Plagiarism

My email account is with Yahoo, so naturally as I go to check my emails I have a flick through the "news" headlines to see what is happening, why do I keep doing it? its not even news its just... just, shit.

For those of you who don't look at Yahoo for news headline's, here is an example of a day of news headlines from them, not the actual article, just the headlines...

-Oh Andy, you've got a lot of explaining to do...
A tweet Andy Murray wrote sparked a media frenzy - and might have caused him trouble with girlfriend Kim Sears.  What he said »

-Football
-Money
-old news

-'Carol Vorderman's charity plan is insanity'
'Judge John Deed' actor Martin Shaw admires Carol's bravery, but thinks her fund-raising idea is ill-advised.  What's her goal? »

-crap celeb
-crap celeb

-Son's surprise gift leaves his Mum in tears
Mike Harris found the perfect way of surprising his Mum in heartwarming fashion.  'What? No way! We can't do this!' »

-old youtube you have already seen over and over

-Big brother shit

-stupid baby name, what could it be

-'Banning smoking in cars with kids is wrong'
Most people are in favour of the ban but our blogger says it would be dangerous to make it the law.  What could it lead to? »

-Shitty football article

-The same big brother shit again, but written by someone else.

Bla bla bla.

My point is all the actual headlines end with What...? Why...? Who...? and I never click on them because I couldn't give a flying fuck who, what, why since you have given me no reason to.
Its always, (read this in a robot voice, go on) - "VAGUE SUGGESTION TO SOMETHING*POSSIBLE WELL KNOWN PERSON NAME DROP*HINT TOWARDS INSANE EVENT WITH NO DETAILS GIVEN". Then its accompanied by a non-descript picture or a photo where you can tell the important stuff is just outside the frame.
Its like a small child shouting and jumping, "LOOK AT ME!" "CLICK ON ME!" "EVERYONE ELSE CLICKED, YOU SHOULD TOOOOOOO!"

and that stuff about the smoking, I am sure the same guy had an article around the time of the big smoking ban kerfuffle saying how cool smoking was and why people should start smoking.

I would be a lot more inclined to read the article if it said something like
-Oh Andy, you've got a lot of explaining to do...
On Twitter Andy Murray joked about marrying his girlfriend sparking a media frenzy - and might have caused him trouble with Kim Sears.  Read more »

But I have just realised that if you have all the articles spelled out for you at the start that they aren't.......actually......news, or interesting, or any of our business. Then, by the time you have got to anything that is important, you are too bored or annoyed at the rest to even notice it. Lets try another few -

-Son's surprise gift leaves his Mum in tears
Mike Harris gave his Mum tickets to the superbowl... and videoed it.
Click for some unknown reason»

-'Carol Vorderman's charity plan is insanity'
'Martin Shaw thinks its a bad idea for Carol to fly solo round the world to raise money for something.  Click here for less details? »
Not an article about the fact that she wants to do it, an article about a actor who is a pilot saying it is insane. The article doesn't even tell you what she is raising money for.
It also tags a tiny article on the bottom -"in other news, here is something completely unrelated." Haha And now for Something Completely Different.

And they aren't even written by writers! they say they were "written by our blogger", anyone can be a blogger, kids can be bloggers, I'm a fuckin blogger for blogfuck sake!
Writers have to actually write, deliver the facts, give us new information. Bloggers can write anything they want, it doesn't have to be true, or make ...sense... or........
I'm answering my own questions, aren't I?
Yes.
Should I go on?
No.

Yahoo, please change the name of your "Yahoo! News" section to just "Yahoo! Stuff".
If you could then add a "Yahoo! News" section which have important headlines that I can skim over when I check my emails.
Ta.


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