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Thank you, keep these columns coming.
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will do. Darn day job (Quizzify) keeping me busy, though, so probably once a week for the most part.
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Al, IMO, it is just laughable when you say an independent third party just did a “comprehensive piece” about something you endorse, when one goes to the third party and finds that it published your own opinion piece.
I know you know the distinction between an independent inquiry, and choosing to include a voice of opinion, clearly marked, among many offerings.
Perhaps there’s a minor gain for the topic — hey, they didn’t reject your piece! — but as a journalist of 30 years, I can tell you that publishing someone’s opinion is not an endorsement of that opinion.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen you do this, and — again, IMO — it erodes your credibility. You’ve got some, with me, but nobody has enough that they can twiddle theirs.
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Point well taken! Sometimes I have overstated the subject header in order to encourage a click-through. So I do one thing that erodes my credibility. We do need to balance that against the (unrebutted) proof that the Ron Goetzel’s Koop Committee cabal has zero credibility, knowingly giving out awards to their friends that are not only undeserved, but in fact demonstrate that at least in the case of Wellsteps, actually harmed employees.
Nonetheless, I will try to up my game a bit here as you suggest.
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By the way sometimes news media that publish opinion pieces do fact-check. The Wall Street Journal editors definitely fact-checked my assertions that the Nebraska program and Interactive Health figures were impossible before they published this. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323501004578389673547444046
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