Should journalists pay to use boards.ie?

Yo Buddy. You still alive?

Saw that on twitter and thought it was a good question.

TheZohanS

No, they should be banned outright.

MistyCheese

Of course they should. They should have to pay the same €65 registration fee and €30 a month as the rest of us.

KungPao

Poor Alison already has enough money worries.:(

mojesius

Twitter should be banned outright.

My name is URL

No, why should they have to? I don't think they should have to ask Boards for permission to use stuff posted here either.

gurramok

They're welcome to publish any of my wonderful insight posts into any national newspaper

PanchoVilla

MistyCheese wrote: »

Of course they should. They should have to pay the same €65 registration fee and €30 a month as the rest of us.

You pay to use boards? O.o Do you get cool stuff for registering?

Shazanne

Why do you ask such a question OP? And when you say pay, do you mean that they should be charged a fee and then have access to anything that appears on Boards? From what I understand if a journalist is interested in something on here they simply PM the poster and if they agree to talk to the journalist they do so directly. So I'm not sure what your're asking and why?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I would truly love to know how many well known posters are actually journalists

Does anyone have any particular posters they think are hacks?
(Dont name obviously)

Helix

im a journalist

wouldnt use boards as a reference for anything though

starbelgrade

Slasher McGurk is Paul Williams.

the_syco

PanchoVilla wrote: »

You pay to use boards? O.o Do you get cool stuff for registering?

Nothing much. Standard bi-annual boards drinkies, with 5 ounces of coke at entrance, and 3 free hookers. Nothing compared to what the gold members get :eek: Why else do you think Daft.ie wanted part of boards?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

starbelgrade is Bertie Ahern

Black Swan

Writes in journal.

Absurdum

Messiah Lively Shrew wrote: »

starbelgrade is Bertie Ahern

I bet he never thought he'd end up here *boomtish*

kowloon

They shouldn't have to, but Boards.ie shouldn't have to be responsible for the opinions posted here either.

AnonoBoy

I'm Alison O'Riordan








Ah no, I'm only messing. But she is my heroin.

Earthhorse

Should boards.ie have to pay to copy and paste their articles here?

Ebbs

Fcuking Journos!!

In saying that....what sort of journo uses Boards or any internet forum as a story

starbelgrade

Earthhorse is Brendan O'Connor.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Yo Buddy. You still alive? wrote: »

Saw that on twitter and thought it was a good question.

Yes, I think you should.

PanchoVilla

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'm Alison O'Riordan








Ah no, I'm only messing. But she is my heroin.

Smoked or injected?

Wibbs

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ah no, I'm only messing. But she is my heroin.

Yep she makes me all stoned too.

Earthhorse

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ah no, I'm only messing. But she is my heroin.

Is that why you tried to leave her at my door?

Stinicker

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Writes in journal.

Stardate 1521: Note to self, accuse random member of being an undercover Journalist, infract & ban them. Then gloat in my own greatness.

Chuchoter

Yes, and any comments/stories they pick out from the site they should contact the orginal author and get consent to use/pay them.

Bob Z

Messiah Lively Shrew wrote: »

starbelgrade is Bertie Ahern

Can i Quote you on that?

:D

marco_polo

Stinicker wrote: »

Stardate 1521: Note to self, accuse random member of being an undercover Journalist, infract & ban them. Then gloat in my own greatness.

Witch Journalist :eek:

Soby

Suppose its only fair they give some of the bribe money back that they get to keep the coke and hookers a secret

Captain Darling

To be honest OP i dont know. Tell me though, whats your opinion on Jewish, gay, polish, heroine addicted immigrants who eat swans whilst considering the recession in Ireland?

OutlawPete

I'm Susan McKay :cool:

littlefriend

Is it necessary to use the .ie all the time? Kind of irks me.

Captain Darling

littlefriend wrote: »

Is it necessary to use the .ie all the time? Kind of irks me.

irksme.ie

Captain Darling

Captain Darling wrote: »

To be honest OP i dont know. Tell me though, whats your opinion on Jewish, gay, polish, heroine addicted immigrants who eat swans whilst considering the recession in Ireland?

You are such a journalist.....

