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Hammancheez

@rodhilton literally the same sensation when you listen to a non-specialist journalist talk about something you have experience in when you remember reading their previous column about something you were dumb about going “man this makes sense this writer is amazing”

25 Dec 2022 at 8:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on masthead.social
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Hammancheez

@rodhilton for the journalists reading my comment I didn’t mean YOU haha I meant the bad journalism haha

25 Dec 2022 at 8:15 | Open on masthead.social
n3wjack

@hammancheez @rodhilton this is what makes me wonder how incorrect everything I read in the news really is. They get the general idea but boy, the devil is in the details.

25 Dec 2022 at 8:27 | Open on mastodon.social
K`Tetch

@n3wjack @hammancheez @rodhilton
It's something that bugs me about local news TV journalists. Most now are glorified teleprompter readers.
And that's led to the current trend for police stenography in journalism, wanting the qucok over the right, and be cop "insiders" rather than accountability.

25 Dec 2022 at 10:28 | Open on mastodon.online
antipode77

@ktetch @n3wjack @hammancheez @rodhilton

Talking heads. (No, not the pop group)

The research if there is any is done by other people.

25 Dec 2022 at 15:44 | Open on mastodon.nl
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datenwolf
Ariadne

@datenwolf @hammancheez @rodhilton the article is succinct and to the point, and I love the last bit:
"By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann?"
Crichton explained "I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."

25 Dec 2022 at 11:23 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Ariadne

@hammancheez @rodhilton this is an enormous problem with Wikipedia. Whenever I read an article about a topic, or even a place, I know quite a bit about, I shake my head and sigh very deeply.

25 Dec 2022 at 11:20 | Open on eldritch.cafe
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