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Copy and paste journalism

  • 07-12-2015 1:57pm
    #1
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭


    Joe/Her.ie, the Lad Bible, etc keep popping up on my Facebook newsfeed despite the fact I've unliked them all. Have people been dumbed down so much that they happily consider this as 'news'? Since when does a handful of tweets about an incident amount to a news story?


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  • #2
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Ignore them, I do. Just click bait s**t


  • #3
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    They get their stuff from AskReddit and TIFU subs on Reddit and any particular thread here that gains traction.

    Lad Bible just steals all around them without crediting the sources.

    Garbage, the whole lot of them.


  • #4
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Clickbait and copypasta is the main reason (well, one of them) I no longer have a faecesbook account. *adjusts fedora*

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJDBp0yW1A


  • #5
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    They get their stuff from AskReddit and TIFU subs on Reddit and any particular thread here that gains traction.

    Lad Bible just steals all around them without crediting the sources.

    Garbage, the whole lot of them.

    Cowboys ted, a bunch of cowboys


  • #6
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    It's the content that they know readers want to see- the 'feel good' stuff that isn't news but is trending. And society today feeds off it and shares it which in turn makes it more popular and is in other sites and becomes a vicious cycle of claptrap cr@p.


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  • #7
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    Joe/Her.ie, the Lad Bible, etc keep popping up on my Facebook newsfeed despite the fact I've unliked them all. Have people been dumbed down so much that they happily consider this as 'news'? Since when does a handful of tweets about an incident amount to a news story?


  • #8
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    dub_skav wrote: »
    Joe/Her.ie, the Lad Bible, etc keep popping up on my Facebook newsfeed despite the fact I've unliked them all. Have people been dumbed down so much that they happily consider this as 'news'? Since when does a handful of tweets about an incident amount to a news story?

    Took me a sec but...*applause*


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