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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008My live-ish chat begins at the Art of the Possible in 10 minutes.
LATER: Done! You can read the Q&A here.
A couple of you have asked about doing something similar on this site. I think it’s a good idea. I think there’s some software out there that will enable an actual live chat. I’ll look into it.
That was very cool, Radley. I suspect there were a number of people, like me, who were reading along with much interest but trying to stay out of the way of what flow you were able to establish.
I hope you’ll consider doing more of those in the future.
I agree with Eric. It’d be outstanding if you had a forum on the site for live chats… Friday and Sunday are taken, maybe ‘Tuesday Night Live’!
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question in the thread. I think you hit the answer dead on. In my field, we take numerous classes on how to avoid bias & fallacies, we use tools to designed to mitigate the same, and peer review as another safeguard. And despite all this bias slips through far more often than we’d like. I imagine it is probably even harder for journalists to avoid, even with the best of intentions.
Radley, these posts would be much more meaningful if they included a time stamp. And a bit more advance warning. Cheers.
Great point about most media being of liberal politics and their faith in government…
I agree to a certain extent, but shouldn’t these people at least have the integrity to investigate all angles of a story? I tend to think that most do not have the balls/drive to overcome whatever corporate editor he/she is working under. Or maybe even all of our worst nightmare, intimidation and retaliation?
Judging from what I watch and read, I would think your mainstream press career is pretty much over once you are branded as a “criminal sympathizer” or “far left loon”. I know there are other outlets but many of them don’t come with the pay and benefits…