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Re:Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloo... by dillondoyle on Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:31AM (#18154176)
I am also shocked. Especially hearing the same BS talking points I see right now in US politics attacking credibility of news. No, reporters don't make up sources and an anonymous source reported by a big institution !== 'might as well be made up' as someone already commented in this thread.

I would love to see some research on accounts and comments on HN similar to Twitter analysis post 16. Seems to me any time China is broached the HN thread gets more comments than average. Many posts read to me as strongly defensive or taking straw man/obfuscation type tactics.

But then again that could be personal bias I don't know the actual human composition of HN comments - which is why I would love to see some research on HN comments/accounts.

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Re:Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloo... by AsyncAwait on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:07AM (#18154523)
> No, reporters don't make up sources and an anonymous source reported by a big institution !== 'might as well be made up'

What would you call Iraq WMD stories?

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Re:Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloo... by Paradigma11 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:41AM (#18155078)
With Iraqs WMDs stories the officials, not the reporters, lied. Also there were quite a few stories, backed by anonymous sources from the intelligence apparatus who were very critical about the official line and the pressure that they were put under to produce corroborating evidence.
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Re:Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloo... by AsyncAwait on Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:07PM (#18156090)
I am not saying the reporters lied, however they were relying on "anonymous sources", just like they do here and the sources had an agenda.

Could be the case here as well. Might not be, but there certainly would be a motive for it, (trade war).

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Re:Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloo... by pawelmurias on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:31AM (#18154297)
> I am also shocked. Especially hearing the same BS talking points I see right now in US politics attacking credibility of news. Tons of news outlets abandoned credibility in the Trump era.
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