substances Which is arguably a single digit percentage of ars readers.
- chimeracoder 14y agoWould you rather assume your readers are knowledgeable and help them rise to the occasion, or assume that they're ignorant and one day be proven correct? My background in journalism has taught me to favor the former.
- mindslight 14y agoI'm confused. Are you trying to say that you don't have a background in journalism? Or you do, but it's just decades old from a time when the goal was to inform and not just get page views? Modern journalistic tack is to write sensationalist scare stories targeted at the least common denominator moron, as they'll be the most outraged and hang on every update.
- chimeracoder 14y ago> Modern journalistic tack is to write sensationalist scare stories targeted at the least common denominator moron, as they'll be the most outraged and hang on every update. I don't think it's a coincidence that most modern journalism isn't worth reading, IMHO. > Or you do, but it's just decades old from a time when the goal was to inform and not just get page views? It's not decades old - I just like to think we did a good job of writing informative pieces instead of sensationalist nonsense. At least, we made a very, very dedicated effort to follow journalistic ethics - I'll let others be the judge on how well we succeeded. :-)