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And the award for most idiotic article of the year goes to...

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    [Deleted User]
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    Ah but shur at this stage journalism is just a platform for any auld eejit to say any auld sh1te..once people click it, even to be annoyed, the paper doesn't care..I recently unfollowed the guardian because of this sort of craic..just ignore it..


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    DickSwiveller
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah but shur at this stage journalism is just a platform for any auld eejit to say any auld sh1te..once people click it, even to be annoyed, the paper doesn't care..I recently unfollowed the guardian because of this sort of craic..just ignore it..

    Yes, I think you're on to something.


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    IRE60
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    DickSwiveller wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/style/voices/comment-new-parent-braggarts-like-donal-skehan-only-make-the-rest-of-us-feel-inadequate-36390695.html

    I have no words...

    I'd like to second that - at this point anyway (my Arlene Foster moment) - but I'm sure if we trawled through the Indo site we'd find some serious contenders - limiting the search to Barry Egan might speed things up!


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    jmcc
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    IRE60 wrote: »
    I'd like to second that - at this point anyway (my Arlene Foster moment) - but I'm sure if we trawled through the Indo site we'd find some serious contenders - limiting the search to Barry Egan might speed things up!
    He'd have to take the perpetual trophy from Eoghan Harris's cold dead claws.

    Regards...jmcc


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,294 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah but shur at this stage journalism is just a platform for any auld eejit to say any auld sh1te..once people click it, even to be annoyed, the paper doesn't care..I recently unfollowed the guardian because of this sort of craic..just ignore it..
    The term is "clickbait". Even the Irish Times does it.

    Regards...jmcc


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    [Deleted User]
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    jmcc wrote: »
    The term is "clickbait". Even the Irish Times does it.

    Regards...jmcc

    Thats when joe.ie does it..when it's the guardian or the indo it's "journalism"..


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    chatticusfinch
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    It's the Indo, articles are written with clickbait crayon there.


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    by8auj6csd3ioq
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    when blogging started any ould eejit could be a journalist instead of a speciallytrained ould eejit. If everyone is a journalist then no one is


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,294 ✭✭✭jmcc


    chatticusfinch wrote: »
    It's the Indo, articles are written with clickbait crayon there.
    Hence the phrase "crayon jockey". :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    chasm
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    Perhaps this article could be put in for consideration for the 2018 awards? :)

    A few snippets -

    "There is one ring and then the caller hangs up.
    Gardai have warned that if you call back, your contact list can be copied in three seconds and, if have bank or credit card details on your phone, those details can be copied too"

    "It's a new trick to access your SIM card, make calls at your expense and frame you as a criminal, Gardai warn."

    A few media outlets seem to have copied the same story:
    https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/home/291005/offaly-gardai-issue-urgent-mobile-phone-scam-warning.html
    https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/home/291290/gardai-issue-urgent-mobile-phone-scam-warning.html
    https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/irish-news/gardai-issue-urgent-warning-over-11840688
    TV3/Xpose had it as well, but it seems to have been taken down now!

    Is it really that hard for them to stick to facts? I'm assuming they are vaguely referring to the wangiri (one ring) scam that was doing the rounds recently, but i'm actually shocked that so many of them ran with the story, which blatantly reads like one of those FB "Please Share" type posts, without doing any checks!
    http://www.thatsnonsense.com/internet-warning-advises-readers-not-call-375-371-numbers/


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    RabbleRouser2k
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    I believe Siobhan O'Connors article defending Al Porter in the Irish Mirror was far worse.


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    Ralf and Florian
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    Any of Louise O Neill's articles in the Irish Examiner. Toe curling, badly written train wreck scutter.


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    DickSwiveller
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    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    Any of Louise O Neill's articles in the Irish Examiner. Toe curling, badly written train wreck scutter.

    Oh ye, she's awful. Like a low-grade Una Mullally - which is some achievement.


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