Behaviour which needs to be banned...

[Bluebeard]

I agree with you guys on news reporting, and with this guy.

[thischarmingman]

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.

I agree as regards getting people to text/email/tweet their responses to events: "Mark from Surrey has emailed in to say..." The texts that run at the bottom of 24 hour news stations as also invariably pointless rubbish: "Chelsea taught Man U a lesson 2day, lets see how Fergie copes with the pressure now," JohnC, Kent.

BTW, excellent link Beardy.

EDIT: That reminds me, I've had cause to watch rather more American 24 hours news recently than normal and the difference in the style of reporting there and here is amazing. The anchors will always try to draw YOU into the story when they're introducing the story, having obviously been told to come across as 'a guy at the bar talking to his buddy.' Hence news reports that start along the lines, "Now, (*wry smile*) we allhave bad days at work, but for workers at this factory in Ohio, today was a day they'll really wanna forget. (*Pause, serious face*). Thirty workers at the busy bottling plant were killed today when a boiler exploded..."

[John83]

Sure, but depending on the station, the story will be spun so that either they need tighter regulation of boiler maintenence, or a focus on how poor standards of immigrant labour at the factory is thought to be a factor by "some". Straight reporting is awfully hard to come by.

[Poor Student]

People stealing supplements from newspapers. It is shoplifting. You are shafting the person who buys the unwittingly buys the product you've stolen part of. You're also a miserable miser because you won't cough up a couple of euro to pay for what you're bothered to steal. That goes for people who shoplift full newspapers too, of which there are a fair few.

[Schumi]

You are shafting the person who buys the unwittingly buys the product you've stolen part of.

I'd generally be happy if someone had stolen some of the rubbish from my Sunday paper.

[Acornvilla]

romanians coming into your shop begging for store credit and not leaving for an hour begging and repeating themselves even not leaving when i stop caring about how rude im being and continut to shout at them to fcuk off but they wonT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oscar]

leeds bad run

[De Town]

People who have a load of ????????? Or !!!!!!!! At the end of something they write.

[osarusan]

People who have a load of ????????? Or !!!!!!!! At the end of something they write.

How about when it's in the middle of what they write???????

[Magicme]

Losing your friend in the smallest niteclub in the world.

[Acornvilla]

i reserve the right to use as many !!!'s as i like words can not describe the lack of respect those people have..

[De Town]

How about when it's in the middle of what they write???????

Also should be banned.

[Schumi]

When it's all they write, it's even worse.

Edit:

You'd better choose your next words wisely Schumi, not every day you make your 10000th post!

Just as well you noticed that, I'd have wasted it otherwise!

[Mr A]

You'd better choose your next words wisely Schumi, not every day you make your 10000th post!

[pineapple stu]

People who drive with their fog lights on. Seriously; it's an amazing percentage. Why?!