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Wow, what a toxic attitude you have towards journalists. This is a fluff piece, not a serious piece of investigative journalism. The bar does not not need to be
by brokencode 6y ago
Wow, what a toxic attitude you have towards journalists. This is a fluff piece, not a serious piece of investigative journalism. The bar does not not need to be very high for this kind of article.
- Ragnarork 6y agoEven for a fluff piece, this clears a relatively simple yet efficient bar: get the impressions of the photographer, bring in an expert's take to explain the science behind it, and that's it. Note that apparently the expert didn't need to mention the words "fata morgana" either, so maybe that's a stupid focus point after all which just sounds like elitism at this point. I know who here "pretends to tell us about the world" and it's not the journalist.
- mikhailfranco 6y agoWell, the bar should be a little higher, and in particular, it should be higher for the taxpayer-funded BBC, which would once have thought it had a reputation to protect, but now seems to have destroyed its integrity in favour of fluff pieces - whatever that is supposed to mean - empty articles for empty people?
- brokencode 6y agoI don’t look at BBC news much, but now looking at its website, I have to agree with you that there is too much of this kind of content there. Its home page has articles about flying ships, eggs, and pterodactyls.. it does look like they are hitting a pretty low bar across the board, so maybe you’re on to something.