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Re:The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers by smhg on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:59AM (#9388357)
Depends on the goal I guess. What you might have been taught: inform your readers.

The writer's goal/task was probably something like "create content" in the broad sense.

My personal opinion: please keep doing what you learned in journalism school :)

Re:The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 16, 2015 @12:22PM (#9388984)
> The writer's goal/task was probably something like "create content" in the broad sense.

Yeah, in the so-called "content marketing" sense of the word, i.e. create whatever random stuff that will get people interested enough that we can monetize them (or get paid by whoever hired us to do the content marketing).

Source: I interact personally with content marketers on a daily basis.