RolandIRL

tar.aldarion is a secret journalist for Playboy he/she has got his/her own forum to spy on us

strokemyclover

Leave it out lads, Poor Alison! She's probably reading this and crying into her big, hair-dye stained pillow she paid €150 for back in 2008

minidazzler

My name is URL wrote: »

No, why should they have to? I don't think they should have to ask Boards for permission to use stuff posted here either.

They should have to ask for permission to use direct quotes I think, especially if they are gonna print the username.

PeterIanStaker

gurramok wrote: »

They're welcome to publish any of my wonderful insight posts into any national newspaper

Mine too! They're also welcome to read what I think of their so called journalism, not that it'll stop them churning out the vacous sh!te day in day out.

PeterIanStaker

strokemyclover wrote: »

Leave it out lads, Poor Alison! She's probably reading this and crying into her big, hair-dye stained pillow she paid €150 for back in 2008

That pillows only worth €20 now.

booo hooo

RoundyMooney

And folk from the print media wonder why they're on a sinking ship...

This thread isn't as misplaced as one might think, when you look at what Permatan Silvaspoon, Fungus Fanning, Moeghan Harris, and the rest of the Indo's leading lights inflict on us, and that's only one rag out of many.

RoundyMooney

gurramok wrote: »

They're welcome to publish any of my wonderful insight posts into any national newspaper

And they do. Sincerest form of flattery being imitation and all that.

Especially in this country, where the upper echelons of "journalists*" number in the small dozens, they need to dip into a wider genepool of idead on a regular basis.

*upper echelons in terms of profile, not in skill or honesty

Neyite

Can we give Alison access to Spell Czechs?

My name is URL

minidazzler wrote: »

They should have to ask for permission to use direct quotes I think, especially if they are gonna print the username.

Why though? When people cross-post stuff here from other sites they are unlikely to have asked permission beforehand. As far as I'm concerned, when something is posted online, esp on a medium like Boards then it should either be publically accesable to everyone or else I retain full rights of what I post, and the choice to remove it at any time. If they're blatantly 'stealing' the stuff posted then I'd have an issue with it but once they include references I don't see the problem.

RoundyMooney

My name is URL wrote: »

...once they include references I don't see the problem.

And that's the general courtesy. Most websites insist on a link, either for reasons of reference, or to facilitate those who may not be able to view the original piece (where you get the link and the content).

Many journos do likewise, a la "RoundyMooney said on well known internet site cakeorpie.ie, that he loikes caek". They don't all do, of course, and it's these dishonest liftings of collective wit and wisdom that irk people.

AnonoBoy

Actually now that I think about it something I said about ChatRoulette was used in the Sunday Mirror (or similar weekend red top) and they credited my username too.

Don't know what they quoted, someone else on here told me about it.

They never paid me either - the scallywags!

Celly Smunt

i love when you see something that isn't fact but made up here turn up in the papers

Trog

Should you pay a fee to someone you overhear on a bus if you're going to publish what you heard? What if that person was on a soapbox, speaking for anyone to hear? What if that person publishes it on a free public website for anyone to read?

The real issue: Anyone who gives ANY credence to what is said on an internet forum is an utter fool, and anyone who publishes such a thing under the veil of 'journalism' is a hack. Go do some real research if you want to be a real journalist.

Millicent

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Actually now that I think about it something I said about ChatRoulette was used in the Sunday Mirror (or similar weekend red top) and they credited my username too.

Don't know what they quoted, someone else on here told me about it.

They never paid me either - the scallywags!

Quoi? Why do so many people think that journalists pay their interviewees? Unless you shagged a footballer (and Anonoboy, I ain't rulin' it out with you! :P) why would they?

That said, I think plagiarizing from Boards is crap journalism, but I wouldn't rule it out for getting some ideas going.

OutlawPete

Some newspaper used a few of the Thierry Henry Photocomp entries from Cool Vids from last year, can't remember if they gave credit to the posters who made them though, think maybe they might have just said they were on Boards.ie or something.

filthymcnasty

Boards and AH is noted worldwide and nationally for its thorough research, quality grammar, dedicated sources, reliance on facts, lack of cliches and unuse of tried and tested soundbite politics and ocassional disjointed right -wing views.

There is no way the casual Sindo journalist would dare adopt such practises.