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AIBU?

to not want to read AIBU in today's Independent?

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llareggub · 22/06/2009 09:40

Lazy journos and their cut and paste skills. Four pages of AIBU cut and pasted from mumsnet. Can I have a job Independent? I'm rather skilled with the old edit button.

Pah.

And I wasn't namechecked.

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FabBakerGirlIsBack · 22/06/2009 09:44

Just read it. It was crap.

And they have invented an acronym or more likely just misunderstood what it means.

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flowerybeanbag · 22/06/2009 09:46

Do you have a link ladies?

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llareggub · 22/06/2009 09:47

It was a pretty pointless feature. No commentary or analysis, just cut and paste. Is that really what passes for journalism these days?

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princessmel · 22/06/2009 09:47

Which AIBU was it?

Agree it's lazy though.

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llareggub · 22/06/2009 09:50

here

It is very badly laid out on their website.

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Gorionine · 22/06/2009 09:50

Would love a link too, please!

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Alambil · 22/06/2009 09:51

how BORING is that!!

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spicemonster · 22/06/2009 09:51

Yay I made the paper! Shame they gave me the wrong quote

it's here

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Gorionine · 22/06/2009 09:51

x posted!
Thank you!

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Tortington · 22/06/2009 09:53

oh my lord, literally.

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thumbwitch · 22/06/2009 09:54

slow day on the news front, is it? it's a bit like the dead donkey story - "oh let's see if there's anything new on MN that we can borrow cos we've a page to fill"

OTOH - without commentary, it's free advertising, innit!

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hatwoman · 22/06/2009 09:58

that bothers me less than when it's disguised as a researched article. it's like having extracts from a book. suprised it made it into a weekday paper though. more of a weekend space-filler imo.

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StewieGriffinsMom · 22/06/2009 09:59

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sweetnitanitro · 22/06/2009 10:01

I could be a journalist, I'm really good at cutting and pasting.

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flowerybeanbag · 22/06/2009 10:47

How lazy!

You were namechecked though llareggub...in the wedding one.

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screamingabdab · 22/06/2009 10:56

Lazy ...

The other day I was on a thread, and the OP got given short shrift by someone who thought she was a journalist advertising an article she had written.

I was a bit , but now I'm not so sure. And the OP hasn't come back ....

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Frasersmum123 · 22/06/2009 11:13

They chose really boring topics - its Lazy that they did it, but even worse they chose such dull topics.

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UnquietDad · 22/06/2009 11:14

I love the way it needs a key

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screamingabdab · 22/06/2009 11:21

I wasn't on it, in view of my great erudition and enormous wit

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llareggub · 22/06/2009 11:28

How lazy was I not to read it properly! Well spotted Flowery. To think I read it in the paper and on line and still didn't spot it.

I take it all back.

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squeaver · 22/06/2009 11:30

Well that's The Independent for you, these days.

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Squidward · 22/06/2009 11:31

Its a press release surelY?

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ninedragons · 22/06/2009 11:34

Didn't they do exactly the same thing about five or six months ago? Or was that the Times?

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UnquietDad · 22/06/2009 11:37

It's happened ever since the Internet was a wee lad.

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OrmIrian · 22/06/2009 11:41

I think it was a case of 'the dog ate me article' and this was a nice and easy replacement

DD would have been docked several reward points by her teacher for submitting work like that

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