Re:Why does science news suck so much?
by BeetleB on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:21PM
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> They believed everything corporations said, because they had no time to check.
I remember a story from a famous freelance investigative journalist who found evidence of disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 election. He collected a huge amount of evidence and testimony, and sent it to news outlets across the US. Most of them came back with:
"Uh, we contacted the <person/group accused>, and they're denying this. We're not going to run the story."
Who'd have thought people accused of nefarious, potentially illegal activities would deny doing them?
I remember a story from a famous freelance investigative journalist who found evidence of disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 election. He collected a huge amount of evidence and testimony, and sent it to news outlets across the US. Most of them came back with:
"Uh, we contacted the <person/group accused>, and they're denying this. We're not going to run the story."
Who'd have thought people accused of nefarious, potentially illegal activities would deny doing them?