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Is it me, or does anyone else find it frustrating that reporters reporting about some court case habitually cannot quote the exact ruling and link to PDF that p
by supernova87a 3y ago
Is it me, or does anyone else find it frustrating that reporters reporting about some court case habitually cannot quote the exact ruling and link to PDF that people can read for themselves?
It's not like they didn't have the source material to base the story on, so why can't they pass that along to the reader in this day and age, to credit the source?
But no, apparently a retold story in someone else's words is better than being able to read the 50-page document that actually lays out the ruling..
- weaksauce 3y agoIt's a pet peeve of mine too. I wish there was some kind of ethics in journalism law to cite known textual sources but that would likely run against the first amendment and be somewhat onerous a requirement to keep up to date as the links change.
- lolinder 3y agoDefinitely! If you haven't found it yet, here's the link: https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/opinions/22-cv-67_SWS_Order.pdf https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/opinions/22-cv-...
- supernova87a 3y agoThank you very much!
- mr_toad 3y agoNews sites have their own sense of entitlement - that they’re entitled to your attention, and they definitely don’t want you clicking on a link to another site (unless it’s an add).
- opportune 3y agoNews websites rarely link externally because they want you to stay on their site and don’t want to improve the SEO of other sites (which may be other news media). To be fair, there are legitimate reasons too. Links can become invalid and they most likely don’t want to deal with the headache of fixing that/perceived UX issues of not fixing it. Even worse, linked content could be easily replaced with something… unsavory