Re:Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much ...
by tptacek on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:53AM
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Quick: without looking it up, what’s the ratio of COVID-19 deaths in New York to Texas? Florida?
It's about 2:1 Florida to New York. 2:1 Florida to Illinois, too.
What strikes me about your comment --- besides the fact that it looks like you somehow have the rates flipped between the lockdown states and the southern states --- is that almost nothing you're commenting here is really the subject of much reporting at all. It reads as if you're summarizing the bad takes of opinion writers, not of reporters. If you want to build a case against the Take Factory, I'm right there with you. But, in reality, very little of newsroom journalism involves evaluating how progressive Angela Merkel is.
It's about 2:1 Florida to New York. 2:1 Florida to Illinois, too.
What strikes me about your comment --- besides the fact that it looks like you somehow have the rates flipped between the lockdown states and the southern states --- is that almost nothing you're commenting here is really the subject of much reporting at all. It reads as if you're summarizing the bad takes of opinion writers, not of reporters. If you want to build a case against the Take Factory, I'm right there with you. But, in reality, very little of newsroom journalism involves evaluating how progressive Angela Merkel is.