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All going well at GB News... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/15/brands-pull-ads-from-gb-news-tv-channel-over-content-concerns quote:
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gmail started in 2004 it seems so not quite 18 years old. I used to pay google for my company site so you'd think they would know how old i am.
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Jun 15, 2021 18:42
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Guavanaut posted:Darius Guppy trending on twitter. Presumably Johnson has mumbled something about shouting at journalists being bad over that Newsnight bloke?
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Jun 15, 2021 19:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Presumably Johnson has mumbled something about shouting at journalists being bad over that Newsnight bloke? Yup, you guessed it. People on Twitter seem genuinely shocked he's a hypocritical shitebag
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Jun 15, 2021 19:09
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Sanford posted:On a somewhat related note at my new job I'm about to get fired for calling out a director, the head of service delivery, and the head of the dev team for repeatedly cracking 'jokes' about another member of staff being pregnant - because she'd been to the doctors. She is an apprentice in her first job, at least 40 years younger than the youngest of them, and he just had the loving gall to tell me if she didn't like it she could say so herself and didn't need me to step in. I said I don't like it and I will call it out if it happens again and he said "I don't like people who disagree with me" and hung up. Proper old-school bollocks and I'm mad as hell. I called it out in the softest loving fashion as well. Stupid old bastards. That doesn't sound legal in any way, shape or form. It's good that you're standing up for her. What's the betting that if she did say something, Mr I Don't Like Disagreement would find terminate her apprenticeship? In related Bad Boss news, one was complaining about the lockdown because 60% efficacy (i.e. with AZ) against the Delta variant was enough to achieve herd immunity. Which might be true, if 100% of the total population had been fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, over 200 people missed their appointments at the local vaccine centre this weekend because they were watching football.
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Jun 15, 2021 19:52
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What is a "cryptojournalist"? I've inferred from google that it's something to do with bitcoin, but I'm sure that's not the entirety of it!
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Jun 15, 2021 21:46
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I mean one might infer that it means they are secretly a journalist, but if it means cryptocurrency then you can probably substitute with "raging idiot"
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Jun 15, 2021 21:49
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What if Piers Morgan is covering for secretly being a master journalist by publicly being a raging idiot so that nobody suspects? What if they're all doing that?
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Jun 15, 2021 21:52
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What is a "cryptojournalist"? All I can imagine is: "11 reasons why Scamcoin is about to go sky high!!!" articles.
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Jun 15, 2021 22:01
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Sanford posted:I used to post quite a lot about the FD at my old job and what an awful man he is. In February last year he dragged me into an office, told me off for "scaremongering" and told me it wasn't my place to tell other staff to wash their hands, or to decide off my own back to take extra precautions (using hand sanitizer, wiping down a shared desk before I used it). He said that Covid was going to be just like the Millennium Bug - a lot of fuss and wasted money and then literally nothing would happen. It was at this point I realised that he wasn't only a horrible man, but utterly, utterly stupid as well. At the meeting the day before lockdown was announced, when everyone was arguing for WFH except him and one other director, he yelled at me "[SANFORD] I AM NOT WASTING MY MONEY TO PREVENT YOUR PARENTS CATCHING A COLD." Get your union involved ASAP, assuming you have one.
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Jun 15, 2021 22:26
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David Gerard (divabot on these very forums) is a journalist who specialises in cryptocurrencies, but very much on the anti side. (His presence here isn't one of those "SA is the Internet Illuminati" things - I'm 99% certain he has an account on literally every discussion forum on the internet, I first met him on Usenet like a quarter of a century ago)
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Jun 15, 2021 22:36
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I guess it's hard to imagine someone sustaining a career finding different ways to point out that their area of expertise is loving stupid, but I suppose plenty of journalists manage to make a living making out that stupid things are actually very clever so perhaps it is not so different
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Jun 15, 2021 22:47
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The only person I know IRL who invested in BitCoin is a cluelessly bumbling sort who once mused that Jordan Peterson had some good ideas and if you ask them to take a group photo on your phone, will almost certainly cut off the top of everyone's head in order to capture the vast expanse of ground in front of the group.
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Jun 15, 2021 22:59
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Lady Demelza posted:The only person I know IRL who invested in BitCoin is a cluelessly bumbling sort who once mused that Jordan Peterson had some good ideas and if you ask them to take a group photo on your phone, will almost certainly cut off the top of everyone's head in order to capture the vast expanse of ground in front of the group. You're friends with Field Marshal Douglas Haig?
