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All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus

All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In a recent article on Vox, Ezra Klein declared that his generation of Washington journalists had discovered political science, and it is like the hottest thing on wheels. In the old days, he writes, journalists “dealt with political science episodically and condescendingly.” But now, Klein declares, “Washington is listening to political scientists, in large part because it’s stopped trusting itself.” Klein finds that political scientists give better answers to his questions than politicians themselves, because politicians are evasive but scientists are scientists, you know, they deal in “structural explanations” for political events. So the “young political journalists” who are roaring around town in their white lab coats frightening the local bourgeoisie “know a lot more about political science and how to use it” than their elders did.


Hence Klein’s title: “How Political Science Conquered Washington.”


Nearly every aspect of this argument annoyed me. To suggest, for starters, that people in Washington are—or were, until recently—ignorant or contemptuous of academic expertise is like saying the people of Tulsa have not yet heard about this amazing stuff called oil. Not only does Washington routinely fill the No. 1 spot on those “most educated cities” articles, but the town positively seethes with academic experts. Indeed, it is the only city I know of that actually boasts a sizable population of fake experts, handing out free-market wisdom to passers-by from their subsidized seats at Cato and Heritage....

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Newsflash: Finding the most pertinent info about the media online

Newsflash: Finding the most pertinent info about the media online | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Being proactive and finding journalist info online can really up your media relations strategy. Relationships first, pitching second!

 

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