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Last Checked March 10, 2023

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Wed Feb 22 18:14:59 +0000 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The line to me is that journalists are obligated to be intellectually honest. — PolitiTweet.org

Wesley @WesleyLowery

someone please provide me with the definitions of “activist” and “journalists” in this context. should be easy enou… https://t.co/4cf6hH40wY

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

When you falsely characterize a letter as *defending a right to be transphobic* it seems to me that you mislead trans people who don't check the details into the false belief that the signatories are hostile to them, making those people bear a cost for your rhetorical inflation — PolitiTweet.org

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson

Peter Baker, previously seen scabbing during a NYT staff walkout, has now signed onto a letter defending the paper'… https://t.co/96vSSfik0V

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@WesleyLowery @ghostofalbertm1 I think the way to think about it is that journalism requires some things that activism doesn't and if you want to be a journalist who does activism you have to meet the higher bar, doing only activism that is intellectually honest and not withholding inconvenient facts — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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