Recent media fascination

[Sparx]

Whats with the recent media frenzy of hiring look a likes to snap scenes for stories? not content with makin up stories they are now making up pictures to go with them

An example here Ashley Cole to ask Cheryl Cole to marry him again | The Sun |Showbiz|Bizarre

 

[Madmaxx]

tabloid newspapers mate, I only read the back pages/sport sections of any newspapers nowadays; it's all sensationalized imho. If I did flip through the sun i'd probably go to page 3 then flick through till about 40% see a funny picture of some 2headed dog story..then pass through to the sport section; even then I'd probably only see which star is cheating on who lol.

 

[Sparx]

Reporting is so lazy now too, i read the metro the other week and picked up at least 8 stories that involved someones Twitter account

 

[dysfunction]

If you don't like the way they report things the simple thing to do is not read this newspapers. If nobody reads them they will close down which will benefit everyone!

News of the World should be boycotted tbh

 

[Sparx]

Unfortunately they arent the only ones doing it now, which means before long they will all be at it

 

[Sparx]

heres another one

David and Victoria Beckham prepare for baby daughter with birthing ball | Mail Online

 

[Cerb]

I've started in journalism at the wrong time

Where I work though is thankfully much much different. No editorial morality at those rags whatsoever.

 

[Lamp]

I am so sick to death of hearing about bloody Cheryl Cole.

What do you think about the News of the World "allegedly" hacking Milly Dowler's phone?

 

[Raven]

I think they are scum.

 

[Cerb]

I am so sick to death of hearing about bloody Cheryl Cole.

What do you think about the News of the World "allegedly" hacking Milly Dowler's phone?

Even leaving aside the gross misconduct it represents if it's true, interfering with the investigation is just wrong.

Too many journalists want to be the news these days, not report it.

 

[Job]

'Hacking' of course they mean using the standard pin for the voicemail, back in my telephone days we could monitor any call with a simple mon:telnumber command.
The 'victims' could hear an interrupt beep though, not that anyone knew that meant they were being monitored.
But there were loads of circuits you couldn't monitor and the command would be rejected, everytime it happened we would trace the call until one day the boss got a call from the top asking why this call had been traced, knuckles rapped.
Most of the traces would end up on a subscriber info page that had all the fields blank,
it was all very FBI conspiracy theory.

 

[Cerb]

it was all very FBI conspiracy theory.

Never!