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Peter Oborne leaves the Telegraph

Started by Sheilbh, February 17, 2015, 03:32:06 PM

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The Brain

In Sweden everybody knows that you can't go to the newspapers for news about certain areas, like immigration. Plenty of alternatives around that people use.
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Sheilbh

Quote from: Gups on February 18, 2015, 12:43:52 PM
Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.
Especially when the Telegraph follows up with stories like this:

Christ :bleeding: :x
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

Quote from: Gups on February 18, 2015, 12:43:52 PM
Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.

I'm confused. Isn't it better for the public if the truth is made plain? :unsure:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Jacob

Quote from: garbon on February 21, 2015, 05:17:35 PM
Quote from: Gups on February 18, 2015, 12:43:52 PM
Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.

I'm confused. Isn't it better for the public if the truth is made plain? :unsure:

Presumably Gups is talking about the Telegraph's management, and thus looking at it from their perspective?

garbon

Why would that be a perspective that he would be interested in exploring/supporting?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

In a broader sense, I have no explanation, other than inertia and agent-principal conflict on the part of media houses, why the whole click culture continues unabated.

Everybody knows it's a sham - news sites are setting up multi-page "click holes" to increase the number of clicks; advertisers are fully aware of this yet are perfectly willing to pay for this; the result is the decreasing quality of online media, while the advertising power of such outlets is questionable at best in the first place.

It baffles me.