Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: The Sharing Man

Marc C

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:36:58 +1300

Having followed the reports on the US primaries and caucus votes, I despair, but find myself proved right again, here is Mr Oliver's take on it, that is the Drumph phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpO_RTSNmQ

The internet has not led to more enlightenment and intelligence, it has proved to be nothing more than…

Marc C

Sat, 27 Feb 2016 16:37:54 +1300

We live in the age of spin, mass manipulation and dumbing down, the mainstream media try to feed in with social media, and are setting new trends and reaching new levels, so no wonder we get nasty, self loving, insulting, loose cannon rich men like Donald Trump being considered a…

Brent Jackson

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:02:27 +1300

The irony being that the anti-plagiarism has been applied to a quote – the stupid is strong in that implementation !

linger

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:46:07 +1300

Oh, I am ashamed to have missed that obvious one. Of course.
Court disaster with Jestar, the fool’s choice.
Where the customer service is a joke.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:41:27 +1300

Jetstar as Jestar
Spooky, I just thought the same thing today as I flew Jetstar for the first time, man that company is parsimonious with useful customer information, it's as if they want everyone to be anxious and fearful.

linger

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:18:40 +1300

Not so long ago a sub editor might have made a pun out of the mistakeas in, Jestar = son of Virgin?

Russell Brown

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:50:22 +1300

looks like some sort of anti-plagiarism / thesaurus substitute type programme,

Ah, yes. That makes sense.

Jason Kemp

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:51:06 +1300

That auto translation of your tweet hit the spot. I call it auto-pilot publishing. And it seems to be default mode. Auto-correct seems to make the problem even worse in most cases. I guessed the story about “racist father” was a Daily Mail headline. I just wish Herald would put…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:14:22 +1300

Lost in translation…
…and, apparently, run it through a translator and back. My tweet came out like this:
looks like some sort of anti-plagiarism / thesaurus substitute type programme, the other quotes had similar problems (why any news medium would think it acceptable to alter a “quote” is beyond comprehension…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:54:26 +1300

It is indeed a brave new world

On the surface, that is. Dare to learn too much about it, and you start encountering the apparatus of 1984.

Shaun Scott

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:56:14 +1300

This was the front page of the herald on Monday evening. I actually refreshed the site as I thought I must have been directed to a "lifestyle/entertainment/trivial shit" section – but no, these were the three lead articles.

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:43:42 +1300

The bomb threat story just shows the nice quiet place that NZ is. I recall from the 70s my school being evacuated at least once for a bomb hoax – it was right next to an airbase and the IRA were active. We didn't even make South Today.

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:40:55 +1300

The New Zealand Herald should NEVER lead with a Daily Mail story

Also, the Guardian should never syndicate a Fairfax/APN story.

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:37:16 +1300

I don't think clickbait is a long term thing.

One thing that will kill it (and Facebook) is AI. We're not very long away from a world where huge numbers of AI agents indistinguishable from real people invade social networks with a mission to disrupt. Once that happens, the value…

John Farrell

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:29:57 +1300

I see the Herald has, next to its logo on its website, "search for content....".

Who says the MSM don't do irony?

Duncan Campbell

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:52:17 +1300

Never mind the content, feel the format!

Nik Dirga

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:21:54 +1300

” In the hour after it was revealed yesterday that bomb threats had been made against several New Zealand schools, its lead story was the weirdly irrelevant tale of a woman in Texas who “publicly shamed” her racist father on Twitter, lifted whole from The Daily Mail.”

Yes, that was…

Russell Brown

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:17:11 +1300

The Herald claims vindication for its own converged newsroom.

Public Address

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:17:10 +1300

Discussion from blog post.