I appreciate you raising this despite not having an actual view on the topic and I appreciate you being clear that this is a complex topic that’s hard to form a view on.
I think I had a lot of freewheeling conversations at EAG and I don’t think I thought enough about the fact that journalists I don’t trust by default might be able to overhear and comment on those conversations and that thinking through this may have a somewhat chilling effect on how I interact in future EAGs, which I find to be unfortuntate.
That being said, I totally agree with you that excluding these journalists may also be unfair or otherwise based on bad norms, and it’s a pretty thorny trade-off. Like you, this is something I don’t really fully understand.
I appreciate you raising this despite not having an actual view on the topic and I appreciate you being clear that this is a complex topic that’s hard to form a view on.
I think I had a lot of freewheeling conversations at EAG and I don’t think I thought enough about the fact that journalists I don’t trust by default might be able to overhear and comment on those conversations and that thinking through this may have a somewhat chilling effect on how I interact in future EAGs, which I find to be unfortuntate.
That being said, I totally agree with you that excluding these journalists may also be unfair or otherwise based on bad norms, and it’s a pretty thorny trade-off. Like you, this is something I don’t really fully understand.