Foot.ie in the papers

[Eire06]

Where is the Thread about Hunter???

[Éanna]

Where is the Thread about Hunter???

here

[Karlos]

I've already mentioned this on the actual 'irish jersey' thread on the Irish Team forum but for those not dipping in and out here's the lowdown. Again a foot.ie thread was the basis of an article in the Irish Sun on Saturday. There were quotes from a few of us used in the article. Sorry don't have a copy of the actual piece. Any one else see it? See the original thread for a further explanation

[dahamsta]

Just goes to show exactly how lazy and incompetent these tabloid "journalists" are. If this is how they "research" football stories, how much effort do they put into their current affairs coverage? How much is reposted from Indymedia and Politics.ie? Lowest common denominator rags the lot of them, anyone that buys them is a fool.

adam

[pete]

The fact that no one really cares that tabloids are lifting "rumours" off the web tells a lot about the expectations.

If the IT did something similar there would be a lot of negative publicity around it.

[Karlos]

Ah,but maybe we should all be flattered by the attention they give us;clearly they don't want to find other sources,when they can trawl through all the combined 'wisdom' on here!

Agreed, regardless of how lazy it is surely it's better than getting a quote from Alan Hunter on the issue!

[Éanna]

I've already mentioned this on the actual 'irish jersey' thread on the Irish Team forum but for those not dipping in and out here's the lowdown. Again a foot.ie thread was the basis of an article in the Irish Sun on Saturday. There were quotes from a few of us used in the article. Sorry don't have a copy of the actual piece. Any one else see it? See the original thread for a further explanation

yeah, I saw that alright

[Thunderblaster]

The greatest contravention of the Kyoto Treaty Protocol is the chopping down of trees to be used to print The Sun on. That heap of thrash is only good enough for toilet paper. The "journalists" only writes slander and junk on it, AKA Hillsborough Disaster 1989.

[CuanaD]

Never liked the Sun; I read the Star tho' - they normally have a reasonable amount of eL coverage - unlike the Indo & Times. To be honest I read papers starting from the back page & finishing wherever the sports section runs out! - so i dont care what else is in the Star (plus the fact that i get it second hand from the father-in-law so i never have to actually buy it meself - that helps!

[tetsujin1979]

foot.ie got another mention in the indo today, specifically the thread for a new entrance theme for the seniors at Lansdowne, it's in the In Off The Post section of the football coverage

[Green Tribe]

there's a spy amongst us! good to see that maybe we can make changes possible

[tetsujin1979]

Dunno if it's a good thing or not, hacks have been known to frequent message boards and mailing lists for rumours, doll them up a bit and present them as fact.

[dahamsta]

Dunno if it's a good thing or not, hacks have been known to frequent message boards and mailing lists for rumours, doll them up a bit and present them as fact.

Message boards and mailing lists have been knows to create rumours, doll them up a bit and present them as fact in order to punish hacks for their lazy news-collecting practices...

[MariborKev]

We did that to great effect on the Derry site, soon stopped the journo in question

[eirebhoy]

I personally think its great that we can get our points across to ~1000 times the amount of people that are registered to this site on matters that need the media to get involved in. I know the site is copyright but thats up to Adam to take action.

[dahamsta]

I know the site is copyright but thats up to Adam to take action.

Actually the copyright belongs to the users, which is why people should be keeping an eye out for their own posts. If more than a small section of their post is quoted ("fair use" or "fair dealing"), they could legitimately charge the Sun a fee for using their copyrighted work, or take them to court for using it without their permission. Copyright rocks, but I only own the copyright of the stuff I write here meself.

adam

[eirebhoy]

The site was mentioned in todays Star:

"Supporters have been logging on to the popular foot.ie fan site in droves to put forward the prospect of a Croke Park playoff.

But last night a GAA spokesperson said their dream was unlikely to become a reality.

GAA chiefs are insisting the builders will have to move into creaky old Lansdowne Road before there's any chance of a Croker match".

[Cosmo]

Foot.ie was mentioned in the star again yesterday re: the should robbie keane be dropped thread - a couple of quotes taken from it too

[drinkfeckarse]

Someone might have a case there, copyright and all that lark

[dahamsta]

Plenty of Star email addresses in the member database. If they do anything untoward I'll just delete the lot of 'em. Fascism rocks!

I wouldn't worry about it though, Star readers probably don't understand most of the words.

(Star writers probably don't understand most of the words.)