>downvoting over a pretty mundane detail and a common concern: Don't link to a press release. I didn't downvote your comments but I can see why you got them:

>downvoting over a pretty mundane detail and a common concern: Don't link to a press release. I didn't downvote your comments but I can see why you got them: you provided an NYT article that wasted readers' time. Yes, it's wise to be skeptical of "press releases" to avoid spin but your rigid adherence to avoid-press-releases-at-all-costs put you on autopilot and caused you to link an article that was worse than the press release. Now, you think the downvotes are about disagreeing with your principles about press releases when it may just be downvotes about that specific NYT article that added no value. Sure, when Apple makes a press release, readers would be better off skipping their corporate marketing fluff and look at the Ars Technica writeup that will be more critical. However, the NYT writeup of SpaceX's accident report isn't an analogous example value-added journalism. (The newswriter Kenneth Chang is not a rocket scientist and can't offer any expert counterweight to the press release.)