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It's happening more and more. I'm reading what I thought was a news article in a newspaper, and I have to go back up top to double check whether it's actually just a "normal" article as opposed to "news analysis," an editorial, or some different section entirely
I don't have a problem with editorializing in principle, but label it so I know what I'm getting. Are newspapers just becoming more lax on this, or has some internal policy changed in the last couple months while I wasn't paying attention?
I'm sorry. This might be okay as "commentary," but whatever it is it's not news

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
A serious question for journalists: how does a WaPo story like this one pass muster internally at an outlet that still prizes itself on journalistic integrity?
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[THREAD] A few responses to @mehdirhasan. The most important thing we can do as analysts is speak to new and different audiences. The Federalist isn't radical. It's firmly on the right and reflects views a significant chunk of Americans hold, however much we may not like them
Even if The Federalist were radical or "far-right," I'd still engage with them. A big part of my academic work is speaking to and debating audiences on the hard right, including Islamists, Salafis, Islamophobes, and right-wing populists such as Germany's AfD
I believe that very few publications are "beyond the pale" and that very few citizens are irredeemable. If issues are "unsettled"—and, by definition, if 40% of Americans disagree, then they are unsettled—they're fair game. That's a principle, and I'll never apologize for it
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It's sad (and slightly shocking) to see the editor of an important left journal saying rather explicitly that facts don't matter that much. What matters instead is the whether movement's "moral" narrative is served by stating the facts

currentaffairs.org/2020/06/has-th…
Yes, there's a tension between prioritizing truth and accuracy, on one hand, and your own perception of equity and justice, on the other. And it's understandable: if you believe your cause is both just and existential, then why should the truth be allowed to stand in the way?
All of us struggle with this. In political science, we often end up with empirical evidence that undermines our political or ideological preferences. But you're supposed to let your research guide you rather than the other way around. You're supposed to at least try
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At first, my instinct was that this wouldn't be great for right-wing populists, which I touched in my @TheAtlantic essay from March: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My view on this is starting to shift
I was generally pro-lockdown (with some gut reservations I've worked to suppress) but the U.S. ended up with the worst of both worlds: a response that "combined dramatic overreach with utter toothlessness," to quote @jacob_siegel
But I see in myself what I see with almost everyone I know who isn't on Twitter (almost all of whom are Democrats): a distrust around the rationales behind lockdowns and the seeming arbitrariness of reopening phases
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