Si1 Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 I saw this technology article, which is full of screamers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/04/06/french-inventor-flies-real-life-hoverboard-atlantic-ocean/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 "It has been designed as a method of transport people could ultimately use to collect their bread in the morning. " Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 "with four turbo engines" wtf is one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 "Mr Zapata, who holds a world record for the most number of backflips in a minute using a water jet pack" ... irrelevant, and quite possibly misrepresented and bizarre factoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 The local newspapers are the worst. The old journalists must be doing something else these days, and they have been replaced with the next generation, who still probably write articles from their smartphones. Sometimes the Daily Mail also let it slip, I can only imagine some articles are done 1 minute before the deadline at 3am in the morning. The comments following the bad articles usually point out the howlers quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Quickly i sat the same awful news article as these people. Tragic! We should be ashamed standards are have slipped so much from a time when people could write and properly! What has gone wrong. it is inconceivable that writing has dropped so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Then there are those whose journalistic arguments and ideas are just uninformed click bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Someone recently posted an exclusive by the Independent iirc. It claimed it was breaking the news of Barry Manilow's emergence from the closet. I think it was Happy Renting who pointed out that other papers covered his marriage to his long term boyfriend two years earlier. Does make you wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 On 07/04/2017 at 7:51 AM, raindog said: Quickly i sat the same awful news article as these people. Tragic! We should be ashamed standards are have slipped so much from a time when people could write and properly! What has gone wrong. it is inconceivable that writing has dropped so much. You are being ironic, I presume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Two reporters sitting in a car, one says to the other. Can you smell petrol? The other replies. leave it out, i can't even smell my own name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMartinSanchez Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 On 07/04/2017 at 7:51 AM, raindog said: Quickly i sat the same awful news article as these people. Tragic! We should be ashamed standards are have slipped so much from a time when people could write and properly! What has gone wrong. it is inconceivable that writing has dropped so much. The Internet did this. It's all about the clicks. Proofreading and fact-checking are dead. Long live sensationalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 How did this one get past the proofreaders? http://www.thenational.scot/news/14866856.Rab_Wilson__An_inquiry_intil_patient_safety_in_Scotland_must_be_held_an_suin/ Quote Castin wir een back ower the past hunner year syne o inquiries in the UK; frae the Tay Bridge disaster oan, there hae bin verra effective wans, an wans that werenae sae effective. In Scotland we hae baith. Lord Cullen led twa fawmous inquiries, wan o whilk wis intil the Dunblane shootins o 1996. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knock out johnny Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 22 minutes ago, thecrashingisles said: How did this one get past the proofreaders? http://www.thenational.scot/news/14866856.Rab_Wilson__An_inquiry_intil_patient_safety_in_Scotland_must_be_held_an_suin/ It's catching https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Walcome tae Wikipaedia, the free encyclopaedia that awbody can eedit. This Scots edeetion wis shapit on 23rd Juin 2005. We hae 43,775 airticles the nou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 presumably it is written in Lalands which although similar, is not English, or a debased version of English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewingGrass Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 The new game in town is being as misleading as possible in order to get clicks. As the Guardian saya the days of literate journalism are numbered because no-one will directly pay for content. Got a website you will know the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMartinSanchez Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 One recent trick I've noticed on clickbait news sites: Links no longer change colour after you click them. Daily Mail have started doing this a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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