torchomatic
Well-Known Member
Yes, spot on. You've admitted it's click bait.
Although I think most would have looked anyway if the headline said 'Hoffman denies meeting'
You write fair points, sadly diminished by the crap line that the Observer is the 'darling of the clique' I could argue the Telegraph is the darling of the clique for people like you, (not my personal opinion as this is an internet forum and there's no cliques only in peoples minds) but that's just a shit argument, and its only used for finger pointing, and point scoring.
Local news is shit on both sides and it is click bait shit, like you said its both national and local and the world we live in, but isn't a reason for us to accept it. At a time when we need good local journalists we are sold short by petty back biting and point scoring.
As for your Edit, if you fucking hate the CT, but defend them because of comments on this site then perhaps you need to step back a bit, its just a forum.
Yes, spot on. You've admitted it's click bait.
Can't abide the smug c**t - refuse to click on any links to Coventry Telegraph
Do you find Les Reid smug?
Yes the headline is designed to make people read.
If that's what you call click bait. Then yes it is.
The article was worth writing, it is worthwhile news.
The spiel at the end is getting the same as Les and the observor and isn't needed
I have had to click it twice myself now - I start getting wasps pop up adverts now on my screen.
Relevant bits copied and pasted:
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Yes, but the thread is titled Simon Gilbert not Les Reid
Yes the headline is designed to make you read.
Although I think most would have looked anyway if the headline said 'Hoffman denies meeting'
Thanks 82.
The telegraph web site is friggin' horrendus for me. So slow with pop ups, or you have to mute some audio, or you have to keep closing down the adverts, or (and this is really a pain in the arse!) you have to answer some supid question to read the rest of the article. Would be grateful if, rather than just post a link to articles, posters could copy and paste the text here (like some used to do)?
I appreciate printed newspapers are dying and they need to pay the bills, but as you rightly say, they seem to be inventing any old shit or supposition just to get you to click. I'd genuinely rather pay a few quid every month for some kind of subscription version of the CT web site, IF they'd just fook off with the adverts and invested in proper journalism, rather than points scoring for WASPs or the Council.
Dunno about you lot but I went skiing this morning after all the snow we had last night:
Coventry hit by snow overnight as Arctic blast sweeps in
Doesn't stop those annoying and often irrelevant videos from playing though.Just install adblock plus on your browser, gets rid of 90% of it.
Made the fatal mistake of going to it in the browser I use for work, that doesn't have an adblock.Just install adblock plus on your browser, gets rid of 90% of it.
Christ yeah those videos are truly amazing. Random strips of road, random cars pulling out in front of lorries, clips of empty buildings...Doesn't stop those annoying and often irrelevant videos from playing though.
Chill angwy man!!!Can't abide the smug c**t - refuse to click on any links to Coventry Telegraph
The Telegraph website's articles are so littered with with adverts and pop ups it's practically unreadable.
If you do make sense out of it, turns out to be more tripe like this and you wish you hadn't bothered...
what was that?Anyone see the mock text conversation between Gilbert and Hoffman on Facebook? Pretty funny
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https://www.facebook.com/what was that?
If you click on 'watch on facebook' next to learn more, it should take you to the link of the person who uploaded the video for you to watch. Does me.Look lke they have been deleted
Another huge story in the CT
If you click on 'watch on facebook' next to learn more, it should take you to the link of the person who uploaded the video for you to watch. Does me.
The state of journalism today. Glad I jacked the idea after work experience in 1979. People on here should not be mopping brows and displaying signs of the vapours having discussed Gilbert v Reid on other posts. Both are a sad sign of the times.
What you mean is...
I jacked in an idea in 1979, click here to find out exactly why!
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