Superthread LXI - No longer honouring AdamKungl for his birthday as it has now passed

[Drew-Sta]

It seems a good site actually, the first article I clicked on was a Buzzfeedy Top Five that's finishing sentence began with 'LOL' though :lol: Glad it was the exception.

I think it suffers from the need to 'combat' Murdoch's influence on journalism. The issue is the best way to combat the 'FOX-effect' is to simply produce superior articles and trust there's people who will find them.

BTW, have you seen this?

[youtube]lFDwdRXCg3I[/youtube]

Well worth the time to watch.

 

[Misanthrope]

And we wonder why journalism as a profession is shit.

Articles pasted on forums like this = less people reading the article on the site it's hosted = less clicks to advertisers = less people buying papers = less money for the industry.

Not that I feel sorry for them by any means, but we have to lie in the bed we made...

When the profession includes lolJD as one of its representatives, that's all the proof you need.

 

[Alba]

Those tablets sound good but theoretically, the reason the doctors refuse to receive anything is because it can screw around with my depression. Or so they say.

Alba - weight is temporary, but class and beauty is permanent. Same goes for Dani.

If it helps, they are herbal sleep aids

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

I don't think Journalism is dead at all.

Journalists just need to find a better outlet than a Newspaper.

Most, nowadays use the papers to gain a bit of notoriety and then they just peel off and start a blog. Once they have some sort of following, they can generally take that with them and turn it into advertising dollars.

The paid Newspaper, as it stands is dead in the water.

Free Newspapers like MX, that you get at the local train station... They are going gang busters. People are still happy to read some news and light entertainment on the way home in the bus or train. They just don't want to have to pay for it. Of course, as long as the circulation is high, advertisers are happy to step into the breach.

Newspapers can survive, the business model just needs to change.

 

[Bazal]

Been on the phone to Fair Work. Shock horror I should have been being paid this whole time...asshats

 

[RHCP]

I think it suffers from the need to 'combat' Murdoch's influence on journalism. The issue is the best way to combat the 'FOX-effect' is to simply produce superior articles and trust there's people who will find them.

BTW, have you seen this?

[youtube]lFDwdRXCg3I[/youtube]

Well worth the time to watch.

Nope I haven't, but you've been been handing out good recommendations lately so I'll definitely give it a watch tonight.

 

[Apey]

Anyone else getting those ads linked from random text on LU? Usually it's adware and can get rid of it but the cause doesn't seem to be on my end for once.

 

[Misanthrope]

Anyone else getting those ads linked from random text on LU? Usually it's adware and can get rid of it but the cause doesn't seem to be on my end for once.

Nope. I had that a few weeks ago and it was on my end. Some sneaky ass thing that I never installed.

 

[RHCP]

Yeah been happening to me.

 

[muzby]

Anyone else getting those ads linked from random text on LU? Usually it's adware and can get rid of it but the cause doesn't seem to be on my end for once.

haven't seen it happen to me..

 

[Apey]

Yeah. I've had a few lately but nothing is coming up for this one, and it's only happening on LU and no other website. Weird.

 

[Apey]

Hah, not your typical hyperlink. This is green, double underlined with an arrow up top. Looks like adware but have done several scans and nothing.

 

[madunit]

I had it today too on my work pc, using chrome. Never had it before.

 

[Misanthrope]

haven't seen it happen to me..

I f**king love getting Rick Rolled. I actively seek it out.

Was very disappointed when somebody included a link to a Rick Astley Christmas Carol in the Christmas Songs thread and he didn't burst into Never Gonna Give You Up.

 

[afinalsin666]

I started getting them today. A lot of sites do it, so I wasn't too concerned.

 

[TooheysNew]

It's meant to be there Apey. We're trialling its performance.

 

[Apey]

Fair enough. I kind of suspected that after clicking the info on the pop-up. Wasn't 100% sure since it was almost identical to the adware I had on my computer last week.

 

[afinalsin666]

They don't show up on the phone thank God, my huge fingers would be clicking then non stop.

 

[Alba]

Confuzzled... Blaahhhh

 

[Didgi]

Most places have its +'s and -'s, nowhere is perfect.

One thing we can all agree on though is that Cairns is a shithole and the people from there have rat like features and smell like cabbage.........:sarcasm::sarcasm:

Typical snot-nosed Tvillian. Townsville has one redeeming feature - the Cowboys. Cairns' redeeming feature is that it's not Townsville!

I'm still waiting for Rhino and Didgi to bite on my Cairns comment.....

I was at work mang, gotta leave the tasty bait there for a while.