A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.
A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.
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I’d like to think that would be especially true of science writers. It’s hard to believe that some journalists still take a “he said / she said” approach when reporting on fact-based subjects :-/.
Such youthful idealism is charming…
Naive, but charming.