Jernalism!

[Mongrel]

I'm getting a laugh out of the Globe's changing headline on its main Ukraine article, which over the past 24 hours has gone from

- RUSSIA REACHES KYIV
- RUSSIA ENTERS KYIV
- BATTLE FOR KYIV
- FIERCE FIGHTING IN KYIV

without the text of the article changing meaningfully at all.

Never mind the obvious implication that the Russians are gaining ground in the city when in fact they're largely still stuck in the northern suburbs, as they have for the past two days.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

This is a whole new level of shameful bullshit, wow.

[KingRoyal]

Breaking out the exonerative tense for a murder-suicide, a new low

[Upthorn]

[Thad]

This is from November but I'm just seeing it for the first time:

Updating The Verge’s background policy

[T]he clear pattern is that tech companies have uniformly adopted a strategy of obfuscating information behind background. It’s also easy to see why companies like to abuse background: they can provide their point of view to the media without being accountable for it. Instead, journalists have to act like they magically know things, and readers have to guess who is trustworthy and who is not.

This is bad, so we’re going to reset these expectations as loudly as possible.

• From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.”
• We will still honor some requests to be on background, but at our discretion and only for specific reasons that we can articulate to readers.

This is a good change! There are good reasons for sometimes using anonymous sources -- protecting whistleblowers, for example -- but it's abused far too often as a way for sources to skirt accountability.

Again, this is five months old now and I haven't been paying close enough attention to say how well it's working out for the Verge. But this is the kind of conversation every newsroom should be having.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

*juvenile snickering*

[Mongrel]

England, everyone:

[Thad]

[Grath]

Israel joins the cops in receiving the cherished Exonerative Tense for their actions.

[Thad]

It appears that they've fixed most of the problems with it.



Still exonerative tense but at least it's the right verb.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

There's quotes taken out of context, there's misquotes, and then there's plain barefaced lies.

[Friday]

"People like me hate lists and ranking things and wolfgames and shitposting and never do them ever," says Friday

"I've never argued with anybody," says Thad

"I have no slime to cover anyone with," says Brentai

"I'm very American," says Geothermal

"I was never temp banned," says Yyler

"Clowns are not sexy at all and I have never drawn one," says Kishi

"Tea and swords suck," says Silversong. "I also hate Dragon Quest."

"I've posted twice, maybe three times," says Mongrel

"This quote has sufficient context," says TedBelmont

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" says Demogorgon

[nosimpleway]

What an excellent van, I'm happy to be driving it

[Brantly B.]

Eccleston is my people: Generally well-meaning and fucked-with into total oblivion.

[Thad]

"People like me hate lists and ranking things and wolfgames and shitposting and never do them ever," says Friday

"I've never argued with anybody," says Thad

"I have no slime to cover anyone with," says Brentai

"I'm very American," says Geothermal

"I was never temp banned," says Yyler

"Clowns are not sexy at all and I have never drawn one," says Kishi

"Tea and swords suck," says Silversong. "I also hate Dragon Quest."

"I've posted twice, maybe three times," says Mongrel

"This quote has sufficient context," says TedBelmont

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" says Demogorgon

You joke, but I for one would like to congratulate Memo on finding a career as a headline writer.

[Mongrel]