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The thing is being reported on space.com. According to their owner's bio: "We're home to the world's top specialist media brands, reaching 1 in 3 adults online

The thing is being reported on space.com. According to their owner's bio: "We're home to the world's top specialist media brands, reaching 1 in 3 adults online in the us and the uk"

anigbrowl 2y ago
Thing is this should be a top mainstream news story, not one on a niche website.
- ARandomerDude 2y ago
  You mean like https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-probe-successfully-lands-far-230310043.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-probe-successfully-lands-fa...
  - anigbrowl 2y ago
    Yes, but look at how few comments there are on those articles, suggesting the story got very little engagement. This is generally a sign of low initial placement. Unfortunately since we've handed a lot of editorial decisions over to algorithmic curation, relevant stories (eg to a 'science' section) often fail to get the attention they deserve at the time of publication.
- neom 2y ago
  Google News on the subject lists a pretty decent number of mainstream news orgs: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=09b2a16ac252101f&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIIGE0GBh2vuT_1NLxo8MC4cMTN-IQ:1717390551341&q=china+moon&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=09b2a16ac252101f&sca_u...
  - gravescale 2y ago
    I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent than "plant with biggest genome found" (most of the rest is health science and generic "health content" like TV shows). There's even an article about SAR radar satellites above it, so it's not even the top space story today. It's certainly false to say that it's not in the mainstream media, but I think it's also fair to say it's not exactly top of the bill. For comparison, Chandrayaan-3 was below only Prigozhin's death last August (https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.com/news https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.c...) and the Chandrayaan programme has its own subcategory. To be fair that was the first Indian landing of any kind, so yes, a bit different. Not sure Chandrayaan-3 made CCTV top bill either, though! (It was reported, under the Chinese translated name 月船3号, just I don't know how high up it was on the day).
    - seanmcdirmid 2y ago
      It really depends how it compare to Trump’s conviction. The news is politically dominated these days by that and Gaza. CCTV 7PM news cast will always spend half the news cast detailing what Xi did that day, so it crowds out all the room for science topics. It’s a side story in China daily, and a top story on global times, which is about what I would expect.
    - prawn 2y ago
      I was surprised to not see it on the Guardian's front page. It's prominent on the World News sub-page though.
- ordu 2y ago
  Not the top. At least not in US. At the time of Apollo program Americans became bored by news of Moon landings and new footprints in the Moon dust. One more Chinese probe is not big enough news. China already did that, nothings really new.
  - gravescale 2y ago
    It is the first ever far-side sample-return mission ever (and I think only the second far-side landing at all, the first being Chang'e 4 in 2019), so there's certainly some non-trivial element of "doing something no one has done before". And the far side is somewhat geologically (selenologically?) different to make that a useful scientific thing rather than solely for bragging rights, not that those aren't in the calculus with these things. Chang'e 7 will be pretty interesting as it's going to Shackleton crater, which is a hypothetised water source (though evidence of surface ice is pretty weak) and has never been explored other than orbitally and an impactor from Chandrayaan-1.

The thing is being reported on space.com. According to their owner's bio: "We're home to the world's top specialist media brands, reaching 1 in 3 adults online in the us and the uk"

anigbrowl 2y ago

Thing is this should be a top mainstream news story, not one on a niche website.

ARandomerDude 2y ago
You mean like https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-probe-successfully-lands-far-230310043.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-probe-successfully-lands-fa...
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  Yes, but look at how few comments there are on those articles, suggesting the story got very little engagement. This is generally a sign of low initial placement. Unfortunately since we've handed a lot of editorial decisions over to algorithmic curation, relevant stories (eg to a 'science' section) often fail to get the attention they deserve at the time of publication.
neom 2y ago
Google News on the subject lists a pretty decent number of mainstream news orgs: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=09b2a16ac252101f&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIIGE0GBh2vuT_1NLxo8MC4cMTN-IQ:1717390551341&q=china+moon&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=09b2a16ac252101f&sca_u...
- gravescale 2y ago
  I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent than "plant with biggest genome found" (most of the rest is health science and generic "health content" like TV shows). There's even an article about SAR radar satellites above it, so it's not even the top space story today. It's certainly false to say that it's not in the mainstream media, but I think it's also fair to say it's not exactly top of the bill. For comparison, Chandrayaan-3 was below only Prigozhin's death last August (https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.com/news https://web.archive.org/web/20230823204015/https://www.bbc.c...) and the Chandrayaan programme has its own subcategory. To be fair that was the first Indian landing of any kind, so yes, a bit different. Not sure Chandrayaan-3 made CCTV top bill either, though! (It was reported, under the Chinese translated name 月船3号, just I don't know how high up it was on the day).
  - seanmcdirmid 2y ago
    It really depends how it compare to Trump’s conviction. The news is politically dominated these days by that and Gaza. CCTV 7PM news cast will always spend half the news cast detailing what Xi did that day, so it crowds out all the room for science topics. It’s a side story in China daily, and a top story on global times, which is about what I would expect.
  - prawn 2y ago
    I was surprised to not see it on the Guardian's front page. It's prominent on the World News sub-page though.
ordu 2y ago
Not the top. At least not in US. At the time of Apollo program Americans became bored by news of Moon landings and new footprints in the Moon dust. One more Chinese probe is not big enough news. China already did that, nothings really new.
- gravescale 2y ago
  It is the first ever far-side sample-return mission ever (and I think only the second far-side landing at all, the first being Chang'e 4 in 2019), so there's certainly some non-trivial element of "doing something no one has done before". And the far side is somewhat geologically (selenologically?) different to make that a useful scientific thing rather than solely for bragging rights, not that those aren't in the calculus with these things. Chang'e 7 will be pretty interesting as it's going to Shackleton crater, which is a hypothetised water source (though evidence of surface ice is pretty weak) and has never been explored other than orbitally and an impactor from Chandrayaan-1.