The Journal.ie is Obsessed with numbers

Liccle trinity · 26-06-2013 01:53PM #1

Im sick of seeing useless articles on the Journal.ie/Daily Edge about "Top 7 things to know about ....." or "9 most annoying things about...." or some other random Dos & Donts of sleeping. Really inane articles. Its a pity as the rest of their news is just fine but these articles smack of scrapping the barrel. Surely they have find something of more use and interest than these

Case in point
http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/9-facts-that-absolutely-everybody-knows-954616-Jun2013/
If we already know them - why are you writing about it????

They seem to be obessed about articles that contain numbers.
http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/animals-who-are-fed-up-966962-Jun2013/
http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/people-hugging-animals-964137-Jun2013/

Rothko · 26-06-2013 01:55PM

You would really hate Cracked.com then

Corkbah · 26-06-2013 01:56PM

those are filler stories .... basically !!

I mean how can you get a "story" from sitting in an office ... lets browse the interwebs and copy/paste some stuff and make a story about it.*

* = I'm not saying thats what they do but it could very well be ! ..... I've never met a "reporter" or "photographer" from the journal/daily edge.

Viper_JB · 26-06-2013 01:56PM

People like to read lists :P?

Mr E · 26-06-2013 01:56PM

You need lighter articles to juxtapose against the doom and gloom. I don't see the harm.

Legs.Eleven · 26-06-2013 01:58PM

I like them.

So there!

LizT · 26-06-2013 02:01PM

The daily edge section is funny. It's like an Irish buzzfeed.

Liccle trinity · 26-06-2013 02:02PM

Funnily enough i liked cracked.com but then cracked isnt supposed to be a proper news site.

Yes i am aware people like lists but my gawd they have done it to death and content is dreadful.

paddyh117 · 26-06-2013 02:05PM

To be honest i think the Journals mix of serious stories and light-hearted entertainment is perfectly balanced - they are now my number 1 choice for news because of this.....

there's plenty of rubbish, boring news websites out there (especially Irish ones) - maybe you would like the Aertel section on the RTE website more

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 26-06-2013 02:07PM

if you dont like those articles, then dont open them. nobody is forcing you to read them

Liccle trinity · 26-06-2013 02:16PM

I dont open anymore (thanks for your enlighted response frankcarty)
Its the quality that im giving out about. As previously mentioned I like the journal. I like the style in present in general but the lists is whats been done to death and content has gone downhill of late (6 months or so)

Seedy Arling · 26-06-2013 02:41PM

Nine out of ten people like lists.

Hoop66 · 26-06-2013 02:45PM

It's nothing but lazy....

...somebody finish that sentence for me.

For Forks Sake · 26-06-2013 02:47PM

List of things thejournal like

-Sinn Fein
-Polls (usually involves repeating the same poll 'have you paid the proprty tax zzzz)
-Ctrl+C
-Ctrl+V

Corkbah · 26-06-2013 02:53PM

Seedy Arling wrote: »

Nine out of ten people like lists.

eleventeen people know that statistics are just made up and never show the true figure.

Wompa1 · 26-06-2013 02:58PM

I've gone to the site twice in the last year, only because a story was linked in an OPs post on this site. It's funny that you'd get worked up about stupid top 10 lists, while their actual news articles are complete crap. The news reported by idiots, for idiots.

Frank Black · 26-06-2013 03:01PM

You know there is a 'Contact Us' link on the webpage.
Why don't you just write to them and outline the top 7 reasons why you don't like all the number related articles?

For Forks Sake · 26-06-2013 03:01PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

The news content created by others reported copied by idiots, for idiots.

That's more like it...

Mycroft H · 26-06-2013 03:05PM

They like reading reddit ireland. Something usually appears there and a few days later its on the journal. Lazy journalism

Corkbah · 26-06-2013 03:22PM

Frank Black wrote: »

You know there is a 'Contact Us' link on the webpage.
Why don't you just write to them and outline the top 7 reasons why you don't like all the number related articles?

why limit it to top 7 !! .... they would probably think they are doing something good if someone takes the time to complain to them, its pointless...and they could/would probably make fun of the person and make/create a story by copying/pasting the correspondence.

Epicness · 03-07-2013 07:02PM

LizT wrote: »

The daily edge section is funny. It's like an Irish buzzfeed.

