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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> General Board >> How do they get away with it http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1499375909 Message started by bogarde73 on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:18am

Title: How do they get away with it
Post by bogarde73 on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:18am

I'm a compulsive news surfer on my mobile early in the morning and what I notice is becoming more common is the non-turnover of stories.
The SMH is the worst. I realise the range of stories for the mobile edition tends to be truncated with some sources but the SMH is just ridiculous.

I swear a couple of stories have been sitting there for a week or more. Do they just forget? Don't they have enough.copy to update? Are these stories they want to push?
How do their advertisers let them get away with it?

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by Lord Herbert on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:44am

bogarde73 wrote on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:18am:

Ho ho! You've mentioned one of my greatest criticisms of Australia's sluggish and bone-lazy media habits .. ie. letting stories sit for days and weeks with only a little trickle of new stuff sourced from overseas like the thieves they are.

Bone-bloody-lazy is what the Australian media is, and it's because of the contempt with which they hold the Footy-fkked mindset of the average Australian punter.

It's for precisely this reason that my #1 news source is the UK's Daily Mail where they post up new stories 48 hours ahead of our ABC national broadcaster.

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by Lord Herbert on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:47am

Then again, Bogey, you could tap into this news service that's broadcast from ... er ... Colorado.

link 8-)

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by greggerypeccary on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 9:23am

bogarde73 wrote on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 7:18am:

One site, I think it's news.com.au, doesn't update over the weekend.

Well, maybe one or two stories, but that's it.

I tend to use Google news now, or even Flipboard.

The 'News' app on iPhones isn't too bad either.

You'd be using InfoWars most of the time, wouldn't you?

Do they update regularly?

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by Francis on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 10:15am

I hate it as well. I suspected its a strategy to make you pay up but once i subscribe it wasn't any better :o

Also am I the only one who notices the national news on t.v is a complete rehash of the local news on just before it?

And why is there "always " a animal story just before the weather? And what counts as news worthy in Australia wouldn't make a shop a docket in more developed society's.

In Europe they have a special news show for children. ..say 12 and under. It deals with news and current affairs in a more mature way than our so called adult news!

No wonder media in this country is going broke. Its just badly run business :'(

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by greggerypeccary on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 10:30am

Francis wrote on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 10:15am:

To be honest, I very rarely watch TV news these days.

- Footballer behaving badly.

- Car drives into house.

- Celebrity has baby.

- Shark swims in ocean.

- It's cold in winter.

Give me a break.

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by gandalf on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 11:37am

The SMH is rapidly becoming a joke in regards to quality control. ABC's media watch has been monitoring this pretty closely - the alarming drop in editorial standards, which directly coincides with the slashing of editorial staff. Business wise they are completely shooting themselves in the foot - with the slashing of not just editorial staff, but investigative journalism as well. I predict that pretty soon they will be replaced as the mainstream non-Murdoch paper by the Guardian.

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by bogarde73 on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 12:42pm

polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 11:37am:

I think you've put your finger on it gandalf with the staff cuts. Maybe they want to leave the cupboard bare for a t/o.
If they want to carry on, a business doesn't survive by constant cutting. Govt can but not business.

And no Greg, I don't read infowars. Maybe I've looked at it once but I'm not even sure about that.

Title: Re: How do they get away with it
Post by Karnal on Jul 7^th, 2017 at 6:55pm

What rot. The government needs to privatise this nonsense.