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How on earth can this be a top news article on the BBC web site?

PrinceOfDenmarkPrinceOfDenmark Posts: 2,761
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28492216

Was a bung involved?

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    carl.waringcarl.waring Posts: 35,705
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    1. It's third now.
    2. People need to know if they had tickets.
    3. Sky News also have it on their front page.
    4. http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1990014
    Was a bung involved?
    Try not to make stupid (and potentially libellous) comments if you want to be taken seriously.
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    PrinceOfDenmarkPrinceOfDenmark Posts: 2,761
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    Are you confirming on behalf of the BBC that no bung was involved?
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    human naturehuman nature Posts: 13,352
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    PrinceOfDenmark wrote: »
    Are you confirming on behalf of the BBC that no bung was involved?
    Try to apply some common sense before making accusations of corruption. What company in their right mind would pay a bung to a news organisation to report that the event they had organised had been a disaster?
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    TassiumTassium Posts: 31,639
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    The OP does not really understand the internet it seems.

    Web pages are all rather changable you know... It's not like a newspaper.

    There maybe a brief period when a particular story is at the "top" of a page, it means nothing. Minutes later it's gone somewhere else, rather like the threads in this forum. Trivial stuff tends to float away....
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    PrinceOfDenmarkPrinceOfDenmark Posts: 2,761
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    Tassium wrote: »
    The OP does not really understand the internet it seems.

    Web pages are all rather changable you know... It's not like a newspaper.

    There maybe a brief period when a particular story is at the "top" of a page, it means nothing. Minutes later it's gone somewhere else, rather like the threads in this forum. Trivial stuff tends to float away....
    Err... I think it's you that doesn't understand the internet. The BBC choose the order of stories on their news homepage when they publish them - so they chose to make this a big story.
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    human naturehuman nature Posts: 13,352
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    PrinceOfDenmark wrote: »
    Err... I think it's you that doesn't understand the internet. The BBC choose the order of stories on their news homepage when they publish them - so they chose to make this a big story.
    More likely they chose (temporarily) to lead with it because it was a breaking news story. Then shortly afterwards it started dropping down the running order.
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    TUCTUC Posts: 5,105
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    human nature wrote: »
    More likely they chose (temporarily) to lead with it because it was a breaking news story. Then shortly afterwards it started dropping down the running order.

    But they have a separate way of highlighting breaking news.
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    TassiumTassium Posts: 31,639
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    PrinceOfDenmark wrote: »
    Err... I think it's you that doesn't understand the internet. The BBC choose the order of stories on their news homepage when they publish them - so they chose to make this a big story.

    Someone always chooses, but it's a dynamic process and there is never a "lead" story since in minutes that story is gone down the order.

    Newspaper have a fixed lead of course, web pages don't. It's a completely different concept and plays to the strengths of the internet.
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    mossy2103mossy2103 Posts: 84,308
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    TUC wrote: »
    But they have a separate way of highlighting breaking news.
    Yes, the news ticker, which gives all but the briefest of information (and link), more detailed developing information will still appear on the home page as a couple of lines or paragraphs, and that story will have full details (many paragraphs, with earlier information) on its own page.

    A sense of perspective seems to be in order.
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    carl.waringcarl.waring Posts: 35,705
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    human nature wrote: »
    Try to apply some common sense ...
    From POD about the BBC? Not a chance.
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    popeye13popeye13 Posts: 8,573
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    PrinceOfDenmark has a GIANT axe to grind with the BBC for some reason, so its not a surprise that he is NOW claiming the BBC takes a bung for a story being front page...

    Not only is this so very libelous, im amazed the thread hasn't been not only locked, but deleted!
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    radiobloke2004radiobloke2004 Posts: 689
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    PrinceOfDenmark wrote: »
    http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28492216

    Was a bung involved?

    I don't know PoD? However in a court of law YOU would be liable to prove your statement?

    Care to tell us your evidence?

    PS: I think you do not fully understand this "internet" thing.
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    CharnhamCharnham Posts: 61,387
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    the BBC are not the only news source to run this story, Daily Mash has done a spoof story on it.

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/secret-cinema-victims-treated-for-lack-of-perspective-2014072888971

    so that may have boosted figures

    some good news for Channel 5 as well

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/fifty-shades-of-grey-film-was-on-channel-5-in-the-90s-2014072888996
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    TUCTUC Posts: 5,105
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    Charnham wrote: »
    the BBC are not the only news source to run this story, Daily Mash has done a spoof story on it.

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/secret-cinema-victims-treated-for-lack-of-perspective-2014072888971

    Very funny. The article does highlight the wider question though of how much the news priority on this story was driven by media luvvies assuming that this event was as much on everyone else's radar as it was on theirs.
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    blueisthecolourblueisthecolour Posts: 20,127
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    TUC wrote: »
    Very funny. The article does highlight the wider question though of how much the news priority on this story was driven by media luvvies assuming that this event was as much on everyone else's radar as it was on theirs.

    Well I have tickets for the event so obviously was very interested to read about it. Though don't most people love a good old fashioned cock-up story? It was reported by most of the UK news media.

    82,000 tickets were up for grabs so it's of a similar importance to say the first day of Glastonbury being cancelled.
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    PaulLFCPaulLFC Posts: 1,290
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    human nature wrote: »
    Try to apply some common sense before making accusations of corruption. What company in their right mind would pay a bung to a news organisation to report that the event they had organised had been a disaster?
    :D:D
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