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Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
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07-01-2015 09:00 AM |
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blazerball25
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
A lot of good quotes in there, but the slideshow format is kind of weird.
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07-01-2015 09:39 AM |
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Agent Orange Sauce
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
WTF is this slideshow nonsense. AL.com kills me.
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07-02-2015 02:22 PM |
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TPBlaze84
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
Remember when AL.com/ Bham News actually had reporters who wrote articles instead of buzz-feed style social media operators who make slideshows, listicles, and short blurbs about nothing? The Ray Watts' of the world (beyond anything about UAB) are licking their chops that the fourth estate in this community and state continues to decline into crap like this.
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Smaug
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-02-2015 02:27 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote: Remember when AL.com/ Bham News actually had reporters who wrote articles instead of buzz-feed style social media operators who make slideshows, listicles, and short blurbs about nothing? The Ray Watts' of the world (beyond anything about UAB) are licking their chops that the fourth estate in this community and state continues to decline into crap like this.
They're giving the people what the want.
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07-03-2015 08:53 AM |
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busch
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-01-2015 09:39 AM)blazerball25 Wrote: A lot of good quotes in there, but the slideshow format is kind of weird.
Slide show posts are fine entirely for click bait. Each slide counts as its own page view. Just a lazy way to get clicks. I won't play their game. If I know it's a slide show I won't read it. I know the al.com folks encourage the writers to do this.
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07-03-2015 12:04 PM |
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BAMANBLAZERFAN
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-03-2015 08:53 AM)Smaug Wrote: (07-02-2015 02:27 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote: Remember when AL.com/ Bham News actually had reporters who wrote articles instead of buzz-feed style social media operators who make slideshows, listicles, and short blurbs about nothing? The Ray Watts' of the world (beyond anything about UAB) are licking their chops that the fourth estate in this community and state continues to decline into crap like this.
They're giving the people what the want.
Perhaps it's giving the people what they can handle. Hemingway started the trend with short one thought sentences, and TV picked up the format since it fit their "time slot" mentality. AL.com is just taking it to new levels using the new technologies..
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07-03-2015 01:31 PM |
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bladhmadh
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
by not reading or viewing uab stories that hurts uab coverage. the more clicks the more coverage
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07-04-2015 05:39 AM |
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rook360
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-04-2015 05:39 AM)bladhmadh Wrote: by not reading or viewing uab stories that hurts uab coverage. the more clicks the more coverage
Thank you!
You have people saying don't give them the time of day, but then the same people complain because the news won't cover us. Dont take it personal, it's business to them. In this day and age of twitter and instagram it's easy to feed stories to reporters.
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07-04-2015 06:26 AM |
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ICB
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
I understand the clicking, tweeting of stories, commenting, but embedding a 2 paragraph article in a 13 slide presentation is ridiculous
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07-04-2015 06:47 AM |
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bladhmadh
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-04-2015 06:47 AM)ICB Wrote: I understand the clicking, tweeting of stories, commenting, but embedding a 2 paragraph article in a 13 slide presentation is ridiculous
Click counts matter
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07-04-2015 07:30 AM |
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braish
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
Back to the topic at hand, what the hell is going on behind the scenes? It's as if instead of reinstating football, Watts announced it was dead. I have people who want to donate or buy tickets but they keep asking what is going on and will Clark get an extension. I know I'm preaching to the choir but this is frustrating to watch a golden PR opportunity being squandered.
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07-06-2015 09:55 AM |
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blazers9911
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RE: Slideshow: Bill Clark on UAB football's return, and more
(07-06-2015 09:55 AM)braish Wrote: Back to the topic at hand, what the hell is going on behind the scenes? It's as if instead of reinstating football, Watts announced it was dead. I have people who want to donate or buy tickets but they keep asking what is going on and will Clark get an extension. I know I'm preaching to the choir but this is frustrating to watch a golden PR opportunity being squandered.
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. I have my form and money ready to go, but I want to see coach Clark get what he deserves first.
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07-06-2015 10:57 AM |
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