“World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a ‘nuclear renaissance’ could be around the corner even though nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996."
Three House Republicans call on NPR CEO Katherine Maher to appear at a hearing on May 8 following ex-staffer Uri Berliner's allegations of bias in news coverage (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/05/npr-ceo-house-republicans-inves…
How the mighty have fallen.
I remember c|net as a standard-bearer of tech journalism back in the 1990s. Theirs was one of the few bookmarks I opened regularly to read about tech news.
Red Ventures has destroyed its reputation, along with all their other properties’ like ZDNet (the other fantastic tech news site). RV’s decisive pivot to AI is likely fatal; they will accelerate the descent of all their outlets into a content swill mill fit only for your blocklist.
Taiwan extends conscription following Ukraine-Russia War: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/taiwan-extends-conscription.html
Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw
An interview with Chris Moran, the Guardian's head of editorial innovation, about its new "Deeply Read" list, which uses an "active time spent" ranking metric (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/20…
An interview with Chris Moran, the Guardian's head of editorial innovation, about its new "Deeply Read" list, which uses an "active time spent" ranking metric (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/20…
Wikipedia editors lowered CNET's source reliability rating after CNET used AI to create articles and are discussing reliability of other Red Ventures outlets (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai