Today's Star

[I should coco]

The Star could be brilliant for all I know

It was pretty good a few years back but it most certainly is not 'brilliant' now.

I just like to slag it off because all the cool kids do.

Remember where you heard it first. Thursday 15/2/17 09:43; SteveBlade describes I should coco as 'one of the cool kids'

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

What a bizarre headline.

Damn right...

''Trusted News... 350,000 people...''

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

the old retired military bloke at Millhouses, who was always staring at his neighbours, over the garden fence, so they took him to court, and ended up on the front page for about two weeks running (The Star somehow persuaded the bloke to put on an army jacket, probably from the Army and Navy stores on the Wicker and have his picture taken, looking pompous)

Now a regular poster on here, goes by the name of Woo.....

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

It's not a negative headline, it's implying that the Blades' future is uncertain / up in the air. But why miss a chance to slag off the Star (before reading the article, of course)?

I don't have to read the article to know that The Star is a shite newsaper!
( and I use the term 'newspaper' very lightly!)

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I'll be the one to bite. I am at a disadvantage, as my copy of the Star does not have the offending front page. Either the guy in the shop knew I would be offended, or they have exercised a bit of quality control. The 2 pages of articles seem fine to me. Something is going on, very limited information is public at the moment, here are some possible explanations, McCabe and Wilder are treated with respect, the Prince is more of an unknown. There clearly is huge interest in this story - why else would there be a 42 page thread about it on here, plus many comments on other threads? I felt at the end of the items, which include the club statement, that I understood the issues better; on the forum, it is difficult to sift through the very different posts. They cannot ignore the goings-on, there are few hard facts available, and in my view, the 2 pages are a useful guide to the background of a defining moment in the club's recent history.

 

[Blade&Snuff]

Now if we are talking headlines the old Sunday Sport takes some beating, if they had these sort of headlines I'd start buying the stir again.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexfinnis/boiled-mangled-orange-burst-bellends

 

[snootyfenooty]

Well I suppose it makes a change from the normal front page football news from the Star, i.e. a "Save our Owls" campaign. My guess is they're just clearing this one out of the way in preparation for the big one.

 

[DifferentClass]

Fake news.

 

[Blade56]

Good point. They surely have a much newer photo of the ground, they even printed a photo of what the new Kop and South Stand would look like after upgrades, why not put that up, afterall the melting pot will be ready by the time the ground is finished won't it?

Tomorrows headline

Owls future in the shit...

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[alcoblade]

It's not a negative headline, it's implying that the Blades' future is uncertain / up in the air. But why miss a chance to slag off the Star (before reading the article, of course)?

This negative obsession with the Star is totally lost in me too.

 

[metalblade]

Fake newspaper more like.

 

[sheffielder]

Well I suppose it makes a change from the normal front page football news from the Star, i.e. a "Save our Owls" campaign. My guess is they're just clearing this one out of the way in preparation for the big one.

To be fair, I thought the same. It has a feeling that they know something more but not prepared to say. Otherwise it’s just another regurgitation of what we already know.

A better journalist would be spending his lunch hours in the Banner to who comes in talking to the landlord. Maybe put their house on the market and ask for the owner.

I would love one of our Star journalists to get some balls and become the new John Saddler and tell is how they really feel.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Danny04 Oh Danny, oh Danny, where are you?

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Quite amusing that The Star starts blocking people with adblockers, at the exact time Chrome (60% marketshare) starts shipping their browser with an adblocker turned on by default (to block the exact type of ads the Star uses, especially on mobile devices).

 

[sheffielder]

Danny04 Oh Danny, oh Danny, where are you?

His boss is warming him up now, rubbing his shoulders. Just get in there Danny and be yourself.

 

[stringer]

Danny04 Oh Danny, oh Danny, where are you?

I’m here mate, why?

 

[Sean Thornton]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter and photographer for the esteemed Daily Planet. Where's Perry White when you need him? He would have spiked this story from the word go.

 

[B14Nco]

It's just a rehash of an earlier article JS did.

Biggs is an idiot.

Feels a bit like Biggs has got to his position through time spent not through being any good at his job or track record - no wonder there are so many numpty aspiring journos out there...

 

[Robby Blade]

The only thing I ever used to read in "The Star" was the "Court Report" section, to see which of my old school mates from Gleadless Valley had been sent down.

Best front page headlines ever ("back in the day", as our US cousins would say) were the ones with the old retired military bloke at Millhouses, who was always staring at his neighbours, over the garden fence, so they took him to court, and ended up on the front page for about two weeks running (The Star somehow persuaded the bloke to put on an army jacket, probably from the Army and Navy stores on the Wicker and have his picture taken, looking pompous)

The other classic was the young girl who was banned from attending the end-of-year school prom, when her Mum had already bought her a dress (Mum was furious!), even though it turned out her daughter was an absolute nightmare at school, always causing trouble, and had been warned loads of times that if she carried on with bad behaviour, she couldn't attend. Great front page photo of Mum and daughter, with the standard "right ladies, can you both put on a really sad face for the camera?".

