(When talking to non-experts, most points should become less concise than when talking to other experts, because to meaningfully communicate anything to a non-expert, you also have to communicate the necessary prerequisites that other experts already know.)
It’s a valid stance to take but it’s the stance that gets the journalist to ask some other expert that’s willing to be concise. Those people you hear interviewed are generally willing to play the game of the journalists.
When being a news consumer it’s useful to not have misconceptions about what kind of information you are exposed to.
Exactly, that’s what makes the question as you formulated it funny. It’s not a question, or even a request. It’s a non-negotiable demand. If you don’t concede, the whole deal is off. Yet not conceding is often the only reasonable thing to do, so it’s a demand to be unreasonable masquerading as a question, because don’t be rude.
“No.”
(When talking to non-experts, most points should become less concise than when talking to other experts, because to meaningfully communicate anything to a non-expert, you also have to communicate the necessary prerequisites that other experts already know.)
It’s a valid stance to take but it’s the stance that gets the journalist to ask some other expert that’s willing to be concise. Those people you hear interviewed are generally willing to play the game of the journalists.
When being a news consumer it’s useful to not have misconceptions about what kind of information you are exposed to.
Exactly, that’s what makes the question as you formulated it funny. It’s not a question, or even a request. It’s a non-negotiable demand. If you don’t concede, the whole deal is off. Yet not conceding is often the only reasonable thing to do, so it’s a demand to be unreasonable masquerading as a question, because don’t be rude.