If you go with journalists, I’d want to find one who seems really truth-seeking.
I think it would be a very valuable public service to the community to have someone who’s job it is to read a journalist’s corpus and check if it seems fair and honest.
I think we could, as a community, have a policy of only talking with journalists who are honest. This seems like a good move pragmatically, because it means coverage of our stuff will be better on average, and it also universalizes really well, so long as “honest” doesn’t morph into “agrees with us about what’s important.”
It seems good and cooperative to disproportionately help high-integrity journalists get sources, and it helps us directly.
I think it would be a very valuable public service to the community to have someone who’s job it is to read a journalist’s corpus and check if it seems fair and honest.
I think we could, as a community, have a policy of only talking with journalists who are honest. This seems like a good move pragmatically, because it means coverage of our stuff will be better on average, and it also universalizes really well, so long as “honest” doesn’t morph into “agrees with us about what’s important.”
It seems good and cooperative to disproportionately help high-integrity journalists get sources, and it helps us directly.