Scaremongering Article

[matt112986]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3569610/Horrifying-moment-riders-heard-screaming-stuck-upside-half-hour-new-Alton-Towers-rollercoaster.html

Seems a bit ridiculous to me (poped up on my phone since I've "shown interest in roller coasters") but there will be people who buy into this stuff.

Torrential rains...

INCH deep flood waters...

Upside down?

Broken due to rain... some think!

What does everyone here make of this article and news network?

[Magenta Lizard]

Daily Mail is a tabloid.

I only skimmed the article, but repeatedly bringing up the Smiler incident in an "article" about an unrelated incident in which no one was even injured seems to show their intent at fear-mongering.

Sunday night, I walked through a puddle that was at least four inches deep at KI (at the Scrambler), for comparison to the inch-deep "flood waters" in the queues mentioned in the article.

[stashua123]

Sadly it is the state of most of our News and Tabloid Media nowadays. The more dramatic wording, the more clicks, the more money! It's a vicious cycle.

[shark6495]

So don't click/link/read.

You blame media yet you post the link. Because of your link the tabloid DM will generate more ad revenue and fulfill their purpose which was to get eye balls on the page. It's easy to blame the headline and the writer for stopping so low, but in the end we can choose where we get our news.

With that being said, a park that had a serious accident that was operator error is justifiable to mention. If the park let this accident happen what else might go wrong.

But overall the DM is a tabloid. Nothing more. Nothing they wrote was wrong-worded a way for sure but not wrong. "FOOT-deep water" as in its as deep as your foot. Sort of brilliant in a way b

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[The Interpreter]

And it's Britain. Where the libel/slander law is far more strict than here.

The Daily Mail knows its audience and serves up what it wants.

[PyroKinesis]

Thought of you guys when this crossed my timeline...

 

http://www.snopes.com/kings-island-dangerous-rides/

[freaks76]

I swear, reading this made me think of Wynona Ryder's character from Mr. Deeds.

[Tanna]

And it's Britain. Where the libel/slander law is far more strict than here.

The Daily Mail knows its audience and serves up what it wants.

 

And they can be side glance vicious to persons or entities they don"t like.

[matt112986]

So don't click/link/read.

You blame media yet you post the link. Because of your link the tabloid DM will generate more ad revenue and fulfill their purpose which was to get eye balls on the page. It's easy to blame the headline and the writer for stopping so low, but in the end we can choose where we get our news.

With that being said, a park that had a serious accident that was operator error is justifiable to mention. If the park let this accident happen what else might go wrong.

But overall the DM is a tabloid. Nothing more. Nothing they wrote was wrong-worded a way for sure but not wrong. "FOOT-deep water" as in its as deep as your foot. Sort of brilliant in a way b

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That wasn't my point, I was curious about their reputability and what people here make of them not trying to kill them off. And regardless of whether I pay attention others do and get misinformed. They have been cited before on this site (most recent in search - http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31062-accident-on-alton-towers-smiler/page-7)before and I gave a link to provide a source. Sometimes even reputable news outlets put out something ridiculous like this.

 

I'm no expert on add revenue but I do know Google Adwords only pays when someone clicks on an add so seeing one doesn't necessarily mean they are getting paid. Adblockers can keep them from revenue as well.

 

At any rate they not only hurt the park but B&M as well.

[shark6495]

Completely different if you are talking about news stateside versus elsewhere, completely different if you take a real news site vs a tabloid.

Thought your post (as it's worded right now) was about this individual article.

If you are talking about news articles in general.....

Advertisements on news sites can be paid by page views. (Reason why Buzzfeed has so many click through lists). So if you can create a title that draws clicks you can charge more for an ad (see our average view per page is 300,000 so we will charge you 1 penny per click for this 1x1 add or 10 cents a click for a banner-just an example).

In general, the news prints what we as consumers want. We want to know weather, traffic, and if the thing we enjoy will kill us.

Other than that, tastes may differ but not much.

Every news article or story is crafted to target a certain audience (men or women or children, or single moms, cheating dads, etc). The way the article is crafted will change based on the audience. Don't forget to mix in a little politics (I don't like that company so I'll be a bit more blunt or I like them I'll be nice).

Lastly headlines are not created by the writer but editorial.

The only way to change what is written is to not read or click on bogus articles.

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[The Interpreter]

...which is why I had NOT included a link to The Meadville Tribune in a post where I noted they wrote an article which was very late and contained no new news.