Weirdly written article. It seemed to start in the US and then sidle off east to the UK.
It kicks off like this:
"It has hit the headlines after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packets of seeds in the mail, but it is not new."
... and then seems to give our American friends advice that is completely useless to them:
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) is a UK setup. Which? is a UK magazine with an attendant "Campaign group". Prof "cyber-security expert at Surrey University" works near London.
This looks like a rather lazy "pally" article. That's a term I've just invented to describe a filler piece that will probably work OK in the UK and US if you don't look too closely. You describe a situation in one country and then fill in with vague waffle that looks reasonable to other similarish jurisdictions.
This sort of nonsense is happening more and more often. Lazy journalism.
Most BBC articles are written with the UK in mind. In this case it gives advice to the UK readers in case they receive unsolicited packages, like the ones they recently reported about in their US section.
I do not see how this is lazy journalism, it's just an article that caters for a UK audience written by a UK media company.
It kicks off like this:
"It has hit the headlines after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packets of seeds in the mail, but it is not new."
... and then seems to give our American friends advice that is completely useless to them:
Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) is a UK setup. Which? is a UK magazine with an attendant "Campaign group". Prof "cyber-security expert at Surrey University" works near London.
This looks like a rather lazy "pally" article. That's a term I've just invented to describe a filler piece that will probably work OK in the UK and US if you don't look too closely. You describe a situation in one country and then fill in with vague waffle that looks reasonable to other similarish jurisdictions.
This sort of nonsense is happening more and more often. Lazy journalism.