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Perhaps the classic beached whale clearing technique [0] would work. [0] https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34 https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34
by hunter2_ 6y ago
Perhaps the classic beached whale clearing technique [0] would work.
[0] https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34 https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34
- rosstex 6y agoI don't have to click that to know what it is.
- redsparrow 6y agoIf you haven't seen it, this is a remastered version and much better than the ones I remember watching ~20 years ago.
- chris_wot 6y agoI got my Wikipedia chops by writing the article about that video. Got the Oddball Barnstar.
- jugg1es 6y agoholy crap amazing. Why doesn't news editorialize like this anymore like this reporter did at the end? Simple, obvious, and stated fairly. You don't always need to talk to the guy who thought the whale hailstorm was still a good idea.
- harshreality 6y agoOld school journalism? That kind of reporting takes too long — two minutes until the event is shown — to lay out the facts in a responsible way... giving everyone a clear idea of the initial problem, the proposed solution, and what the proposed solution was supposed to accomplish. Aside from taking too long, it fails to manipulate the audience by giving them a prepackaged take that aligns with the viewers' preconcieved bias, enrages the opposition, and generates audience affinity with the news outlet. Where's the profit in that?
- golergka 6y agoFits into a tik-tok limit of 3 minutes.
- refulgentis 6y agoI'm a little confused by this take: editorializing doesn't happen anymore, which is sad. It doesn't happen anymore because editorializing occurs, which is good, because editorializing is bad?
- setr 6y agoThe goal of news media is not to provide a useful information stream, but to gather repeat views (follow the money). The news barons of the past foolishly conflated the two, or at least assumed the first was optimal at producing the second. Today, we’ve learned better — there are far more effective strategies available, largely by exploiting our natural search for drama. That is, the reporting was good at its goal of good reporting; but this was not the correct goal to have.
- pyinstallwoes 6y agoJournalism, a lost art.
- sundvor 6y agoAmazing reporting, highly enjoyed the narrative. Yes let's blow up a whale, beached as. What could possibly go wrong? Remains to be seen.
- drcongo 6y agoThis pun deserves all the upvotes it can get.
- randomsearch 6y agoThank you. I haven’t laughed that hard since the start of the pandemic.
- BasDirks 6y agoI cried, fantastic.
- undebuggable 6y ago> No respectable seagull would attempt to taggle[?] [the particles of dead whale] anyway.
- matkoniecz 6y agotackle?
- kzrdude 6y agoThank you, it's also a time capsule preserving the "hw" pronunciation of whale. (Which seems to be slowly disappearing.)
- finnh 6y agoWeirdly my elementary-school-age kids were taught in kindergarten that "wh" is a separate sound from "w", and that the received pronunciation is "hw". That's in Seattle, where al of nobody does the "hw" thing. So that was a surprise to find in their little takehome pages. I'm guessing those handouts were first xerox'd 40 years ago...