Fwiw, I’m strongly in agreement that people do not have an obligation to follow CEA’s media policy (I work for CEA, am not speaking in that capacity exactly, but obviously it’s relevant!) I’m confused about what the ideal media policy is from an instrumental perspective, I found some of the ideas in this post and comments somewhat persuasive re: maybe instrumentally more EAs should be talking to the media, but on a community level, while I think there’s some context it would be good to have before talking to media (how it tends to work, whether a given journalist has an axe to grind, other things, though I don’t know exactly what happens when people contact CEA for media advice), I don’t think it’s people’s obligation to talk to CEA first (though I could end up thinking empirically it’s a bad and poorly judged decision to talk to media without guidance!).
Fwiw, I’m strongly in agreement that people do not have an obligation to follow CEA’s media policy (I work for CEA, am not speaking in that capacity exactly, but obviously it’s relevant!) I’m confused about what the ideal media policy is from an instrumental perspective, I found some of the ideas in this post and comments somewhat persuasive re: maybe instrumentally more EAs should be talking to the media, but on a community level, while I think there’s some context it would be good to have before talking to media (how it tends to work, whether a given journalist has an axe to grind, other things, though I don’t know exactly what happens when people contact CEA for media advice), I don’t think it’s people’s obligation to talk to CEA first (though I could end up thinking empirically it’s a bad and poorly judged decision to talk to media without guidance!).