Are EA orgs bad at engaging with the media / do they tend not to do press releases talking about positive impact and successes?
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Are EA orgs bad at engaging with the media / do they tend not to do press releases talking about positive impact and successes?
There's a well-established bias in general in media towards negative reporting - it's just what people are more interested in/animated by (see: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908369116) It's the same reason why negative stuff tends to get shared more on FB and social media in general, iirc.
Basically, it's not an EA-specific issue. When was the last time you read a story about (virtually all) planes not crashing when they take off, or unemployment not being a problem for the vast majority of the population?
Hmm, I think there's an issue where some of the successes of EA orgs even when reported on also don't get framed as EA successes
I think it's probably true that EA organizations could do better at engaging with the media, but here are a few recent headlines:
Also note that CEA (my employer) is hiring someone "to share stories about the impact that people in the community are having".