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>Some men may have liked that electric cars’ limited range meant that the independence granted to their drivers was tightly constrained. This kind of gratuitou
by neartheplain 5y ago
>Some men may have liked that electric cars’ limited range meant that the independence granted to their drivers was tightly constrained.
This kind of gratuitous editorial speculation, based on precisely zero evidence in an otherwise factual article, is why I tend to avoid The Guardian.
- publicola1990 5y agoThis is such a journalistic dark pattern, throws the credibility of the whole article through the window.
- dang 5y agoOk, but please don't cherry-pick a provocation from an article and then rush into the HN thread with it. This is how we get tedious flamewars. Indignation plus sensationalism (a.k.a. flamebait) reliably gets the most upvotes (this was the top comment before I marked it off topic); the idea of this forum is to try to dampen that if we can. There are plenty of interesting things in the article, and we should be focusing on interesting things, not maddening things. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- musicale 5y agoI think focusing on the interesting points of an article vs. maddening bits is a good approach. Certain topics still seem to incite flame wars and upvote/downvote wars; I'm not even sure how to address the latter, though the HN guidelines (such as evaluating the argument rather than the speaker) seem sensible and may mitigate the former.
- neartheplain 5y agoI think it's interesting and worth mentioning when an author inserts an opinion disguised as a fact. I almost read right past it myself. If I hadn't posted my comment, others might've read the same article and internalized the author's opinon as historical truth.
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