Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga I was driving into work yesterday and the car sitting next to me had 'In loving memory of Connor MOrris' and then whatever the dates were on their rear window...it has obviously been tough on everyone
We have one of those at our primary school. Feral scum, as you'd expect.
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Don't think this is behind the paywall:
https://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/jones-everything-why-stuffme-merger-should-go-ahead
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@Donsteppa said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Don't think this is behind the paywall:
https://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/jones-everything-why-stuffme-merger-should-go-ahead
You think wrong.
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Damn!
Gist of the article: if the merger is permitted then we could end up with a viable high quality national newspaper. Without the merger, both orgs are doomed, which is not a good alternative. (Surrounded by a lot of Jones's usual musings)
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@Donsteppa said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Damn!
Gist of the article: if the merger is permitted then we could end up with a viable high quality national newspaper. Without the merger, both orgs are doomed, which is not a good alternative. (Surrounded by a lot of Jones's usual musings)
We " could" but at the moment we have competition which should in theory make them try and outdo do each other for market share. Instead you'd be embarrassed to line the bottom of a budgies cage with either of them. How would a monopoly improve that?
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not really in the vein of the thread, but was on Stuff.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/86934611/canaan-downs-the-land-of-milk-honey-and-good-biking
This is pretty benign, but it did annoy me because I thought I was going to read an informed article about biking on Canaan Downs (which I've done) and the Rameka Track (which I haven't but I'm planning to).
But, it turns out she's written an article about not going to Canaan Downs, nor Harwoods Hole, nor the Rameka Track, because she didn't actually go there - she didn't like the look of the track (which is actually a reasonably benign gravel road).
I suppose I'm not the target audience, because the first hand account of going to the cafe just off the main road and the petting zoo, weren't of much interest to me.
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What the hell? Is this just an article about twitter people being morons?
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Seems so. It's in their "Entertainment" section, so whoever "edits" it clearly thinks searching for smartarse tweets is what passes for entertaining nowadays. Fark me, but I'll be glad when Twitter suffers its long overdue demise. What will Stuff use as new sources then, I wonder?
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@taniwharugby seems like a pretty reasonable article to me. It's important to moderate forums and comments sections, there are people out there that just want to troll instead of having an actual debate, and they add nothing. I'm all for free speech (as you probably all know) but someone that has the sole aim of trolling needs to be given the boot.
TSF does that really well. Far better then anywhere else that I've found. We have some pretty intense debates, but they are by-in-large all from people that actually want to get their point across. Not people that just want to troll for the fun of riling others up (I'm 50/50 on Winger in this regard, but lean towards him actually believing what he says, as crazy as that is...)
The other alternative of news outlets shutting down the comments sections doesn't sit well with me. It's what idiotic Youtubers do when they want to tell others how to think and refuse to listen to any other POVs. Those people can fuck right off.
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@No-Quarter I mentioned elsewhere (May have been in here) the moderators there seem like people rather than a bot or program or whatever...meaning some of the shit they want to now weed out, is all of their own making.
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It's long overdue,, stuff comments is full of Winger clones and tards who blame John Key for everything from the weather to their own failure at life.
Any article about vaccines or 9/11 just brings hordes of losers out of the woodwork , occasionally it's funny but in a ffs I'm glad I'm not that commenter kind of way. -
I can't see prince ever visiting Invercargill ...... http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/87305300/does-invercargill-have-a-new-prince
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I can't see prince ever visiting Invercargill ...... http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/87305300/does-invercargill-have-a-new-prince
Let alone as a teenager still at school and not yet famous.
Bum fuck shit holes at the arse end of the world don't exactly scream inspirational spots to go and write a myriad of future hits.
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Top story at the Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11762854
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I might have missed one but I'm pretty sure this is the third complaint upheld against John Campbell for lying since he left 3 well over a year ago.
I think Helen Clark summed him up best " a sanctimonious little creep".
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11763334 -
@jegga they don't make cool stories unless they make shit up...as I have said on here before, I know they lied on Campbell live about a story I saw happen.
in my old job we used to get threatened with 'we'll take you to Fair Go' a fair bit...fortunately, at the time, Far Go were pretty good and only took a story if they felt it was a valid one.
I was contacted by them twice, but once they were provided our side of the story, they realized it was a non-event and it was done, never ended up running with either.
