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I know it's really popular these days to shit on journalists, and I agree that the quality of some outlets can be less then desirable, but it is an incredibly d
by ssully 7y ago
I know it's really popular these days to shit on journalists, and I agree that the quality of some outlets can be less then desirable, but it is an incredibly difficult field that involves a lot of work, little pay, little thanks, and terrible job security.
Looking at this article, there is no Author by-line, but just the "Global Health" topic. Digging in, their Global Health topic is managed by their "Global development" team, which has a single writer assigned to it on their Contributors page [1]. I am sure free lancers contribute to this section as well, but I am trying to illustrate that this team/writer is probably on the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to resources and priority. If this story would never have been written if it had to pass HN's level of scientific article standards.
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/index/contributors https://www.theguardian.com/index/contributors
- ekianjo 7y agoWhat is incredibly difficult about being a journalist? It is the core of their job to read stuff and know better than the average how to make sense of things they read. Not "very difficult" by any measure, we are simply witnessing sheer laziness.
- ssully 7y agoI provided four reasons as to why an average journalists job is difficult, and an entire paragraph as to why this particular journalists job might be difficult. Also your description of a journalists "core" job is incredibly reductive. It would be like me saying a programmers job is to just "write code". It's accurate to a point, but fails to capture a majority of a programmers responsibilities and how they do it well.
- urbanjunkie 7y agoIgnorant and arrogant. What a dick you are, you pathetic, incel waste of oxygen.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoYou sound like the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. "Anything I don't understand must be easy."
- chmod775 7y ago> Looking at this article, there is no Author by-line, It says "Gitonga Njeru in Nairobi" on the left side. Here's the author: https://news.mongabay.com/by/gitonga-njeru/ https://news.mongabay.com/by/gitonga-njeru/