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Having no map is weird. Wikipedia has one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel

by mkl 4mo ago

embedding-shape 4mo ago
Also, having read the article + the Wikipedia page, the article seems to contain more or less the same content, except slightly rewritten.
pwg 4mo ago
> Having no map is weird. Yes, a failure of both the journalist and the editor. Sadly, this kind of failure is all too common. I encounter articles that often omit a photo of the "thing" the article is describing. This (no photo) might have made some sense fifty years ago in the heyday of paper print where including a photo was much more work. But today, for HTML publishing, it is just an indication of failure on the part of the publisher.
- SoftTalker 4mo ago
  50 years ago was 1976. Pretty sure there was no particular problem incuding photos or illustrations in paper journalism at that time. Maybe for very low-budget newsletters it would have been.
  - bluGill 4mo ago
    That depends. For the most modern presses (1970s modern) it was no problem but many small newspapers still used the linotype and a press that couldn't handle pictures without much effort.
  - kaptainkaveman 4mo ago
    I think USA Today (1980) was considered repulsive not just because it was colorized and a newspaper but simply because it put more space/resources into illustrations than was considered tasteful. A typical paper would reserve photographers and illustrators for front page and significant stories.
    - bookofjoe 4mo ago
      Not everyone considered it “repulsive” — it was quite popular!
- steanne 4mo ago
  i see the opposite a lot, too, though: articles that don't need a picture but have some marginally-related stock photo tacked on just so there's a picture.
walthamstow 4mo ago
Am I going mad or does the artist's concept look like the water is going downhill
- dylan604 4mo ago
  count the fingers?
- xnx 4mo ago
  I think it's the reflections that make the bumps/posts look taller, giving the illusion of a lower waterline.
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sleepytimetea 4mo ago
The map is wrong - but the article is right - it mentions that the longer route higher up on the peninsula from Skabo to Flode has been chosen but most internet maps show the shortest route from Eide (which has not been chosen). There is only one map I found showing the correct slighly longer route at https://www.tu.no/artikler/kjemper-fortsatt-for-ny-trase-for-hurtigrutens-nye-turistattraksjon/230563 https://www.tu.no/artikler/kjemper-fortsatt-for-ny-trase-for...

Having no map is weird. Wikipedia has one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel

by mkl 4mo ago

Having no map is weird. Wikipedia has one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel

embedding-shape 4mo ago

Also, having read the article + the Wikipedia page, the article seems to contain more or less the same content, except slightly rewritten.

pwg 4mo ago

> Having no map is weird. Yes, a failure of both the journalist and the editor. Sadly, this kind of failure is all too common. I encounter articles that often omit a photo of the "thing" the article is describing. This (no photo) might have made some sense fifty years ago in the heyday of paper print where including a photo was much more work. But today, for HTML publishing, it is just an indication of failure on the part of the publisher.

SoftTalker 4mo ago
50 years ago was 1976. Pretty sure there was no particular problem incuding photos or illustrations in paper journalism at that time. Maybe for very low-budget newsletters it would have been.
- bluGill 4mo ago
  That depends. For the most modern presses (1970s modern) it was no problem but many small newspapers still used the linotype and a press that couldn't handle pictures without much effort.
- kaptainkaveman 4mo ago
  I think USA Today (1980) was considered repulsive not just because it was colorized and a newspaper but simply because it put more space/resources into illustrations than was considered tasteful. A typical paper would reserve photographers and illustrators for front page and significant stories.
  - bookofjoe 4mo ago
    Not everyone considered it “repulsive” — it was quite popular!
steanne 4mo ago
i see the opposite a lot, too, though: articles that don't need a picture but have some marginally-related stock photo tacked on just so there's a picture.

walthamstow 4mo ago

Am I going mad or does the artist's concept look like the water is going downhill

dylan604 4mo ago
count the fingers?
xnx 4mo ago
I think it's the reflections that make the bumps/posts look taller, giving the illusion of a lower waterline.

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sleepytimetea 4mo ago

The map is wrong - but the article is right - it mentions that the longer route higher up on the peninsula from Skabo to Flode has been chosen but most internet maps show the shortest route from Eide (which has not been chosen). There is only one map I found showing the correct slighly longer route at https://www.tu.no/artikler/kjemper-fortsatt-for-ny-trase-for-hurtigrutens-nye-turistattraksjon/230563 https://www.tu.no/artikler/kjemper-fortsatt-for-ny-trase-for...