Comment by sphars
5 days ago
Aurich Lawson (creative director at Ars) posted a comment[0] in response to a thread about what happened, the article has been pulled and they'll follow-up next week.
[0]: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards...
It’s funny they say the article “may have” run afoul of their journalistic standards. May have is carrying a lot of weight there.
Saying may have during an investigation was unremarkable.
The article "may have" drawn too much attention to how little they care.
Equivalently: Our standards "may have" been low enough that this was just fine, actually.
Just like in the original thread that was wiped (https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/um-what-happened-to-th...
Ars Technika has fallen substantially from the heady era of Siracusa macOS reviews.
Eric Berger space coverage still remains Ars’ strong suit.
Yeah, the Condé Nast buyout really crippled what was an amazing independent tech news site.
The sad thing is, I don't know of anywhere else that comes close to what Ars was before.
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