Sometimes I wish I had an editor, perhaps Jason could do with one too:
“After all, Matt Drudge is teasing the story with an invented quote: “STRAIN OF SUPERBUG ‘MAY BE NEW HIV’…” But that language doesn’t actually appear anywhere, much less in the Reuters summary to which he links..”
Says Kottke who prefaces the exposé on Drudge’s take on the Reuters story (queue editor) with the headline “The Mania Over Gay Flesh-Eating Super-Staph” — which doesn’t appear in his own commentary either.
Indeed the original source article does suggest possible bias and the need for further study and investigation as part of it’s preface.
No offence Jason, or more correctly, Choire — if you’re going to call-to-task inflammatory headlining and inventive story-telling, using such a title yourself calls into question your supposed indignation of the same.
Mr Drudge may well be inventing quotes, but I call pot-kettle-black on your headline in return — it’s no less “sensationalised”.
Update: .. and I’ll call mea-culpa on this — thanks brett — apologies to Jason Kottke, this was a piece written by Choire Sicha. The comment still stands, but I didn’t notice it was a guest writer opinion piece.
≡ This is a brief remainders entry relating to the topics of hype, links, motivation and written in response to an external article, comment or opinion — refer linked article for completeness and context.
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