I cringed reading that. It's like something an edgy West coast teenage Redditor would write.
Yeah, instead of evaluating a journalist by looking at over a decade of high-quality work he has done writing about this space, let’s pull up a joke from one article and judge that.
Do you realize that you’re the one behaving like a low-quality Redditor here.
> That doesn't sound like an "excellent journalist". It sounds like a Redditor.
We're not talking about their >decade of work. We're talking about this work, and this work sounds like a Redditor.
You're arguing from priors. I respect Berger's work, but it doesn't exempt him from acting like a pillock, clearly.
Basically any online article site like ars comes across as a Redditor with reddit-tier takes and a mixture of ChatGPT. If you graduate to something like the NYT then you sound like a lobbyist.
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by abecedarius on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @10:46AM
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Berger wrote two books on SpaceX in a very positive light generally, portraying Musk as extraordinarily driven and capable though not passing over less admirable traits. Berger is not a hater.
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by pizzafeelsright on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:53AM
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Prior to DOGE? That is really the question.
Once a favorable celebrity wears the Red or ventures near the Orange the script is rewritten.
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by llamaimperative on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:12PM
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True integrity is being a fan of someone no matter what they do or say, indefinitely into the future
You can easily look this stuff up:
Liftoff was published January 3, 2023
Reentry was published September 2024
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by altcognito on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:07PM
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An excellent journalist recognizes that the President can't unilaterally rename internationally recognized bodies of water.
What is the complaint? You don't like the style of rebuking this ridiculous behavior?
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by FifteenthLetter on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:47AM
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>the President can't unilaterally rename internationally recognized bodies of water
I'm curious if you were complaining when Barack Obama renamed Mt. McKinley.
Re:Crew-9 Returns to Earth
by altcognito on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:21PM
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Not even remotely the same situation.
#1 It wasn't just the President, it was literally the state of Alaska that had made the request for four decades. #2 This is within US borders.
>Ah, yes. The Gulf of America.
>This is why we can't have nice things.
That doesn't sound like an "excellent journalist". It sounds like a Redditor.