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I think there's some rather below-the-belt plagiarism going on here: Metro: The rush hour service lurched to a stop last night and left passengers onboard t
by seabass-labrax 3y ago
I think there's some rather below-the-belt plagiarism going on here:
Metro:
The rush hour service lurched to a stop last night and left passengers onboard the crowded carriages for hours, as the driver drip-fed what little information they had to passengers.
Eventually, the battery backup running the heating and lighting ran out, and those on board were left in darkness for another hour and a half until the evacuation came.
BBC:
Commuter Mikey Worrall described the train as "lurching to a stop" and then a long, several-hour wait in semi-darkness as the driver drip-fed what little information they had through to passengers.
Eventually, the battery back-up running the train's heating and light services ran out, and passengers were left in darkness for another hour and a half until they were evacuated from the train.
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoOr a reprint of an official statement.
- jameshart 3y agoI would love to imagine a world where the TfL official statement said that they ‘left passengers in darkness while the driver drip-fed them information’. PR guy’s last day, maybe.
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoOr a reprint of some generic news report.
- dheera 3y agoMeh. It's a factual article about an unfortunate event, there isn't much room for creativity here, and everyone is piecing together the facts from information shared with each other. I'd rather the reporting about things like this spread as fast as possible rather than wordsmiths spending pointless hours figuring out how to reword the same fact to sound "original". If it was a creative piece or a documentary I'd agree with you, but this is just a dumping of facts.
- binarysneaker 3y agoNot necessarily. Sometimes news articles come from a source such as the Associated Press and are rewritten or reworded before publication.
- snvzz 3y ago>Eventually, the battery backup running the heating and lighting ran out, and those on board were left in darkness for another hour and a half until the evacuation came. Did they really need the heating, with packed trains? The engineer should have turned it off, or set it to something like 16C.
- hedora 3y agoWelcome to our LLM-based news cycle.