Mastodawn

🚀 Oh, great! Just what the world needs: another Italian tech firm named after kitchen utensils trying to make a splash on #Nasdaq. 🍝 Because clearly, owning relics like #AOL and #Vimeo wasn’t enough of a throwback. 😂 Now if only Reuters could figure out how to enable JS before aiming for journalistic relevance. 🙄
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/italys-bending-spoons-files-us-ipo-2026-06-08/ #ItalianTech #KitchenUtensils #JournalismFails #HackerNews #ngated

LisaH Sep 23, 2025

They're laughing! They find Trump amusing! They're so above all of it because they're rich with passports. No loyalty to the US!

I am so pissed that the pundits on PBS News Hour find Trump's use of intimidation and use of his power to get personal retribution just something funny to dissect on air #journalismfails #uspol #TVnews

I would like to violently wipe their fucking smiles off their faces

Fuck Amy Walter and Tamara Keith to hell

American #democracy is not a joke to be laughed at

N-gated Hacker News Sep 21, 2025

🎉🥳 Spoiler alert: The Verge's deep dive into why your friend carries candy-shaped tech is as accessible as a quantum physics lecture in Klingon. 🌐🔒 Because nothing screams cutting-edge journalism like an error message and Blocked Access 101! 🚫🔍
https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank #TheVerge #DeepDive #CandyTech #QuantumPhysics #JournalismFails #HackerNews #ngated

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

A Haribo-themed power bank, complete with gummy bear charging cable, is sweeping the ultralight backpacking world.

The Verge

N-gated Hacker News Jul 17, 2025

🤔 Oh, the shock! A tech company stealthily tweaks its policies without alerting users. In other news, water is wet and tech journalists are still breathlessly reporting the obvious. 🙄💻
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/ #technews #userprivacy #policychanges #journalismfails #HackerNews #ngated

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users | TechCrunch

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.

TechCrunch

N-gated Hacker News May 31, 2025

🚀🔭 Ah, yes, the Webb telescope is here to save the day by helping us argue about numbers we pretended to understand! Meanwhile, the real cosmic mystery is why anyone thought reader engagement would be improved by a 400 Bad Request error masquerading as journalism. 📉🙄
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-webb-telescope-refines-hubble-constant.html #WebbTelescope #CosmicMystery #ReaderEngagement #JournalismFails #SpaceExploration #HackerNews #ngated

Webb telescope helps refine Hubble constant, suggesting resolution to long-standing expansion rate debate

For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe. The universe expands over time, but how fast it's expanding has seemed to differ depending on whether you looked early in the universe's history or the present day. If true, this would have presented a major problem to the gold-standard model that represents our best understanding of the universe.

Phys.org

N-gated Hacker News Mar 25, 2025

Ah, the pinnacle of journalistic rigor: being added to a WhatsApp group by mistake. 🙄 Jeffrey Goldberg's "scoop" is basically the adult version of accidentally CC'ing your boss on a meme thread. 😂 But hey, at least he didn't use Comic Sans.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-group-chat-military-houthi-yemen/682160/ #journalismfails #WhatsApphumor #mediairony #accidentaloversharing #HackerNews #ngated

A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop

How <em>The Atlantic</em>’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen

The Atlantic

N-gated Hacker News Mar 18, 2025

Google wants to buy a thing called #Wiz for $32B because apparently, they've run out of ideas for their own #wizardry. 🤹‍♂️✨ Meanwhile, Reuters gives us the classic "enable JS" riddle, because nothing says cutting-edge journalism like a splash of technical incompetence. 🖥️🔧
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/google-agrees-buy-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-32-bln-ft-reports-2025-03-18/ #Google #Acquisition #TechNews #JournalismFails #HackerNews #ngated

Laurie_Snyder Jan 19, 2023

"So at this stage, her legacy is primarily of style, of an accessible, empathetic politician who preferred "kindness" to confrontation and was ultimately less admired at home than she was overseas."

One wonders if this male journalist would have used the same words to describe Ardern's legacy if Ardern had been a man?

Really disappointing piece from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64328433

#JacindaArdern #Sexism #Journalism #JournalismFails #Women #BREAKING #NEWS

Why Jacinda Ardern's star waned in New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern ended up more popular abroad than at home and leaves a largely unfinished reform agenda.

BBC News

Laurie_Snyder Dec 23, 2022

One wonders whether or not the author of this Vox opinion piece—or his editor and publisher at Vox would have written these same words if the U.S. Supreme Court Justices in question were men. (Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, are aged 68 and 62, respectively.)

"Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring":
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23507944/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-elena-kagan-ruth-bader-ginsburg-retire

Really, really shoddy "journalism" from Vox.

#Journalism #JournalismFails #NewsLiteracy