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Your comment is even better set up. I can imagine in future articles will have "(bots ignore)" in the articles ;)
by elcct 11y ago
Your comment is even better set up. I can imagine in future articles will have "(bots ignore)" in the articles ;)
- hga 11y agoAmbrose Evans-Pritchard has been accurately described as "never the calmest man in a room", so the first cut of such a bot would be really simple ^_^. Seriously, he's been lots of fun to read since the start of the Clinton administration, but after a while you learn to apply a mental filter. For that matter, much of the British press is way more ... passionate than ours, that's one of its charming qualities. Along with oddities like the tabloid Daily Mail doing a lot of good reporting along with the celebrity articles, often better for US events than US media.
- crdoconnor 11y ago>the tabloid Daily Mail doing a lot of good reporting Pardon?
- hga 11y agoSeriously! In the example I'm best acquainted with, the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado, their early reporting was as good as anyone from the outside. In my personal photo gallery http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ the before and after pictures of my apartment complex at the end were grabbed from the Daily Mail. (EDITED from Daily Mirror.) In general, in events where photos matter they're really good, and their copy, once you filter out the "passion" as I put it above is pretty good, especially since they don't overly try to force things into irrelevant narratives. More straight reporting than US we pretend to be objective "journalism". I suggest you try them a few times when a "breaking" event happens, e.g. a hostage situation.
- EdwardCoffin 11y agoAre the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail associated? You're citing an example from the Mirror to illustrate why the Mail is not bad, which I don't quite understand.
- maxerickson 11y agoThe photo is also credited to AP (which makes it's appearance elsewhere coverage more than reporting).
- hga 11y agoThat's a rather fine line, or at least I consider the job of "reporting" to include gathering and selecting from all things that are relevant, which would of course include 3rd party wire photos.
- maxerickson 11y agoIt's certainly pedantic, my point is more that coverage is a clearer description of the process of printing stuff off the wire, not so much that reporting is the wrong word for it.
- hga 11y agoOops, I spazzed and substituted Mirror, which I don't read, for Mail; corrected above.