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    Click bait

    I have never read so much rubbish, and to be honest, downright lies, as there is on some of these websites, in fact many supposed highly regarded reporters should be ashamed, Phil hay and co, there are to many to name. I constantly get drawn to them only to read regurgitated garbage, two players getting the “ out of this world, colossus” treatment at the moment are Ben Godfrey and Ben Johnson, who are no more likely to join Leeds now than they were at the start of the season, in fact any season. “Leeds news now” site might as well rename itself “Leeds lies now”……rant over.

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    Content = revenue

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    Could be worse.

    You could be reading the same level of dishonesty on important world events on so called "newspapers" such as the Washington Post or New York times. So much garbage they couldn't even work for the Pyongyang sun, Pravda or Yang Cheng Wan Bao.

    It is a joke but at least it's only football.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
    Could be worse.

    You could be reading the same level of dishonesty on important world events on so called "newspapers" such as the Washington Post or New York times. So much garbage they couldn't even work for the Pyongyang sun, Pravda or Yang Cheng Wan Bao.

    It is a joke but at least it's only football.
    You are clearly not familiar with the UK’s ‘gutter’ press

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    actually very familiar with it. It's kind of interesting stuff. The daily star is a snap shot on the degradation of our society overall. However, kudos to them in that they don't pretend to be award winning news source! I'm chill with that.

    My previous referenced papers pretend to be a real "news source" when in reality they are little more than a propaganda rag like some third world country has. The story that Kim Jong Un shot a 19 on his first round of golf would have not stunned me seeing it in the washington post. I would have just assumed the government told them to print it they willingly obliged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
    Hop

    actually very familiar with it. It's kind of interesting stuff. The daily star is a snap shot on the degradation of our society overall. However, kudos to them in that they don't pretend to be award winning news source! I'm chill with that.

    My previous referenced papers pretend to be a real "news source" when in reality they are little more than a propaganda rag like some third world country has. The story that Kim Jong Un shot a 19 on his first round of golf would have not stunned me seeing it in the washington post. I would have just assumed the government told them to print it they willingly obliged.
    The daily fail is in that group and had a wide readership but also some of the more ‘balanced’ publications are now in the hands of individuals with extreme and/or global agendas and are no longer true to those ideals.

    Heck even the BBC seems at times to have lost its way. FEA

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    To prove my point…this morning many sites claimed that hashioka was by all accounts on his way to Leeds, tonight he’s on his way to Luton…..lying waste of space the lot of them, Phil hay included.

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