https://deepseanews.com/2014/06/jellyfish-journalism-fail/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://csrtech.com https://deepseanews.com/2014/06/jellyfish-journalism-fail/#comment-5497 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:02:56 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=52579#comment-5497 I just keep linking to Steve Haddock’s MBARI video response on YouTube. Any jellyfish scientist worth a little knew what it was straight away. It is quite annoying that it keeps getting touted as unidentified.

]]> https://deepseanews.com/2014/06/jellyfish-journalism-fail/#comment-5496 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:20:36 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=52579#comment-5496 Where on Earth did the common name “placental jellyfish” come from, and can we please burn it in a fire?

]]> https://deepseanews.com/2014/06/jellyfish-journalism-fail/#comment-5495 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:07:06 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=52579#comment-5495 Reliable sources tell me it’s actually a wereshark placenta, but scientists are keeping it quiet to avoid a panic.

]]> https://deepseanews.com/2014/06/jellyfish-journalism-fail/#comment-5494 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:55:49 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=52579#comment-5494 The slang for journalist was hack. We no longer hack, but cut and paste. The Daily Mail is an appalling rag, and identified as such by those of us bounded by the North and Irish Seas. We were “invaded” by giant jellyfish earlier this year, apparently. I’m surprised they didn’t manage to work Miley Cirus or immigrants into the story.

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