The portion of the BBCs audience who actually want to know the patent number is tiny, and the portion who would actually understand the patent itself is a tiny fraction of those, so why include it? Those who are interested can go out and find it themselves without much difficulty.<p>The job of a journalist isn&#x27;t report every fact, it&#x27;s to cut through the noise, take something that happened and condense it into something that their audience will read and can understand, without distorting it.<p>This article does exactly that. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s journalism.