Joys of automatic content in news
Jun. 13th, 2023 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothThere was, as you may have heard, an incident in Nottingham in the early hours of the morning. Three are dead, and three others are in hospital following being deliberately hit by a van. This occured in at least three streets, over a mile apart.
In the middle of that story, the Nottingham Post story asks "What's the worst junction in Nottingham? Let us know".
Presumably, some automatic link generator - I cannot imagine that a human reporter thought it was appropriate - has seen 'van', 'killed', etc and gone "Oh, I know of another story about traffic deaths in Nottingham, I will link to that to boost its position on Google / get more visitors looking at the ads on it!"
Oops.
In the middle of that story, the Nottingham Post story asks "What's the worst junction in Nottingham? Let us know".
Presumably, some automatic link generator - I cannot imagine that a human reporter thought it was appropriate - has seen 'van', 'killed', etc and gone "Oh, I know of another story about traffic deaths in Nottingham, I will link to that to boost its position on Google / get more visitors looking at the ads on it!"
Oops.
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Date: 2023-06-13 07:55 pm (UTC)Gentle Thoughts for being close to an upsetting big news story.
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Date: 2023-06-14 02:09 pm (UTC)