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12-26-2014, 11:14 AM #1
Is it me or had Yahoo News really gone downhill?
Really giving usa today a run for their money...
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12-26-2014, 11:47 AM #2Registered User
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They've always been bad, and yes on worse.
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12-26-2014, 12:11 PM #3
Yahoo has news?
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12-26-2014, 12:12 PM #4
Bout 2years ago it was fire
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12-26-2014, 01:19 PM #5
Anymore they're irrelevant. Online celeb mag.
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12-26-2014, 02:24 PM #6
Inverse relationship between journalistic integrity and mean # of Kardashian articles per week.
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12-26-2014, 08:30 PM #7
Surprised Yahoo still has anyone use their products. I'd never give them any consideration if it was not for a few Yahoo Groups that I have joined for messages/discussions.
Their efforts to run and provide Verizon email has been not working more than it has been working in the last week or so...
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12-26-2014, 08:35 PM #8
It's you
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12-26-2014, 11:32 PM #9glocal
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NYT Sunday magazine just had a feature story on the downhill slide it's been taking under ceo and former google exec Mayer. Alibaba was the only good move they've pulled but that was a long term payoff that really paid off...and maybe refusing to give Gwyneth Paltrow her own cooking channel was probably good, too. The article gave the numbers and one interesting tidbit mentioned was that a .01 percent increase in traffic equated to millions in revenue.
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12-27-2014, 01:36 AM #10
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12-27-2014, 06:08 AM #11
There are alternatives to most all the Yahoo sites that maybe worth using. Google, Facebook and others have some of the same offerings. One good thing about 1 of the 2 you mention it is still a separate domain and only really need a Yahoo ID to sign in with (tumblr) and they have not had much time yet to screw it up. Watch out if the day that Yahoo tries to roll them into their yahoo.com home page, so far they pretty much have kept much of the original vision when they purchased it. Look at the heading of one of the stories about the purchase of tumblr:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...94I0C120130520
Many think Yahoo in the 8 years they have owned flickr has ruined and mismanaged the division. http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo...t-the-internet
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12-27-2014, 08:25 AM #12
How about CNN? Twenty years ago a good 24 hour news source, but, today, Bourdain is the only thing I can watch.
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12-27-2014, 09:27 AM #13Banned
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if someone clicks, it sticks
journalism replaced by marketing
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12-27-2014, 09:29 AM #14
Yahoo doesn't do any journalism - it's just an aggregator. Whoever makes the editorial decisions as to which pieces from other outlets to run is the culprit here.
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12-27-2014, 09:59 AM #15Banned
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even journalists historically have been aggregators -- at least as long as I've been alive. huddled around the teletype. editor fixes grammar, modifies syntax, swaps emphases. or says no go. editor as aggregator? newswire as aggregator? but true, yahoo isn't known for by lines.
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12-27-2014, 10:18 AM #16
It's you.
Yahoo "news" was never "good" just aggregates articles.
NPR and NYTimes for factual news. Washington Post has lost a lot after Amazon bought them but news is good if you can ignore the increase in the right editorials an op-eds to support Bezos/Amazon business interests.
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12-27-2014, 10:27 AM #17
For the record, I never really considered it a news source. Just have a yahoo email acct so end up there a couple of times a day and noticed it has gone decidedly low brow.
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12-27-2014, 10:29 AM #18
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12-27-2014, 12:21 PM #19
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12-27-2014, 12:24 PM #20
Good journalism, accurate, fact checked, in-depth is pretty much an NPR, NYTimes exclusive. Some good stuff pops up occasionally elsewhere but day in day out, those are the most reliable fact based news sources. NPR listeners got facts right 90% of the time. Fox Newsers got facts wrong 80% of the time.
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12-27-2014, 12:41 PM #21
Agreed that it's worse lately. 80% or more pure click bait shit.
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12-27-2014, 02:54 PM #22
Isn't there a famous quote about strong, independent, news organizations being the check and balance to inevitable government corruption and power oversteps. There are probably fewer real journalists working today than 50 years ago despite nearly double the population and an enormous increase in media outlets/platforms. Everybody runs the same tired AP stories plus a zillion 'cute' human interest/Kardashian pieces. Yeah, we're fucked.
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12-27-2014, 03:45 PM #23
Fair to say the US drift down and to the right has been accompanied by the concentration of media in a few large corporations (NewsCorp, GE, Disney, Warner, Infiniti, Sinclair, Clear) that control 90% of news outlet. All have fairly extreme right wing owners, publishers and editors. General population just watches the network media and gets pretty twisted view of reality. The 80% wrong study on Fox was on the existence of WMD in Iraq done a year after the war and Fox News viewers never knew the facts even a year later. Last national election, even an astute political operative like Karl Rove was caught up in the media web he helped spin and couldn't believe Obama won the election. Hilarious scene of Fox cameras following the disclaiming Rove live down to the stats room where the numbers guys had to tell him the truth.
Example of the disconnect read Krugman's "Tidings of Comfort" piece.
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12-27-2014, 03:49 PM #24dickhead
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12-27-2014, 04:12 PM #25
Actually TMZ produces their own content. Yahoo News does not.
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