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Commenting on news stories online

#21
I haven’t used Yahoo News for quite a while. For the desktop computer, Google is my go-to news aggregator. Once in a while I use Bing’s news.

For mobile I usually hit AP News or Reuters. They at least have some credibility as news organizations.

One thing I’ve noticed is Bing’s news page seems to carry a *lot* of content from FOX News. OTOH, Google News seems to have very little content from FOX, but a ton from The Washington Post.
 
#22
mpdd said:
i must admit that i like to read the comments more on behind the steel curtain than i do the actual articles about the steelers
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Pensburgh too. Good stuff. :)

I used to post comments all the time for stories at ESPN.com. Then they switched to forcing you to use Facebook to comment, so I stopped.

-Mike
 
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#23
I don't comment, I just go check the local news and see what's going on in this half of the state, and what the weather is supposed to be like the next few days. Besides, even if I did, the comments get wiped clean by moderators several times during the day. Since the real people who comment tell it like it is, and it's not the utopia they want the outsiders to see.
 
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slobake said:
Made the mistake of commenting on something recently. Will I ever learn?
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Well that was dumb of you.
If you can not control yourself enough to keep to your morals of not posting a comment, then you do not have the proper ethics to be correct on the topic you posted on. :rage:


Not doing this for the trolling likes, I do it to make @slobake say, "What the heck is wrong with this guy? I thought he liked me... :( Oh it was a joke." :D
And we are still on for Burritos when I come into town. drool


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Richland123 said:
Something I have noticed since I am a marketing/sales person is that many of the so called online news story sources deliberately post controversial stories in order to attract lots of back and forth comments and such so that more people will post and therefore keep visiting their websites which is what they want for advertising purposes.
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Bingo. It’s all about the hits. Hits = Money. The whole point of media is to get you to “Turn the Page” to see another advertisement. “ Story at 11:00” keeps you glued to the tv for hours of which about 20 minutes out of every hour is advertising, and the story at 11:00 is actually told at 11:25.
 
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#28
slobake said:
One of my sources of news is Yahoo. I like scrolling though the stories before I go to work in the morning. Some years ago I used to comment on the stories but gave it up quickly. Made the mistake of commenting on something recently. Will I ever learn?
The moronic trolling was pointless and frustrating. It is a shame that a medium that could be a great source for discussion and learning has become a playground for idiots and bots.
Forgive me if the frustration I feel sounds pretty harsh. The experience did leave me with more appreciation for the posters, mods and Paul's vision here on Talkbass.
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What is absolutely amazing is just about everybody want the same thing. To be safe, earn a living, be able to save a little for a rainy day, and help our kids get a better start in life. If we focus on that, and not who is, or what party is in office, a conservative or liberal, and vote the bozos out of office that cause more problems than they fix, at a staggering cost no less, we all would be better off. And we might then find a more peaceful discourse on public affairs.
 
#30
slobake said:
It is scary that my usage is known. Yahoo or whatever I am using knows what type of stories I read and will connect me to what they think I will like as a first choice. That is why I sometimes internally open stories from sources that hold much different views that I do. Hoping that it will confuse whatever is tracking me, but it probably won't.
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That's exactly why I stopped relying on those kinds of services/pages whatever for my news, or likewise social media. About a year or so ago I decided that I really needed to cough up the dough to subscribe to an actual newspaper's site and get my news there. Like all publications, it has a certain bent, but I know I can go through it and get a cross-section of the stories of the day rather than getting smothered in (usually paid) content shaped to reinforce my existing clicking patterns.
 
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hrodbert696 said:
That's exactly why I stopped relying on those kinds of services/pages whatever for my news, or likewise social media. About a year or so ago I decided that I really needed to cough up the dough to subscribe to an actual newspaper's site and get my news there. Like all publications, it has a certain bent, but I know I can go through it and get a cross-section of the stories of the day rather than getting smothered in (usually paid) content shaped to reinforce my existing clicking patterns.
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What in your opinion is the BEST place to get real, comprehensive unbiased news online? I might even be willing to pay. I'm sick of 30 second ads preceding minute long video only stories.
 
#32
FingerDub said:
It's all based around the serotonin that people receive for getting likes. It's a psychiatric condition, like Pavlov except in a much greater quantity. People are doing this over all kinds of different applications and mediums, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, text messages, email, YouTube, Everything. Every bell every alert gets people excited and continues to feed the machine that is the addiction of online commentary.
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So true. And it's only getting worse. I can't imagine what it will look like in 50 years. Or even 10. It's doing so much damage to humanity.
 
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#33
Reading comments is often very disappointing. It tends to make me wonder whether a significant part of the population ever actually exerts the effort to THINK. Much of the commentary online is nothing but a repetition of knee-jerk talking points.

FingerDub said:
What in your opinion is the BEST place to get real, comprehensive unbiased news online? I might even be willing to pay. I'm sick of 30 second ads preceding minute long video only stories.
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Simple enough. National Public Radio.

I serve on advisory boards with professionals in a variety of news media (radio/TV, online and print), and all the crap you hear from one political persuasion about "mainstream media bias" is just that, crap. IMO their biggest failure is spending too much effort chasing eyeballs and not enough getting into real depth in their stories, which often leaves their coverage rather superficial.

NPR has more staffing and correspondents in major hot spots than all the rest of the US networks and papers combined. They do far and away the best job of giving you in-depth coverage on stories around the world. You might get at most 60 seconds on a story from broadcast network TV, but you may get 10 minutes on that story from NPR.

If you want great coverage and depth on TV in prime time, I recommend 60 Minutes and (for an enjoyable morning) CBS Sunday Morning. I once spent time with 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt and it was a fascinating conversation with one of the guys who pioneered TV news.
 
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#34
Its one thing to be notified of an event, that's all well and fine if were "just that" and maybe it starts as that but as we all know in the world of the non stop 24/7 news machine , someone inevitably needs to give there "opinion" on said event and then someone else at another competing network needs to have its "take" heard because well, that's just the way they do things in the "big Leagues" stay ahead of the next guy with whatever crap you can come up with because theres one hell of a lot of "AIR" that needs something to fill it up with, and the next thing you know the toilet has over flowed................. again.
 
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slobake said:
It is scary that my usage is known. I sometimes internally open stories from sources that hold much different views that I do. Hoping that it will confuse whatever is tracking me, but it probably won't.
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I do this every single day...often, several times a day.
I guess I might as well be spittin’ into the gale... :facepalm:
 
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#39
Sometimes I wonder how many working hours are stolen from employers by people who troll the internet all day.
The numbers are probably astronomical!

One of my old classmates used to post on FB all day & then throw in there sometimes about how she was being worked to the bone.
Eventually she posted that she was let go, what a surprise :woot:

IMdB finally shut down their trollfest board.
 
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