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Comment by nutjob2 | Hacker News Reader

Why not just call it what it is: sloppy journalism?

Ignoring the facts to further a pre-determined narrative would more commonly be called a lie.

Ironically, this debate over whether it's "crafting a narrative" or "sloppy journalism" is itself an example of crafting a narrative. The same facts can be explained many ways, with many different emotional tenors.

Of course, nothing wrong with creating a narrative, and of course the same facts can be seen different ways. But the point is you use the FACTS.

I've seen too much journalism, especially in tech, which has scant regard for the truth and focuses on pushing some line that the author thought would make a good story.

Agreed. One more factual error is mentioning Tesla as a Croatian immigrant, but actually he was born in then Austrian Empire (which today is Croatia). His parents were Serbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Whether Tesla was Serbian or Croatian is one of the most controversial topics on Wikipedia[1]. As is typical for Wikipedia he has been added and removed from the list of famous Croats a number of time[2]. I don't think that can be classed as a factual error

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Croats#Tesla

Thanks. This was a mistake. I've fixed it.

Maybe I wasn't clear. Yes I was phrasing it deliberately to contrast with what anyone should consider good journalism :)

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