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It's really not that hard to find someone to go to check a address, redditors do this all the time. It should be expected as basic journalism, especially with h
by mlrtime 11mo ago
It's really not that hard to find someone to go to check a address, redditors do this all the time. It should be expected as basic journalism, especially with high claims.
- afavour 11mo agoCheck an address and interview anyone resident there in a way that gets useful answers to the questions at hand. In this instance it was a bust because no one useful was there. But if the mastermind behind the whole operation was there you’d want a professional to ask them questions. Because once they know they’ve been rumbled they’re probably going to disappear.
- prmoustache 10mo agoI am pretty sure the BBC, like most bug enough news outlets, has antennas all over the world.
- interstice 11mo agoIf only this was the actual standard for journalism and not copy pasting half understood content with additional spin.
- buellerbueller 11mo agoIf what you are typically reading is >[copypasta] half understood content with additional spin then what you are reading is not journalism.
- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> then what you are reading is not journalism In most cases, if you aren't paying for it, it is not journalism.
- tclancy 10mo agoWhy does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism is something from a sepia-tinged golden age of muckrakers getting blitzed with Dorothy Parker? People are trying. There's lots of shıt masquerading as journalism, but this ain't it.
- deanishe 10mo ago> Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism Hardly surprising given the contrast to the level of journalistic integrity on display at the Beeb recently.