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Why does the title have to be political ans not "The US gov..."? Sounds like there is an agenda

pbourke 6y ago
> "The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, involving an investment of $75 million." It was a White House initiative, so the headline seems to be accurate.
jcfields 6y ago
If the administration deserves the blame when it does something bad, it deserves the credit when it does something good.
- tunesmith 6y ago
  "does" is doing a lot of work there.
anigbrowl 6y ago
The Hill is focused primarily on Washington politics so 75% of the stories are about the Administration/House/Senate/Supreme Court/Agency putting out a press release or taking some procedural step.
insensible 6y ago
Turn on any NPR News broadcast over at least the past two decades and the first story will invariably start "The ______ administration…", regardless of who's in office.
krapp 6y ago
It's common to refer to an administration by the name of the current President than "the US government," particularly within the US where the Hill is based. You can find numerous references for example to the "Obama Administration, Clinton Adminstration, Bush Administration, etc" in the media. There's no "agenda" at work here, you're just being needlessly paranoid.
macspoofing 6y ago
It is a neutral headline. I don't sense any agenda one way or the other.
notahacker 6y ago
Meta: whilst the title itself is a standard, neutral way for a political news site like TheHill to report a government's decisions, this is one case where editing the title for HN submission might help focus the discussion on the quantum computing initiative rather than the Trump administration. I say that as someone who's considerably more enthusiastic than the average HNer about content on here which is inherently political in nature

> "The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, involving an investment of $75 million." It was a White House initiative, so the headline seems to be accurate.

jcfields 6y ago

If the administration deserves the blame when it does something bad, it deserves the credit when it does something good.

tunesmith 6y ago
"does" is doing a lot of work there.

anigbrowl 6y ago

The Hill is focused primarily on Washington politics so 75% of the stories are about the Administration/House/Senate/Supreme Court/Agency putting out a press release or taking some procedural step.

insensible 6y ago

Turn on any NPR News broadcast over at least the past two decades and the first story will invariably start "The ______ administration…", regardless of who's in office.

krapp 6y ago

It's common to refer to an administration by the name of the current President than "the US government," particularly within the US where the Hill is based. You can find numerous references for example to the "Obama Administration, Clinton Adminstration, Bush Administration, etc" in the media. There's no "agenda" at work here, you're just being needlessly paranoid.

macspoofing 6y ago

It is a neutral headline. I don't sense any agenda one way or the other.

notahacker 6y ago

Meta: whilst the title itself is a standard, neutral way for a political news site like TheHill to report a government's decisions, this is one case where editing the title for HN submission might help focus the discussion on the quantum computing initiative rather than the Trump administration. I say that as someone who's considerably more enthusiastic than the average HNer about content on here which is inherently political in nature