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Jun 15, 2021 23:31
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Guavanaut posted:What if Piers Morgan is covering for secretly being a master journalist by publicly being a raging idiot so that nobody suspects? Has Piers gone deep undercover to infiltrate an International gang of idiots? Or is it this tweet made form? https://twitter.com/ben_rosen/status/1404534096462708737?s=19
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Jun 15, 2021 23:43
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i cant hear stories about bitcoin cos my college roommate is a multimillionaire from it and im not
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Jun 15, 2021 23:56
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:All going well at GB News... The cynical part of me wonders if this is all just a bit. The channel gets to act wounded and cancelled by all these women luvvies, and brands get social credit for refusing to advertise with racists. Surely they do due diligence before signing an advertising deal.
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Jun 15, 2021 23:56
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https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1404881412625514497
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Jun 16, 2021 00:01
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The Question IRL posted:Or is it this tweet made form? 
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Jun 16, 2021 00:06
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Lady Demelza posted:The only person I know IRL who invested in BitCoin is a cluelessly bumbling sort who once mused that Jordan Peterson had some good ideas and if you ask them to take a group photo on your phone, will almost certainly cut off the top of everyone's head in order to capture the vast expanse of ground in front of the group. I know a couple of people. One of them sold when it got to $200 and I think they made a few thousand bucks, the other mined them early on, so didn't pay anything, and had £200k worth... but her wallet got hacked and she lost them.
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Jun 16, 2021 00:25
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Not gonna post a link bc I refuse to boost them but I see that it only took GB News 48 hours to descend into literal "actually, it's ephibophilia" apologism, lol
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Jun 16, 2021 00:33
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Jun 16, 2021 00:34
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you wouldnt think it would be that difficult to run a news channel would you?
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Jun 16, 2021 00:38
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It's Right wing British Views, unfiltered! https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1404921547144433664 Oh right, that's why we had the filter.
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Jun 16, 2021 00:47
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winegums posted:The cynical part of me wonders if this is all just a bit. The channel gets to act wounded and cancelled by all these women luvvies, and brands get social credit for refusing to advertise with racists. Surely they do due diligence before signing an advertising deal. Not to defend brands, but the few I've seen respond to this basically said that they pre-pay for X amount of ad hours and it just goes on various content networks. Given GB news is brand new, it just got generic ads from companies, but they are now pulling them specifically. It seems sincere enough, and the last thing any marketing department wants is to be viewed as "controversial" in their home land. gently caress knows how Fox news gets ads then?
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Jun 16, 2021 00:52
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IllusionistTrixie posted:Not to defend brands, but the few I've seen respond to this basically said that they pre-pay for X amount of ad hours and it just goes on various content networks. Given GB news is brand new, it just got generic ads from companies, but they are now pulling them specifically. It seems sincere enough, and the last thing any marketing department wants is to be viewed as "controversial" in their home land. Ads on Fox are basically Lazer focused on the kinds of people who watch Fox news. It's all medication that wouldn't get the time of day over here, cash for gold scams and Trump Teddy bears.
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Jun 16, 2021 00:56
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Jun 16, 2021 01:00
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Speaking of ads has anybody actually listened to LBC? Not just clips of one of the right-wing twats on there but the actual station? I had to go on a road trip with my boss a few years ago and he had it on in the car... The ads betray exactly who the station is for. I remember one ad that played several times over the course of the 4hrs of driving we did that day: It was for a company that would send somebody round your house to value your wine collection. Lots of the other ads were for like, leasing a Merc or something like that. All massively Tory poo poo, basically.
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Jun 16, 2021 01:01
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A lobotomy patient called Bubba recently wandered off from a local institution, peopole are warned not to approach him as he is still a useless twat.
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Jun 16, 2021 02:31
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's Right wing British Views, unfiltered! Bottom right literally has Hitler's haircut......
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Jun 16, 2021 04:17
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The thing that baffles me isn't the hot takes or attempts to trade on culture war poo poo, that was there mission statement. I'm also not surprised that they're bad at it in terms of like, talking about it, hosting it, etc., because they're mostly a bunch of absolute dipshit failsons and faildaughters who have only succeeded because of nepotism giving them positions where more competent people worked behind the scenes to shore up their deficiencies. What does surprise me is that their production values are just so bad. Studio lighting is awful. Sound is echoey. Graphic design is laughable. I know it's a grift but you'd think they could have spent a modest amount of money on the people needed for production values that at least match your average YouTuber, because I can name any number of channels from people who discuss politics, to ASMR, to Let's Players, to folks that do sciencey stuff like Kurgesagt or history channels from the Mongolian Horde to Super Mario Bros speedruns that do a far far better job.
