[NGTM-1R]

1) Blame the failures in reporting on the fact that the Chinese won't talk to them.

To be fair, that is a legitimate problem; you can't report without sources.

[karajorma]

1) Blame the failures in reporting on the fact that the Chinese won't talk to them.

To be fair, that is a legitimate problem; you can't report without sources.

Exactly, you can't report without sources. So if you made up an angle with no sources to back you up, that's your ****ty reporting. Don't blame someone else cause you made **** up and it turned out not to be true.

[NGTM-1R]

Exactly, you can't report without sources. So if you made up an angle with no sources to back you up, that's your ****ty reporting. Don't blame someone else cause you made **** up and it turned out not to be true.

Ah, the innocence of this worldview.

News organizations exist to report the news they can discover. They would of course prefer (mostly) to be of quality, but deprive them of quality and they'll fall back on whatever is available to them instead. If you won't talk to the news, don't be surprised when they ask around among your less-reputable elements or enemies while they're trying to find out what's going on with you and you come out looking like an asshole.

They're not going to shut up and go away because you won't talk to them.

[karajorma]

And in what way does that not make them ****ty reporters?

I'll point out that neither The Guardian nor BBC blamed sexism. They simply reported the facts and said women had those requirements. They didn't make up bull**** about the men not having them.