“Scarborough is 20 miles from Kirby Misperton, a village where fracking has been allowed.” This gem appeared in a story about Scarborough feeling a Richter 3.9 earthquake, which occurred 100 miles away in the North Sea. What’s the connection between fracking and an earthquake in the North Sea? Apart from none.
Looks like there is now an unwritten rule of journalism to the effect that every mention of earthquakes (the story above got the number experienced per year by the British Isles ever so slightly underestimated by a factor of 500) has to include a reference to fracking, no matter how irrelevant.
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