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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
- Direct Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.
- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020