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I really hate this kind of journalism. I have a friend who is at the top of this food chain: lifestyle section of the NYT. He is always posting weird calls for help to Facebook. “Is your dog experiencing flatulence caused by CBD supplements you bought online? I want to talk to you about an upcoming article.”
It’s like the article is written before the sources are found. Totally stupid and backward. An endless shitpile of made up articles on topics that make elderly white people feel like they are tapped into “trends.”
That's 100% how journalism works. If you're an expert in a field a journalist might call you asking to confirm a statement or a fact that they know. If you correct them and tell them they're wrong, or that it's not that simple, they'll just go find a different expert to confirm their narrative.
Now, to be fair, this style of research isn't exactly wrong, so long as the writer really is fairly knowledgeable in their own right, and is just looking for an outside source they can point to so it's not just their own opinion. The problem in the style of writing is when the author does this for things they they don't understand very well or are just their opinions.
I think there’s a difference between consulting an expert on the subject of an article and sending out a call for the very subject to see if you can find it.