In the case of the Monday report, that blog was this one, which quoted Glasgow-based Oxfam researcher Dr Katherine Trebeck.īut we’d known about, acknowledged and reported Dr Trebeck’s comments. Leask was trying to pretend that the Herald’s front page was justified on the basis that Oxfam releases short blogs along with its reports, which are tailored to particular countries. The only problem with these assertions is that they’re, to use another technical term: They were in the Mail and the Express, so apparently they CAN’T be fake.īut as he’d attacked us (again) as part of this debate, we thought we should address Leask’s claims about this week’s Wings pieces commenting on the Herald’s front-page lead on Monday, in so far as we could work out what he was actually claiming. So they were fake news, right? Not according to David Leask. On any traditional reading of English, that description applies to, for example, this week’s demented newspaper coverage of the official flying of flags in Scotland, which the Scottish Daily Mail has apologised for today and for which we expect the Express and Telegraph to follow suit under pressure from the Scottish Government.Īll of the papers’ headlines were certainly “false” (hence the apology), and certainly “sensational” (being front-page splashes screaming about personalised attacks on the Queen and her family), and they were most certainly “done under the guise of news reporting”.
That’s a term which he insists only applies to spoof sites pretending to be real news outlets, which we’d presume – although it’s by no means clear – means the likes of The Onion or the Daily Mash.įor one thing, there’s already an official definition of the term – one which was arrived at with much public ceremony – and it’s nothing like the one Leask is using. Leask’s argument, at least in so far as we can make any sense of it at all, is that even deliberately and knowingly made-up lies printed in mainstream newspapers are not, and can never be, “fake news”. Maybe I am a coffee snob now.The very strange man who is David Leask, chief reporter at the Herald, has been hard at work with a shovel ever since we ran a couple of stories on Monday.Īccusing this site of publishing “an implausible blog about our paper this week, based on some unchecked &, well, weird assumptions”, he curiously neglected to specify what those assumptions might have been, while embarking on a long, rambling and bewildering rant about what does and doesn’t constitute “fake news”. And because the content of the capsule is just frozen liquid, no grounds, the aluminum pods are entirely recyclable. Each roast is extracted differently according to its unique needs to make the best version of that particular coffee. Cometeer partners with roasters around the country including Oakland’s Red Bay, NYC’s Joe Coffee and Birch, and Go Get Em Tiger in LA. The coffee is sustainably sourced and expertly brewed every time. Though the tech is impressive, the quality of Cometeer is what really gets me excited.
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