This is an interesting point: "My sensei, the writer Caitlin Flanagan, says that there’s a saying in journalism that you have to publish stories to get stories. "
Thomas Sowell gives the perfect example of this. He had a son who could not talk approaching age 4, yet was otherwise very bright. He searched for years for information about th…
This is an interesting point: "My sensei, the writer Caitlin Flanagan, says that there’s a saying in journalism that you have to publish stories to get stories. "
Thomas Sowell gives the perfect example of this. He had a son who could not talk approaching age 4, yet was otherwise very bright. He searched for years for information about these late-talking, yet intelligent children (his son graduated from college). So he wrote about this in his widely-circulated newspaper column. He got many letters from parents with stories about their similar children.
By getting many of the stories and doing research starting with them, he discovered that the children were not autistic or mentally unfit. He ended up publishing two books on the subject, "Late-Talking Children" and "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children who Talk Late" Without his initial article with the story about his son, the evidence for the bigger story would not have been available.
This is an interesting point: "My sensei, the writer Caitlin Flanagan, says that there’s a saying in journalism that you have to publish stories to get stories. "
Thomas Sowell gives the perfect example of this. He had a son who could not talk approaching age 4, yet was otherwise very bright. He searched for years for information about these late-talking, yet intelligent children (his son graduated from college). So he wrote about this in his widely-circulated newspaper column. He got many letters from parents with stories about their similar children.
By getting many of the stories and doing research starting with them, he discovered that the children were not autistic or mentally unfit. He ended up publishing two books on the subject, "Late-Talking Children" and "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children who Talk Late" Without his initial article with the story about his son, the evidence for the bigger story would not have been available.