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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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That seems like a lot of trouble to go to just for one clickbait headline.
I mean, we all knew it was quite easy, but I still think that it's journalistically valuable to go through with it to see, and show how easy it actually is.
Maybe. When Reuters publishes such a thing it just makes me wonder what crazy new law they are trying to gin up support for. As they say "When authorities restrict one chemical, suppliers and traffickers just switch to another." It worries me to imagine what kind of "solution" they might dream up for that problem.
I think that assuming that editorial decisions are never influenced by financial interests would be naive, but they're such a big organisation that covers such a breadth of topics that it would also seem foolish to assume a douplicitous intent behind every story. It might just be journalist covering a currently relatively widely discussed topic.
Also, Reuters generally does quite well in remaining relatively neutral in their coverage (though that impression might of course just be based on my biases).