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Re:Farmer ordered to pay >$92K after confusion over meaning ... by roenxi on Saturday July 08, 2023 @10:12AM (#36644607)
This behaviour must be the result of some sort of internal policy; but it really highlights just how low the quality of corporate[0] journalism is. They're doing not much useful except polluting a search for the case details with links to their poorly articulated take. It'd be so easy to include the link or a copy of the PDF in the article. But they just aren't in a headspace where people might want facts, context or otherwise have an interest in the details of the story.

The professionalism of these services is poor. We don't even have the name of the person stirring up clickbait.

[0] The ABC is government funded, but still follows the same basic model as all the rest and it looks like they lifted this off Reuters.

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Re:Farmer ordered to pay >$92K after confusion over meaning ... by goodbyesf on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:00AM (#36645026)
> They're doing not much useful except polluting a search for the case details with links to their poorly articulated take.

Polluting a search indeed. On youtube, it feel like every search result, even if not news related, is filled with links to news. I just don't get it.

> it looks like they lifted this off Reuters.

The source of most news is the AP or Reuters. If the company wants to add their spin on a topic, they'll have their journalists add to the ap or reuters articles.

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Re:Farmer ordered to pay >$92K after confusion over meaning ... by tourmalinetaco on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:13PM (#36645768)
> On youtube, it feel like every search result, even if not news related, is filled with links to news. I just don't get it.

Or product reviews. I looked up “science of active noise cancelling headphones” to explain the science more easily to a friend, and 2/10 were actually what I wanted. The rest were “BEST HEADPHONES EVER?! What YOU need to know!”-type garbage.

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