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I wouldn't call it surprising, but I would call it lazy reporting and far less useful than sharing specifically who said it.
by mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
I wouldn't call it surprising, but I would call it lazy reporting and far less useful than sharing specifically who said it.
- jfengel 6y agoNobody specifically said it. As it says two (short) paragraphs later, it's a government plan. Authorship is by some ad hoc committee writing on behalf of the government as a whole. Its publication has the endorsement of the chief executive, but they may not have read it or even know about it. It may have been done by a trusted assistant (cabinet member or other high-level functionary) entrusted with the power to speak on behalf of the executive. In this case, that's Climate Minister Dan Joergensen, quoted in the fourth paragraph, though he likely didn't have a hand in writing it. The important part is that it's a plan that the plan is endorsed by the government as a whole, who will act on it. That's the info that needed to be in the lede. If you have concerns that would be taken up by the specific people, you need to read the whole article first.