The tragic state of space reporting in casual media
Posted May 19, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC
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How can bot writers be sooo bad.
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The advent of AGI doesn't seem that close right now
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techopower
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A very storied and ancient news organization. Yes.
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Ceiling Power
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Haha its the penis rocket 💯💯💯
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Anything for clicks
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i mean all rockets are kinda phallic but for fuck's sake Jeff that's just a penis
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I have a feeling that it's a slippery slope. Once they hire bad journalists, their viewership decreases, then their revenue decreases, then they have to fire the bad journalists and find someone else who will do it for cheaper, and that's the end of them.
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Also the media. ‘What kind of AR15 is this?’
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Assault Rocket 15
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Little Dimon's worst nightmare
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Lets hope they use contraception. There may be no turning back.
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Filthy casuals.
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You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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Admittedly, it is the largest dildo I've ever seen.
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Lol
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Who is a dick
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You got to be kidding me
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In my class we had to do a news report and the group before me did inspiration 4 (which I wanted to do) and talked about space in genarel but they were wrong a lot and used wrong pictures the teacher didn't allow me to correct them
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Guys, I wish we would get past the hate for anything that is not SpaceX, especially towards Blue Origin. Space is hard, and we as a people on this planet will all benefit from their success. Why not celebrate it?
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Did you actually pay attention to the post? Not really anything about can't get it up to orbit BO
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Daily reminder: These same clueless hacks writing nonsense and garbage about a subject you know well are the same type of clueless hacks writing about subjects you might not know as well.
Don't assume stories about subjects such as medicine, law, guns, cars, wars, etc are any better researched or presented than these laughable stories about space.
Very good point, hadn’t thought about it that way before
That's how I sniff them out. When a big media corporation does a piece on space I assume every report has the same level of accuracy. It's probably better because space is hard but I assume the worst.
It's not just space though. I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable about space (from a pedestrian perspective) via interest, also I know a good about aviation due to my job, and guns and cars are my hobby.
Nearly EVERY article on those subjects is just as deeply flawed as the article in the OP. They contain abject (likely intentional) factual errors, agenda pushing, and a slew of other issues.
It has gotten to the point that whenever I see an article citing "experts" I almost always write it off as bullshit. These days it's not hard to find someone with either an academic or industrial pedigree who will say what you want to print, especially if they have something to gain. And even if you can't find or buy an "expert" you can just cite "anonymous sources close to...." and run with it from there.
There are some journalists like war criminal Eric Berger who do seem to have credible anonymous sources; however, Eric's credibility is based on a pretty long and solid track record of getting things right. He's also the exception.
There's nearly no accountability for "journalists" who write garbage citing "experts" and "anonymous sources" who get it wrong. By the time they're proven wrong, the narrative has moved on and the bogus article/hit-piece just gets memory-holed.
Sorry, but we don't allow convicted war criminals here.
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Well if you're talking about something that you can't simply look out the window and check for yourself, and you have to choose between a consensus of experts and some random guy on YouTube, I don't think it's a tough choice.
There are only so many hours in the day and only so many subjects you can know enough about. At some point you're going to have to make decisions based on information that someone else gives you.
Thankfully space related shit, nothing hinges on it for most people and they'll never have to make a decision based on whether or not some article, about SpaceX for example, was true.
I don't think nihilism where we throw our hands up in the air and just declare the truth unknowable is sustainable. You can't have a functioning society where every person is operating from a different set of "facts."
In an ideal world that would work, but these days trusting anything just because some "expert" said so is foolish.
True. 100% of news stories I've had first hand information about or quality knowledge about have been laughably inaccurate or obviously intentionally misleading. Primarily rockets and nuclear. I apply that filter to every article.