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Berger is very smart, and he literally just published a (good) book about SpaceX. A layperson reading the article without background knowledge would have those

Berger is very smart, and he literally just published a (good) book about SpaceX. A layperson reading the article without background knowledge would have those questions. So he, as a journalist, posed them, and then answered them (fairly, which turns out to be almost entirely in SpaceX’s favor).

jonplackett 6y ago
Asking if three explosions is a problem, on three very early test launches, where so much went right, is a dumb question to even ask. Or alternativatly, it's deliberate sensationalism and clickbait.
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  Third option: It's doing the standard journalistic framing of "you, a curious person who's just now hearing of this, may be asking yourself x..."
- unionpivo 6y ago
  This is pro SpaceX article. It's for people who do believe that 3 explosion's show trouble. Autor first "agrees" with that, and then explains why it doesn't matter, and SpacX is doing thing right. It's long form of "Yeah good point , but how about ..."
- stupidcar 6y ago
  You say it's a dumb question to ask, yet you still deemed necessary to include in your own statement facts such as that these are "very early test launches" and that "so much went right". If it's so dumb for anyone to even ask if three explosions is a problem, why did you do this? Why didn't you just write "Asking if three explosions is a problem is a dumb question to even ask."? Why was it necessary to introduce supporting evidence? Could it be that you think it's a dumb question because you know these facts? And the article author's job, as a journalist, is to assume, accurately, that most people don't know these facts. Most people are not SpaceX super-fans who have been closely following the test programme. Many will just hear "SpaceX blew up a third rocket" and wonder if things are going wrong, and the author's job, as a professional journalist is to inform those people.

jonplackett 6y ago

Asking if three explosions is a problem, on three very early test launches, where so much went right, is a dumb question to even ask. Or alternativatly, it's deliberate sensationalism and clickbait.

ceejayoz 6y ago
Third option: It's doing the standard journalistic framing of "you, a curious person who's just now hearing of this, may be asking yourself x..."
unionpivo 6y ago
This is pro SpaceX article. It's for people who do believe that 3 explosion's show trouble. Autor first "agrees" with that, and then explains why it doesn't matter, and SpacX is doing thing right. It's long form of "Yeah good point , but how about ..."
stupidcar 6y ago
You say it's a dumb question to ask, yet you still deemed necessary to include in your own statement facts such as that these are "very early test launches" and that "so much went right". If it's so dumb for anyone to even ask if three explosions is a problem, why did you do this? Why didn't you just write "Asking if three explosions is a problem is a dumb question to even ask."? Why was it necessary to introduce supporting evidence? Could it be that you think it's a dumb question because you know these facts? And the article author's job, as a journalist, is to assume, accurately, that most people don't know these facts. Most people are not SpaceX super-fans who have been closely following the test programme. Many will just hear "SpaceX blew up a third rocket" and wonder if things are going wrong, and the author's job, as a professional journalist is to inform those people.