{"id":73395,"date":"2012-08-16T19:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:12:30","slug":"on-being-a-journalist-getting-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/16\/on-being-a-journalist-getting-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"On being a journalist, getting quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a fair number of press releases and contacts from P.R. people. A &#8220;fair&#8221; number is probably understating it; other bloggers will understand what I&#8217;m talking about. Often they&#8217;ll be offers to contact researchers and other experts. Generally I ignore these or I demur in some fashion. Why? <strong>Because I just have a hard time trusting those who proactively contact me.<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;m not impugning their character, as much being skeptical of their enthusiasm (and to be frank, some of them even come out and say they&#8217;ll write the blog post for me!). In fact I could easily splash and pepper many of my more policy oriented posts with contemporary relevance with quotes from these people. But I do not make much use of their services (though now and then I&#8217;ll become aware of a paper because of a press contact). What exactly would such quotes be adding? \u00a0I&#8217;d just select the ones which fit my narrative or preconception. On occasion I will <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/neanderthal-admixture-the-ecology-of-academe\/\">quote experts<\/a>, but these are almost never (actually, probably never, but I don&#8217;t recall) cases where I sent out an email asking for a quote. Rather, it starts as a conversation, and it turns out that I &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/MMWXjjQFc_E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a fair number of press releases and contacts from P.R. people. A &#8220;fair&#8221; number is probably understating it; other bloggers will understand what I&#8217;m talking about. Often they&#8217;ll be offers to contact researchers and other ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73414,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395\/revisions\/73414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}