![]() I think the practice of writing an article-by-press release is worth commenting on. In other words? A typical HN "piss on TFA" comment, promoting bad practices (sorry, standards), and being upvoted for no discernible reason. News outlets can (and some do) edit, restructure, and add links or other annotations to syndicated content from news agencies and other sources. Quadruply so, since "syndication" is not an excuse either. So it's not "standards" being followed here, it's more like "minimum-effort common practices" being followed. Triply so, since there do exist news outlets that do far better than the "standard": giving actual links, properly attributing, not pulling quotes out of their ass or unrelated interviews, and so on. ![]() For example, newspapers not providing references might have been OK back in the days of print, but it's not in the web era, when a reference via a link to the source is trivial and gives immediate access to it to the reader. The author just doesn't seem to be aware that "standards" can still be bad and people can legitimately complain about them.Įspecially since the "standards" are not some professional legal code or technical protocols that have to be followed, but just common practices.ĭoubly so, since, besides some standards being inherently bad, even good standards can go stale over time. He wants journalism something to be that it isn't and has never been, and then critiques it for not being that thing. The author just doesn't seem to be aware that the two things he complains about are just simply industry standards in journalism. If that's what you're going for a popular scientific journal is probably what you want, not The Guardian the NYT or some other paper of record whose very purpose is to talk to a general lay audience. ![]() The target audience of the NYT pays them to provide authoritative information, they're not an aggregator for links or a repository of a sort. Ever heard of the AP or Reuters? That's what they do.Īs to citations, journalistic articles are not scientific pieces. It's no different from a TV news channel purchasing the rights to some footage or program and rebroadcasting it. There's no secrecy or lie by omission here, that's just how it works without anyone hiding it. Newspapers purchase the rights to some essay, piece of information or what have you and disseminate it to readers. What he calls "copypasta", is called print syndication and has always been standard practice in the news.
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