I think almost everyone I know who has taken up requests to be interviewed about some community-adjacent thing in the last 10 years has regretted their choice, not because they were punished by the community or something, but because the journalists ended up twisting their words and perspective in a way both felt deeply misrepresentative and gave the interviewee no way to object or correct anything.
I upvoted this comment because it matches my intuitions, however I think this section is exaggerrated.
When this was brought up on Twitter, someone brought up a survey for how much people who were involved in events felt journalists accurately characterized them. iirc it was something like 20% substantively/entirely accurate, 60% minor errors but broad gist is true, 20% majorly false.
I couldn’t find the study again and I don’t know how good it was. But at least your comment seems maybe an overestimate.
I upvoted this comment because it matches my intuitions, however I think this section is exaggerrated.
When this was brought up on Twitter, someone brought up a survey for how much people who were involved in events felt journalists accurately characterized them. iirc it was something like 20% substantively/entirely accurate, 60% minor errors but broad gist is true, 20% majorly false.
I couldn’t find the study again and I don’t know how good it was. But at least your comment seems maybe an overestimate.
Is this an EA-adjacent sample?
And yeah, seems plausible that I have heard more about the negative cases than the positive cases.
No, I think it was a study that sampled relatively normal people.