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I see you have nicked the thread "Post match trouble" and are quoting people on it on Twitter.
Remember Terry Henfleet ? When the piggies stitched you up many years ago and you fell for it and quoted the story on your back page ?
Good to see you post stuff when you have nothing confirmed, you are wasted with The Stir.
The Mail or Sun would snap you up.
I'm sure a few on here will find you a few fake stories to print just like the Wendy fans did in the coming few weeks.
 



Thought the comments looked familiar.

Am I right in saying they've assumed the gender of posters in the article as well?
 
Well it's a tough job being a journalist, having to actually go outside and report facts. It's much easier to get everything off Twitter.

Danny04 or Hackblade will be along shortly to tell you just how difficult their job is.

The Stir.... sorry The Star is a fine publication and we should be honoured to line our cats litter trays with it.
 
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Apropos of nothing, I always get quotes from Pratchett's The Truth in my head when reading publications like The Star.

Words resemble fish in that some specialist ones can survive only in a kind of reef, where their curious shapes and usages are protected from the hurly-burly of the open sea. ‘Rumpus’ and ‘fracas’ are found only in certain newspapers (in much the same way that ‘beverages’ are found only in certain menus). They are never used in normal conversation.
 
I thought it was us oldies who didn't understand the online world. It has changed journalism. We should still be able to expect a reasonable degree of accuracy from the printed press (and the Star has far too many errors), but the online world is different - it encourages us to want to know things instantly. Mobile phone footage goes round the world in minutes, and lots of us on here read the thread about yesterday's incident wanting to know more. That is human nature. Surely an online version of the paper is right to present reports quickly, provided they make clear where they come from, they don't have confirmation, etc. We have to be savvy enough to not believe it all until confirmation comes in. If a report came from an S6 forum on the size of their crowd, would you believe it? We have to smart readers now.
 
Back in the day, the journalist would have had a contact at the Police to verify these reports. They might have taken themselves off to the Northern to see if they could track the chap down. They might have contacted a few people to find out the man's name.

Now... three minutes of reading the forum. Liberal use of ctrl + c and ctrl + v and job's a good 'un. That'll be £1000 a month please advertisers and fill in this survey in order to read it.
 
Article doesn't mention that it was a Blades fan that got attacked

Pigs will no doubt construe the article to mean 20 blades thugs attacked a Bolton fan
 
Linz said:
Back in the day, the journalist would have had a contact at the Police to verify these reports. They might have taken themselves off to the Northern to see if they could track the chap down. They might have contacted a few people to find out the man's name.

Now... three minutes of reading the forum. Liberal use of ctrl + c and ctrl + v and job's a good 'un. That'll be £1000 a month please advertisers and fill in this survey in order to read it.
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But that is the reality of online. How many of us are prepared to think 'That is an interesting story. I shall wait until the full story is known, and then pay to buy a newspaper to read about it.' ? The Internet has made us impatient (and mean), so we have to learn how to read this instant 'news'.
 
Blade58 said:
Article doesn't mention that it was a Blades fan that got attacked

Pigs will no doubt construe the article to mean 20 blades thugs attacked a Bolton fan
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One problem is that online items change minute by minute. The version I read an hour or so ago was reporting Bolton gang, innocent Blade, and did keep saying where the info was coming from.
 
I'm glad they are picking up on stories from on here as I was just about to post a thread about a bright flying object that I saw over Bramall Lane yesterday.......It quickly appeared into view and hovered over the pitch for a few minutes before disappearing as quick as it came about.

Anyone else see it?
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
But that is the reality of online. How many of us are prepared to think 'That is an interesting story. I shall wait until the full story is known, and then pay to buy a newspaper to read about it.' ? The Internet has made us impatient (and mean), so we have to learn how to read this instant 'news'.
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If I was going to actually spend good money on paying for a newspaper, then it certainly would'nt be this tripe.
 
Karaoke Blade said:
If I was going to actually spend good money on paying for a newspaper, then it certainly would'nt be this tripe.
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But before the Internet, you had very little choice if you wanted to follow local stories. Now we can choose between out-of-date, possibly inaccurate, and paid for, or instant, free, and almost totally inaccurate. I have no interest in persuading people to buy newspapers, but I do worry about the consequences of trusting everything online.
 



The_Green_Man said:
I'm glad they are picking up on stories from on here as I was just about to post a thread about a bright flying object that I saw over Bramall Lane yesterday.......It quickly appeared into view and hovered over the pitch for a few minutes before disappearing as quick as it came about.

Anyone else see it?
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Yes. They beamed me up after the game. Woke up in bed this morning like I had eaten a tindaloo. At least that's what LYDON told me happened.....
 
Lazy journalism in the extreme. This sort of thing has crept into Football Heaven too in recent seasons when they ask for comments on twitter, get few, so instead just read out tweets from fans who probably aren't aware it's been read out.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
Lazy journalism in the extreme. This sort of thing has crept into Football Heaven too in recent seasons when they ask for comments on twitter, get few, so instead just read out tweets from fans who probably aren't aware it's been read out.
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On the way home from home matches a few years ago, we used to regularly hear them read out tweets that people had messaged the @s24su account with "*name* has been in touch with us and says: *message*".
 
The_Green_Man said:
I'm glad they are picking up on stories from on here as I was just about to post a thread about a bright flying object that I saw over Bramall Lane yesterday.......It quickly appeared into view and hovered over the pitch for a few minutes before disappearing as quick as it came about.

Anyone else see it?
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It was Madine leaving
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Tyler Durden said:
Another reason why Johnstone Press needs to go out of business.

They aren't journalists, they're bullshit-peddling cunts. But then maybe that's what a journalist is these days.
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Most journalists still do a decent job and are paid fuck all. I guarantee the vast majority most rather find out the facts for themselves rather than sit at a computer, but that's increasingly not part of their job description. If their editor tells them to trawl Twitter and the forums in their search for news, that's what they will do. It's not because they are lazy, it's because they need to stay in work. They probably need to write four stories per day to keep their job, and I doubt they get paid travel expenses to go and investigate news. I'd hope they still have time to pick up the phone to check the accuracy of a story.

I'd perhaps describe editors of a couple of the redtops as "bullshit-peddling cunts' but lowly journos these days often just do as they're told.
 
AlienWoodward said:
I see you have nicked the thread "Post match trouble" and are quoting people on it on Twitter.
Remember Terry Henfleet ? When the piggies stitched you up many years ago and you fell for it and quoted the story on your back page ?
Good to see you post stuff when you have nothing confirmed, you are wasted with The Stir.
The Mail or Sun would snap you up.
I'm sure a few on here will find you a few fake stories to print just like the Wendy fans did in the coming few weeks.
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Got a link?
 
Linz said:
Back in the day, the journalist would have had a contact at the Police to verify these reports. They might have taken themselves off to the Northern to see if they could track the chap down. They might have contacted a few people to find out the man's name.

Now... three minutes of reading the forum. Liberal use of ctrl + c and ctrl + v and job's a good 'un. That'll be £1000 a month please advertisers and fill in this survey in order to read it.
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Have some sympathy, it's not easy now they're not allowed to just hack the phone of the bloke in hospital.
 



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