Which journalists would you give quotes to? [one journalist per comment, agree vote for trustworthy]

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Which journalists would you give quotes to? [one journalist per comment, agree vote for trustworthy]

by Nathan Young

7th May 2025

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Let’s create a list of which journalists LessWrongers trust, so as to gave a guide if people get contacted.

Agree votes are for more good.

Upvotes aren’t helpful because i think heavily downvoted comments get hidden (and i expect many journalists to be underwater). If you want to use upvotes, I suggest they are for if someone is a journalist or not.

Please add each journalist as a separate entry. I will delete any entries that include multiple people. If you’d prefer not to add someone yourself, feel free to DM me.

The title question is a proxy for the thing I mean:

Are they trustworthy?
Do they publish articles that reflect the quotes you give
Do they avoid cutting up quotes?
Are they truth seeking?

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Nathan Young

May 07, 2025

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Kelsey Piper

[-]Jiro1y6-6

Are you sure?

[-]Rafael Harth1y1811

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.

-1Said Achmiz1y

Demonstrable mendacity is considerably worse than “they did not write about a thing”.

-1Jiro1y

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?"

9[anonymous]1y

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.

7Shankar Sivarajan1y

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.

-3Jiro1y

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.

Nathan Young

May 07, 2025

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Cade Metz

[-]Nathan Young1y70

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)

3Jiro1y

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.

3Nathan Young6mo

Sure so disagree vote, I think he's pretty clearly a journalist.

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