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The Rant: Why a response isn't always required
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The Rant: Why a response isn't always required

Reporters often reflexively plop blanket statements into stories to check a box.

On this #Rant for paid subscribers, Dave explains why reporters aren’t always obligated to include responses from figures in their stories — particularly when the responses fail to address the substantive point in the story or are more intended to distract from the thrust of the journalism attempting to be conveyed.

He also mulls reader mail and a critiq…

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Too Close To Call
Too Close To Call Podcast
Mostly politics. With a side of personal. Always #profound, perhaps problematic.