Which journalists would you give quotes to? [one journalist per comment, agree vote for trustworthy]
6Nathan Young
15Jiro
10Rafael Harth
5Said Achmiz
1Jiro
6dirk
4Shankar Sivarajan
-2Jiro
5Austin Chen
4Kenku
4Nathan Young
4Nathan Young
6Nathan Young
2Jiro
3Nathan Young
2Shankar Sivarajan
2Nathan Young
2Nathan Young
1Kenku
1Kenku
1Kenku
1Kenku
10Joseph Miller
3Caleb Biddulph
2ryan_greenblatt
2Nathan Young
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Kelsey Piper
I probably shouldn't have clicked on this but I did. FYI it slightly raised my opinion of Kelsey because I was expecting some level of incriminating evidence against her, and this is well below that level. If the worst thing about someone is that they did not write about a thing, that's a pretty good sign.
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Demonstrable mendacity is considerably worse than “they did not write about a thing”.
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Kelsey selectively got upset to the point of crying herself to sleep over something, and posted calls to action with the implication that since she was so emotionally distraught it was callous not to act, but she only did this when it was politically expedient to do so.
I think that this is a bit more than just "didn't write". It's "didn't write when previously it was so urgent and horrible she was crying herself to sleep over it". The more urgent that she claims it is, and the more distraught she claims to be, the more the significance of ignoring it when it's done by a politician she likes. At least, she's disqualified under "Are they truth seeking?"
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Having clicked through to the link you posted, it looks like what happened is that she made a tumblr post claiming to be sincerely upset about mistreatment of immigrants, contrary to what she described as conservative assumptions that people are simply pretending to care in order to score points against Trump. The poster you linked ran a search for the terms "immigrant" and "borders" on Vox, did not find any articles from her (they seemed to be interested in specifically criticism of Biden, but there were no articles about Trump either), and decided this was proof that liberals were indeed, pretending to care in order to score points against Trump. The fact that you treat this as evidence against Kelsey's character makes me think less of you, not her.
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I think having so high a bar for intellectual honesty below which everyone is equally disqualified isn't addressing the question in the right spirit.
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I'm pretty sure that would not disqualify most people.
Note that it's not being upset that's the problem, it's being selectively upset.
Also, as a man, I can't get social status by claiming I've cried myself to sleep anyway.
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Kevin Roose
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Jack Despain Zhou (Tracing Woodgrains)
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Billy Perrigo
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Cade Metz
Reminder that up and downvotes are for whether you think someone is a notable journalist, otherwise the system won't work at all. (cos people will be heavily penalised for suggesting journalists we don't like)
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I think Cade Metz fails to qualify for those things. I don't think he is trustworthy, quotes accurately, or is truth seeking. And I certainly wouldn't give him any quotes.
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Matt Yglesias
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Whoever does PBS Frontline.
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Chris Beam
20
Ellen Huet
10
Alexi Sargeant
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Kenny Jones (Dream House Podcast)
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Ezra Marcus
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Mr Andy Ngo
What qualifies someone to vote? I expect many are familiar with the Cade Metz / Scott Alexander fiasco but if everyone votes based on second-hand reports, then we could get misinformation cascades.
Yeah, I feel like in order to provide meaningful information here, you would likely have to be interviewed by the journalist in question, which can't be very common.
At first I upvoted Kevin Roose because I like the Hard Fork podcast and get generally good/honest vibes from him, but then I realized I have no personal experiences demonstrating that he's trustworthy in the ways you listed, so I removed my vote.
I sort of think that if you think they have good/bad vibes you can vote. For most people, most of us won't have heard of them or read much of their coverage. And if you think the number is way too high you might want to comment why you think it's off.
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