Comments on: Is the Adelaide Now drunk man video bad news judgement or click addiction?

By: Great Strategy

Great Strategy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:29:32 +0000

poor, poor effort.

By: Joel Pearson

Joel Pearson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:12:32 +0000

@Jock

That is a screengrab so that we can see that the video was in the most popular.

By: Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:19:09 +0000

Maybe i’ve been eating too much iSnack 2.0 but this looks fake.

Notice at the end of the vid, the guy easily hops up, opens the door and leaves?

By: latest internet hit

latest internet hit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:08:50 +0000

…and now it’s on the Herald Sun and Courier Mail websites, such is it’s newsworthiness!

By: jock

jock — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:07:29 +0000

Err, is that a joke, or illustrating the point, or some sort of coincidence, or hypocrisy or auto ad placement thingo that has the Adelaide Now “Todays most Popular” whatsit right beside the devastating critique?

By: Andrew F

Andrew F — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:27:47 +0000

Fairfax do this as well. They take clips from youtube and other sources and republish them without permission. They could easily embed them but then they couldn’t wrap them with ads. Eventually someone will sue them. I can understand if it’s newsworthy but it usually isn’t

By: DonSimon

DonSimon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:18:12 +0000

My apologies… I read that fast and wrong.

By: mumbrella

mumbrella — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:06:39 +0000

I think you’re asking the wrong people, Don.

As I mentioned above, that was a comment that appeared on the Adelaide Now website.

But as it happens, to a certain extent, I tend to agree with that comment. As journalists become more epxerienced they tend to hone their understanding of who their readers are, and what the news values of their title are. That informs their judgement of what to put in – and what to leave out.

That’s not about age per se, but about time spent as a journalist.

I’d be pretty confident that this piece wasn’t posted by a 20-year news veteran.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

By: DonSimon

DonSimon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:29:59 +0000

“The hiring of what are more or less kids to do an adult’s job”
That’s a disgustingly ageist remark. Are you saying anyone under the age of 20 isn’t capable of independent thought?

By: mumbrella

mumbrella — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:05:39 +0000

Thanks for the link Joel. I was complaining/ saying admiringly to someone yesterday that the problem with Ben is that he keeps thinking the same thing as me and writing it first.

Do follow Joel’s link – it’s a good perspective.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:54 +0000

News Ltd needs to create a social/fun spin-off site for this sort of thing. Then they can get their share of the viral stuff without dragging down their newspapers further. Slashdot.org did it quite poorly with idle.slashdot.org, but they had the right idea at least.

By: Craig Ashley Russell

Craig Ashley Russell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:48:12 +0000

They haven’t even got the original video and pinched it from someone else who has watermarked the thing.

Rupert, I mean Wendy, you guys are gold.

By: Joel Pearson

Joel Pearson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:06:24 +0000

Definitely not news in any way, shape or form.

Very worrying that News plan to charge people for content of this calibre.

Ben Shepherd wrote an interesting post about this also – http://bit.ly/7DTkB

By: Joe Elliott

Joe Elliott — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:01:01 +0000

It looks to fake and a bad ‘drunk’ performance.