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I really hope that this is a bot making that comment, and not someone asking me for a citation on why I think the author has used a certain wording.

• matt4077 10y ago
  Not a bot, just a regular reader of quality newspapers who cannot remember a single case of an article making that mistake. It's slightly disheartening to see how the collective mind has turned on journalists to a point where any and all accusations can be levelled against them and will be assumed to be true.
  • clort 10y ago
    Tenote mentioned > news articles and you mentioned > quality newspapers now, these things are not necessarily congruent. You might think that you read a quality newspaper, but how many people get their news from such? It certainly seems that more people get it from trashy tabloids in the UK (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation#2010_to_present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit... for reference) and there will be vastly more 'news articles' than exist in quality newspapers. and anyway, is 'slatestarcodex.com' one of your quality newspapers? Certainly I've never heard of it, so I was happy to see that phrase included though I was not going to check their references anyway.
    • Tenoke 10y ago
      This isn't really the point here, but for what is worth slatestarcodex is actually really rigorous, and of really high quality. The author always makes sure to triple check everything, consider all sides, be explicit about things that he might be missing, etc. And the comment section there is pretty comparable to the comment section on HN in terms of quality.