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by runamok
4234 days ago
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As long as she disclosed it at all I have no qualms with the position of said disclosure in the article. Perhaps if it was a 10 page article I would have a problem but it's 6 paragraphs! If a reader's attention span is that short it's their own fault. |
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It's not [necessarily] about attention span. Most people don't have time to read in entirety every single article that they come across.
I'm sure you've skimmed articles, or read just the first paragraph or two and decided it wasn't that interesting (maybe the subject matter was different than what you expected from the headline or maybe the article was poorly written).
In this particular case disclosing a potential conflict of interest at the beginning is important because it's helpful to keep the potential conflict in mind when reading it. Some people may prefer not reading it all because of the conflict of interest so disclosing it early on can save the reader's time. [i.e. I wouldn't bother reading an article on net neutrality written by a friend of Comcast's CEO]