Not your fault and I think it can be good strategy to push back without malice sometimes. I just don’t have much patience with the normalization right now.
I think the fact that other media has long let him call himself a demographer (back when he started working at Demographic Intelligence) has let others feel as if they don’t have to verify that.
Also, he’s the “star demographer” referenced in that WaPo or NYT piece on the natalism conference. I mean, at this point, all I can do is laugh and send angry texts to my various group chats.
I think it’s possible to make honest mistakes misrepresenting yourself when you’re still in training. You very well may not know what you don’t know! But if that’s what happened it’s very tough to excuse the absence of diligence on the part of the journalists.
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