Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism?

Re:Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say A... by bostik on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:06AM (#16890942)

> If we had comments asking people “how can I more easily shoplift video game consoles?” — would we allow that?

Well.. Let's play devil's advocate and see how far we can go. You're asking a question that could be deconstructed into a few different challenges:

  * psychology and ways to subvert (or bias) human observation
  * ways to avoid automatic surveillance (read: CCTV, facial recognition, etc.)
  * logistics
  * hitting large, faceless corporations where it hurts: on the bottom line

As to their application to Hacker News frequents' interests?

Subverting or cheating human observation skills: stage magicians.

Avoiding automatic surveillance: very much in tune with HN. Hacker culture at its core.

Logistics: again, in tune with HN. (Flexport, anyone?)

Hitting faceless corporations in their bottom line?

And underneath that all, there is the common curiosity. This is a technical challenge. How do I win?

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Re:Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say A... by WhitneyLand on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:08AM (#16891472)

I’d agree you could deconstruct the comment in such a way, but that doesn’t speak to its merit.

Couldn’t your own comment also be deconstructed? Every valid irony or hypocrisy has an underlying mechanism by which it operates yet implies something no less ironic or hypocritical?

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