Jay RosenMay 8, 2023

For me this was the key moment for Amy Chozick as author of "Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth."

Chozick writes:

"She thinks if she’d spent more time quietly working on her inventions and less time on a stage promoting the company, she would have revolutionized health care by now."

That Holmes still believes she could transform health care tells us she is nowhere in her recognition of reality, which in turn means the con goes on. And that— 1/2
#journalism #science #nytimes

Show threadDamon KiesowMay 8, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu This exact type of story needs a tik-tock post-mortem. When exactly did it slip from “decent story idea” to “public relations?”

Was it the inherent from the pitch, was it somehow distorted in the reporting, was it the photo, the editing….

Show threadJohn McQuaidMay 8, 2023
@dkiesow @jayrosen_nyu The pitch - which seems like it was basically, an exclusive with EH, a look at her life now and has she changed? Access, and what is being accessed (family, children, zoo visits) shapes everything.
Show threadJohn McQuaid
@dkiesow @jayrosen_nyu That said, I think it's definitely possible to write an interesting/critical story under those conditions, but the reporter/editors were not up to it (maybe because being critical/skeptical is not what happens in most NYT stories built on access to famous attractive people).
May 8, 2023 at 3:22pmWeb