By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Philip Bump of the Washington Post, who a few weeks ago launched his newsletter How To Read This Chart. I’m a longtime fan of Bump’s work at the Post; he’s a really compelling writer and an outstanding blogger and has been weaving data journalism throughout his work so organically for such a long time I wanted to have him on for a podcast version of the Sunday edition to talk about the state of the art and the newsletter.
You have a lot of journalists who simply don't know how to spot bullshit, right? They just don't know how to be like, "I'm going to treat this with some caution." Instead they're getting pitched on, "Hey man, we have this new insight into what's going on." That quote hit home, but I hope that as a journo many many years ago I wasn't guilty, but I think I was.
You have a lot of journalists who simply don't know how to spot bullshit, right? They just don't know how to be like, "I'm going to treat this with some caution." Instead they're getting pitched on, "Hey man, we have this new insight into what's going on." That quote hit home, but I hope that as a journo many many years ago I wasn't guilty, but I think I was.