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How can Techcrunch say "the group stole four cars totaling $400,000" and then immediately print a letter from the company saying "The total value of these cars
by po 15y ago
How can Techcrunch say "the group stole four cars totaling $400,000" and then immediately print a letter from the company saying "The total value of these cars was around $300,000"? Even though in this case it's ok if you read the letter, it is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I shouldn't rely on Techcrunch's reporting. It's really not a big deal but how did that happen? Why are the numbers different?
- lukejduncan 15y agoTech reporting itself is pretty bad. TechCrunch, Business Insider, etc are essentially tabloids.
- zacharytamas 15y agoI've noticed this too. There have been several cases in the past few months where when reading TechCrunch I was like "Wait, what?".
- protomyth 15y agoThe Red vs Arri lawsuit story they ran felt that way. It looked like it was cribbed off the Reuters report. It struck me like the author didn't actually read the papers filed in the lawsuit. The biggest issue was the lack of reporting on the accusation that Arri sabotaged a Red One on the set of a movie. The original report was written before court papers were available (I think), but the TechCrunch story was posted well after court papers were available. It just seems like they are getting sloppy nd not checking things.
- zacharytamas 15y agoI'm sure there's pressure to put out articles as fast as possible verses the old days of publishing where a journalist might have weeks to work on their piece. With publishing on the web so easy these days readers tend to expect higher publishing frequency, but I'm sure we can't be the only ones who would gladly trade quantity for quality.
- protomyth 15y agoI guess I would really like the writer of an article to actually read the only piece of source material. Yeah, I would love quality, but the current advertising metrics seem to work against quality in a big way.
- jerrya 15y agoIt's drug money like reporting. In this case, three old Datsuns were stolen, reported to the police as four recent Jaguars, who wrote down five Porsches, and finally reported as 1 Veyron.
- veyron 15y agoLet me assure you, I'm still here :P Most likely they reported based on original MSRP (likely around 400K) rather than current value (300K)
- rbanffy 15y agoMuch like what we did to airlines, the web does not optimize for good reporting. I'm not sure how to solve it.