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Let's assume that is all true, the "journalist" not contacting the professor before publishing that article seems quite unprofessional. I mean aren't real jour

• rational-future 12y ago
  > aren't real journalists meant to check sources and get both sides of a story No, they are meant to sell as much ads as possible.
  • mpclark 12y ago
    Steady on. The journalists I know do indeed meet society's expectations for fairness and accuracy, and make calls and pound beats, but there are also a lot more people who project themselves as journalists who are a long way from this ideal. Sadly market pressures mean there are a lot of the latter about.
• acdha 12y ago
  That's the theory but remember how badly journalism has been mismanaged into a death spiral. This article smells of someone with less experience (i.e. cheaper) being told to churn out a certain number of stories a week, given less support for editing and fact checking than they'd have had a generation ago, and – most importantly – they'd better sound interesting so people click and boost page views and as impressions.
• pyre 12y ago
  It looks like the source article did not name the professor. I'm unsure how the SCMagazine article author was supposed to contact said professor. Should they have just contact City College for a comment[1]? [1] the original article said it was an unnamed professor of Computer Science at City College