the Daily Mirror has reported on a \u201cbizarre\u201d TV interview<\/a> between Joanna Lumley and The Black Eyed Peas. I saw it as an MSN newsfeed and wondered what might have happened for it to be labelled as such.<\/p>\nWell, the short answer is: absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n
Basically, the \u201cbizarreness\u201d is simply that\u2026 well, Joanna Lumley interviewed The Black Eyed Peas. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the entire story. The whole thing can be summed up perfectly in those five words. Joanna Lumley interviewed The Black Eyed Peas.<\/p>\n
The Mirror, though, manages to string it out to 200 words and three screenshots from the interview. Two shots show people sitting on a couch, and one is a mistimed capture of the back of two people\u2019s heads. The extra words come from The Mirror\u2019s copy-and-paste-from-Twitter department, where they duplicate five complete Tweets from certified idiots, each saying that the interview was \u201cbizarre\u201d. As far as I can tell, the only reason it is \u201cbizarre\u201d even to these morons is because\u2026 well, Joanna Lumley interviewed The Black Eyed Peas.<\/p>\n
The BBC does this sort of thing now, too. It isn\u2019t averse to creating entire articles based on Twitter or Facebook posts, and it doesn\u2019t even correct the appalling grammar that is endemic to those things. It even includes them totally un-spellchecked in most \u201csensible\u201d articles. It must save them a lot of time.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t click on a link to any<\/strong> story about The Black Eyed Peas purely based on their music. It simply isn\u2019t my scene. But the word \u201cbizarre\u201d is clickbait, and clickbaiting is the latest journalistic tool of choice to get people to pages full of adverts. MSN\u2019s newsfeeds do it all the time – take my advice, and never click on any link which says \u201cyou\u2019ll never guess what happened next\u201d or has the word \u201cadorable\u201d or \u201csponsored\u201d in it. Because whatever did<\/strong> happen next will be as interesting as staring at a wall, and I think that \u201cadorable\u201d is the Facebook generation\u2019s preferred way of referring to any juvenile animal with less than six legs doing what juvenile animals with less than six legs naturally do (which frequently equates to doing absolutely nothing). \u201cSponsored\u201d is a combination of those two things higher up the page designed to get you to the ads quicker.<\/p>\nWe\u2019re doomed. DOOMED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve been noticing this for some time now. Previously reputable news agencies reporting on things solely sourced from Facebook or Twitter. It might not be what you\u2019d call \u201creputable\u201d in the usual sense of the word, but it is nevertheless a newspaper and so you\u2019d expect some journalistic skill on display, but the Daily Mirror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I\u2019ve been noticing this for some time now. Previously reputable news agencies reporting on things solely sourced from Facebook or Twitter.<\/p>\n