Daily Mail

What a gratuitously voyeuristic and grubby publication the Mail is. They even trawl Chinese websites to find gory news items. Meanwhile, these are the very first three stories on the DM website today:

Russian missile killed pilots and cut jet in half but passengers could have been conscious for up to a minute as plane plunged

Inside the bedroom where Becky Watts died: Jurors get a grisly tour of crime scenes including the bathroom where she was dismembered with a circular saw and the garden where her remains were hidden

Horrified husband finds his wife's body in car wreckage when he went out to look for her after she failed to returned home

Do they really think that the public long to read stories like 'Mother sees Daughter crushed by Train'? These are real-life tragedies, not a bloody novel or a tv drama...
 
SteveJ said:
What a gratuitously voyeuristic and grubby publication the Mail is. They even trawl Chinese websites to find gory news items. Meanwhile, these are the very first three stories on the DM website today:

Russian missile killed pilots and cut jet in half but passengers could have been conscious for up to a minute as plane plunged

Inside the bedroom where Becky Watts died: Jurors get a grisly tour of crime scenes including the bathroom where she was dismembered with a circular saw and the garden where her remains were hidden

Horrified husband finds his wife's body in car wreckage when he went out to look for her after she failed to returned home

Do they really think that the public long to read stories like 'Mother sees Daughter crushed by Train'? These are real-life tragedies, not a bloody novel or a tv drama...
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The scary thing is that they are probably just pandering to the market. They can see exactly which headlines are leading people to click and which stories people are staying to read.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Yeah, that's exactly it. This will be all based on metrics. We get the media we deserve.
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As an example it's quite easy to see that an average of over 140,000 searches are made on Google each month for queries relating to "luka magnotta" (that Canadian guy who dismembered someone and put it on youtube) including over 1,000 doing searches specifically including the word "video".
 
Pogue Mahone said:
You'll get over it. I used to feel weird as feck lugging an empty shopping bag round with me but we're a few years into this in Ireland and it's normalised completely. I just wish my missus didn't keep collecting pink, flowery bags. She's also got a bunch of Planet Organic ones that make me die inside a little, every time I carry one out our front door.
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It's my East Yorkshire roots. You never saw grown men carrying poncey hemp bags when I was growing up.
 
SteveJ said:
What a gratuitously voyeuristic and grubby publication the Mail is. They even trawl Chinese websites to find gory news items. Meanwhile, these are the very first three stories on the DM website today:

Russian missile killed pilots and cut jet in half but passengers could have been conscious for up to a minute as plane plunged

Inside the bedroom where Becky Watts died: Jurors get a grisly tour of crime scenes including the bathroom where she was dismembered with a circular saw and the garden where her remains were hidden

Horrified husband finds his wife's body in car wreckage when he went out to look for her after she failed to returned home

Do they really think that the public long to read stories like 'Mother sees Daughter crushed by Train'? These are real-life tragedies, not a bloody novel or a tv drama...
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It's called news. Whether you like the bias or subject or not is another question.
Pogue Mahone said:
Yeah, that's exactly it. This will be all based on metrics. We get the media we deserve.
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Everything is measured from page views to unique pageviews, time spent on stories (can be an issue with those galleries you click through quickly cos the ads on the page take a second or so to render), bounce rates and referrals- where you get traffic from, so you can see what is 'SEO friendly' headline-wise. You can see how many people are reading any story in real-time and where they are geographically.
It's changed the nature of the job.
 
Eyepopper said:
This is the same paper that a few days ago suggested people bring their own plastic bags to shops as a feck you to get around a 5p levy...

Something tells me you might be giving them too much credit.
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Thought this was a joke until I just googled it. fecking hell how many stories are they going to write over it :wenger: We've had the 5p bag thing in Scotland for ages now and I don't remember hearing anyone complain
 
Jippy said:
It's called news. Whether you like the bias or subject or not is another question.
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It's not any supposed bias that bothers me; rather, the salacious nature of those pieces & the like.
 
SteveJ said:
It's not any supposed bias that bothers me; rather, the salacious nature of those pieces & the like.
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People love salacious I guess. I met an old female friend last night. You'd suffered stabbing pains near her ovaries after barebacking some guy pissed. She shat herself and got put on antibiotics that made her feel like shit for two weeks.
Turned out she was misdiagnosed and it was her Crohn's flaring up. Felt bad for her, but was an interesting chat. We like salacious.

Sassy Colin said:
Should I have said bin liners then? How does that make me a student? :confused: Do you think?
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Maybe they have shitty little bins in their rooms in halls? Not too sure. I thought lining a small bin with a carrier bag was standard practice too.
 
Silva said:
They sell tiny bin bags for pennies you fecking peasants.
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Why would you spend money on purpose made bin liners rather than recycle supermarket carrier bags?

