I’m going to argue a line here that I’m uncertain of.
The key question in this part of the thread seems to be “Did SBF expect you to be on the record?”. To which, I guess you were scared the answer was no, hence you didn’t ask during the initial conversation. Even in the follow up you don’t say “can I share our screenshots”.
I can see the social benefit to the conversation. But I guess I don’t necessarily buy the “I did the journalism norms thing so it’s okay”. I think I buy “it provided a lot of social benefit so I did it” which does feel ends justify means-ey but in a way that I think most people can accept from someone who defrauded billions of dollars.
I don’t say you were wrong. Who prepares for a decision like this? It was the break of a lifetime and it would have almost seemed suspicious if you let a funder off here. But I don’t necessarily buy that it was straightforwardly acceptable either. What I do think is that I don’t buy the “it was journalistic norms” defence.
But her defense wasn’t that she was just following journalistic norms, but rather that she was in fact following significantly stricter norms than that.
And why would sharing the screenshots in particular be significant? Writing a news story from an interview would typically include quotes from the interview, and quoting text carries the same information content as a screenshot of it.
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I’m going to argue a line here that I’m uncertain of.
The key question in this part of the thread seems to be “Did SBF expect you to be on the record?”. To which, I guess you were scared the answer was no, hence you didn’t ask during the initial conversation. Even in the follow up you don’t say “can I share our screenshots”.
I can see the social benefit to the conversation. But I guess I don’t necessarily buy the “I did the journalism norms thing so it’s okay”. I think I buy “it provided a lot of social benefit so I did it” which does feel ends justify means-ey but in a way that I think most people can accept from someone who defrauded billions of dollars.
I don’t say you were wrong. Who prepares for a decision like this? It was the break of a lifetime and it would have almost seemed suspicious if you let a funder off here. But I don’t necessarily buy that it was straightforwardly acceptable either. What I do think is that I don’t buy the “it was journalistic norms” defence.
But her defense wasn’t that she was just following journalistic norms, but rather that she was in fact following significantly stricter norms than that.
And why would sharing the screenshots in particular be significant? Writing a news story from an interview would typically include quotes from the interview, and quoting text carries the same information content as a screenshot of it.