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WalesOnline - is this really news?

if it's about Cardiff.. Sport, Entertainment, Transportation, Business, Development Projects, Leisure, Eating, Drinking, Nightlife, Shopping, Train Spotting! etc.. then we want it here!
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostMon Aug 24, 2015 2:04 pm

"The Bluebirds have three players out on loan - Kadeem Harris, who has joined Barnsley on loan until November 21, David Tutonda (York City), Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) and Filip Kiss, who has signed for Norwegian club FK Haugesund on a season-long deal."

3? i counted 4 in that sentence...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/foot ... ee-9915706
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostMon Aug 24, 2015 3:31 pm

keep them coming, this really is the best thread on the entire wunderweb
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 9:41 am

Right, of course. Now I know why nobody understands me when I say "No word of a lie" and "Serious?"!
What a heap of steaming horse manure. As if words like "bruv" were invented in Cardiff. Just Wales Online trying to make a few quid by jumping on the bandwagon of the latest remotely Welsh trend. It's starting to get really, really bad. I used to rely on them for my local news fix but now I get more information from forums like this one.

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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 10:33 am

its the gift that keeps on giving

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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 10:33 am

its the gift that keeps on giving
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 11:29 am

They are getting worse and worse.

I used to look forward to the business section on a Wednesday, but these days it's just a repeat of all the business news that's happened over the last week.

Then there's just factually incorrect crap all over the place. For instance, they had one of those grand 'look at all the projects transforming...' articles about Newport and referred to their new-ish Newport office as their HQ. No, that's Cardiff you f***wits !

Today in this one http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/live-business-blog-tuesday-august-9920514 there's a story at 10:50 about a law firm moving into Helmont House and we get this :

'The move to the 3,000 sq ft space at Helmont House on Churchill Way will allow the firm to double its Cardiff-based workforce. The site, located minutes from the city's railway station and the Millennium Stadium, was selected to provide additional space for an increasing number of employees and to be more accessible for clients.'

Yes, it's relatively close to the MS and Central Station, but it's closer to Queen Street. The above makes it read as if we have just one station. Did they mean to add Central Station ? Are they talking about Queen Street Station or was it meant to mention both ?

There just doesn't appear to be any proof reading.
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 12:57 pm

Maybe we should start our own news outlet...
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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostTue Aug 25, 2015 2:08 pm

From the home of quality journalism.

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Re: WalesOnline - is this really news?

PostThu Aug 27, 2015 12:07 pm

Walesonline has today put together a selection of black and white photo's of Tiger Bay, one of their intermittent page filling nostalgia exercises.

What is notable is that they have also printed a copy of an article in Community Care from 1975 (I assume that its a trade publication for social workers). The article is fascinating and informative and underlines just how big the gulf is between real journalism and the grammatically mangled informercials that currently make up the majority of the WM content.

A link to the article is here -

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/ ... es-9927141
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