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A comment on Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad press coverage. Parent comment

Re:Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad pre... by jsl1212 on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:47PM (#16601895)
That's an interesting quote from Crichton. I think the safest assessment of any given publication is to regard its credibility as only being as good as its worst story. Like Crichton said, should we really take CNN seriously in any subjects if they're saying space turned Scott Kelly into a mutant?
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Re:Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad pre... by mulmen on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:30PM (#16603368)
I would hope the average HN reader has a higher capacity for critical thought than a binary decision to blackball an entire news source. if you really do what you are saying here you won't read any source on anything, ever.
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Re:Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad pre... by jsl1212 on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:48PM (#16603524)
Regarding a source's credibility and ignoring it outright are two different things entirely. I was just agreeing with Crichton that publications need to be held to a consistent standard across all areas of coverage.
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Re:Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad pre... by mulmen on Friday March 16, 2018 @07:49PM (#16604800)
That's a fair distinction. I would apply that reputation to the author and possibly aggregate that for the outlet though. I don't think it's as easy as judging CNN as a whole based on a single piece.
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