Villain of the year
The BBC News website for dumbing down further and further. For its editors thinking that reality TV, viewer ratings and inconsequential Twitter postings make for headline news. For not keeping news stories up to date with latest developments and for becoming more and more difficult for me to visit without wanting to stab myself in the eyes.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Tue 3 Jan 2012, 18:29, 6 replies)

Could be any news site, really.
I've yet to find one that doesn't consider some celeb bullshit, news.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Tue 3 Jan 2012, 22:59, closed)

This may be up yer alley.
www.abc.net.au/news/qld/allstories/
I find the WA 1 a good startoff point.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 3 Jan 2012, 23:56, closed)

So ... what is this, then?
The Campaign For The Prevention Of The Elucidation Of Vernacular And Employment Of Increased Polysyllable Usage In Populist Media?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 8:25, closed)

Oh, there's nothing wrong with the language
It's the content that has got worse. They used to be the standard of quality news reporting. Not anymore.

FWIW, here's what I want them to do:
1) keep anything related to celebrity gossip or reality TV away from the front page
2) same for stories about Twitter and Facebook
3) stop using random reactions from the above sites in news stories. Seriously, what does '@turdface1747 wrote "RIP 4eva n r hrts"' add to a story?
4) no more comments sections on news stories. If I cared what Barry Shitpeas thought about the GFC I'd ask him myself.
5) if other news outlets are publishing important details about a story that they're not then they should follow suit.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 8:57, closed)

Yes indeed.
Heaven forbid the news reflect current culture.

Gossip, celebrity is part of current culture, 'twas always thus, and always will be.

Lord Nelson was the David Beckham of his day, Mozart Robbie Williams.

In other news, girls like looking at pretty boys, and boys like looking at pretty girls. Older members of society will always look down on the youth as frivolous and wasteful, and the youth will always see the old as boring and stuffy.

The news is an entertainment, nothing more.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:00, closed)

I agree to an extent.
Mainly the reactions on Twitter to news stories. Since when has some spotty virgin's opinion been as valid as a doctor, or professor on a subject.

I heard one story where it was talking about knife crime, and they cut to some yoof's comments that were along the lines of "knifs hlp me protect me frm bad bwoys", or something to that effect. They dedicated as much time to his view, as that of Brooke Kinsella.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 4 Jan 2012, 11:52, closed)