Derivative, link-baiting, 'wooh internet epic meams' scum. Just what we need more of...

LizT · 03-07-2013 07:25PM

Epicness wrote: »

Derivative, link-baiting, 'wooh internet epic meams' scum. Just what we need more of...

Yeah, you're right, we really need more of "More cuts on the way" "New taxes to be introduced" "Bank charges to rise" "Economy in recession" stories rather than a bit of frivolity.

Ace Attorney · 03-07-2013 07:35PM

Dont really blame them, they have to have filler articles aswell like, out of all the news app on my phone I visit the journal the most coz its the best of what weve got, they also seem to like to take a few ideas for articles from board's threads tho

neaideabh · 03-07-2013 07:43PM

At least they are writing some of their own stories! Compared to the likes of joe.ie who is simply copying nearly every thing that balls.ie do! I follow both own facebook, and every time a balls.ie post appears on my newsfeed.... a joe.ie post with the same content will surely appear on the newsfeed shortly afterwards.

Anyone know whats the story with joe.ie anyways... their website is like a simple blog now. They claimed that they were hacked but I don't know about that as that was a while ago now and the website is still very basic!

Corkbah · 03-07-2013 08:12PM

neaideabh wrote: »

At least they are writing some of their own stories! Compared to the likes of joe.ie who is simply copying nearly every thing that balls.ie do! I follow both own facebook, and every time a balls.ie post appears on my newsfeed.... a joe.ie post with the same content will surely appear on the newsfeed shortly afterwards.

Anyone know whats the story with joe.ie anyways... their website is like a simple blog now. They claimed that they were hacked but I don't know about that as that was a while ago now and the website is still very basic!

do you have a link to prove that ?? also, do you consider re-writes as writing their own story ? I've never come across a reporter from the journal while working in the media for over 20yrs, I know they are only running a few years, but I dont know anyone who has ever met a journalist from the journal etc out and about on jobs.

Sully · 03-07-2013 08:12PM

neaideabh wrote: »

At least they are writing some of their own stories! Compared to the likes of joe.ie who is simply copying nearly every thing that balls.ie do! I follow both own facebook, and every time a balls.ie post appears on my newsfeed.... a joe.ie post with the same content will surely appear on the newsfeed shortly afterwards.

Anyone know whats the story with joe.ie anyways... their website is like a simple blog now. They claimed that they were hacked but I don't know about that as that was a while ago now and the website is still very basic!

A lot of articles are from other news sources.

neaideabh · 03-07-2013 08:53PM

Corkbah wrote: »

do you have a link to prove that ?? also, do you consider re-writes as writing their own story ? I've never come across a reporter from the journal while working in the media for over 20yrs, I know they are only running a few years, but I dont know anyone who has ever met a journalist from the journal etc out and about on jobs.

This is an article that was written for the journal... They have a few contributors from different backgrounds. I'm not saying that the journal is a "world class" news publisher but they have made an impact in today's irish media! It's cheap and cheeerful! The Irish Independent are trying to follow suit by making it's website and content more social and try and make ground on the younger market that thejournal.ie has been attracting!

Carnegie · 03-07-2013 09:14PM

neaideabh wrote: »

The Irish Independent are trying to follow suit by making it's website and content more social and try and make ground on the younger market that thejournal.ie has been attracting!

the independent may try and copy the journal, but they will censor the fcuk out of all the comments, whereas the journal publish all comments as they are not linked to any political party and have no agenda to push

Corkbah · 03-07-2013 10:55PM

neaideabh wrote: »

This is an article that was written for the journal...

could this be because mainstream media may not have published the article ? might be suited to a political journal, or newsletter.

Have the journal ever "broke" a story ...any investigative journalism, any fresh news ?

for me ... the journal is only providing a platform for people who may not otherwise get published in mainstream media, and to fill the many gaps left in between what "original" content they do have they copy and paste from other websites - as the start of this thread is all about - copy and paste lists that other people/websites created.

Shoutcast Ireland · 03-07-2013 11:55PM

did any one see the spat on twitter between them and the irish mirror,the irish mirror ended up getting mad and post the person number of the person that owns/runs the journal and calling them thieves for robbing all the stories.

Eggonyerface · 04-07-2013 12:21AM

The pointless gifs do my head in

The Journal.ie is Obsessed with numbers

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