Recieving News

goodgodholmes

Hey guys,

I'm a DCU Masters student, currently doing a study on news consumption in Ireland. I'd really appreciate anyone who reads Sunday papers filling out this brief questionnaire.

It'll only take a few minutes, and you'd be doing me a huge favour.

Kind Regards
M

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SundaytimesirelandDCU

RubyRoss

Ok but a questionnaire sounds a but TY - sorry.

IRE60

If that's for a masters then I'd seriously look at the questions. You are either concentrating in broadsheets or not - and if not, why, when you ask which Sunday do you read, do you not have all the papers listed rather than a disparate list of titles - a list that contains broadsheets and tabloids?

krd

I don't think your survey will be accurate by polling the people of boards. It's a broad demographic, at the same time maybe not broad enough.

If boards polls were accurate. Dylan Haskins would have romped to victory in the last election. He did not.

kevin99

I've just read your intro page to your questionnaire and have never read anything so badly written.
Let me quote what you have written:

"Thank you for taking out the time...."
You use the word 'time' and 'Sunday Times' in the same sentence.
You use the phrase 'fully confidential'. What is the difference between 'confidential' and the phrase 'fully confidential'.
You use the phrase 'thank you' twice.
And you ask those who do not want to participate to:'please exit the survey now'.
At that stage nobody has entered the survey to exit it.

You describe yourself as a 'Masters Student'. A Master of what?
What do you students learn in Communications degree courses?

Have you read your copy?
Did a tutor read it and approve it?
If that is the standard of English grammar used by students these days, then God help the world of Journalism. If you approached me for a job with a letter or CV as bad as what you've written here, you wouldn't get near the front door. The delete button would have been utilised within moments of reading it.

Write simple, clear English and read it back at least twice. Use spell check if you can't spell yourself.
Do the tutors teach you how to write?


Your intro is poorly presented and written. You clearly didn't bother to read your copy. To borrow a phrase from the Dragon's Den: 'so for that reason, I am out'.

I wouldn't invest my time in you.

shotgun mike

kevin99 wrote: »

I've just read your intro page to your questionnaire and have never read anything so badly written.
Let me quote what you have written:

"Thank you for taking out the time...."
You use the word 'time' and 'Sunday Times' in the same sentence.
You use the phrase 'fully confidential'. What is the difference between 'confidential' and the phrase 'fully confidential'.
You use the phrase 'thank you' twice.
And you ask those who do not want to participate to:'please exit the survey now'.
At that stage nobody has entered the survey to exit it.

You describe yourself as a 'Masters Student'. A Master of what?
What do you students learn in Communications degree courses?

Have you read your copy?
Did a tutor read it and approve it?
If that is the standard of English grammar used by students these days, then God help the world of Journalism. If you approached me for a job with a letter or CV as bad as what you've written here, you wouldn't get near the front door. The delete button would have been utilised within moments of reading it.

Write simple, clear English and read it back at least twice. Use spell check if you can't spell yourself.
Do the tutors teach you how to write?


Your intro is poorly presented and written. You clearly didn't bother to read your copy. To borrow a phrase from the Dragon's Den: 'so for that reason, I am out'.

I wouldn't invest my time in you.

Kevin99 you are a gob****e or a troll, either way your posts are fairly unhelpful, especially to someone just trying to illicit responses to a survey. Of course you can use the word time and the Sunday Times in the same sentence, to say different is nonsense. I'd also hazard that the use of the phrase thank you twice isn't a shootable offence. And seeing as your reading the introduction to a survey of course you can exit it then. If you approached me for a job you wouldn't get near the front door? get over yourself. what media company do you run? from your post it sounds like you've never worked a day in your life in the industry. gob****e

santosubito

I think Kevin was slightly unfair, but the survey was not the best at all. I got the impression that the references to broadsheet were actually meant to be newspapers in general. It struck me that the compiler does not know what a broadsheet actually is - hence the reference to the Sunday World in a question.
It was slightly amateurish and all over the place.
If s/he wanted to ask about the Sunday Times, s/he should not have meandered around so much.

shotgun mike

That's fair enough, and pretty good constructive criticism as well. Kevin, on the other hand, just launched into some erroneous grammar points. This forum is meant to be a help to those who want to know more about news and media, not for people go way off topic and quote dragon's den at people. He should learn a few things about journalism before preaching to others, that's all.

jack presley

It looks more like research being carried out on the Sunday Times specifically as opposed to the whole Sunday broadsheets.

goodgodholmes

Thanks to anyone who took the time out to do the survey.

Kevin, glad to see you're banned, you clearly need to get over yourself. It is a disgrace to talk to anyone like that. Thanks for taking your valuable time out to write that post though, hope writing it was as beneficial to you as reading it was to me!

The purpose of the survey was to find out what newspaper readers generally value in terms of physical newspapers, mobile news apps and online news, in order to create a value proposition for The Sunday Times in these 3 areas (hence the general questions). They could not be applicable to the Sunday Times, as these offerings don't exist yet.

Also (not that it matters), I didn't write the opening, a member of my group did, so your personal insults are laughable.

Sorry I didn't get the chance to reply, I was too busy spending my time doing my Masters, as opposed to insulting people on Boards.

Good day.

keanooo

goodgodholmes wrote: »

Also (not that it matters), I didn't write the opening, a member of my group did, so your personal insults are laughable.

Did a member of your group write the title to this thread too?

Recieving News

goodgodholmes

keanooo wrote: »

Did a member of your group write the title to this thread too?

OMG UR SO SMART! Typo, God forbid.

Don't appreciate being patronised, people can choose if they answer the survey or not.