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Headline: The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday Actual details from the article: This past weekend, a small Russian town in the Arctic Circle hit ... 100.4 degr

Headline: The Arctic Circle Hit 101°F Saturday Actual details from the article: This past weekend, a small Russian town in the Arctic Circle hit ... 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit How can Forbes justify using this headline?

hootbootscoot 6y ago
Ummm it's factually correct? Re: "A small Russian town" lol, Do you propose that temperatures were different 50km away? There is a massive heat wave rolling through NORTHERN Siberia right now, and it's not been confined to one town nor is this "record" the only broken heat record. Southern Siberia, like the Altai region, hit's such temperatures regularly, but that's Novosibirsk and south. What we are referring to here is unprecedented, so let's please stop acting as if ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE wasn't a factual reality threatening mammalian life on earth.
- gambiting 6y ago
  Literally no one here is saying that, please stop acting as if people are.
  - 87zuhjkas 6y ago
    Please stop acting as if you know what literally all people are not saying.
  - washadjeffmad 6y ago
    I agree that the language used to diminish the event matches the inaccuracies of the article. However, no one is communicating well here, and you're not a moderator on this thread.
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
jerzyt 6y ago
Innumeracy on display.
- chrisan 6y ago
  > I am a geologist passionate about sharing Earth's intricacies with you. I received my PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon I find it hard to believe someone with those credentials would be unfamiliar with mathematical concepts. It's a shame because the article doesn't need to "hype" up the temperature. It would have gotten my interest regardless
  - QuesnayJr 6y ago
    Headlines are usually written by someone else, and the person who writes the article has very little influence over them.
  - harry8 6y ago
    Author of the article almost certainly did not write the headline. A sub-editor probably did that. It's entirely reasonable to judge a publication on the basis of a headline not matching the article. It is not at all reasonable to judge the article's author concerning a headline they did not write, had no say in and probably did not even seen prior to publication.
umeshunni 6y ago
> How can Forbes justify using this headline? Forbes is now a content host - when you see an article from forbes.com/sites/xxxx, that means that it's essentially a blog from a rando that Forbes selected as a 'contributor'. See https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-forbes-contributor-model-technology-feedback-and-incentives/s2/a554255/ https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-forbes-contributor-mod... > Contributors have access to the same publishing platform as Forbes's own journalists, a platform which was built by Forbes itself. And keeping the system simple is vital, Federle said, to allow them "to focus on the journalism", and not get distracted by technicalities. > Second is the Most Popular section, which Federle explained is "algorithmically generated" and "driven by velocity engine" which looks at social shares and comments to rank stories. > "We've taken our platform and will shrink wrap it down to a product they can plug into their platform. This is a new business for us."

hootbootscoot 6y ago

Ummm it's factually correct? Re: "A small Russian town" lol, Do you propose that temperatures were different 50km away? There is a massive heat wave rolling through NORTHERN Siberia right now, and it's not been confined to one town nor is this "record" the only broken heat record. Southern Siberia, like the Altai region, hit's such temperatures regularly, but that's Novosibirsk and south. What we are referring to here is unprecedented, so let's please stop acting as if ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE wasn't a factual reality threatening mammalian life on earth.

gambiting 6y ago
Literally no one here is saying that, please stop acting as if people are.
- 87zuhjkas 6y ago
  Please stop acting as if you know what literally all people are not saying.
- washadjeffmad 6y ago
  I agree that the language used to diminish the event matches the inaccuracies of the article. However, no one is communicating well here, and you're not a moderator on this thread.
dang 6y ago
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

jerzyt 6y ago

Innumeracy on display.

chrisan 6y ago
> I am a geologist passionate about sharing Earth's intricacies with you. I received my PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon I find it hard to believe someone with those credentials would be unfamiliar with mathematical concepts. It's a shame because the article doesn't need to "hype" up the temperature. It would have gotten my interest regardless
- QuesnayJr 6y ago
  Headlines are usually written by someone else, and the person who writes the article has very little influence over them.
- harry8 6y ago
  Author of the article almost certainly did not write the headline. A sub-editor probably did that. It's entirely reasonable to judge a publication on the basis of a headline not matching the article. It is not at all reasonable to judge the article's author concerning a headline they did not write, had no say in and probably did not even seen prior to publication.

umeshunni 6y ago

> How can Forbes justify using this headline? Forbes is now a content host - when you see an article from forbes.com/sites/xxxx, that means that it's essentially a blog from a rando that Forbes selected as a 'contributor'. See https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-forbes-contributor-model-technology-feedback-and-incentives/s2/a554255/ https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-forbes-contributor-mod... > Contributors have access to the same publishing platform as Forbes's own journalists, a platform which was built by Forbes itself. And keeping the system simple is vital, Federle said, to allow them "to focus on the journalism", and not get distracted by technicalities. > Second is the Most Popular section, which Federle explained is "algorithmically generated" and "driven by velocity engine" which looks at social shares and comments to rank stories. > "We've taken our platform and will shrink wrap it down to a product they can plug into their platform. This is a new business for us."