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Bandscan

Tuning around earlier on the car radio i got the start of the news on Spin 1038 at 12.45 "And we start with Breaking News,Gordon Brown has been heard calling a woman a Biggot........." Like Why is this the first story on a Dublin Radio Station.There`s plenty going on in this Country Without Getting Breaking News from England.:mad:

craoltoir

Maybe they have more listeners in Britain than here!

real rocker

All political news requires Spin it seems.

:pac::pac::pac:

rovert

Bandscan wrote: »

Tuning around earlier on the car radio i got the start of the news on Spin 1038 at 12.45 "And we start with Breaking News,Gordon Brown has been heard calling a woman a Biggot........." Like Why is this the first story on a Dublin Radio Station.There`s plenty going on in this Country Without Getting Breaking News from England.:mad:

lol Irish people having a chip on their shoulder in 2010 about Britain

Bandscan

rovert wrote: »

lol Irish people having a chip on their shoulder in 2010 about Britain

Not At All Rovert The Question was Why Was This The First News Story thats All.

rovert

Bandscan wrote: »

Not At All Rovert The Question was Why Was This The First News Story thats All.

New listener to Spin are we?

Bard

Eh, I think the answer is in the question... it was the first story read because it was "breaking news" and (possibly) had just been given to the reader. (Either just handed to them on paper, or - more likely in the case of Spin - added to the feed on Burli with a flashing red highlight and dropped into the bulletin on the fly)

There is a certain amount of healthy competition among Dublin ILR's to be first with new stories.

rovert

Bard wrote: »

Eh, I think the answer is in the question... it was the first story read because it was "breaking news" and (possibly) had just been given to the reader. (Either just handed to them on paper, or - more likely in the case of Spin - added to the feed on Burli with a flashing red highlight and dropped into the bulletin on the fly)

There is a certain amount of healthy competition among Dublin ILR's to be first with new stories.

Nope Spin editoral line is to put the whacky stiry first

Spiritoftheseventies

rovert wrote: »

Nope Spin editoral line is to put the whacky stiry first

That's a bit of a sweeping statement that. Brown being the PM of a country which is about to hold a General Election calling a woman a bigot would be newsworthy.
It was an editorial call and some stations tend to put certain items at the top of their list where others don't

rovert

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

That's a bit of a sweeping statement that. Brown being the PM of a country which is about to hold a General Election calling a woman a bigot would be newsworthy.
It was an editorial call and some stations tend to put certain items at the top of their list where others don't

It is not a sweeping statement at all nor a criticism it is a youth radio station.
It doesnt sound like youve much product knowledge about the station in fairness which such a generic answer.

Bard

Brown calling the woman a bigot wasn't a "whacky" story - it was the big story of the time - was also top story on Sky News. As Spiritoftheseventies said, it was an editorial call and was put first because it WAS newsworthy and, as they said in the bulletin, because it was a "breaking story" at the time.

rovert wrote:

It is not a sweeping statement at all nor a criticism it is a youth radio station.
It doesnt sound like youve much product knowledge about the station in fairness which such a generic answer.

Typical response. There was nothing generic about his answer. Spin put stories first that their own sister station down the corridor from them wouldn't. Despite a lot of stations essentially doing news in the same way and stories in the same order, some stations DO do it differently from the general 'norm' - Spin being one.

You say their editorial policy is to put the "whacky" story first... (although there was very little "whacky" about the Brown/Bigot story).

On what do you base this alleged expertise of Spin's news team's policy?

DingChavez

The UK election is very important.

Maybe you should complain about Sports News they have on every channel every day. Or weather reports. There's some real non-news.

rovert

Bard wrote: »

Typical response. There was nothing generic about his answer. Spin put stories first that their own sister station down the corridor from them wouldn't. Despite a lot of stations essentially doing news in the same way and stories in the same order, some stations DO do it differently from the general 'norm' - Spin being one.

You say their editorial policy is to put the "whacky" story first... (although there was very little "whacky" about the Brown/Bigot story).

On what do you base this alleged expertise of Spin's news team's policy?

Fairly antagonising post here, I dont know what your typical response line is all about.

It was a generic answer as it didnt relate to Spin specfically.

I never expressed expertise just product knowledge stop being so combative.

Bard

rovert wrote: »

Fairly antagonising post here, I dont know what your typical response line is all about.

I'll tell you then, shall I?

The response that "oh if that's your attitude, you don't have much knowledge of the product" is fairly typical of certain users on certain forums when a conversation gets to a certain point. I'm not up with the lingo on whether such people are called "trolls" or what... to me it's just a typical arrogant reponse from a faceless forum user who seems to think they know it all. No offense intended, that's just how it comes across.

People are allowed have an opinion that's contrary to yours - doesn't mean they don't know anything about Spin, it just means they disagree with you.

It was a generic answer as it didnt relate to Spin specfically.

If you're saying that because it was said that "some stations tend to put certain items at the top of their list where others don't" - sure, that was a general statement - but one that does relate to Spin in the context of the OP's question in this thread.

Many stations just tow the same line and do a "rip and read" from the newsfeeds, outputting practically the exact same news bulletins in more-or-less the same order.

Spin are one of a number who try to do it differently - and fair play to them.

I never expressed expertise just product knowledge stop being so combative.

You said: "Spin editoral line is to put the whacky stiry first" - which seemed to claim knowledge of Spin's editorial policy. That's very much different to "I have product knowledge", which basically means "I'm a Spin listener".

Oh - and I'm not being "combative", I'm arguing my point and disagreeing with yours... quite the norm on a discussion forum.

tbh

rovert wrote: »

Fairly antagonising post here,

I never expressed expertise just product knowledge stop being so combative.

Bard wrote: »

... to me it's just a typical arrogant reponse from a faceless forum user who seems to think they know it all. No offense intended, that's just how it comes across.
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c'mon lads, you're both established, respected posters here. I don't think either of ye care enough about the issue to make it so personal, so just chill and agree to disagree.

rovert

Going by your conduct here you labelling people trolls is rather rich.

I did say anyone was wrong or didnt know anything about Spin? No
Did I claim that I had expertise on their editoral line? No

My labelling of you as combative has nothing to do with your opinon, it has more to do how you addressed me here and how you consistently claim that Im saying things that Im not in this thread.

tbh wrote: »

c'mon lads, you're both established, respected posters here. I don't think either of ye care enough about the issue to make it so personal, so just chill and agree to disagree.

I generally like to adhere to mod warnings but this has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with each other as stated above.

Bard

I did say anyone was wrong or didnt know anything about Spin? No

Eh, yes actually. Direct quote from you: "It doesnt sound like youve much product knowledge about the station in fairness"

Did I claim that I had expertise on their editoral line? No

You said that "Spin editoral line is to put the whacky stiry first". I asked where your expertise came from that you knew that. No answer.

My labelling of you as combative has nothing to do with your opinon, it has more to do how you addressed me here and how you consistently claim that Im saying things that Im not in this thread.

All I'm doing is disagreeing with you. Sorry if you see that as "combative".

tbh wrote:

c'mon lads, you're both established, respected posters here. I don't think either of ye care enough about the issue to make it so personal, so just chill and agree to disagree.

Agreed.

rovert

*faceplam*

Im not repeating myself to reply to your little dick dance here.

tbh

imagine me with my hands on the top of your heads, keeping you apart. seriously lads, this isn't worth getting into a sh1tfest over. It's a long weekend - relax and enjoy it. I'll reopen the thread on tues if anyone wants.