Is the Adelaide Now drunk man video bad news judgement or click addiction?
I’m not sure if this is a change of strategy to get clicks or a misjudgement, but a very odd “story” has been posted in the news section of Adelaide Now.
A CCTV video popped up on YouTube about a week ago featuring somebody in the US affected either by drink or drugs chaotically trying to buy booze.
Admittedly it’s quite funny- particularly if you don;t think too hard about the misfortune of the person involved. You may even have had it forwarded to you – I have, a couple of times.
It looks to fake and a bad ‘drunk’ performance.
Definitely not news in any way, shape or form.
Very worrying that News plan to charge people for content of this calibre.
Ben Shepherd wrote an interesting post about this also – http://bit.ly/7DTkB
They haven’t even got the original video and pinched it from someone else who has watermarked the thing.
Rupert, I mean Wendy, you guys are gold.
News Ltd needs to create a social/fun spin-off site for this sort of thing. Then they can get their share of the viral stuff without dragging down their newspapers further. Slashdot.org did it quite poorly with idle.slashdot.org, but they had the right idea at least.
Thanks for the link Joel. I was complaining/ saying admiringly to someone yesterday that the problem with Ben is that he keeps thinking the same thing as me and writing it first.
Do follow Joel’s link – it’s a good perspective.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
“The hiring of what are more or less kids to do an adult’s job”
That’s a disgustingly ageist remark. Are you saying anyone under the age of 20 isn’t capable of independent thought?
I think you’re asking the wrong people, Don.
As I mentioned above, that was a comment that appeared on the Adelaide Now website.
But as it happens, to a certain extent, I tend to agree with that comment. As journalists become more epxerienced they tend to hone their understanding of who their readers are, and what the news values of their title are. That informs their judgement of what to put in – and what to leave out.
That’s not about age per se, but about time spent as a journalist.
I’d be pretty confident that this piece wasn’t posted by a 20-year news veteran.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
My apologies… I read that fast and wrong.
Fairfax do this as well. They take clips from youtube and other sources and republish them without permission. They could easily embed them but then they couldn’t wrap them with ads. Eventually someone will sue them. I can understand if it’s newsworthy but it usually isn’t
Err, is that a joke, or illustrating the point, or some sort of coincidence, or hypocrisy or auto ad placement thingo that has the Adelaide Now “Todays most Popular” whatsit right beside the devastating critique?
…and now it’s on the Herald Sun and Courier Mail websites, such is it’s newsworthiness!
Maybe i’ve been eating too much iSnack 2.0 but this looks fake.
Notice at the end of the vid, the guy easily hops up, opens the door and leaves?
@Jock
That is a screengrab so that we can see that the video was in the most popular.
poor, poor effort.