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Wait You Mean Endorsements Are Fake?!


Posted by The Editor on 09 Mar 2010 /
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Which 106.5 The Arch jock did we hear recently opined on the internet about how much they hate the company they shill for?

If you sons of bitches were not paying me to say that I liked u I would switch providers in a heart beat. ASSWHOLES [sic]

Service provider huh?  We’re guessing they are compaining about what everyone complains about: Charter  …or it could be that anal wart cream delivery service.  Bastards are always late.

Wait wait wait.  Are you telling me that when an on-air personality says something is awesome, they are sometimes just doing it for the money?!  Say it ain’t so!  The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, massages with happy endings and Mark McGwire’s home run records are real though right?


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KSDK.com is the Internet Version of Those Clipboard Ladies in the Mall


Posted by The Editor on 14 Aug 2009 /
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Hey KSDK.com, this

ksdk_questionhas got to stop.

If you can’t read that writing about this demographic survey that pops up while using their cluttered site, it reads:

To help us keep ksdk.com available to all users free of charge, please answer the following questions. You should not be asked these questions again during future visits using the same computer.

Register now to post, publish and participate and save keystrokes later.

Come on!  ”To help us keep ksdk.com available to all users?”  There is so much wrong with stuff like this!  What you don’t already run ads on your site?  I can’t believe that some people can’t understand how annoying this kind of stuff is.

Its exactly like the clipboard ladies in the mall.  You know the ones…stretch pants, XXXL t-shirt with a kitty airbrushed on to it, holding a clipboard in her knuckle-dimpled, scrunchy-adorned, hand looking at your with her wide, unblinking eyes.  You look up and what do you do?  Freeze.  Right there in the middle of the mall.  Yeah, you really want to go in to that Walden Books but she’s right there at the entrance!  Your mind races…”how do I get in to the Walden Books with out having to make eye contact.”  Do you go around and try to sneak in behind the fake plant on the far side of the entrance?  Pretend to be super interested in that pamphlet you took off the cell phone case / ceramic puppy kiosk?  Ooh! Your cell phone, you could pretend to be on a call!  …but she’s looking right at you.  Wait!  How long have you been standing there!  Make a move! Make a move!

Your move is the same thing most of us do: You turn your ass around and go get the book on Amazon.

No one likes these things KSDK!  No one like to be accosted, even digitally, when trying to browse around.  If you bug us, we’ll just go.

And another thing!  What’s with the Fark buttons, that allow you to submit the story to the humor site Fark, on every story?  Your a news site.  Some of your “stories” don’t exactly need a Fark button.  Here’s an example:

ksdk_farkHa ha ha ha!  Car accident!  Classic!


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STLToday Takes Annoying Ads to the Next Level


Posted by The Editor on 23 Jul 2009 /
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Hi STLToday.com, thanks for coming over, have a seat.

You know that show on A&E where these people confront someone that is doing drugs or whatever and thus is in desperate need of money so sometimes they start whoring themselves out to anyone that will give them a buck even if what they want to do to them is totally messed up?

Today we are doing that for you.

No no no!  Sit down!  You need to hear this.

I went to your sports section the other day and I got this:

stltoday_sports_ad

This kind of crap isn’t cool.  I don’t know how long you’ve been doing this…maybe you’ve been doing this on Life & Style for a while now and I just never noticed…but it needs to stop.  I know they gave you some money so you could continue your nasty ways for a little longer, but this isn’t good, don’t go down this way.

Blocking the whole page with an ad?

…and an ad for some girly pre-teen show on ABC Family?  …on the Sports page?!  Its just wrong.

Maybe we share some of the blame…everyone knows you have been having money troubles, we just never thought it would go this far, get this bad.  I doubt you would have listened to us though.

Ok, ok…stop crying.

You know you have to get rid of this stuff now, right?  Its no good for you!

Well, do you have anything to say for yourself?


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Spend a Night 21 Days Ago With A Playmate From STLToday.com!


Posted by The Editor on 21 Jan 2009 /
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I was going to start this off with the rhetorical question of “Does anyone at the Post Dispatch even look at STLToday.com?”  but I stopped short because I knew I was going to get tons of “Have you seen the green on their site?  …I’m guessing no.”-type comments.

Look, you can hate on the abortion that was their old navigation, and say their new one looks like it took them 20 seconds to put together, and arguments could be made in their defense (I’m guessing)…but the least…and I mean the least…they could do is to take off ads for a contest that’s prize involved spending New Year’s Eve with a playmate!

It takes 20 seconds.   Seriously.


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