Silly meYeah, nice one. Maybe it'll be fair and balanced, you never know
When you think critically, everything becomes fair and balanced.
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'The Daily' iPad News Publication to Debut January 19th
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When you think critically, everything becomes fair and balanced.
News Corps journalistic practices (a.k.a. extreme rejection of facts when emotion sells better) have lost them all credibility. On the other hand, I dont necessarily think Apple should refuse whoever steps up first, be it News Corp or any other source. Id be disappointed to learn that this is a real partnership with Apple, rather than just Apple started this and News Corp ran with it first. Well see.
Smal things could always be anounced on the Verizon Event. It turns it into more than a "yay we got the iphone"... and giving away news about a 0.1 Update can happen on a non apple event of this size.
this popped into my head. i said yesterday that i thought cdma support would only be ios 4.2.2 but this looks like it could be something. An event with new ipad and steve explains ios 4.3 with cdma support and "the daily" newspaper. 4.3 is a download today and the new ipad ships in 2 weeks. the only problem is that kind of interferes with the supposed verizon iphone launch.
I have to disagree. The presentation is important. A bad UI will always kill an app, no matter how good the content is.
Now folks might be willing to give this some growing pains due to the cheap price but eventually bad presentation will kill it even if it is free.
Whereas good presentation can make an app a winner even when the content is recycled from other sites. Such as Flipboard, which I found to be intriguing as a UI but wasn't keen on the limited choices for customizing content. However, it was one of the top apps for the year
CNN led the charge this time.
Look people, you need to understand that there is a difference between news and political commentary. Unfortunately, it seems most in here think they are one and the same. O'Reilly, Olbermann and Beck are nothing more than talking heads. It's their job to rile up one side or another. Nothing they talk about can really be considered news. They are extremely one-sided in their thinking. This is political commentary. Every station has individuals that support each side.
Now, what is reported as news is quite different. Sure, each station leans toward one side or another. Fox to the conservative, CNN/MSNBC to the liberal, but the news that is reported is fairly close to being down the middle. When Fox says their news is "fair and balanced", it generally is. I can say the same for the other two as I watch plenty of them.
What's unfortunate is individuals blur the lines between news and political commentary. Taking a short amount of time and actually watching the news that is reported would change the ill-informed views we see here. Until then, we get to have nice threads derailed by troll posts.
Its a digital newspaper, of course its not original.
You mean like all the all the other non-digital newspapers like Usa Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Mercury News, The Florida Times-Union, The LA Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Washington Post, and the Daily News?
If you'd like to discuss the ways in which Fox News is flawed, feel free to start a thread in PRSI.
Though I doubt I'll see you over there.
Take a media literacy course, you'll learn that News corp. is one of the best media corporations in the world. Regardless of the "news" that they spew forth, they have the largest income to expenditure ratio, which is all people should really care about in a capitalist society.
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Fox News' regular news is NOT fair and balanced. Nor is CNN decidedly liberal. CNN has its own quirks, but they do not automatically fall to the left; and while I would hardly call Fox conservative, they do whatever the Party wants.
When British soldiers were kidnapped in the Iraq war, Fox News' regular presentation was "unbiased." They asked an "expert" whose fault it was. Obviously the Democrats who were referred to as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" (that is, as traitors, for opposing the methods by which the war was carried out -- including the lack of any oversight). A second opinion was then provided to be fair and balanced. It was a Party official who disagreed. That official said the fault belonged to liberals in Congress, for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Yeah. CNN would be that obvious. Right. I believe Fox doesn't make stuff up.
That blonde woman who repeats made-up stories about liberals destroying Christmas is also on the "regular news" section.
Having commentators that make stuff up is, in my opinion, completely inexcusable. But it doesn't mean that having crap and obvious bias on the regular news is okay. Nor do I swallow the Fox line that the regular news media are all liberal. That's never the case when actual studies are done. They find that the news is business-biased, centrist-right, and that while reporters are generally liberals, editors and owners, who have a lot more power, are right wing. (Notice I don't say "conservatives." Conservatives would not idolize budget-buster, deficit-lover, big-government-as-long-as-its-military-or-spying fan Ronald Reagan.)
