[pixard]

How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article? Who decides how much time is "enough"? You could technically send out an email, and then immediately publish the article. After all a few seconds passed with no reply...

Because of this the line is meaningless (to me at least).

[flangola7]

> How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article?

Presumably the normal amount of time? Do you think journalists just go publishing things haphazardly? I get the feeling you have no experience in the world of reporting.

[RichEO]

Having been on both side of press like this “immediately” means a couple of hours at most. Sometimes it means “I spoke to someone, they said they’d come back to me, but I didn’t want to wait”.

I’ve seen cases where emails are sent outside of work hours on a Friday/Weekend so the journalist can claim that the subject “did not respond to repeated requests for comment” on Monday morning.

Journalists often have a story they want to tell. They intentionally arrange things to support their story.

[newfriend]

And I suspect you've spent too much time in the world of reporting if you think that journalists are some paragons of truth and honesty.

[viraptor]

It really depends where you are. On one hand side, Matt Levine is a journalist. On the other, so are people in the Daily Mail. Yet, there's a massive difference there.