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The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang on covering the science and emotion of being human
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Archives: February 21, 2017

“Putting others’ words in quotation marks, to signal, ‘We don’t know if this is true, we’re just telling you what they said’ or even ‘Nudge, nudge, we know this isn’t true,’ is a journalistic cop-out.”
That’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don’t.