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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

3 points by rpeden 3y ago

billy99k 3y ago
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starbase 3y ago
Factual error in the first sentence. PBS refers to Musk as the company's 'sole proprietor,' when in reality Dorsey and others continue to own part of the company. Are journalists just phoning it in at this point?
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- rpeden 3y ago
  You're right, that's a pretty glaring error. In fairness to the journalists, I doubt any of them are writing the website copy.
- Zigurd 3y ago
  You are technically correct
- spikels 3y ago
  Kinda hilarious it's right above a link to their "Journalistic Standards". And that "T" refers to the Trust Project which is funded by the the same consortium of billionaires concerned with gatekeeping information. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/editorial-standards-and-ethics https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/editorial-standa... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_Project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_Project
dredmorbius 3y ago
This is an announcement of an episode, which seems close to an an annoucement of an announcement: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410214> I'm thinking that's somewhat off-topic, as there's just a teaser 'graph (though not so short as to give some cause to complain) and a < 2m trailer. Post the episode itself once it's up and we can talk. Hopefully substantively.
- rpeden 3y ago
  That's fair! I mostly posted it because this was the first I'd heard if it and I mostly wanted to hear HN's thoughts about whether this is noteworthy enough for a Frontline documentary. But I grew up watching Frontline and Nova and other PBS shows with my grandfather, so I think they might just occupy a different place in my mind than they do for others.
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    Definitely. The episode looks interesting, and the heads-up is useful. But the announcement itself isn't food for "intellectual curiosity", HN's objective: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>

3 points by rpeden 3y ago

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Factual error in the first sentence. PBS refers to Musk as the company's 'sole proprietor,' when in reality Dorsey and others continue to own part of the company. Are journalists just phoning it in at this point?

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rpeden 3y ago
You're right, that's a pretty glaring error. In fairness to the journalists, I doubt any of them are writing the website copy.
Zigurd 3y ago
You are technically correct
spikels 3y ago
Kinda hilarious it's right above a link to their "Journalistic Standards". And that "T" refers to the Trust Project which is funded by the the same consortium of billionaires concerned with gatekeeping information. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/editorial-standards-and-ethics https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/editorial-standa... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_Project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trust_Project

dredmorbius 3y ago

This is an announcement of an episode, which seems close to an an annoucement of an announcement: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410214> I'm thinking that's somewhat off-topic, as there's just a teaser 'graph (though not so short as to give some cause to complain) and a < 2m trailer. Post the episode itself once it's up and we can talk. Hopefully substantively.

rpeden 3y ago
That's fair! I mostly posted it because this was the first I'd heard if it and I mostly wanted to hear HN's thoughts about whether this is noteworthy enough for a Frontline documentary. But I grew up watching Frontline and Nova and other PBS shows with my grandfather, so I think they might just occupy a different place in my mind than they do for others.
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Definitely. The episode looks interesting, and the heads-up is useful. But the announcement itself isn't food for "intellectual curiosity", HN's objective: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>