Even relatively honest but left-wing BBC sometimes publishes rubbish

Bill wrote in
:

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:12:24 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc wrote:

On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 11:28:19 PM UTC-7, RichA
wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46219656

Fusion power is a potential source of clean, cheap energy.
Calling a tokamak, say, a "miniature sun" is, in my opinion,
too much of a stretch. Using that term in the case of inertial
confinement fusion is not as bad, but still, a naive reader
might imagine a "miniature sun" as something still held
together by its own gravity.

Apparently, though - the article won't display for me in a
reasonable time, my connection is having problems today - the
issue is that the BBC published a news release in an uncritical
manner that seems to be highly overoptimistic. Uncritically
publishing news releases, however, is very common, so the BBC
can hardly be singled out to be faulted for that.

John Savard

While the article displayed well for me, after the 1st couple
sentences, it came across as overly-hyped: a mixture of bits of
truth and distortions. Not good jouranlism - imo.

It wasn't intended to be journalism, it was intended to be marketing
hype. Whatever company is behind it has stock to sell, dammit!

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