I often send out requests to people asking them to provide a quote or let me interview them for an article. Oftentimes, I don't know the person at all; I've just read something the... moreI often send out requests to people asking them to provide a quote or let me interview them for an article. Oftentimes, I don't know the person at all; I've just read something they've written or learned about a project they've worked on and would like to either include a direct quote or talk to them. I'm kind of all over the map on whether I get any kind of response at all, let alone whether the other party agrees. I haven't found any kind of technique that increases buy-in. With my latest one, I needed to talk to doctors, so I wrote to several whom I know personally. Only one bothered to write back and decline. The rest didn't even do that much. It doesn't bother me so much when I don't know the person, but these were people I knew in real life that I've worked with before, so I found the lack of response rather bothersome. Is that normal for this kind of letter, even if you know the person you're talking to? I'm basically offering them free PR, so it's hard for me to understand why they wouldn't rep... less
Once a liar, always a liar, the old saying goes. Turns out there’s some scientific truth to that - lying begets more lying. - https://time.com/4540707/lying-lies-brain/Exampl... moreOnce a liar, always a liar, the old saying goes. Turns out there’s some scientific truth to that - lying begets more lying. - https://time.com/4540707/lying-lies-brain/Example: The Fact Checker is keeping a running list of the false or misleading claims Trump says most regularly. Here's our latest tally as of Oct. 30, 2018. (Meg Kelly/ Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo The Washington Post)On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Tim... less
