Interesting Links for 19-11-2015

[andrewducker]

• Founder Of 'Close UK Borders' Petition, Tina Reeves, Currently Lives In...Spain
  • UKIP immigration Europe asylum OhForFucksSake
• Business groups back taking Edinburgh trams to Newhaven
  • business trams transport
• Europe's most successful Kickstarter collapses as its mini-drones fail to take off.
  • kickstarter epicfail business drone
• Princess Pricklepants

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

The interesting thing for me about the Trams article is that it doesn't say why those two groups are in favour of the extension.

[andrewducker]

I assume that they've seen an uptick in business in the areas with trams, and found that it makes it easier for businesses to set up in the cheaper areas that now have decent transport links.

[danieldwilliam]

I'm sure there are bags of reasons - chief amongst them the two you suggest - just curious about the presentation. Given that you've managed to sum up the two most likely reasons the business group is supporting the scheme in one handy sentence I wonder why the article doesn't. It's as if I'm supposed to accept as persuasive the mere fact that a body think a thing is a good thing.

Body X (likely to know about these things) supports Scheme Y because Scheme Y will have beneficial effects A and B

is a different thing than

Body X supports Scheme Y so you should too.

[andrewducker]

Oh, yes, I agree.

I went and found the briefing note, which gives all sorts of reasons:
http://transformscotland.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-02-Briefing-on-Edinburgh-tram-scheme-SCDI-Transform-Scotland.pdf

Be nice if the article had had a link!

[snarlish]

The presentation of the article is mainly because today's journalists only take press briefings emailed to them and beef-filler them up with already known facts from their previous article on the subject and call it 'news reporting'. The journalist most likely has absolutely no idea about the subject matter or how the meaning of the article presents itself to a reader, but is capable of copying and pasting, so their job is done and dusted.