Hacker Read

7dare · 2018-04-03 20:22:17+00:00

Plus it's basically inviting anyone else to call in with fake information, pretending to having been there. Bad journalistic standards...

throwmeariver1 | karma 146 | avg karma 0.49 · | 2022-04-13 18:33:57

It's bait for bad journalists.

gphreak | karma 397 | avg karma 15.88 · | 2014-01-07 12:41:18+00:00

The original article reminds me of the usual SUN/Bild/Fox News style which makes it really hard to defend the author in any way. In addition to that he calls names, basically gives out the address of the person in question.. ugh.

WalterSear | karma 6900 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2013-11-23 09:52:30

Because it isn't.

It's a handful of loud mouthed guys who have the phone number of a reporter who was looking for an article to write.

reply

jlgreco | karma 18247 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2013-07-14 02:49:45

It is just bad journalism.

robocat | karma 11778 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2016-07-03 20:03:39

This article smells like the journalist has been tricked.

azeotropic | karma 569 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2019-04-04 10:45:53+00:00

I disagree. This shows some of the worst flaws of modern journalism: The smarmy tone, writing the story about personalities rather than facts, the narcissistic urge of the journalist to insert himself into the story.

It's a travesty.

reply

andrewclunn | karma 653 | avg karma 0.65 · | 2023-01-03 10:23:35

Making up fake quotes to overplay mundane events? Clearly it's already a journalist.

wmeredith | karma 11286 | avg karma 4.23 · | 2019-01-15 13:08:30+00:00

Agreed. It’s poor journalism. My response is, “so?”.

5_minutes | karma 647 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2017-07-19 16:01:55

Right yes, this whole article is not good journalism.

It is an interesthing thing to write about, but the voice here is wrong.

reply

AboutTheWhisles | karma 281 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2018-06-17 22:09:05

It's practically a resume cover letter. People don't deserve to be told something is journalism when it is an advertisement. I'm not sure why you would even want to defend something like this, let alone be a lackey for someone else's rules.

notpushkin | karma 4321 | avg karma 3.73 · | 2022-12-03 03:13:34

This is either insincere (a planted story perhaps?), or just bad journalist work.

metadat | karma 19104 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2022-11-01 22:35:31

This kind of click bait garbage is what gives journalism a bad name.

RankingMember | karma 4235 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2018-07-09 12:04:11+00:00

It's fine if they make clear it's just a press release, but this is a press release masquerading as journalism.

ryanlol | karma 5269 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2015-07-08 12:42:08+00:00

This article features some impressively bad journalism.

joshu | karma 14055 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2011-03-18 18:13:59

i was in that article. what an awful piece of "journalism"

snyp | karma 615 | avg karma 8.79 · | 2023-05-03 21:09:08

I doubt that it is the worst form of journalism, Lots of people on social media eat this kind of stuff up. Clickbait journalism but it gets eyeballs and likes.

lumberjack | karma 3354 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2016-03-03 22:03:53+00:00

It's a bad attempt at long form journalism.

Rapzid | karma 5572 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2021-05-16 21:08:59+00:00

Checks out. They aren't in the business of truth telling. They are in the business of booking speaking engagements. I guess just like with news opinion and analysis pieces they use "click-bait" story summaries and pandering content to attract an audience..

vinced | karma 9 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2011-06-13 15:21:43+00:00

Sounds like a "sponsored" piece of journalism.