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Thread ID: 106920	2010-01-28 04:54:00	all news websites suck!	robsonde (120)	PC World Chat

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852813	2010-01-28 04:54:00	online news sites are trying to keep up with bloggers, get it published fast. who cares if its correct?, who cares if the grammer sucks?, why do we need spell checking? example: www.nzherald.co.nz exact same paragraphs repeated twice in the article. if these news sites want to be better than the bloggers, how about getting people who can write? almost everday I find another example of crap reporting. and it's not just nzherald, stuff.co.nz & newstalknz.co.nz are just as bad. who else has noticed this? PS, my spelling is crap, but I am not writing for the second biggest website in NZ :-)	robsonde (120)
852814	2010-01-28 05:37:00	example: . nzherald . co . nz/business/news/article . cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10622821" target="_blank">www . nzherald . co . nz exact same paragraphs repeated twice in the article . Paul Reynolds, the head of Telecom, has been forced to apologise to customers after an outage on its XT network extended into a second day, sending shares down 0 . 7 per cent to $2 . 42 in trading today . The CEO of the country's largest phone company was forced to apologise after the second major outage on the XT network in as many months hampered thousands of customers' mobile phone services south of Taupo yesterday . The problem has continued to affect some 10,000 people in the South Island today, and Reynolds has called for an "urgent and independent" review of the network . "I am angry at the recent outages that have affected part of the network, including the one currently affecting customers," Reynolds said in a statement . "I apologise to our customers who have been inconvenienced, but also recognise that words are not enough . That's why we are taking rapid action and I am determined to be up front and open on this . " Telecom has been successful in migrating customers on to XT, with 242,000 people using the new network by the end of the first quarter from 149,000 in the previous period, even as it only attracted 64,000 new mobile customers . Article continues below Still, a major outage in December affected more than 100,000 customers . Last May, the phone company was forced to increase its network filtering at an undisclosed cost to avoid a High Court injunction when Vodafone Group claimed XT was interfering with its own network . Reynolds said they will look "closely" at compensation once they have addressed the problem . The company's stock has declined 2 . 4 per cent this year, and has steadily dropped since closing at $2 . 59 on Jan . 8 . Several cell sites in Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru and Queenstown were not operating and XT users in other areas south of Taupo were experiencing intermittent service issues, Telecom said in a statement about 1 . 30pm . Southland Federated Farmers president Rod Pemberton says farmers have come to rely on their cellphones . He says the breakdown is a pain, but Southland farmers are more frustrated than angry about the problem . Labour is also calling for Telecom to get its act together . MP Ross Robertson says Telecom needs to urgently sort out the issues with XT before businesses, particularly smaller ones, suffer further financial difficulties . Engineers worked through the night and would continue this morning to restore service to 40 of the 1000 South Island cell sites still affected, which left about 10,000 customers south of Christchurch without service this morning, he told Radio New Zealand . Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds is again apologising to customers and says the company's focus at the moment is on fixing things . He said today the crash was caused by a piece of hardware which began signalling erratically and degrading the network's service . Telecom will look closely at claims for compensation once the problems are sorted . The company is advising anyone making a 111 emergency call in the lower South Island to use a landline and not their mobile . "Some customers have not been able to make calls or been out of service for a substantial period of time and of course we will look sympathetically at compensation for those customers," Dr Reynolds said . Customers were offered a day's mobile usage, plus a weekend of free calling, after the December 14 network crash . That fault was attributed to corrupt software, uncovered during maintenance, triggering a network-load equipment failure . Dr Reynolds yesterday commissioned an independent review into the two network crashes since XT's May launch . He said the company was already working on improving the capacity and design of the network . Where?	pctek (84)
852815	2010-01-28 06:06:00	i too noticed the double paragraph thing this morning, but if you just copy and pasted it pctek they've changed it at some stage today. and yes i agree the journalists of the news always make mistakes......... i thought they went to media school and learnt to do it better and faster than the rest? maybe they dont......... beetle :)	beetle (243)
852816	2010-01-28 06:26:00	Yep looks like they have fixed it. But my point is still the same, if I want badly written incorrect infomation then I will read blogs.	robsonde (120)
852817	2010-01-28 06:37:00	Perhaps to do with Google Search sometimes - As maybe some news sites want to publish items/news in a hurry (and hence prone to mistakes); I recall reading online that some news sites complained about Google about their actual "own" news source items on their sites were ranked lower than lessor known news sites/blogs from a Google search.	kahawai chaser (3545)
852818	2010-01-28 07:51:00	I feel that the news sites think first to publish wins. I feel that good quality wins. a site that has the news first my have me stay and read it for that item. a site that has quality will bring me back every day.	robsonde (120)
852819	2010-01-28 19:25:00	Its a race to the bottom. When theres a backlash due to terrible quality then a slight effort will be maintained at keeping that quality.	pkm (13527)
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