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MetalAlien

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I thought your babies would look like this, to be honest
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LOL those are autobots you silly human.
 
I thought this was a pretty good article from Twinfinite about a common practice of gamine news reporting trending toward misleading titles


The biggest mistakes are normally generated by writers who don’t listen to the conference calls at all. As I mentioned before, reporting them directly and live is hard work, so many simply don’t bother.

Instead, they wait for someone who is listening to the conference to tweet some of its contents and use those social media posts as the foundation of their articles.

Unfortunately, this kind of second-hand reporting is much more widespread than many think, whether the tweets are explicitly quoted or not.

This approach has obvious flaws. First of all, you’re often completely unaware of the context in which something has been said, and context is absolutely critical to correctly interpreting and reporting complex statements.

Secondly, the tweets and social media posts in question very rarely are exact quotes. Due to the nature of Twitter, they’re condensed summaries of the original statements that often are deprived of relevant details and nuance, when they aren’t partly or completely incorrect.
 

-Arcadia-

Banned
I thought this was a pretty good article from Twinfinite about a common practice of gamine news reporting trending toward misleading titles


I genuinely think a lot of gamers have better journalistic practices (source, confirm, etc.) than most actual journalists these days.
 

Shaqazooloo

Member
yeah but I don’t get it
This thread I think:

Called a few people racist and behaved like a resetera user.
 

Papa

Banned
This thread I think:

Called a few people racist and behaved like a resetera user.

Few dormant accounts popping out of the woodwork there
 
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