News & Events Quality of news.com.au

[JHF1870]

I seriously can't find another example of utter garbage for a news website. I have about 40 articles that I've screen shot with spelling mistakes or incorrect grammar. More than 50% of their articles are boring and predictable and follow the same headlines for clickbait.

As an avid F1 fan, NBA fan, NFL fan or any other fan in their domain I'll watch my show in entirety only to come to news.com.au to find that they've totally written an opening article with a misleading clickbait headline. The number of articles I read that said something along the lines of Lewis Hamilton exploded, "angry" etc, but to know that this was definitely not the case.

Having said that, I did come across a distasteful post on Lyndon Dunn on AFL but typically NEWS ltd is the worst. Since Covid started I think it's gotten out of control where they're insistent on publishing sensationalist stories that are utter garbage.

Without fail you will see posts:

$39 Aldi item sending shoppers into a frenzy
Mum creates cleaning hack for $9 at Bunnings...........
90% of road users don't know this rule, and it's causing a stir
You won't believe what happens next
Has people in a frenzy......
9yo Daughter had this question in math test and its confusing.....

I think you get the point.

Here are some of the saves I've made.

Before anyone asks:

I usually go to dedicated sites for my sports/political news, however sometimes when you google search for news, you get linked up to news ltd.

 

[Bostonian]

They are in your head, they win.

 

[JHF1870]

They are in your head, they win.

I'm merely having a discussion. They are garbage.

 

[Bostonian]

I'm merely having a discussion. They are garbage.

Reads more like an obsession.

 

[Gralin]

This is why I do not visit that site

 

[burge13]

Worst news website bar none. Turn ad blockers on so they don't get your revenue

don't click on rubbish

That said, they are literally giving people what they want. If no one clicked the 'cleaning hacks from kmart' they would disappear. Your anger shouldn't be with the site, it should be with the idiotic public

 

[JHF1870]

Worst news website bar none. Turn ad blockers on so they don't get your revenue

don't click on rubbish

That said, they are literally giving people what they want. If no one clicked the 'cleaning hacks from kmart' they would disappear. Your anger shouldn't be with the site, it should be with the idiotic public

I get my sports news from Fox Sports now. It's generally accurate and not based on a sensationalist headline.

 

[iluvparis]

Thread title is a complete oxymoron

 

[Hawk Dork]

Reads more like an obsession.

Your defence of Murdoch ?

 

[Richard Cranium]

I get my sports news from Fox Sports now. It's generally accurate and not based on a sensationalist headline.

That'll really stick it to Rupert!

 

[dumb]

The only thing it lacks in terms of content-less content is the 'can you find it? image puzzle driving Internet insane' you'll see on daily mail. Article goes on to list several Where's Wally type pics with explanations on where the hidden thing is.

I note with interest the way something is 'bonkers' every week or so. New bonkers TV show, thing driving people bonkers, and so on.

Many articles comprise of twitter outrage, nothing more than a series of tweets from celebs or nobodies who are outraged or inspired by some thing.

It's garbage, and likely subject to the same journalism industry cost-cutting we see a bit of, hence the typos making it through.

It's a part of my regular news intake. I read all sorts of crap and more trusted or official sites, but I read all of them with a grain of salt.

 

[Jobe Watson]

It's amazing that there are people on that site getting paid a full-time salary to write articles about Rebecca Judd and Tammy Hembrow's Instagram posts.

 

[Power Raid]

It has always been shit

to think we are talking about a tabloid that had boobs on the front page back in the day. followed by page 3 girls.

the standard hasn't changed.

 

[Bostonian]

Your defence of Murdoch ?

Paul Murdoch?

Didn't like him when we played football against him at Newtown and Chillwell but he did end up an ok boxer, fought Danny Green and got beat.

 

[Hawk Dork]

 

[RolandF1]

It was bad enough when it was free and they were lucky I graced them with my presence on their website on occasion. The pay wall thing really showed they had a high opinion of themselves.

 

[Caesar]

That'll really stick it to Rupert!

Well, Fox Sports/Foxtel is only 65% owned by News Corp so it’s a slight improvement.

 

[JHF1870]

Well, Fox Sports/Foxtel is only 65% owned by News Corp so it’s a slight improvement.

I could have gone with "That was the joke", but in reality Fox Sports doesn't need elaborate clickbait to attract peoples attention. People are generally there already because they are already invested.

 

[Scotland]

Hot garbage.

If you want right wing news, watch Sky News Australia. If you want free news, watch the ABC.

News.com.au is just clickbait nonsense. It doesn't exist to rile people up about commies and immigrants, it exists to rile up anyone and everyone to sell advertising. Most of the articles are poorly written, full of spelling mistakes etc. but what really shits me (and it's now limited to news.com.au) is articles that are one of two paragraphs fluffed out with Instagram posts and Twitter reactions. If I turn on the news to see the weather I just want to hear from the weather person about what the BOM have to say. I don't care what a bunch of Karens think because of Mercury retrograde or healing crystals or some bullshit.

 

[JHF1870]

Hot garbage.

If you want right wing news, watch Sky News Australia. If you want free news, watch the ABC.

News.com.au is just clickbait nonsense. It doesn't exist to rile people up about commies and immigrants, it exists to rile up anyone and everyone to sell advertising. Most of the articles are poorly written, full of spelling mistakes etc. but what really shits me (and it's now limited to news.com.au) is articles that are one of two paragraphs fluffed out with Instagram posts and Twitter reactions. If I turn on the news to see the weather I just want to hear from the weather person about what the BOM have to say. I don't care what a bunch of Karens think because of Mercury retrograde or healing crystals or some bullshit.

I notice they've started doing all roads lead to Rome posts. You click on a link, and it shows about 15 links in the same blog style feed. **** I hate that.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Fill u with garbage and report on one side only

The bullshit side

 

[JHF1870]

They first ran an article about Biden and how Putin wouldn't congratulate him implying that Putin was pro Trump. I didn't save it but that's how it was written. The most recent article HAS been changed and is more reflective of the REAL reason Putin won't congratulate him.

 

[the_interloper]

The amount of spelling and grammar errors you see on their posts indicate the lack of quality in their journalism.

 

[revival_mode]

absolutely pathetic excuse for a news site. dont bother

 

[craigos]

As far as unbiased, easy to access news sources in this country go, would have to be right up there imo. Whilst they have a lot of clickbait titles, so does every other news site today. If I'm looking for well thought out arguments to use in any of my uni assignments, news.com.au would have to be the first place I visit.