I downvoted this because (I thought it was too highly upvoted and) I think a purely negative comment saying such a bad article’s flaws are typical should have to say explicitly what is wrong. Otherwise a reader might wrongly interpret this as strong evidence that a particular flaw of the article is common—I see many flaws in it, large and small, and I don’t know which you perceive as common or rare there.
What I meant was mostly the tendency of using news as a platform to “score points against the other team.” This is at best uncorrelated with correctness, but can do even worse if the “other team” in this case makes their decisions based on the facts.
Well. It is the wall street journal. More a depressing reminder than a new fact.
I downvoted this because (I thought it was too highly upvoted and) I think a purely negative comment saying such a bad article’s flaws are typical should have to say explicitly what is wrong. Otherwise a reader might wrongly interpret this as strong evidence that a particular flaw of the article is common—I see many flaws in it, large and small, and I don’t know which you perceive as common or rare there.
What I meant was mostly the tendency of using news as a platform to “score points against the other team.” This is at best uncorrelated with correctness, but can do even worse if the “other team” in this case makes their decisions based on the facts.