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'Better than McDonalds' is a very low bar to surmount, #Bristol Live/Reach titles.
Which leads to a journalistic ethics question for a different #MoralMachine: On one's quest to promote #MIT's research in MIT's own magazine, how far should one gloss over the horrific implications of that research?
Karen Hao of #MIT Technology Review presented in 2018 the worldview that there are such things as "jaywalkers" and that there's a different moral question when it comes to killing them. According to Hao parts of the world where jaywalking is not a thing, such as the U.K., are "poorer countries with weaker institutions ". Sadly, this is partly reflective of language also in the original paper (c.f. page 2).
So much interesting stuff about that and this thread.
It's not a real image from the study. It's a cartoon done for that magazine piece by London-based illustrator Simon Landrein, so all of the arguments about the cartoon (trees, curve, pedestrian crossing) aren't responding to what the actual test questions were, which were asked back in 2018 moreover.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6
Then there's the #BadJournalism.
"Located inside the ancient Forest of Dean, the mystical woodlands were used for cast iron mining by the Romans..."
Cast iron mines? How novel!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/trips-near-bristol-puzzlewood-forest-10179238
The cart before the horse style of headline writing is alive and well at The Independent.
Elementary English error: through traffic is not hyphenated. 
The original error originates in the council's news room.
It was then copied and pasted by the 'journalist', along with another basic error - terrace [sic] houses.
#BadEnglish #BadJournalism #Bristol
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bedminster-road-closed-after-sewer-10178900
There's a distinct difference between a cycle lane (on highway) and a cycle path (off highway) that has completely escaped this 'journalist'.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/council-plans-reduce-accidents-painting-10171730
Modern icons - a garish pub in #Bristol.
Other adjectives are available.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/iconic-bristol-venue-full-moon-10174507
@Pamela1960 @GutterPoetry @monkeyben @HarriettMB 'Advocates for'?
As it's a verb the headline should read 'Jeremy Corbyn advocates new Leftwing [sic] Party'.
However, if one is acting as an advocate (noun), then one is an advocate for something.
Don't know the difference between a rail line and a rail service?
Never mind, the #Shropshire Star will still employ you as a 'journalist'.
"Its success was limited, however, with councils in Blackburn and Darwen [sic] and Exeter among those reporting that their websites were unaffected despite the hacking group’s claims of success."
Blackburn WITH Darwen is one local authority.
The poiece was written by the 'chief reporter' too.
‘It’ll be solemn, enshrining his ashes’: statue of Lemmy to be unveiled in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent.
Town? It's been a city since 1925.
PS: Lemmy's home town is #Burslem.
This EU rule can hardly be 'little-known'.
Reach titles have been bleating about it every week since #Brexit.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/couple-denied-bucket-list-cruise-10161355
"The pair told the RNLI that they had walked over to Worm’s Head through the causeway several times."
Through the causeway?
Did they have tunneling equipment?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/coastguard-sends-stark-reminder-after-31577834
If it's any kind of treasure, #Clevedon beach is geological rather than Victorian.
"World famous Stonehenge in Salisbury features a huge prehistoric stone circle featuring Stone Age dwellings dating back some 4,000 years."
1. Stonehenge is not in Salisbury.
2. No dwellings have been found at Stonehenge; the nearest are 3 km away.
3. Although the earliest parts of the site date back 4 millennia, it was in regular use for over 2,000 years.
The photo caption says Liverpool Magistrates Court.
The signage on the building in the photo above the caption reads Liverpool Crown Court.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/three-men-charged-making-hoax-10148996
I woke up and checked the #BBCNews for any election results.
It's a terribly misleading page. Exactly 1 council has declared a result so far. But the banner at the top of the page presents a coloured graph of who has gained and who has lost as if all of the results have come in.
It's not mentioned anywhere that these are BBC predicted results not yet the actual ones; on the day after the election. I only found out when looking at the details pages.
So a lot of people are going to be like me and be taken in by BBC headline and graphic fakery this morning.