Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Yes journalism is: (a) Notoriously terrible. Nobody ever says anything good about journalists, journalism, or “the media.” (b) Very methodologically adjacent to history (“the first draft of history…”) — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias Don't journalists do this all the time?

Posted Aug. 28, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

… and it’s remarkable — and honestly confusing to visitors from other fields — the extent to which historians resist explicit reasoning about causation and counterfactual analysis even while constantly saying things that clearly implicate these ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The other day I was working at a crowded coffee shop and the person next to me turns and goes “you type really fast!” That’s the kind of skill journalism requires and it shows in the work, which is in fact published very quickly. — PolitiTweet.org

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