Something odd is going on. It's something that I'm finding amusing and finally had to blog about it just to get it off my chest and onto my keyboard.
As news websites become more desperate for content to feed their adverts, their, er, journalists are trawling Twitter more than ever, looking for reaction from TV soap watchers. All they do then is write a few words around a couple of tweets, string them together and hey presto! Content! It's a depressing state of affairs for the future of journalism when one person tapping into their phone makes news.
Anyway, after the journalists trawl Twitter and write up their piece, I guess it's a sub-editor who attaches the headline. These make us Corrie fans appear as if we're hyperventilating at the end of every ad break.
Here's just a few that have made me laugh in the last two weeks
Corrie fans in hysterics...
Corrie fans outraged...
Corrie fans baffled...
Corrie fans furious...
Corrie fans were in bits...
Corrie fans go into meltdown...
And my personal favourite:
Corrie fans face emotional torture...
There's more, much more, all you need to do is go to Google and type in Corrie fans to see what pops up. Anyway, you get the idea. I don't really know why I'm blogging about this, except it's something I'm seeing more of as news sites become ever more desperate for content, any content, to wrap around their ads.
But then I don't suppose...
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It certainly doesn't help when they combine these kinds of comments with a quote from someone that they either butcher or completely take out of context. "Journalism" at it's worst.
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