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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by sajib3 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:05AM (#19632278)
Because it is. If it reads like a child book they did a great job. If you studied journalism you’d know making it as easy as possible for all audiences is a key skill each journalist needs to have. It’s not a science journal that it needs to be full of jargon. It’s meant for general audience and they did a great job. If you want a hard piece go read the journal papers that got published.
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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by inflatableDodo on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:34AM (#19644194)
There are degrees of this. If you compare science reporting against the mainstream financial news it is like chalk and cheese. If the numbers represent money, technical jargon is everywhere, if the subject is scientific, even the numbers are considered scary, never mind a technical discussion around them.
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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by growlist on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:22AM (#19632764)
It's called dumbing down.
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