Ezra Klein: evaluation

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…Because of maps, you can show where something is happening? Because international stories, it’s maps, it’s visual. Even when you’re showing something fairly mundane in another country, it looks different than it looks here. If you are showing man-on-the-street footage, but that man-on-the-street footage is in Saudi Arabia, it’s actually somewhat visually interesting. It just is interesting to see what it looks like when people in Saudi Arabia are going about their daily lives if you’re from Southern California. I do think video has a bit more bias towards international than print. I would say — and I’d be curious for your thoughts on this, because I do think underneath this question, you have a theory here — I have not seen a systematic difference yet that has influenced our coverage in the way that I did see it, say, when we moved to social being the distribution mechanism. Put much more of a focus on content that front-loaded identity. I haven’t seen that yet in video. Doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I just haven’t found it. I tend to find video is good for explaining history to people. Vox had a great Syria video. I’m sure you had a lot to do with that.…

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