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Why does every news article nowadays repeat itself at least 2 times? There are almost the exact same sentences twice. You don't even have to read past the abstract because there is no other information at all in the actual text. And besides, you avoid having to scroll past 7 gigantic ads
I’m so happy. I thought it was just me noticing this. I really dislike when the headline is the headline, summary and first paragraph. By the time I get to the substance of the article I’ve read the first paragraph three times.
I think it's because the first paragraph is usually preview content for news aggregators and search engines, so it's used as an appetizer.
Probably stems at least in part from the essay format a lot of us were taught in school.
Intro: tell em what you're gonna tell em
Body: tell em
Conclusion: tell em what you told em
You probably got taught wrong. At least that’s not what I learnt (early 90s);
Intro: what’s the problem? Background stuff.
Body: here’s a solution and what else we looked at
Conclusion: tie back solution to problem and what further stuff we could talk about.
Because they don’t care about quality in depth content. They’re just in it for the clicks. Probably had an algorithm fill in the remaining paragraphs
Did you ever have to write a paper in school with a minimum page or word count?
Just as a heads up, SCMP is a bit of an iffy source, being owned by alibaba and run as a near state owned paper. At one point, it was also owned by Murdoch as well.
Since the change of ownership in 2016, concerns have been raised about the paper's editorial independence and self-censorship. Critics including The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Atlantic have alleged that the paper is on a mission to promote China's soft power abroad.
I noticed that the fediverse really isn’t great at noticing unscrupulous people and sources, so it’s heartening to see this.
SCMP is an odd one, as they commonly publish articles critical of the CCP.
They seem to operate along the lines of 'we can't stop anti-CCP news, but at least we can soften the blow for select audiences.' Or something like that. They're definitely an interesting case, though.
Potentially better sources. Somehow in the last couple of days the value of the air defense system went up 700M:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-destroys-russian-air-defence-083306512.html
The South China Morning Post article is a carbon copy of the BI article. That is typical of disinformation outlets. 4/5 of the news is copy pastad from reliable sources, and the other 1/5 is total bullshit. Russia Today operated like that for years, and probably still does.
It's hardly like China is favouring Ukraine, so I don't see how the article being from the SCMP matters
Whoooaaa... The South China Morning Post is reporting this in this kind of tone? Now that is a shifting of the tides, they didn't have to talk up how "prized" it was. No wonder Putin is cozying up to Kim.
Never thought I'd see the day where Russia comes crawling to North Korea, but if Xi's support is starting to wilt this much, they're going to need anyone they can get.
They even threw this in for shits and giggles:
This would not be the first time Russia accidentally revealed its location by attempting to shoot down Ukrainian targets.
Last week, Ukraine said it was able to attack Russian soldiers after they attempted to shoot down a Ukrainian flag that was attached to helium balloons and flew into occupied territory.
Here's how it went:
- Few waves of drones were sent
- AD spent their ammo on cheap drones
- Missile strike before AD was reloaded
Article is misleading. These systems are never a single unit. There's parts spread around where radar is separate from launchers, and other components etc. It's not clear in the article what exactly was destroyed.
This was a triumf
I'm making a note here, huge success.
It's hard to overstate Russian incompetence
They should have had two so that they could protect each other.
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