I usually quote articles. But often the letters in response to them are more revealing. And sensible.
Take these to an Indy piece on trains: Train blame
I was mainly attracted by the one about the 'Gee whizz' reporting on growth on usage.
As with waaaay too much these days, and it doesn't matter if it's making a case for good or bad, up or down, it seems oddly facile to me that too many journos and editors seem to have a slight blind spot to the fact that there are a lot more of us doing stuff year on year, and that will often explain a lot much more simply than some of the notions that they attempt to gush over or spin into a headline.
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Subjective is fine, but well argued and substantiated is even better. Calm and polite tops. Anything that crosses my personal line will not go up. There may be reasons given, but not guaranteed.
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