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#3157293 8-Nov-2023 15:51

gzt: Errors are common with fast breaking stories in the internet age and errors stick around longer compared to yesterday's paper. Articles are updated continuously.

I think that's fair enough but there needs to be a much higher standard applied for subject matter where any error of fact can have enormously disproportionate impact. Senior reporters should be assigned immediately for stories of that nature.

Don't you mean 'senior editors'? Or any editors, actually. Someone with a brain and an education needs to review copy before it is published. Just like the good old days!

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#3157333 8-Nov-2023 17:02

Perhaps the Herald (and other news providers) should provide a "credibility index" for stories. This would be a number between 0 and 10, where 0 means its completely unchecked and untrustworthy versus 10 being that the news outlet will reimburse you if you bet your house on it. An unchecked article that is regurgitated from an external source (e.g. Reuters, AP) gets whatever CI the external source gave it minus one, so that reposts of reposts of stories get to zero quite quickly. An article authored and/or checked by a Herald staff member gets a CI depending on that person's role and how much checking they actually did. Add a digital signature to ensure it's not altered or spoofed. Add some kind of feedback mechanism so that the organisation's CI is adjusted by how often their stories turn out to be BS.

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#3157348 8-Nov-2023 17:35

RNZ could've done with something like that! 😜

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#3157559 9-Nov-2023 12:09

“What happens in a mid-air emergency?

When faced with a medical emergency, whether it’s an allergic reaction, heart attack or surprise birth, an airline passenger can’t simply hop off the plane and go to the hospital.”

Just….wow.

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#3157635 9-Nov-2023 14:23

Geektastic: “What happens in a mid-air emergency?

When faced with a medical emergency, whether it’s an allergic reaction, heart attack or surprise birth, an airline passenger can’t simply hop off the plane and go to the hospital.”

Just….wow.

"Common sense" is not that common, and sadly, the general population seems to be expecting everything to be spoon-fed to them in smaller and smaller doses.

Personally, I can feel my attention span getting smaller, and I'm not even a particularly avid consumer of social media or the micro-format video (e.g. tik-tok); the effects of these platforms and their continuous feed of micro-bite sized content is alarming.

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#3157787 9-Nov-2023 20:11

Stating the obvious is frequently required in real life.

- User: Hi, I can't get into my email it says bad password.
- Desk: Ok I've mailed you a link to reset your password.
- User: Uh..

Likewise the plane example many people will ask "why can't you just land the plane?"

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#3157807 9-Nov-2023 21:22

Likewise the plane example many people will ask "why can't you just land the plane?"

You can, for a given definition of "landing". ;-)

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#3157826 9-Nov-2023 23:46

The homeless guy who wasn't really homeless who won big on the Melbourne Cup.

Funnily he also had a TAB account so presumably not destitute.

I don't know about you but when there's talk of a homeless person I generally think of someone who sleeps in a shop doorway, on a park bench or under a bridge.

Click bait headline? I'm inclined to think so.

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#3157857 10-Nov-2023 08:24

gzt: Stating the obvious is frequently required in real life.

- User: Hi, I can't get into my email it says bad password.
- Desk: Ok I've mailed you a link to reset your password.
- User: Uh..

Likewise the plane example many people will ask "why can't you just land the plane?"

True. We had a 24 hour + power outage which killed off all the cell sites around us so we had no coverage and of course no internet with nothing to power the router.

What do I find when the power returns? Loads of SMS messages from the power company telling me what’s happening….

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#3157917 10-Nov-2023 09:40

Technofreak: The homeless guy who wasn't really homeless who won big on the Melbourne Cup.

What I'm curious about is how a $5 bet won $106,000, so ~21,000:1 odds. Especially since Without a Fight paid about $6 for the win. Presumably he had a trifecta or quinella or some other kind of bet.

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#3157929 10-Nov-2023 09:43

First 4 horses in the correct order (according to TV news).

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#3158678 12-Nov-2023 16:59

I'm not a fan of censoring my speech or comments and will quite happily used 'naughty' words when appropriate, but I cannot see how the expression "pissed off" is appropriate in a headline from a major newspaper if it's not a direct quote.

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#3158679 12-Nov-2023 17:03

Your problem is assuming that Stuff and The Herald are newspapers as opposed to advertising mediums.

Once you get past that, headlines that this won’t bother you.

SirHumphreyAppleby:
I'm not a fan of censoring my speech or comments and will quite happily used 'naughty' words when appropriate, but I cannot see how the expression "pissed off" is appropriate in a headline from a major newspaper if it's not a direct quote.

SheriffNZ

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#3158680 12-Nov-2023 17:03

SheriffNZ: Your problem is assuming that Stuff and The Herald are newspapers as opposed to advertising mediums.

Once you get past that, headlines like this won’t bother you.

SirHumphreyAppleby:
I'm not a fan of censoring my speech or comments and will quite happily used 'naughty' words when appropriate, but I cannot see how the expression "pissed off" is appropriate in a headline from a major newspaper if it's not a direct quote.

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#3158719 12-Nov-2023 19:12

Someone please tell Stuff that it isn't morning anymore! (Is it really a headline!)

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