TAKE THE NJ.COM NO CLICK PLEDGE
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These posts are the equivalent of telling someone "whatever you do don't look". They make people even more curious as to what could be so bad.
I'm in as well. No integrity whatsoever in that newspaper. Someone over there is clearly anti RU.
Instead of not clicking, how about deleting the app from your phone? Really break the cord. Who's in?
Count me in. -The SL is a sensationalist rag that doesn't employ journalists; it employs hatchet men.
If for some unfathomable reason I ever feel the need to look at garbage I don't need the SL for that. ...There are plenty of dumpsters around.
If for some unfathomable reason I ever feel the need to look at garbage I don't need the SL for that. ...There are plenty of dumpsters around.
It's been a while now, but I will NEVER click on an article by Dick Duggan, Weasel face Sarge, or Ahole Politi.
If I saw them at a game, I'd say "Ahole" as I walked by
Fans should REALLY get on those jerks.
Has anyone here ever run into them?
(I WILL read every T Hunt article I see)
If I saw them at a game, I'd say "Ahole" as I walked by
Fans should REALLY get on those jerks.
Has anyone here ever run into them?
(I WILL read every T Hunt article I see)
Real easy... if you see a story on this site, or see a NJ.com article, go to news.google.com and type a search for that news item with "-nj.com" and "-ledger" in the search string. You'll usually come back with other sites with the same information. It's rare that either of those sources have an exclusive on anything.... and even if they do, wait a day or so and someone else will have it.
I had canceled my Ledger subscription because of lack of quality, poor editing, and essentially being an AP Wire aggregator (and the annoyance of having to discard/recycle all that paper) even before the Sherman/Margolin nonsense... and stopped clicking NJ.com entirely at that point (mid/late 2008)
I've never read a Todd Hunt article. I haven't read a Sargeant article since he moved to the Ledger. It annoys me when people put a link without noting that it's a NJ.com link and I accidentally click on it (though I've gotten better over the years with checking before clicking).
I had canceled my Ledger subscription because of lack of quality, poor editing, and essentially being an AP Wire aggregator (and the annoyance of having to discard/recycle all that paper) even before the Sherman/Margolin nonsense... and stopped clicking NJ.com entirely at that point (mid/late 2008)
I've never read a Todd Hunt article. I haven't read a Sargeant article since he moved to the Ledger. It annoys me when people put a link without noting that it's a NJ.com link and I accidentally click on it (though I've gotten better over the years with checking before clicking).
Agreed.
...really? Now that the narrative had changed and it looks like Flood will be ok, just can't help moving those goalposts?
Joe P.
what took you folks so long? I cancelled my script to the Ledger 10 years ago and the only time I click on them is to read what a terrible piece of crap they wrote about us when somebody links it here.....only so I can see for myself and not assume. WELCOME ABOARD!
I used to read the Star Ledger religiously every morning with coffee.....cancelled the daily/Sunday subscription about 5 years ago.
I used to go to/read the website religiously every day - stopped doing that about 2 years ago
Owned a business and refused to advertise on the website
I've minimized my clicks to the website to (very rarely) links from Scarletnation
It's not only about the SL coverage of Rutgers. That News Outlet has really gone downhill across the board and in many cases the focus is only on the negative, the writing and opinion pieces were suspect, troll bait comments are promoted, and the thoroughness or research is lacking. If there were no links in posts/threads here - I would not go there at all.
I used to go to/read the website religiously every day - stopped doing that about 2 years ago
Owned a business and refused to advertise on the website
I've minimized my clicks to the website to (very rarely) links from Scarletnation
It's not only about the SL coverage of Rutgers. That News Outlet has really gone downhill across the board and in many cases the focus is only on the negative, the writing and opinion pieces were suspect, troll bait comments are promoted, and the thoroughness or research is lacking. If there were no links in posts/threads here - I would not go there at all.
Very much this.
The Ledger has been declining in quality for a long time. So much of the original content is gone and replaced by AP wire stuff, and the content they do create is shoddily edited and often sensationalized. When I had a subscription (roughly from 2003-2006), the amount of typos and bad writing had me hanging on to essentially the sports section, comics, and classifieds as the only worthwhile elements of the paper. With the rise of online comics and classifieds, that left only sports... which wasn't enough, on its own, to warrant me keeping up my subscription.
And then the sports went down the tubes, too - so, they have absolutely no value to me anymore.
People are free to think what they want but I don't know how many more examples people need to see that the SL/nj.com are trying to use our school and our program as kindling to light their own fire. It's like taking 7 years to figure out that drinking Liquid Plumbr is bad for you.
Joe P.
Joe P.
I haven't clicked on a NJ.com link for years now. I sometimes feel a little bit bad as my brother-in-law works for them (not in sports). He develops a lot of the interactive web-based stuff (informational maps, surveys, quizzes, etc.). A lot of it sounds pretty neat when he describes it to me, but I respectfully tell him that I refuse to support NJ.com or The Star Ledger in any way due to their anti RU athletic agenda so I cannot check out his work or suggest that others do either. He's a good guy so I do feel kind of bad about it, but he understands and respects my viewpoint.
My local paper..the Hunterdon County Democrat (believe owned or part of the group) changed it front page logo to look just like the Ledgers...and I noticed the articles/opinions became very much agenda driven. (although not so much about Rutgers Sports but other)..ready to cut them off as well.
Neither side of the coin is silly. If you still covet what you are getting out of your SL / Website experience then great for you guys. If not then there also is no reason to think other people's opinions on the matter or someone trying to drum up a boycott as silly. The SL has certainly provided enough fodder in this one situation alone for people here to question motives - and this is just one instance of many across a variety of writers.
I'm in and I've been in since the Rice/Pernetti thing. Funny thing is, if you don't go to their website, it all kind of disappears. There is really no need.
