1) No, and no. Or ...

2) See the Herald online, today.

I am not making this up. Whether they are is another question ...

Advice he should take himself, as he earlier asserts:
It’s the principal that’s at issue…

If your ad blocker allows…

It is interesting watching how they transform stories. The current one about the Russian river going red – they've carefully removed the geographic references in the tweet, despite other news sources seemingly having space to mention Russia,.

That is an interesting shift. Wonder why.
People are worried for their jobs. I pick that one national Sunday paper will remain, with an Auckland edition.
I am concerned for the quality of news for Christchurch.…

Suggestion: use a feed reader like Feedly and subscribe to the relevant RSS…

Maybe your artist has been studying the lambda calculus and knows that arithmetic operations are just functions that themselves can be terms...

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I followed the indy for a while on facebook a year or two ago – most of the major papers in the UK 'stream' headlines into your news feed. I specifically stopped following the indy because every single…

The UK papers have a bit…

I wouldn't go that f.....Oh. I see what you did there.

There's a lot of repackaged content going on as well. I've read several times over the last few months about that poor chap who died of methanol poisoning after having a…

NZME’s big advantage is the profitable radio network.

I suspect the Sunday News is the most vulnerable, with the HoS going even more tabloidy.

Subject to fulfillment of the conditions under the agreement (including approval from the New Zealand Commerce Commission) (“NZCC”), the merger will be effected by a wholly owned subsidiary of NZME acquiring all of the shares in Fairfax NZ, in consideration for which…

(And of course I tried to work out the answer. But I couldn't, which left me feeling really bad.)

I imagine this is more or less a perfect example.

Hmmm... I see that the ODT have since cleaned up that story, attributed it…

No. It does not.

Any news organisation can cover what it sees fit. The nature of the Outbrain links is determined by…

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11704205

Apart from references to ASIC, there is nothing in this article to indicate that it is not relevant to…

I spend a good two to three minutes a day reading the Daily Mail, mainly to enjoy their latest pisstake about Corbyn. It is the best of its genre.…

That was brilliant, and echoes the argument I was making almost 20 years ago to government agencies about their web stats. Nobody knew what they were looking at, so the bigger the raw numbers, the better. No-one (except most of the web geeks)…

It better bloody not be.

I'd suggest that a pre-requisite for a paywall isn't just content of quality, but content that enough people require for their work in order to finance its creation (and no usable free competitor). The FT and…

I'd be quite sure that the Herald's legal department keeps them on the straight and narrow with copyright. All newspapers syndicate their content and have done for over a hundred years, in addition to newswires (Reuters, AP, etc) who…

I'm not too surprised that the NYT is able to attract such a good subscription base, especially with its…

Yup.

But the key point is the news service has to demonstrate quality first. You can't spew drivel onto your webpage and then promise "oh if you pay you'll get real news".

It's pretty well covered off in The News how bad reporting, as seen in The Herald, is for society. And also why reporting is performed in this way.

As I commented there, he's actually looking for a curator, rather than an aggregator. Very different things.

Anecdata: my Dad, 78, told me a few weeks ago he now subscribes to Washington Post online. He was tired of the thin world news coverage in the Herald, and is very interested in the US elections, so he figured he…

Death by KPI.

And it must be said,…

Pretty sure that's operator error. I believe ODT syndicates stories from the Herald (note the credit at the bottom of the ODT story).

Right now, top item with photo is "Rebuild finds its mojo in 2016"
Scroll down to the Rebuild section, top item is "Rebuild finds mojo in 2016" hmm. Next section is Opinion, top item…

The optimal tool for reading stuff on the Internet was in many ways the first one I used back in – 1993 – xrn.

The killer feature was its killfile => with a bit of regexp-fu, you could consign people, topics and entire ideologies to a…

FTW

Yeah, this is what I was thinking while I was reading that. If I want to know what Matt Nippert…

Me too, I think it was last week when the thought first popped into my head that reading the Herald homepage was as frustrating as Stuff. But I only formed the thought after my subconscious…

The ODT site is much cleaner since the overhaul and still provides some decent regional journalism. Long may their proposed paywall remain sealed in its box under a…

You're right, we just aren't doing enough weird shit. It's our responsibility to provide strange bizarre behaviour for The Herald to report back to us. There are only four and half million of us so it will require some effort but we're kiwis, we…

Yeah this is the thing that bugs me too. When I look at Stuff or The Herald I frequently get the weird deja vu feeling of didn't I see this in my twitter feed a weeks ago ... oh yes I did.

So not…

I would imagine the Herald considers all their posts news or opinion

I meant that for whatever reason, not enough local stories are produced. Both the options you suggest are reasons, I think. We're a small country, so important dramas are sporadic; meanwhile there aren't enough…

You make a sound point.

By "news generated", do you mean "newsworthy things happening", or "newsworthy things written up into stories"?
If you mean the latter, then yes, definitely. If you mean the former, I suspect that it's more that our too few paid…

And on Reddit as much as a month before.

In fact I did a search and the…

Yes! I have a friend who…

Of course I still go to Stuff and the Herald as well,…

Very much so.

The strange thing is, I know there's real thought going into what they need to do with the printed paper, both in an editorial and management…

eg compare this Herald story to the…

And it's not as if News or the Daily Mail…

The nuber of times recently when I'll open a "geographically anonymous" story with an interesting headline, only to close it moments later because it's either from somewhere I don't care about, like Hicksville, Arkansas, or it's from the…

When you know enough of the context it is really obvious when media selectors do not. Often. Firing experienced folk costs. Let's monetize that.

I read a lot of medical/health/nutrition science stories for StatsChat purposes. There have always been stories that are overstated or just wrong, especially via the UK press. What I…

After frequent disappointment, eventually you learn that a headline like "Woman eats fish who ate her husband" (invented, but all too indicative) is not likely to originate in Whakatane. So before clicking you hover over the headline, and…

Should've been OK then... :)