NorthDallas40
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What? You mean adding gas to a fire makes it worse? Who'd have thunk it?
Do you not think he's right putting citizens before illegals in Hud housing?I've met a lot of doctors like Carson. Great in their specialty area, but they are completely lost when it comes to everything else. Likely because they have to devote so much time to that one area that they become oblivious to the rest of the world.
Is this a journalist?
Rammed through today to be on the ballot in 2020. How bad is something that you have to hold a vote on a holiday while nobody is looking?
Illinois House votes to put Pritzker’s progressive income tax amendment on 2020 ballot
If I'm getting somebody's version of and opinion about an event rather than the unedited who, what, why, how, when kind of stuff then why bother? Give me the unvarnished facts, and I'll make my own decision damn it. I've seen many technically botched reports regarding my own field (nuclear engineering); journalists simply aren't as smart as they think they are even when they attempt to report honestly. The only way around a lot of this stuff is to write press releases and never ever speak to a damn reporter.
(1) Unless the journalist is a national reporter specifically covering science, he/she will is unlikely to know a lot about nuclear engineering. General purpose reporters (many journalism majors) aren't going to be experts in everything. It is what it is.
(2) Also TV, websites, (less so newspapers) are motivated to make stories more interesting and accessible to broad audiences. Not sure about nuclear reporting, but I notice this a lot in medical research stories. They'll have a headline/premise that's somewhat misleading to lure people in.
(3) It's all about ratings/clicks. You may want just the facts, but that kind of reporting can be rather dry, and won't hold an audience for very long.