Comments on: ‘RIAA drops student lawsuits’ post

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:51:59 +0000

“Goes to show that the Inquirer editors are clueless.”

Interesting timing for me. I’ve been using their site for a long time, and currently have them as an RSS subscription. For the past week or so I’ve been seriously considering dropping them for good. They used to be a pretty decent site for news, but the quality over the past year or so hasn’t really been all that great. It’s basically devolved in nature overall I think. They seem to spend a great deal of effort trying to impress people with how witty and clever they are with their headlines. Are they trying to be humerous perhaps? Well whatever the reason, it mostly just makes it hard to tell what most of the articles are actually about and worth clicking on to read. The content itself feels immature most of the time too, especially since much of the word play tends to amount to nothing more than petty name calling more often than not. Not sure if that is their intent but it’s the way they come across to me, and perhaps slightly bitter too as well. Hardly what I would call worthy new reporting, and I just find it too damn hard to take them serious anymore. I think this p2pnet post just decided me once and for all, especially when there are so many other good feeds out there and my time is limited and precious… or perhaps I jsut don’t share their sense of humor (or have one lol).

Bye bye Inquirer.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:18:39 +0000

No, the post at p2pnet has some language problems. I had to scratch my head at this one.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:22:28 +0000

Hi Masha:

I take it you mean you couldn’t read The Inquirer article any other way? That’s what it says, alright. So there’s nothing wrong with your English (which has always been pretty good as far as I can recall : )

However, no lawsuits have been dropped: the students, and everyone else on the RIAA hit list, are still being victimized.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:42:33 +0000

Masha, the whole think does not make any sense, as the previous poster has already ponted out. So, don’t worry, it is not YOUR English this time:-)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:07:26 +0000

You mean they DID drop the lawusits and the students do not have to worry any more? I cannot read it in another way. English is not my language and if I am wrong please explain —– Masha

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:37:42 +0000

You need something better than grade school English to become an editor, right?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:12:17 +0000

OMG! The riaa has dropped students??? And now they’re being sued about it!!

Well of course they should be sued! What the hell were they doing to those poor students when they were dropped! How high up were they? Are any of them hurt?

Why wasn’t this on the news? Lousy lamescream media! They’re probly afraid to say anything about it in case they get dropped too!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:58:03 +0000

Either way, Hell would have the same weather as we do right now when the RIAA willingly decides to drop any lawsuits on their own will.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:55:03 +0000

Hey,

It’s been Snowing here alot, pretty cold here too.
Pretty christmasy tho. Hehe

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:20:52 +0000

Hey Spike. Howzit going down your way? Bloody cold here, but sunny : )

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:57:07 +0000

Jon, I had a giggle at this when it was first posted. Goes to show that the Inquirer editors are clueless. I’ve stopped taking anything I see there seriously a long time ago.