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I think that's all true. The part that's important is that Caldiera was OK with the fed quote. Caldiera even updated his website to make it clear that he's OK
by sachinag 17y ago
I think that's all true. The part that's important is that Caldiera was OK with the fed quote. Caldiera even updated his website to make it clear that he's OK with the fed quote: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/
If you've ever spent substantial time with the press, you'll learn that this happens all the time. If someone feeds you a quote, it's totally OK to say "sounds good" and have them run it. If they feed you a quote and you don't like it, you can say "wait up, that's not right. I'd say [x] instead." Then, sure, you can you say you were misquoted. (You can also decline to OK the fed quote without giving a more accurate one, and it'd be wrong for the journo to run it.)
The reason reporters/bloggers/press use fed quotes is that they're short. People who are experts are fucking terrible at being pithy. Reporters have learned to feed quotes as a coping method when dealing with verbal diarrhea.
- protomyth 17y agoAn honest question: in this era of blogs and online content, what is the advantage of being pithy and not getting the full explanation (since this was a blog not a printed article in this case)?
- swolchok 17y agoEven if verbal diarrhea doesn't kill any trees, no one is going to want to read it.
- protomyth 17y agoBut it would serve the reader better then changing the meaning of the answer. The last election cycle had one too many edits to video that made people look better / worse on both sides. Lord only knows how many quotes in print articles got the same treatment.
- dagw 17y agoMost of the time the raw unedited videos and/or transcripts where available somewhere on the web, so the problem isn't the the information is unavailable, it's that most people don't have the time or energy to go through it all. Removing all summaries, good and bad, will hardly change that. People who really care will find the relevant information.
- michaelkeenan 17y agoJust to clarify about the fed quote: if I'm reading this right, the quote Romm wanted was: "The authors of SuperFreakonomics have utterly misrepresented my work". Caldeira did not give him this quote. Caldeira did write, unprompted: "The only significant error is the line: ‘carbon dioxide is not the right villain in this fight.’ That is just wrong and I never would have said it." Caldiera updated his website to correct that carbon dioxide villain issue, but that's not the quote that was fed to him.