The phrase "a mere reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the act of reporting is seen as trivial or lacking significance.
Example: "The article was criticized for being a mere reporting of the events without any analysis or insight."
Alternatives: "a simple report" or "just a report".
It can't consist in the mere report of your opinions, nor in a mere report of the opinions of the philosophers we discuss.
Yet as usual, Ingarden is concerned to account for the role of consciousness in constituting aesthetic values and the variations in aesthetic judgments without embracing a subjectivism that would deny that there is any better or worse in aesthetic judgment, each being a mere report of the pleasure experienced by the one judging.
Soon after assembling his new gang of direct reports–a mere 13, compared with 28 for Rollins Dell decided it was time to hear from the public, knowing full well that he would get an earful.
Her conversations "go deeper" than mere reporting, she says: they are the best method of capturing our protean modern selves.
Lord Neuberger, England's second most senior judge, yesterday indicated that the mere reporting of allegations was not covered by Reynolds.
You couldn't get away with this in a national campaign; in the state campaign none bother to answer the charges & the coverage is mere reporting.
This interest is not served by replacing disclosure with mere reporting to overburdened agencies, as proponents of secret spending have suggested.
Most recently published mGWAS studies, therefore, go beyond the mere reporting of genetic associations by combining their results with additional -omics datasets (i.e. eQTLs) (23, 25), by linking individual associations in a systems level approach (16, 46), and by adding clinical association data to establish complex gene-to-disease networks (for an example, see Fig. 3).
While 80% of the sample was currently enrolled in school at Wave 1, a mere 16% reported being at grade level according to the official standards (not shown), and 48% were categorized as at grade level by our less stringent operationalization.
