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I’ve noticed this a lot about mainstream reporting - seems to give more voice to corporates than anyone else.
I’ve read a number of articles on the protest over the past few days and not a single of them really explained all the issues well.
I’ve experienced 1 first-hand. They call you and leave a voicemail. If you don’t respond within 24 hours they’re going to publish anyway and probably get a lot of things wrong.
I hear PR companies will basically write for the journalists on request, and sometimes journalists will take it just to get ahead.
Corporate journalism has its own special place in hell for me. After all the creativity was removed from rather central editing functions, I set about automating what was left at a hub and got shown the door when the efficiencies started to threaten justifying salaried positions.
It’s more difficult when they can’t just call up John Mastodon from the Fediverse PR department and copy-paste a press release.
I can chalk a lot of that up to the presumed reader knowledge in the Times style guide simplifying things tremendously. I mean, who knows if anyone uses those anymore …
It’s just really glaring to have a quote with a claim that’s not easy to immediately verify as a reporter (1/xth the efficiency, per [source 1] / [source 2]) with the creator of the app quoted earlier but not used here. I would be livid if that made it to the desk.