I've never got the environmental benefit of this whole argument; spend money on your bag for life and then use it to go and buy bin liners for the countless small bins and recycling bins you have around the house. It's not because supermarket carriers take longer to degrade in a landfill, they don't. Your average supermarket carrier has fewer stabilizers and plasticisers than the polyethylene UV stabilized purpose made liners and as a result the recycled polypropylene or polyester used will photodegrade in a matter of months or break down through oxidation or hydrolysis in a few years whereas the purpose made liners are made from virgin PE and will have a similar lifespan to the PE membranes we use to line the landfills they will end up chucked into.

Sorry, it's just a fecking con and an environmental sop and will do nothing to stop the scrotes who dispose of bags in canals, rivers etc.
 
Bury Red said:
Why would you spend money on purpose made bin liners rather than recycle supermarket carrier bags?

I've never got the environmental benefit of this whole argument; spend money on your bag for life and then use it to go and buy bin liners for the countless small bins and recycling bins you have around the house. It's not because supermarket carriers take longer to degrade in a landfill, they don't. Your average supermarket carrier has fewer stabilizers and plasticisers than the polyethylene UV stabilized purpose made liners and as a result the recycled polypropylene or polyester used will photodegrade in a matter of months or break down through oxidation or hydrolysis in a few years whereas the purpose made liners are made from virgin PE and will have a similar lifespan to the PE membranes we use to line the landfills they will end up chucked into.

Sorry, it's just a fecking con and an environmental sop and will do nothing to stop the scrotes who dispose of bags in canals, rivers etc.
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I was just taking the piss mate, when Colin said he uses them as bin bags I had a flashback to uni and hanging carrier bags on cupboards because none of us had remembered to buy bin bags.
 
Man finds cigarette butt in tin of sardines

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'I couldn't believe it. It was disgusting, just disgusting,' said the hungry father.

'I wouldn't normally expect to find this in food products,' ASH information manager Amanda Sandford helpfully noted.

http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Cigarette-end-sardines-tin/story-27895373-detail/story.html#1
 
Jippy said:
Man finds cigarette butt in tin of sardines

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'I couldn't believe it. It was disgusting, just disgusting,' said the hungry father.

'I wouldn't normally expect to find this in food products,' ASH information manager Amanda Sandford helpfully noted.

http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Cigarette-end-sardines-tin/story-27895373-detail/story.html#1
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That's great on so many levels. The sad-face photo, complete with replacement fag butt (as we know the original was sent away for analysis) the description of him as "hungry Essex dad", then "hungry father" (what? still?) but best of all is the decision to pad out the piece by phoning up ASH for a quote.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That's great on so many levels. The sad-face photo, complete with replacement fag butt (as we know the original was sent away for analysis) the description of him as "hungry Essex dad", then "hungry father" (what? still?) but best of all is the decision to pad out the piece by phoning up ASH for a quote.
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It is textbook angry local news. Always good to get a charity or health organisation stating the bleeding obvious to give the story 'weight'.

This one takes the sad face to new levels.

Fruit stall outside hospital closed down anger

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'It's a massive blow,' said trader Mr Smith.

Hospital boss more or less said: 'Guess what, having a load of market stalls outside a busy hospital entrance causes congestion, so we will try and find a new location so this aint really a story.'
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...uit-and-veg-stall-axed-after-just-six-months/
 
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Welsh Wonder said:
Aye they cock up quite a fair bit. My mate was scanning a Capri-Sun through once and it nearly charged him around £18 for sausages through a weird glitch/code error. It sounds ludicrous now I'm reading it back but they're really not reliable at all :lol:
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I tried to scan a free coupon for my £1.50 pizza and it claimed I'd added a £776 sausage to my order :lol:
 
Jippy said:
The angry local new blogger made me laugh with this one.

'Lack of street lighting is putting off shoppers anger'
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'Shopkeeper who looks like he'd kill you for 50p is putting off shoppers'
 
SteveJ said:
'Shopkeeper who looks like he'd kill you for 50p is putting off shoppers'
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I actually grew up near Hull in East Yorkshire. I knew Orchard Park estate (or OPE as it was known) was a fecking dump, but jeez, the Mad Max-style stabby defences are so inviting, never mind the shopkeepers.
 
Just blundered into quite a cool function on the DM website- seems to use google analytics, which we use, to pinpoint how many readers they've had by day and geography. feck me, they have awesome traffic- 10.5m pageviews (I assume, rather than unique users) in the last 24 hrs in the UK alone.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/stats/index.html
 
Jippy said:
Just blundered into quite a cool function on the DM website- seems to use google analytics, which we use, to pinpoint how many readers they've had by day and geography. feck me, they have awesome traffic- 10.5m pageviews (I assume, rather than unique users) in the last 24 hrs in the UK alone.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/stats/index.html
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I bet half of them are just Caf users looking for material for this thread.
 
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