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Jun 16, 2021 04:36
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https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1404858375129776130 British Police doing nothing to take on high ranking paedophiles?! Well I never!
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Jun 16, 2021 07:43
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Ms Adequate posted:The thing that baffles me isn't the hot takes or attempts to trade on culture war poo poo, that was there mission statement. I'm also not surprised that they're bad at it in terms of like, talking about it, hosting it, etc., because they're mostly a bunch of absolute dipshit failsons and faildaughters who have only succeeded because of nepotism giving them positions where more competent people worked behind the scenes to shore up their deficiencies. yeah it’s going to be £35 million for staff salaries and £350k for production staff or some nonsense (including the people who screen the calls so get your pranks in while you can!)
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Jun 16, 2021 07:58
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Ms Adequate posted:What does surprise me is that their production values are just so bad. Studio lighting is awful. Sound is echoey. Graphic design is laughable. I know it's a grift but you'd think they could have spent a modest amount of money on the people needed for production values that at least match your average YouTuber, because I can name any number of channels from people who discuss politics, to ASMR, to Let's Players, to folks that do sciencey stuff like Kurgesagt or history channels from the Mongolian Horde to Super Mario Bros speedruns that do a far far better job. As thread lighting guy I should be commenting on that, but it's very obviously terrible to anyone with eyes. Instead I'm baffled by lack of visual hook in the big bar at the bottom. When people share screenshots or videos-with-thumbnails of BBC or Sky News, it's immediately clear what channel it's from. This is just a mess of blah with a tiny gbnews uk at the bottom, below what looks like the corner of the FLAG that was dropped in some bleach. Are they relying on people recognizing it from the murky white people instead?
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Jun 16, 2021 08:08
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It's entirely on brand that someone decided to bung their friend a wad of cash to do this rather than hiring a professional, or a friend who's good at this sort of thing.
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Jun 16, 2021 08:32
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Been checking the UK Covid numbers again and some more cause for cautious optimism: Cases over the last week seem surprisingly stable at around 7,500 per day: the sudden increase we saw a couple of weeks back seems to have levelled off. Is that a blip, or will it continue like that? June 15th cases - increase of +245% vs May 15th (7,671 vs 2,221 - 7 day averages). June 13th hospital cases - increase of +14% vs May 13th (1,136 vs 998). June 15th deaths - decrease of -19% vs May 15th (9 vs 11 - 7 day averages). I'm still very struck at how this most recent surge in cases is still failing to translate into an increase in deaths - very different from previous patterns, so far. Note: to put the hospitalisation figures into context, these peaked in January at around 39,000 people, so even with a 14% increase in the last month, numbers remain absolutely tiny compared to the January wave.
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Jun 16, 2021 08:52
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Pistol_Pete posted:Been checking the UK Covid numbers again and some more cause for cautious optimism: The case surge is among younger people than the previous waves. The big worry was that this was the case with the leading edge of the last waves (for obvious reasons - younger people tend to work higher-risk service-sector jobs), but *so far* the transfer to the older (now vaccinated) population hasn't seemed to happen. Now the worry is that this younger cohort is ending up in hospital at a considerably higher rate than they were in the previous waves. It's possible that Delta is actually more dangerous to younger people than other variants, but it's also possible that without quite such aggressive triage that people are being admitted this time round that would have been told to go home and take their chances before - unfortunately all we can do is wait and see if this is the case or if Delta is actually more dangerous to younger people than other variants. e: And vaccines will be offered to 18-25 year olds from Friday. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Jun 16, 2021 |
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Jun 16, 2021 09:11
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Ms Adequate posted:I can name any number of channels from people who discuss politics, to ASMR, to Let's Players, to folks that do sciencey stuff like Kurgesagt or history channels from the Mongolian Horde to Super Mario Bros speedruns that do a far far better job.  The worst sciencey stuff videos are the ones with automated voiceovers, so now I'm trying to clear the image of Andrew Neil ASMR out of my head by imagining ChemPlayer instead narrated by useless English newspaper twats and considering whether that would be better or worse.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:13
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'm still very struck at how this most recent surge in cases is still failing to translate into an increase in deaths - very different from previous patterns, so far. Deaths from infections picked up in may-june won't start hitting the morgues until July/August. And case rate is among the younger cohorts, so while the fatality rate is lower, it will still cause lifelong heart/lung issues for those who get serious cases.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Been checking the UK Covid numbers again and some more cause for cautious optimism: You looking at different numbers to me?  Right enough that more cases hasn't meant (many) more deaths, but the number of infected people is rising, and the rate at which its rising is getting faster.
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