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The messages were written by the very people that they are ostensibly sent to. It's sock-puppeting.
by CWuestefeld 4y ago
The messages were written by the very people that they are ostensibly sent to. It's sock-puppeting.
- Clamchop 4y agoWhy does this make the sentiment insincere? Is it inauthentic if you're saying it to yourself? And whoever wrote this didn't write it just for themselves (there are other involved people and there is public relations). More charitably than sock puppeting, it is storytelling through personification.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoIf NASA themselves want to use storytelling for PR purposes, fine. I don't think that has a proper home in scientific journalism. Isn't that what we* have been criticizing journalists about - letting the objective story get co-opted to achieve someone's agenda? *I don't know if that "we" specifically includes you. But certainly big chunk of society, especially in technical spheres, is within the "we".