journalism

If that's the case, then it seems like a decent bit of journalism to me. Do I think it's a huge crime?

This is the dereliction of duty in "journalism." Shame.

With lots of journalism these days it's terribly easy to give up on the storytelling part and stick to dry facts. Sometimes the case calls for that, but other times the weaving of the tale can be the best part.

PR flacks often times have journalism degrees, and the only people left paying for flacks are big corporates and their pr departments.

Today's "journalism" seems to be all link-bait opinion pieces mixed in with copy-pastes from twitter.

If you care about good journalism, follow the source. This is Engadget aggregating an Ars Technica story.

It's not all Apple themselves doing this, much of it is bad journalism and fans saying things that the company has no reason to correct. But it's gotten so bad now that I approach any new claim of innovation from Apple or their cheer squads as probably false.

The columbia journalism review author double counted inflation. The NYTimes piece he cites has already adjusted for inflation in the 1967 IBM Market cap.

This has to be the one area of general reader science journalism in which the journalists -- having about as much as idea as I do about what the physicists are talking about -- just copy down whatever the guys in the lab coats are saying and print it. I work in research computing.

I often cited Robert Whitaker, who is a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for psychiatric journalism, was the former director of publications at HMS, and has written two books on psychiatric medications. Yet, because he did not have an MD or PhD, debaters sneered at his qualifications, rather than evaluate his arguments.

If you're so comfortable with journalism, I'd like to interview you. But first please provide: • Full names and home towns of your children and your wife • Picture of your house – include a clear photo of your car's license plate • Your home town, so anyone can locate you on Google Maps • Your work history • Your net worth • Your health history • Any notable personality traits you have, so the whole world can comment on them Seriously, put up or shut up.

NPR and NYT are usually sources of very solid journalism, the fact that they would drop the real story for some gossip about Snowden implies that someone is able to successfully exert pressure on these organizations. The surveillance alone leaves the possibility that one agency has started to go to far, but this more systematic reaction indicates that the trouble is deeper and more wide-spread.

It's entirely possible that the journalist in question is innocent of deception and only guilty of poor journalism and/or poor trip planning and/or insufficient UI design. However, the issue with the review and that of the social contract are entirely related. In a world where reality itself is relative and subject to social proof, there is no need to double check your facts or to prove the null hypothesis. In a world where science is just another fabricated self-serving belief system, there's no need to apply one's scientific literacy or application of physics learned in school when doing things like taking a car trip in winter. One only need know enough to read the dials and gauges to be a good consumer, then complain loudly if things do not go one's way. True competence, be it in programming or journalism or any significant endeavor, requires diligence with and prostration to the truth.