When British soldiers were kidnapped in the Iraq war, Fox News' regular presentation was "unbiased." They asked an "expert" whose fault it was. Obviously the Democrats who were referred to as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" (that is, as traitors, for opposing the methods by which the war was carried out -- including the lack of any oversight). A second opinion was then provided to be fair and balanced. It was a Party official who disagreed. That official said the fault belonged to liberals in Congress, for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Yeah. CNN would be that obvious. Right. I believe Fox doesn't make stuff up.
That blonde woman who repeats made-up stories about liberals destroying Christmas is also on the "regular news" section.
Having commentators that make stuff up is, in my opinion, completely inexcusable. But it doesn't mean that having crap and obvious bias on the regular news is okay. Nor do I swallow the Fox line that the regular news media are all liberal. That's never the case when actual studies are done. They find that the news is business-biased, centrist-right, and that while reporters are generally liberals, editors and owners, who have a lot more power, are right wing. (Notice I don't say "conservatives." Conservatives would not idolize budget-buster, deficit-lover, big-government-as-long-as-its-military-or-spying fan Ronald Reagan.)
On the other hand, the WSJ is owned by News Corp, remember. And I actually think that's a pretty decent paper. And our favorite tech journalist works there, remember?
Will it be filled with cover to cover lies and distortions? So much that Rupert Murdoch touches turns to crap. I don't hold out much hope for this but the idea has a future I thinks...
We are getting closer to the day of having 'electric newspapers' that were predicted so many years ago.
On the other hand, the WSJ is owned by News Corp, remember. And I actually think that's a pretty decent paper. And our favorite tech journalist works there, remember?
And the letters to the editor page and the editorials surely aren't biased in any way are they...
Aside from their content, this is a perfect example of the dumbing down of America through News Corp.
If you don't like News Corp, don't download the app. It's that simple.
Beyond that, take it to PRSI.
Beyond that, take it to PRSI.
No offense, but why don't you wait and see the final product before you scoff at it.
Fox New might be very far to the right, but considering everything else is overly biased to the left I appreciate another view point. Truly educated people know better than to take any news outlet for their word these days.
I think this will not be what we're all expecting. Otherwise they'd just make a FOX news app and be done with it. I'm more interested in what Virgin is working on though.
Fox New might be very far to the right, but considering everything else is overly biased to the left I appreciate another view point. Truly educated people know better than to take any news outlet for their word these days.
I think this will not be what we're all expecting. Otherwise they'd just make a FOX news app and be done with it. I'm more interested in what Virgin is working on though.
The ironically-named "News Corp" owns The Sun and Fox News amongst other things. There is no way I would pay Murdoch for "news"
However, if Apple finally works out a proper subscription payment method so that reputable newspapers can start to publish via the iPad then this might be significant.
Android will kill it
an when millions of Android Tablets are sold, the whole Daily Ecosystem will fail!
Why you'll ask?
Because of the reason: Paid content will not work in the Android user world!
Android is like the web and linux at all: it have to be free and the content as well.
These small usergroupe of Apple iPad citizens will not have the power (buying power) to keep the "Daily" System running...
an when millions of Android Tablets are sold, the whole Daily Ecosystem will fail!
Why you'll ask?
Because of the reason: Paid content will not work in the Android user world!
Android is like the web and linux at all: it have to be free and the content as well.
These small usergroupe of Apple iPad citizens will not have the power (buying power) to keep the "Daily" System running...
There are things in this world worth condemning, say, certain political movements, corporations that do terrible things, governments whose policies are oppressive.
Why this has to be explained to anyone is beyond me.
Enjoy the highly filtered, manipulated "news" as approved by "Steve" for your safety.
Rest assured it will be Magical & Revolutionary.
The finest publication in the world.
Consider my calendar marked. I look forward to this FAIR and BALANCED app from News Corp. I cross my fingers its evenhanded like FoxNews.
So, suppose CNN comes out with an paid iPhone/iPad app that showed the very exact same content, but integrated their multimedia with their content much better than their regular website, www.cnn.com, you would pay $9.99 a month (or whatever)?