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If how I feel about this as a programmer is any indicator, I dread to imagine how worldly wise, politically experienced folks feel when reading political discus

• skyraider 13y ago
  Agree. They probably cringe at the over-attention paid to being right about things that are beside the point; long-form citations for posts of less than 100 characters; the passive aggressive Snowden comments on articles about, like, Gmail addons. Fox Business is just trying to explain GitHub to its audience, which is approximately the same as the CNBC audience or the audience of any other business network. I don't see anyone making fun of the GitHub CEO for explaining his product as the 'electricity' of today's tech-based companies.
• Amadou 13y ago
  Practically all news reporting does a terrible job of covering complex fields. Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible. A lot of that is because the reporters, not being experts themselves, just don't have the contextual knowledge to grasp the implications of what they come across in their investigation. Unimportant details get played up, subtleties are completely lost, and things with similar names get conflated.
  • Shish2k 13y ago
    > Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible And yet, they still trust the news to be accurate with regards to everything else :(