Sure but they have THREE names that all have sexual connotations. I don't believe in coincidences.

"Self driving cars won't save everyone, in fact they'll kill"

and when you go and read it, there is a few lines about an american poll showing americans don't like them ... huh?

Never knew that asbestos was an infection.

Stuff 'latest' headlines:

Why airplane windows are round

It's due to something called stress concentration, an engineering problem that was solved decades ago. Those idiots at the herald also ran this same non-news event the other week.

Lately the Herald seems to have a penchant for running odd stories about the secrets of airline attendants or whatever. About one a week.

All they are doing is writing up a summary of a Reddit thread on the topic. And not even disguising that this is what they are doing. "User Loki123 said 'random comment' " is about the level of it.

Like this and this and this.

Honestly, have things sunk so low at granny Herald that summarising Reddit threads now counts as actual journalism?

I guess there weren't any cats stuck up trees to report on?

Check out the one on the SixXS thread. Gorgeous.

At one time long ago newspapers (And now TVNZ News it seems) used to have people known as editors!

They were there I assume to stop the "click bait" and bad journalism we now get,

and I assume the people writing the cr*p we now get are paid by quantity submitted and definitely not for quality.

JimmyH:

 

Lately the Herald seems to have a penchant for running odd stories about the secrets of airline attendants or whatever. About one a week.

 

All they are doing is writing up a summary of a Reddit thread on the topic. And not even disguising that this is what they are doing. "User Loki123 said 'random comment' " is about the level of it.

 

Like this and this and this.

 

Honestly, have things sunk so low at granny Herald that summarising Reddit threads now counts as actual journalism?

 

This sort of drivel has become very common in the MSM.

The once very learned and worth reading Daily Telegraph (London) now regularly has "news" articles that are 80% reprints of Twitter comments.

I think that the journalists must all be of a certain age where they think that Twitter et al are actual news and journalism rather than the vapid brain farts of people with less attention span than a goldfish....

Another annoying thing these sites often do now is when there's a story "Car crashes near ____" instead of including a photo of the actual accident, they just use a stock photo of an ambulance, fire truck or police car. Why even bother?

afe66: NZ increasing use of overseas stories in such a manner you think they are nz stories and no reference to location until 3 or 4th paragraph.

I now scroll a couple of paragraphs a head looking for location before reading. If not Nz I just close the article.

Gotta love spellcheck doing the editing! (NZHerald World News today)