Comment by mlrtime
2 days ago
It's really not that hard to find someone to go to check a address, redditors do this all the time. It should be expected as basic journalism, especially with high claims.
2 days ago
It's really not that hard to find someone to go to check a address, redditors do this all the time. It should be expected as basic journalism, especially with high claims.
Check an address and interview anyone resident there in a way that gets useful answers to the questions at hand.
In this instance it was a bust because no one useful was there. But if the mastermind behind the whole operation was there you’d want a professional to ask them questions. Because once they know they’ve been rumbled they’re probably going to disappear.
I am pretty sure the BBC, like most bug enough news outlets, has antennas all over the world.
Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism is something from a sepia-tinged golden age of muckrakers getting blitzed with Dorothy Parker? People are trying. There's lots of shıt masquerading as journalism, but this ain't it.
> Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism
Hardly surprising given the contrast to the level of journalistic integrity on display at the Beeb recently.
If only this was the actual standard for journalism and not copy pasting half understood content with additional spin.
If what you are typically reading is
>[copypasta] half understood content with additional spin
then what you are reading is not journalism.
> then what you are reading is not journalism
In most cases, if you aren't paying for it, it is not journalism.