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I wasn't talking about hacker news. I was talking about the bbc.

I was asking why the bbc published a non-news story, not why it was here. I was just saying the news industry should publish news rather than conjecture or predictions.

Ah I see! Well, you'd have to take it up with them, but the BBC publishes all kinds of things.

the BBC publishes all kinds of things

Mostly "someone said something on Twitter" and "here are some more personal opinions of Laura Kuenssberg". Their days of being a serious news organisation are long over.

That's a popular kind of thing to say on the internet, but IMO a good habit to stay out of. From an HN point of view it's far from true:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.co.uk%20points%3E10&sort=b...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bbc.com%20points%3E10&sort=byD...

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