Thank you for this thoughtful, completely reasonable & valid response
I can only speak for myself & what I have said, of course, & not to the issues you list
I do not claim there have not been unreasonable responses, but you know, social media & all that ...
As for myself, I must acknowledge that as a simple consumer of the content I have no factual or technical contribution to make of any value, nor do I have a dog in the fight
I just had a drive-by, non-substantive criticism of the pundit-style gotcha journalism at the end of the piece, which I felt undermined the credibility of the otherwise important & substantive matters covered
Specificity the screen shot of your candid conversation with Luke (below)
- yes, you were technically entitled to publish it
- yes, you can argue it was necessary for fairness
- but imho, no, you should not have done so as it undermined the credibility of the article & regrettably threw the entire tone into a gotcha-journalism style
- yes. Luke did not say 'off the record'
- yes, it might be factually accurate
- but in the end Luke was right, he did not make a statement, but rather asked a loaded question you did not like
I think the article would have carried more weight by simply saying you asked Luke for comment & he denied it.
Critically you did not provide Luke with the detail of his private conversation you were reporting on and therefore did not give him an opportunity to respond to the substantive meat of your article but rather offered him your conclusions, which he denied
Do you think you should have shared the evidence you were basing your conclusions on so he could actually comment, rather than provide him with your conclusion which predictably inflamed him & goaded him into a sharp response? (a serious question, not a rhetorical one )
Just felt a bit off for me and I said so ... I stand by it
Above npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr seems to me to be making a calm rebuttal to your article (right or wrong), but you have responded with "Note that Mechanic has made no comment as to whether he'd support Luke's proposal. Someone tag this little shit i dont know what his handle is."
In my view (right or wrong) your response came off as an unreasonable emotional response to a calmly stated contrary option, which frankly, was unnecessarily abusive & a bit shitty
I am just a random punter, so feel free to ignore, but I would rather see your important & high-quality journalism stand on its substantive base & not be eroded by the occasional palpable loss of control & objectivity ...
I really do love your work, npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak , & see it as a very important contribution to the world, certainly more important than anything I am doing, which is why I took the time & effort to comment
Hopefully you appreciate where I am coming from
Love your work
