Seattle Times on Rivian

[Riviot]

https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...ons-on-patagonia-pickups-rivians-rj-scaringe/

Paywall, so PDF attached. It's a typical Seattle Times muffing with incorrect numbers, plenty of editor misses, and barely an R2 mention.

I know what they got wrong, but I don't know what I don't know they got wrong. Articles like this make me question my subscription, what else are they getting wrong in other articles?

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[Polar]

WTF


Christina Kunkel spent two months with The Seattle Times through the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for journalists, visiting from Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung. Kunkel conducted the interview for this story, which was written with the assistance of an AI-powered translator, then edited line by line for style and sense by human journalists. Feel free to contact Levi Pulkkinen, Seattle Times business editor, at [email protected] with questions.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Is that pen-name for Tilly Norwood? /s

 

[webfootdawg]

Unrelated to cars, but interesting for those of us in the PNW, I read Cliff Mass weather blog. He's no fan of ST reporting either.

 

[Thedude]

WTF


Christina Kunkel spent two months with The Seattle Times through the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for journalists, visiting from Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung. Kunkel conducted the interview for this story, which was written with the assistance of an AI-powered translator, then edited line by line for style and sense by human journalists. Feel free to contact Levi Pulkkinen, Seattle Times business editor, at [email protected] with questions.

I’d assume a translation from German to English then edited to ensure the automatic translation was accurate.

 

[Killer95Stang]

I'd give that article as much merit as the articles published by the El Segundo Times here in LA... not much....

 

[BigSkies]

News media is a place where full enshitification has taken hold.

Very few media sources do reporting anymore. They mostly seem to copy/paste+editorialize+AI other people's work.

I'm making a point to pay companies that seem to be doing actual journalism. Some days it feels like an exercise of pissing into the wind. But it feels better than doing nothing about it.

 

[Riviot]

News media is a place where full enshitification has taken hold.

Very few media sources do reporting anymore. They mostly seem to copy/paste+editorialize+AI other people's work.

I'm making a point to pay companies that seem to be doing actual journalism. Some days it feels like an exercise of pissing into the wind. But it feels better than doing nothing about it.

I did a $2 trial, took the 90 day extension offered when I tried to cancel, but 100% sure I'm not renewing for real now. I'll go give my money to the Kitsap Sun for local and keep my Reuters for national/intl.

 

[COdogman]

 

[Time2Roll]

I don't do paywalls for news. The PDF confirms my position.

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