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Firstly, when did prediction and conjecture become news? Would be great if the news industry stuck to actual news. Secondly, lets hope so and lets hope that wi

Firstly, when did prediction and conjecture become news? Would be great if the news industry stuck to actual news. Secondly, lets hope so and lets hope that will finally put an end to the crazy amount of hit pieces by the media on facebook and social media. Has anyone older ever witnessed anything like this before? The media, both in the US and the UK, has been obsessed with facebook and social media for past year. It's like someone declared war on facebook/social media and ordered the entire industry to attack them. The only thing I can compare it to is north korea's media's rabid attacks on SK, US and Japan. Anyone else "entertained/exasperated" by the media blitz against facebook.

dang 9y ago
Articles don't have to be news in the narrow sense to do well here. They need to gratify intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zombieprocesses 9y ago
  I wasn't talking about hacker news. I was talking about the bbc. I was asking why the bbc published a non-news story, not why it was here. I was just saying the news industry should publish news rather than conjecture or predictions.
  - dang 9y ago
    Ah I see! Well, you'd have to take it up with them, but the BBC publishes all kinds of things.
    - gaius 9y ago
      the BBC publishes all kinds of things Mostly "someone said something on Twitter" and "here are some more personal opinions of Laura Kuenssberg". Their days of being a serious news organisation are long over.
      - dang 9y ago
        That's a popular kind of thing to say on the internet, but IMO a good habit to stay out of. From an HN point of view it's far from true: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.co.uk%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.co.uk%20points%3E10&sort=b... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.com%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.com%20points%3E10&sort=byD...

dang 9y ago

Articles don't have to be news in the narrow sense to do well here. They need to gratify intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

zombieprocesses 9y ago
I wasn't talking about hacker news. I was talking about the bbc. I was asking why the bbc published a non-news story, not why it was here. I was just saying the news industry should publish news rather than conjecture or predictions.
- dang 9y ago
  Ah I see! Well, you'd have to take it up with them, but the BBC publishes all kinds of things.
  - gaius 9y ago
    the BBC publishes all kinds of things Mostly "someone said something on Twitter" and "here are some more personal opinions of Laura Kuenssberg". Their days of being a serious news organisation are long over.
    - dang 9y ago
      That's a popular kind of thing to say on the internet, but IMO a good habit to stay out of. From an HN point of view it's far from true: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.co.uk%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.co.uk%20points%3E10&sort=b... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.com%20points%3E10&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.com%20points%3E10&sort=byD...