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Worcester News urges motorists to treat cyclists as a nuisance

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  • November 14, 2013 at 9:30 pm #762841
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    giff77

    William Black wrote:What a

    William Black wrote:
    What a prat…

    His reply to my email pointing out his article was written with all the grammatical aplomb of a 5 year old, was to fire off the threat “come here and say that to my face”. Not only is he a shit journalist he’s also a knuckle head.

    It’s such a shame Worcester is such a long drive from Devon!


    Aye, ‘cept if you showed up at his door he’d go running to his mammy and hide behind her apron

    November 14, 2013 at 9:19 pm #762839
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    pete5

    Is his reply something you
    Is his reply something you can post here?

    November 14, 2013 at 8:34 pm #762837
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    William Black

    What a prat…
    His reply to
    What a prat…

    His reply to my email pointing out his article was written with all the grammatical aplomb of a 5 year old, was to fire off the threat “come here and say that to my face”. Not only is he a shit journalist he’s also a knuckle head.

    It’s such a shame Worcester is such a long drive from Devon!

    November 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm #762835
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    harman_mogul

    giff77 makes the reasonable
    giff77 makes the reasonable point that what newspaper publishers want is clicks. But journalists are in a different silo where the metric that counts is traffic. Having a pop at cyclists is always a good way for a journo to generate traffic — remember Matthew Parris’s remarks in The Times a few years ago?

    November 14, 2013 at 2:49 pm #762833
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    step-hent

    giff77 wrote:step-hent

    giff77 wrote:
    step-hent wrote:
    giff77 wrote:
    The guy has probably been having a slow week. The only way to get hits on his column has been to take a pop at cyclists. Look at the amount of comments slamming him. Give him his due. The lad’s generated income for his paper with all the hits it’s getting. Apart from that it falls into the general jurno structure if cycle whinging.

    Has he generated any income? Traffic, yes, but traffic has a cost in terms of bandwidth etc. For the most part, income will be generated by clicks on adverts. Users who go to the site for the purpose of berating the journalist are unlikely to have a high rate of clicks on adverts – they arent in the mood for ‘browsing’. So it’s entirely possible that he hasn’t done much good on the income end, and has harmed the credibility of the outlet in the longer term.

    Muppet.


    Ok. One sentence poorly thought through. So I’ll take muppet on the chin. B-)

    Ha! The ‘muppet’ wasn’t aimed at you, it was at James Connell. Other than the one sentence I agree with you.

    November 14, 2013 at 2:06 pm #762831
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    giff77

    step-hent wrote:giff77

    step-hent wrote:
    giff77 wrote:
    The guy has probably been having a slow week. The only way to get hits on his column has been to take a pop at cyclists. Look at the amount of comments slamming him. Give him his due. The lad’s generated income for his paper with all the hits it’s getting. Apart from that it falls into the general jurno structure if cycle whinging.

    Has he generated any income? Traffic, yes, but traffic has a cost in terms of bandwidth etc. For the most part, income will be generated by clicks on adverts. Users who go to the site for the purpose of berating the journalist are unlikely to have a high rate of clicks on adverts – they arent in the mood for ‘browsing’. So it’s entirely possible that he hasn’t done much good on the income end, and has harmed the credibility of the outlet in the longer term.

    Muppet.


    Ok. One sentence poorly thought through. So I’ll take muppet on the chin. B-)

    November 14, 2013 at 12:49 pm #762829
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    pete5

    Hmm…apparently MPs can only
    Hmm…apparently MPs can only reply to people living in their constituency. How daft is that. Can anyone living in Worcester pass on the email?

    Here’s his email address robin.walker.mp@parliament.uk

    November 14, 2013 at 12:13 pm #762827
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    pete5

    I’ve written to the local MP,
    I’ve written to the local MP, the leader of the council and a couple of newspapers. Good suggestions. I’m not expecting them to act, but it seems the right place to lodge a protest

    November 14, 2013 at 12:06 pm #762825
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    step-hent

    giff77 wrote:The guy has

    giff77 wrote:
    The guy has probably been having a slow week. The only way to get hits on his column has been to take a pop at cyclists. Look at the amount of comments slamming him. Give him his due. The lad’s generated income for his paper with all the hits it’s getting. Apart from that it falls into the general jurno structure if cycle whinging.

    Has he generated any income? Traffic, yes, but traffic has a cost in terms of bandwidth etc. For the most part, income will be generated by clicks on adverts. Users who go to the site for the purpose of berating the journalist are unlikely to have a high rate of clicks on adverts – they arent in the mood for ‘browsing’. So it’s entirely possible that he hasn’t done much good on the income end, and has harmed the credibility of the outlet in the longer term.

    Muppet.

    November 14, 2013 at 11:59 am #762823
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    giff77

    The guy has probably been
    The guy has probably been having a slow week. The only way to get hits on his column has been to take a pop at cyclists. Look at the amount of comments slamming him. Give him his due. The lad’s generated income for his paper with all the hits it’s getting. Apart from that it falls into the general jurno structure if cycle whinging.

    November 14, 2013 at 11:59 am #762821
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    giff77

    The guy has probably been
    The guy has probably been having a slow week. The only way to get hits on his column has been to take a pop at cyclists. Look at the amount of comments slamming him. Give him his due. The lad’s generated income for his paper with all the hits it’s getting. Apart from that it falls into the general jurno structure if cycle whinging.

    November 14, 2013 at 10:56 am #762819
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    farrell

    Yer frigging kidding me!
    This
    Yer frigging kidding me!

    This gimp claims to be the Worcester News’ health reporter!

    Sometimes you just have to throw your head back and laugh at the ridiculousness of the universe.

    November 14, 2013 at 10:43 am #762817
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    freespirit1

    would you like the editors
    would you like the editors e-mail address?

    Courtesy of the paper

    roni.skye@midlands.newsquest.co.uk

    and his

    james.connell@midlands.newsquest.co.uk

    November 13, 2013 at 8:58 pm #762815
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    William Black

    Don’t ignore
    Don’t ignore tweet/Facebook/email or whatever.

    In Exeter the owner of the local radio station wrote a similar story about MAMIL’s and him not being able to pass them as they were two abreast doing nearly 30mph (Speed limit down Topsham Road being a 30mph). Locally it went pretty much viral and he had to write an apology and he was humiliated online.

    The bloke got called out, he was forced to make an apology and to his credit local MP (*spit* labour) Ben Bradshaw got on the case.

    Contrary to what your teachers say about bullies, if you ignore such behaviour you essentially condone it.

    November 13, 2013 at 4:34 pm #762813
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    allez neg

    Some total talent-vaccuum
    Some total talent-vaccuum fucktard wanting and failing to be Jeremy Clarkson. Ignore.

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