RTÉ News online - Poll Daddy Poll. WTF?

DMC

I sense a lack of balance in this poll currently on www.rte.ie/news ..... see attachment.

Its more akin to something in The Star or The Sun, yet not on the website of the national broadcaster....

whiskeyman

wow, good spot. Very thrashy indeed.

Think we'll be waiting for the:

'What is the most shocking part of the RTE earners list?:

mike65

There was a thread about this some months back - seems purely a marketing wheeze.

Mike.

flogen

That's an extremely bias poll alright.

Usually their polls are just stupid (about stupid things with stupid options). What boils my blood more is the "craic" section on the news website, full of rubbish "and finally" stuff.

monument

Here's what RTE.ie news editor Joe Zefran had to say when I asked him about this and other topics around a perceived tabloidisation of news at RTE.ie...

BK: With the RTE.ie Interactive Polls that are placed within the news section of the site, do you think that the style of these polls should reflect the overall style of the news?

RTE: No. Online polls should adopt a more conversational style since they are directly engaging with the user. Again, we believe this enables us to better inform, inspire and enrich the lives of our audience.

BK: Are the poll answers and questions written by a news staffer? And if not why not?

RTE: They are usually written by the News Editor.

http://www.blurredkeys.com/2007/07/rteie-editor-re.html

Xavi6

flogen wrote: »

That's an extremely bias poll alright.

Usually their polls are just stupid (about stupid things with stupid options). What boils my blood more is the "craic" section on the news website, full of rubbish "and finally" stuff.

Yeah agreed on that. I've recently had a look at the odd 'craic' story while bored in work and they are biggest pile I've sh*t I've ever read outside a tabloid.

mike65

RTE: No. Online polls should adopt a more conversational style since they are directly engaging with the user. Again, we believe this enables us to better inform, inspire and enrich the lives of our audience.

:rolleyes:

Inspire? Enrich? What with, slurry?

Mike.

Stargal

Lol! Monument, that interview is great. My favourite bit is where he gets pissed off at the questions about the tabloid style of writing on the RTE News site:

BK: Can you explain how these were allowed to be published?

RTE: Thanks to a software programme developed in-house that lets us combine words and images and turn it into a web story.

/Off-topic: I never realised you did Blurred Keys. Great blog.

lostexpectation

hate the way the page shows news from days ago I want the latest news.

is that guy american it would explain alot.