Who wrote this?

[olyclimber]

Stellar wordsmithing! 😂

https://amp.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article307907125.html

 

dang, Helena!

[Fairweather]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh my, if this is the state of local journalism, well, we're in worse shape than I feared. Please please please tell me this was NOT a WWU grad. Kids who can't write good.

I scrolled down to her bio. Hard to fathom how writing like this gets past the committee.

Edited yesterday at 05:46 AM by Fairweather

[bedellympian]

It's not local journalism when a rando in Phoenix gets tossed a few bucks to write up something they have absolutely no clue about. 

[olyclimber]

She must have used AI and didn’t even bother to read what it gave her before publishing.

[Fairweather]

12 hours ago, bedellympian said:

It's not local journalism when a rando in Phoenix gets tossed a few bucks to write up something they have absolutely no clue about. 

True--but I assume the Bellingham Herald still has an editor who reviews articles before publication?

[bedellympian]

14 hours ago, Fairweather said:

True--but I assume the Bellingham Herald still has an editor who reviews articles before publication?

Agreed, but in this case I suspect an editor who lives out of state and doesn't care or know anything about Bellingham?