The news.com.au fan thread

[Barfrangipani]

I've been a longtime fan of this site, much in the same way I love todaytonight for it's comedic value.

This morning I have stumbled across the perfect story:
Avatar perfection causing depression | News.com.au

Let's explore the majesty of this stoy, it's:
- quite proabably paid-for advertising from the movie studio
- completely without factual basis
- based soley on forum posts
- quotes that fact that one discussion thread has over 1000 posts, as an important fact supporting the story. There are plenty of worthless threads around here with over 1000 posts.
- contains some inane quotes from kids on forums, such as the classic: "On the Avatar site Naviblue, a fan calling himself Jorba has even asked others to join him in starting a real Na'vi tribe."
uh huh, how will that work exactly?
- tries to tie it all together with some talking head from a psychiatrist from a place with a funny name

But the best part is that it works on 2 levels. The stupid will of course take it literally, and show some empathy for the poor people unable to fly or turn blue of watever the fuck they are pining for.
The rest of us just respect the levels of trolling, pausing to point and laugh at stupid people.

So thank you once again news.com.au, I love you for all the wrong reasons. You make me feel dirty

[Stephan]

news.com.au Top news site of the year! How dare you knock it Barfy!!!

[T-Rex]

Comments on this story

• Optimus Prime of Cybertron Posted at 12:57 PM Today
  I'm totally in love with Neytiri !!!! I dunno why I'm in love with an animated alien
  
• Mozart Posted at 12:56 PM Today
  Worlds smallest violin
  
• gregory Posted at 12:56 PM Today
  what? * screws up face at ridiculous story *
  

halolha

[Lozzle]

I like to read the comments at the bottom of stories, come across some decent giggles.

[Dawn Keeballs]

perthnow, watoday and news.com.au are the most amazing aggregation of trolls and stupid people in Australia.

Seriously, they make TS, Desmo and lee look like pretenders.

[Barfrangipani]

British student drinking game mocks the Holocaust | News.com.au

Nazis
Outraged old RAF wing commander, now grumpy pensioner
Binge drinking
Young kids these days, they've got no respect
Hitler
Facebook
Small moustaches

what more does a serious news story need?

[BennyT]

u got any of those sites for SERIOUS news????

[Lach]

Needs more ross kemp video journalist

[Roger Explosion]

Pfft. What would you know Barfy? It says under the logo, "News Website of the Year". Are you calling them liers? The news mean truth. When I was a kid I had a book called, '1000 amazing facts". It contained at least three references to the wolfman. Are you trying to ruin my child hood? Cause if you are, I challenge you to a duel. Wet newspapers at 10 paces.

[Waikikablukar]

Drug user rips off his scrotum | The Courier-Mail

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26573933-5013016,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26583458-5013016,00.html

[Sarbear]

British student drinking game mocks the Holocaust | News.com.au

Nazis
Outraged old RAF wing commander, now grumpy pensioner
Binge drinking
Young kids these days, they've got no respect
Hitler
Facebook
Small moustaches

what more does a serious news story need?

fat dogs?

[Barfrangipani]

no way, I fully agree with it's awesomeness.

Serious websites are full of dead Haitians, stock market news and serious analysis of boring stuff. Who wants that?

The other good stories to watch out for is anything inthe travel section that mentions business class or above. You get a hardcore group of qantas frequent fliers coming in to protest at the common folk taking over their domain, always great for a laugh.

[STEEDS]

I stopped looking at news.com when they refused to post any of my readers comments.... So instead i joined PSB

[richie_b]

abc is pretty bad too, usually andrew bolt types trolling lefties.

[Magilla]

The Avatar thing has also been reported on theregister.co.uk.

[BennyT]

tbh there isnt really any aussie news website that is for serious news

[=Stevo=]

...just thought of excellent plans for business advertising...


publicity stunt, here we come

[chief wiggum]

oh yeah, here's a ripper:

US EVANGELICAL preacher Pat Robertson has blamed Haitians directly for the devastating earthquake, saying that the country "swore a pact to the devil'' at its creation.
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,'' Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network show The 700 Club.
The 80-year-old former presidential candidate said Haitians were originally "under the heel of the French".
"You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever.
"And they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
"They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story.
"And so, the devil said, 'Okay, it's a deal'.
"Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.''

Pat Robertson blames Haiti suffering on 'pact with devil' | News.com.au

[House]

Drug user rips off his scrotum | The Courier-Mail

If the supposed level of newsworthiness wasn't questionable enough already, it actually turns out that the part about him ripping his scrotum off was complete fabricated bullshit, and yet it made worldwide news without any of the journalists bothering to check whether it was actually true.

Internet and journos fertilise scrotum-ripping drug panic ? The Register

[Dubs]

Cops in trouble for riot shield toboggan prank | News.com.au


Dubs