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I blew it.
You rightly hold SoylentNews to a high standard and I let you down when I merged three different political stories into a single story.
Rushing to get out the door to get to work, seeing the story queue running out, having seen the interest in the UK elections in our IRC channel, having heard much on the radio concerning former FBI Director Comey's testimony, seeing a story appear on a likely nomination for that vacated FBI post, and aware of the guideline on only one Politics story per day — I made a hurried decision to merge all three stories together.
The community rightly pointed out the shortcomings in that decision. Rest assured I won't make THAT decision again!
In retrospect, it would have been much better if I released two separate stories — one with the UK Election vote, and another with a merge of the FBI-related stories with, say, a 12-hour spacing between them.
It is a privilege to volunteer for this site, one that I do not take lightly. I let down the community — you deserve better. Trust that I have taken this lesson to heart and will strive to do better going forwards.
--martyb
[n1: There will be a UK election story coming in the next day or so, when more details are available. The majority of the coverage so far is speculation and reports of agreements have been retracted.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:35PM (2 children)
> Coverage has been very ... muted.
Gee, I wonder where you get your international news? Plenty of UK election coverage on my local NPR outlet (NE USA), and even more after midnight when that FM station switches over to the BBC World Service. I often play this BBC news on the clock radio sleep timer when going to sleep, something about the British accent lets me doze off pretty quickly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @01:56AM
Plenty of UK election coverage on my local NPR outlet
Pacifica Radio in SoCal for the previous week (and more). [archive.li] (orig; Will age rapidly) [kpfk.org]
Scroll to Friday June 9 and the 2 hosts (Brad and Suzi) who made the effort to type in some comments show evidence of their coverage.
Other hosts (though they didn't supply a blurb specifically for the audio archive) were covering the story as well.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 12 2017, @11:54AM
muted in a relative sense.
news.google.com shows exactly one story about the current UK situation on the right side "Britain's PM May to face her party amid post-election tumult - Reuters Staff"
Meanwhile there's about two dozen Trump Derangement Syndrome rants, two Apple posts one about WWDC last week review and something about foxxxcon, and the PR election and other rando news. Apparently the CEO of GE is retiring, etc.
The UK situation sounds more interesting than "UK's Channel 4 to Tell 'Trump: An American Story' - Variety - 35 minutes ago" I mean, seriously, we're getting more coverage over here of UK coverage of our own politics than we get coverage from the UK of UK politics.