satt comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: elharo 05 May 2013 11:09:34AM -2 points [-]

Downvoted because it's improperly sourced, second hand information, and in a comment about journalism no less. That is, "I knew a person who worked as a journalist for a newspaper". Who did you know? What newspaper did they work at? Can you quote them directly rather than simply recalling and rephrasing what they said?

Comment author: satt 05 May 2013 05:07:53PM *  4 points [-]

Chapters 2-4 of Nick Davies's Flat Earth News discuss how systemic constraints like those ChristianKl & Viliam_Bur mention lead to worse journalism. It mostly addresses the US & UK rather than Slovakia, but if anything this strengthens Viliam_Bur's point. (Replying even though you're at -4, fuck the troll toll.)