Behaviour which needs to be banned...

[thischarmingman]

Unneceaasry, fawning, OTT, newspaper coverage each knocking each other over to try and outdo each other on telling us just how much they are hopelessly in love with Brian O Driscoll. Yes the man is good at rugby but he hasnt cured jaysus cancer

Have to say don't mind this as much. In a country as starved of international sporting success as Ireland, it's perfectly natural that someone like BOD would be elevated to national icon. Even if the endless articles annoy me, I can at least understand why they appear.

[Bluebeard]

Agree but pales into insignificance compared to the spawn of satan who roar out "Alice, Alice, who the *** is Alice ?" and "Rise up your skirts" in the middle of Wild Rover. Die now.

I hate it when people shout out "Alice, Alice, tho the **** is Alice?" in the middle of Wild Rover too.

[juan]

jaysus cancer

How can he cure that when it doesn't exist...

[John83]

Morons who think that the world owes them a life of luxury, and blaming every difficulty in life on a conspiracy against the working class.

And no, I've not been listening to Joe Duffy again.

[juan]

Someone else eating the breast in bun you queued up for in earnest, after a long night out!

[juan]

Morons who think that the world owes them a life of luxury, and blaming every difficulty in life on a conspiracy against the working class.

And no, I've not been listening to Joe Duffy again.

That should carry a death penaltly.

[Dunny]

Scumbags fighting over stupid sh1te like a bottle of beer....

[Burny89]

my girlfriend walking in when i'm looking throught the top totty thread

[Closed Account 2]

The BBC using twitter instead of proper journalism:

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8592380.stm

"1032 Neil Gaiman tweets: "Just saw the news about Moscow. I was in one of those two tube stations four days ago. Horrible, horrible. Love and sympathy to all Muscovites."
1013 zainul815 tweets: "Suicide bombings carried out by females in Moscow. What in the world is goin on?! R.I.P to ppl who lost their lives."
0837 Zui tweets:"Terrorism has no country, no borders, no nationality, no religion - regardless of whether it is Muslim, Christian, or any other religion." "

Who are Gaiman, Zainul and Zui, and what possible relevance do "tweets" (I hate that phrase) from a load of randoms have to do with covering a fairly major event? They're nobodies and totally irrelevant. Fair enough if the BBC want to put them on some sort of comment page at the back of the site, but interspursing the proper news with such guff is shocking. It's such sloppy, lazy journalism, picking a load of random comment via twitter instead of running a properly researched report. And they've been doing this for a while now.

[John83]

The BBC using twitter instead of proper journalism:

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8592380.stm

"1032 Neil Gaiman tweets: "Just saw the news about Moscow. I was in one of those two tube stations four days ago. Horrible, horrible. Love and sympathy to all Muscovites."
1013 zainul815 tweets: "Suicide bombings carried out by females in Moscow. What in the world is goin on?! R.I.P to ppl who lost their lives."
0837 Zui tweets:"Terrorism has no country, no borders, no nationality, no religion - regardless of whether it is Muslim, Christian, or any other religion." "

Who are Gaiman, Zainul and Zui, and what possible relevance do "tweets" (I hate that phrase) from a load of randoms have to do with covering a fairly major event? They're nobodies and totally irrelevant. Fair enough if the BBC want to put them on some sort of comment page at the back of the site, but interspursing the proper news with such guff is shocking. It's such sloppy, lazy journalism, picking a load of random comment via twitter instead of running a properly researched report. And they've been doing this for a while now.

Gaiman is a successful author. The others seem to be random people. Why are the tweets (I'm not terribly fond of it either, but it's a word, not a phrase) less relevent than the emails from other random people? The opinions are clearly marked, and if they're representative, then what's the problem? It's not like one of those terrible newspaper articles where the journalist's opinion has poisoned the whole article. There'll be a proper article later, after the journalists have had time to collate information and check facts (or eat lunch and rewrite a wire piece, depending on the journo).

[Closed Account 2]

He's a fiction / comic-book writer, so I really don't think his comments are relevant at all, it's not like they are quoting someone with intimate knowledge of post Soviet political landscape, or someone noted for their knowledge of world events or the locality (e.g. say Kaplan, Simpson, etc), or say the head of the Moscow Metro (eg used in the Russian press http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2....6415&PageNum=0).

News should be about the events happening, but this sort of dumbed down quasi-editorialised coverage really grates me. If the quotes were from eye-witnesses involved in the incidents there would be an element of legitimacy, but using random individual twitter transcripts as some sort of compass for world reaction is not only flawed, but also irrelevent in the context of a main news report.


Like I say, none of these sources are world leaders (Obama, Brown, etc)... What next ? Will they put on some quote from Jordan (does she have twitter ?), or maybe something from rent-a-tweet himself, Stephen Fry ?

[John83]

People who complain about one thing (like sourcing vox pops from twitter), and then turn out to have been complaining about something else (like the use of vox pops in modern news coverage). Just picking random examples, of course.

[osarusan]

Deliberately parking across two spaces to make it easier for the driver to get out.

[Closed Account 2]

People who complain about one thing (like sourcing vox pops from twitter), and then turn out to have been complaining about something else (like the use of vox pops in modern news coverage). Just picking random examples, of course.

My point is it (twitter use) is symptomatic of the current poor journalism endemic the BBC. They over-use populist/"youthie" technology so much at the expense of maintaining focus and relevance. I used to like their site as you weren't bombarded with adverts, banners etc, now it's just littered with self-important tweets from nobodies. What ever happened to sending journos out to cover stories?

But anyway I seem to have piqued your interest, I guess maybe you work for them, sorry for any offence.

[John83]

None taken edmundo. No, you just caught my attention because it seemed you were attacking twitter but okay with the emails doing the same thing, which seemed a bit daft. Your actual complaint is perfectly reasonable.