Thread: Base gutter journalism

Jill singer is obviously just another clueless ****head talking shut in the wake of some horrific events. Most real motorsport fans I know cringe when they see an accident unfold not high five eachother.

Seriously this filthy **** deserves a bullet.

Originally Posted by roverfan

Jill singer is obviously just another clueless ****head talking shut in the wake of some horrific events. Most real motorsport fans I know cringe when they see an accident unfold not high five eachother.

Seriously this filthy **** deserves a bullet.

The high five in the article is a quote from Tim Dahlberg an Associated Press sports writer, or so the article says.

I see an attention grabbing headline and a pretty mild article.

Originally Posted by roverfan

Jill singer is obviously just another clueless ....

Outside the insults to her, she is getting paid to write and people are reading. So who cares whether she is a good journalist or an extremely poor one, she keeps producing fodder to fill the pages of the media and make money for the ilks of Murdock et al.

If you don't like it, read something else like a book and don't watch the TV news.

If you don't like it?

The problem here is that many people still think that what they see written in newspapers must be true.

They don't recognise that the H-S is a black and white version of Today Tonight or A Current Affair.

If someone is portraying themsleves as a journalist then they should deal in facts and not supposition and bull faeces.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Outside the insults to her, she is getting paid to write and people are reading. So who cares whether she is a good journalist or an extremely poor one, she keeps producing fodder to fill the pages of the media and make money for the ilks of Murdock et al.

If you don't like it, read something else like a book and don't watch the TV news.

Any motorsport fan, hell anyone with a heart after recent events would be appalled by the insensitive rant of this woman.

The use of the term "run over" is obviously a reference to the tragic events of the moto gp accident and to condone it is beyond belief.

Originally Posted by roverfan

Any motorsport fan, hell anyone with a heart after recent events would be appalled by the insensitive rant of this woman.

The use of the term "run over" is obviously a reference to the tragic events of the moto gp accident and to condone it is beyond belief.

.... Garbage out.

I'm not challenging the disgust motorsport fans have for this woman's opinion, but I am suggesting that in this commercial World, if no one read her writing then she'd be out of work quick time. The multi-billionaire owners of the press and other media, don't care if readers like the journos or not, what they care about is that people read them and buy their papers, or watch their TV garbage so they can sell time to advertisers and make more billions.

It's the same as the shock-jocks on Radio, they make their money by having extreme views which causes people to listen and ring in with outrage. This sells advertising time.

If people turned them off and didn't buy the papers they'd all be out of work and we could "buy" the product of good journalists where-ever they may be or when next one happens to occur.

Diana

I love how you think this article is fine, but got upset about an article saying army land rovers only had one colour scheme.

Good to see you place the colour of a ****ty land rover over the memory of three great athletes.

I don't think it's fine and I don't think that auto journalists should get away with ignorance, elitism and lack of fact checking. Same as the recent Age/SMH article on the G-Wagen/FJ Prado whatever/Jeep/Defender comparison where the "journo" couldn't or wouldn't make a commitment on any of them being best but did go so far as to suggest the 40 series LC opened up the outback. Didn't he hear about the T model Ford?

I am suggesting, that if we want better journalism we need to stop looking at pages with articles written by poor journalists (even on-line) because the media moguls are only interested maximising profit at the cheapest cost.

Maybe we need to read BBC and ABC online and make the moguls wakeup to themselves as they start hiding behind pay-walls. But I am afraid it won't happen and we will be left in a World where Jill Singer, by comparison, is considered an excellent journalist (which IMHO she aint!)

Diana