Let me explain to journalists and editors in the media how what seem like insignificant decisions have destroyed your credibility.
Here's a headline (and google translated version) from one of Israel's biggest TV News sites.
Spot the mistake.
As I get in the lift with my 13 year old, he looks at notifications on his phone and says "was that the first private rocket?". He doesn't remember this, but when he was just younger than 2, he watched and heard the crackle of the solid rockets on the night launch of Shuttle mission STS-126 from 160 miles away in Florida. When it had passed out of sight he said, loudly to the crowd we were in, "again, again!".
I said no, it was a Space X rocket, you've watched a dozen launches with me: that was the first MANNED private spacecraft to carry people into orbit.
So he shows me the exact headline and notification and, because of reasons of "space" I assume the editors have dropped an important word.
And got the story 100% WRONG.
He asked me why, my only answer: the journalists and editors are careless idiots.
But it turns out it wasn't even space on the front page, it was just carelessness and a complete lack of knowledge and any professional desire to get things right. Here's the headline and lede.
For pity's sake, Israel's own privately funded SpaceIL lunar lander was launched on pretty much the same model of Falcon 9 rocket by private company SpaceX just over a year ago!
All the money has been sucked out of journalism by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Craigs List and the rest of the online advertising revolution that most media failed to spot. I know that. But making stupid mistakes has also destroyed your credibility to such a point that I have to instruct my kids not to believe the media without doing their own thinking and checking.
It's incredible how much power legacy media still has despite the countless example of bad actions, misleading titles, clickbait, FABRICATION of stories..
When will people realize they're being manipulated?