I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with most media forms, in that I am contantly absorbing it daily and yet find myself rolling my eyes at a lot of it. So I thought it would be fun to have a thread dedicated to a profession in which people effectively get paid for trolling the public. Post any sensationalist/ridiculous/untrue/humourous/alarmist news items here, whether they be headlines, articles or even snippets/quotes from the 6pm news or Campbell Live etc.

I'll get the ball rolling with a couple from Stuff today:

Some standard tabloid antics: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce ... Kates-bump

They've made an interesting leap here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/ ... e-in-Vogue

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This is going to be my new Annoyance thread.

Here's a sweet white guilt article from the new Stuff Nation, which I believe is a forum for trolls to hit-whore on the behalf of Stuff without actually being paid.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/7701312/Dear-white-New-Zealand

Id really love to post a million segments from Campbell Live on here as well. And try to screen cap the ads with the BIG GREEN TEXT with scaremongering/ sensationalist wording.

Edit: You can actually break down the entire year for Campbell Live into segments about CHCH, Kim Dot Com, or NZ poverty.

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+1.

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Oh good, stuff.co.nz allows you to respond directly to people now in their comments section.

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^^^what an intelligent comment.

The Spoiler Club:
David, Amanda, GunJack, [A][U][L][E][L][E][I], DFan, Stinger Steven, Syx Seed, Rove1, The Valiant, The Drizzle, 2ndtuenon, Dazzamaniac, Knox Out Baby, J-Maca, Nathaniel, Jords, PrimeTimePlaya, Miss Rass, Hardcore_Legend, Skrippy, Go 2 Peep, little_jimmy.

I'm hating on the ad's in the background on the Stuff website.

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NZPWI: Survivor 2012! Who will be the sole survivor?

Yeah this Stuff Nation shit is horrible, I prefer the NZ Herald site now.

Get Adblock!

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Tonight: Children's lunches and jobs in NZ .

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*swish*

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The I Love Swanton Club: PrimeTimePlaya, Machine Guns Go Bang, Macclad, Hurricane Girl, Nero, NZPWI Forum Moderator, Syx Seed, Shazza, Ang, James_C, Scott_A, D.Star, Paul and all variations of, bee, Dean, Miss Rass, Go 2 Peep.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-spor ... ove-to-3-0

Giants lost in week 1 so are actually 2-1


Am I doing it right?

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2009/2011 Forumer of the Year


SAVE THE FORUM!

Fucking morons.

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Here's one to ruffle Swannys feathers.

Stuff won best news site on the Net Guide awards.

dafukyo?

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WMXXVI flickr

If only you could see, the stranger next to me
you promise, you promise that you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs

It's not surprising when you think for the average NZer they are the only site they go to.

That Guy runs through Stuff nation and how it works: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/stuff-nation-benefits/7661871

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^^^what an intelligent comment.

The Spoiler Club:
David, Amanda, GunJack, [A][U][L][E][L][E][I], DFan, Stinger Steven, Syx Seed, Rove1, The Valiant, The Drizzle, 2ndtuenon, Dazzamaniac, Knox Out Baby, J-Maca, Nathaniel, Jords, PrimeTimePlaya, Miss Rass, Hardcore_Legend, Skrippy, Go 2 Peep, little_jimmy.

Way to grab those viewer numbers.
Target people who are to poor to own a tv, to busy downloading the internet for tv, or busy digging tv out from the rubble that was once a house.

How the hell it rates so highly is beyond me.

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12.51pm Feb 22 2011

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10835890

Ummm... The fuck???

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Putting dots directly after the link will fuck it up Jimmy

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Woops haha

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Big whoop.


EDIT: I thought it was McCaw taking 6 months off! now it's an eel out of a bum!

Was it still alive? (Would be my question)

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^^^what an intelligent comment.

The Spoiler Club:
David, Amanda, GunJack, [A][U][L][E][L][E][I], DFan, Stinger Steven, Syx Seed, Rove1, The Valiant, The Drizzle, 2ndtuenon, Dazzamaniac, Knox Out Baby, J-Maca, Nathaniel, Jords, PrimeTimePlaya, Miss Rass, Hardcore_Legend, Skrippy, Go 2 Peep, little_jimmy.

He should go on Campbell Live and talk about it all.

"Hi Guys! bum eels."

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From eels in the gutter to eels in the ass

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I see Campbell has comboed it up tonight with Dot Com and poor people stories. Shot John.

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Bloody good man campbell

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Apparently today was the first episode of his series about child poverty....

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