The court report could stretch the actual at times. My pal decided to go past Millhouses park at 85mph for a bet to see if he could get to Owler Bar and back in some crazy time. Came back at the same speed. Unfortunatly the police were out with the radar gun and got him both times.Was caught again a week later. In court he appologize and said he must have been mad to do such a thing.Sheffield Star banner quoted him as saying, every time I go on my motorbike I go mad.

 

[B14Nco]

Well yes it is odd, but if your turn that on its head, taking last week's story and splashing it all over the front page could suggest 'movement' and 'goings on'.

"Mildred, Star's gorrit all or t'front page. Th'is no smoke weout fire I'm tellin thi. Star nevva gets it wrong tha nose....."

I know all the Star apologists will trot out the 'damned if they do, damned if they don't line', but this is classic local- rag-shit-stirring based on nothing other than suggestion, and a lack of anything more substantial to report.

Maybe all their teams of crack investigative journalists are still tied up trying to hold SYP to account over Hillsborough, the Rotherham child sex scandal or even Tramgate from last September?

There just isn’t enough local quality glamorous sports news to report... so I’m pretty sure are told to drag out these kind of semi potentially interesting stories...

If you use Twitter etc it’s obvious that they trawl social media for most of their stories anyway... most of the time these major news stories are padded out tweets (or posts/ musings from on here).

Which to be fair when you think of the ‘dev gorrit in foh us’ mantra is probably quite reflective of most of the stuff coming from on here.

 

[HVR]

Was it supposed to say ..."IN MELTDOWN" but the writer had auto correct on when texting the headline over?

Or ..."IN MEDIATION" perhaps?

 

[Grappler]

Was it supposed to say ..."IN MELTDOWN" but the writer had auto correct on when texting the headline over?

Or ..."IN MEDIATION" perhaps?

Just lazy journalism and crap grammar pal, even worse, I assume some sort of editor gave it the once over and thought it was ok?

It should have been something like "Blades future in question", or "in the balance", but fuckin "melting pot"......what?

 

[stringer]

Just lazy journalism and crap grammar pal, even worse, I assume some sort of editor gave it the once over and thought it was ok?

It should have been something like "Blades future in question", or "in the balance", but fuckin "melting pot"......what?

The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.

Lazy commenting.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I am trying to picture in my mind what BDTBL would look like with 20 high rise block of student flats built on it?

Our club with a new owner will never ever be Man City Mk2 - but it could be Leicester City Mk2.

Surely, that wouldn't be a bad thing? or would it?

Do WE not want to be in the Premier League?

What's the point in being in any competition, if you don't strive to be at the top...............

UTB

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Non story, nothing has happened.The stir know nothing more than you and i, They are just filling the pages

 

[Billyblade]

The only thing I ever used to read in "The Star" was the "Court Report" section, to see which of my old school mates from Gleadless Valley had been sent down.

Best front page headlines ever ("back in the day", as our US cousins would say) were the ones with the old retired military bloke at Millhouses, who was always staring at his neighbours, over the garden fence, so they took him to court, and ended up on the front page for about two weeks running (The Star somehow persuaded the bloke to put on an army jacket, probably from the Army and Navy stores on the Wicker and have his picture taken, looking pompous)

The other classic was the young girl who was banned from attending the end-of-year school prom, when her Mum had already bought her a dress (Mum was furious!), even though it turned out her daughter was an absolute nightmare at school, always causing trouble, and had been warned loads of times that if she carried on with bad behaviour, she couldn't attend. Great front page photo of Mum and daughter, with the standard "right ladies, can you both put on a really sad face for the camera?".

I used to love reading the court report. Most of my mates got find £2 at some stage for "urinating in street".

My favourite "local news story" anecdote was told by Frank Skinner about a local newspaper called the Smethwick Telephone. The story was about some woman who reckoned she had seen aliens land on her lawn and then majestically rise and fly off "over Dudley"
The accompanying photograph had the woman standing pointing at her lawn with one hand and making a 2-fingered antennae type shape with her other hand on her forehead.

 

[Liverpool blade]

FAKE NEWS From the stir yet again. who'd have thought that?. Utb

 

[georgebernardshaw]

The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.

Lazy commenting.

That is definitely the best bit of cut and pasting since Esablade was on his trolley

 

[grafikhaus]

Good point. They surely have a much newer photo of the ground, they even printed a photo of what the new Kop and South Stand would look like after upgrades, why not put that up, afterall the melting pot will be ready by the time the ground is finished won't it?

It's so the pig fans can bullshit on PigTalk about how crap our ground is, how their Desso is better than ours blah, blah.

Plenty of people don't go on forums or even the Internet . Reading a Paper is the only bit of excitement they get.

Damn right. When my mum was in a nursing home, the arrival of The Star was the high point of their day.