Yahoo going anti

[boomhower1820]

I get an email everyday with selected news stories from the previous day. For the last three days there has been an anti ecig article in the first couple or articles. One about a battery that caught one fire (one of two reported since 2007...., how many cell phone and laptop battery have caught on fire in that time farm...) and the second about kids smoking ecigs. I know who is getting no more of my clicks.

 

[montara]

Yahoo, the CNN of search

 

[Zactaylorswag]

Lol strange the only e cig I would think a kid would be able to afford are the disposable blu ecigs and those are hardly worth it.

 

[Ref Minor]

You realise they probably analyse your Internet use and tailor the stories to your interests? If there were more positive stories out there, that is what you would get.

 

[jow350]

You realise they probably analyse your Internet use and tailor the stories to your interests? If there were more positive stories out there, that is what you would get.

Yep, like Ref said. Do an experiment, open up an incognito windows and go to Yahoo and for that matter any other news site and see how it changes... One of the big reasons I don't use Yahoo any longer, open up a couple of celebrity news story and the next thing you know that's all you get, with a month's old story on top.

 

[JulesXsmokr]

Lol strange the only e cig I would think a kid would be able to afford are the disposable blu ecigs and those are hardly worth it.

You mean "Blu" the one that is owned by a Big tobacco Company?

 

[LuanaS]

Yahoo today:
E-cigarettes as good as nicotine patches in helping smokers quit

 

[ScottP]

You have to realize that MOST of Yahoo's "News" is just regurgitated stories from other news sources. They do have a few unique articles but not that many.

 

[Butters78]

When I was a teenager if I heard something was real bad for me wanted me to do it more.

Hell there are kids out there that never heard of ecigs i bet and now that it's all over the news they want to.

 

[SFBrianT]

They posted this today. Not exactly what I would call anti
E-cigarettes as effective as patches to stop smoking

 

[mkbilbo]

When I was a teenager if I heard something was real bad for me wanted me to do it more.

Hell there are kids out there that never heard of ecigs i bet and now that it's all over the news they want to.

Easy solution to that.

Associate the "e-cig" with their parents' generation.

The kids'll never touch 'em again...

 

[Zactaylorswag]

lol Sorry ''Blu'' And I was just saying they dont last very long so it wouldnt really be worth it they should be focusing on kids buying actual Cigs and not e cigs which are better for you thats all I was trying to say.

You mean "Blu" the one that is owned by a Big Tobacco Company?

 

[SeaBrz]

Yahoo? So 1990's -- get on with it. (And I am 57 yrs old.) Even Google News is less biased. These are not always great, but definitely less constrictive than Yahoo:

Wikinews
AlterNet
The Real News
Reuters
The Independent
PBS
BBC
CSPAN

 

[vjc0628]

A lot of anti ecigg stuff everywhere in the last week

the media has launched a new advertising campaign to sway public opinion in favor of the upcoming regulations before oct

 

[BigBen2k]

I find that the bigger the media, more than often have it wrong, or have incomplete stories. Yahoo may be big, but they rarely do any of the work they publish, and certainly don't bother to check it. Any of it.

The BBC is much better! Heck, PBS is one of the top, but they're not flawless. I like the Christian Science Monitor (not as bad as it sounds).

Most US news (national or local) is tailored for an audience with a short attention span, so there's no depth, the kind of depth that actually explains things, in a way that makes sense.

 

[Steve803]

Yahoo today:
E-cigarettes as good as nicotine patches in helping smokers quit

Thanks for the link. I just spent an hour reading the comments and replying to posts. Hope I helped some find their way to support their desire to quit and slapping the ones that are just nasty and idiots. I just don't get how people can dislike people that post comments about how they successfully quit smoking by using e-cigs. I thought they all want us to quit smoking tobacco. I guess not.

 

[BigBen2k]

Yahoo comments are the worst... they're all about how one's way is better than yours, and you're a fool for thinking otherwise.

Biggest waste of cyberspace, IMO.

 

[boomhower1820]

Yep, my email today contained a positive story so I guess they are evening out.

 

[tj99959]

This month and next we will see a huge influx of anti e-cig stories as the mothers against everything make their final push for restrictive deeming regulations.

 

[mkbilbo]

A lot of anti ecigg stuff everywhere in the last week

the media has launched a new advertising campaign to sway public opinion in favor of the upcoming regulations before oct

Hm... friend of mine used to always say, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

I'd propose a corollary that when dealing with the McNews in the US today (unintentional but rather appropriate eh?) it's, "never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by laziness".

Sensationalism is easy. Research is haaaaaaaaaaaaard.... <whine>