ThunderySleep t1_iso8u99 wrote
Reply to comment by scotticusphd in Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's Record in Congress on LGBTQ Issues Earns Him a ‘D’ from the Human Rights Campaign - Bucks County Beacon by Open_Veins_8
This isn't comparable to a new >any legitimate business< because buckscountybeacon.com is not a legitimate journal. It's a propaganda spam site posing as a local news source to deceive readers.
There are no professionals involved, hence not being able to build a functional website or even make it into the top three pages (probably more, I just didn't look farther) on google for "local news bucks county PA". The first link I clicked on at random was duplicate content from elsewhere.
This is a propaganda spam site masking a regular local news source. It's a scam.
scotticusphd t1_isofbfv wrote
... or maybe you just don't like their message. It's not uncommon for new businesses to not have their SEO sorted out, in the same way that it's common for scams to exploit SEO to make themselves look legitimate.
Methinks you just don't like hearing about gay people so you're looking for any excuse to attack the messenger.
ThunderySleep t1_isofwtl wrote
No, bucskcountybeacon.com is a propaganda spam site posing as a local news source.
> It's not uncommon for new businesses to not have their SEO sorted out, in the same way that it's common for scams to exploit SEO to make themselves look legitimate.
What are you talking about? It is uncommon for legitimate businesses centered around a website to be incapable of building and maintaining a functional website.
Professional journalists aren't using WYSIWYG editors to fake a local newspaper for their articles. If they don't have the resources to form a proper journal, they write articles on medium or substack.
This is not a legitimate news source. This is a scam website posing as a local newspaper. It's a con, and not a competent one.
scotticusphd t1_isoglwa wrote
What's the con? Can you dispute the facts being reported? Are they stealing money? Or are you just slandering them?
Their website is fine... it's no different than most websites, and frankly looks nicer than Reddit.
ThunderySleep t1_isogzge wrote
The con is posing as a local news site. This is a shitty blog some partisan activist put together with a WYSIWYG editor and dressed up as though it's a legitimate local newspaper. buckcountybeacon.com is a fake local news site, poorly built with a WYSIWYG. It's not slander, this is objective truth.
scotticusphd t1_isoyzx7 wrote
Who cares if they're using a WYSIWYG editor? Most journalists aren't web developers... most of the internet is Wordpress, so I don't understand why you're bent out of shape about that.
It says a lot more about you that you're not engaging with the facts of the article and instead choose to attack their choice of web technology. My hunch is that their reporting makes you uncomfortable, which says to me that they're probably doing a great job.
ThunderySleep t1_ispwdtr wrote
Having a regular website which any competent adult could build demonstrates professionalism that might suggest it's a legitimate organization.
> Most journalists aren't web developers
No, but most competent adults, let alone professionals in any field that involves using the internet, can put together a marginally competent website.
Most journalists are capable of running their own wordpress site. In fact, if they don't use substack, they typically do have their own wordpress sites. But not a single person involved your scam was able to put one together competently.
The gross incompetence with a basic professional skillset signals it's not a legitimate organization. Which is what this discussion is: Pointing out that buckscountybeacon.com is a propaganda site imitating an established local newspaper.
This is a malicious propaganda spam site, posing as a local newspaper.
scotticusphd t1_isqat3f wrote
It's a small, progressive local news organization. Your characterization as a scam or malicious propaganda has everything to do with your unwillingness to accept someone else's point of view. You STILL haven't addressed any of the substance of what they're saying, and you're fixated on the quality of their website, a website which is just fine, by the way.
>No, but most competent adults, let alone professionals in any field that involves using the internet, can put together a marginally competent website.
...and they have a marginally competent website. It's no better or worse than most other small Bucks County businesses. Jesus. It's not the New York Times or Mother Jones caliber because they don't have that much money and their beat is a semi-rural county.
ThunderySleep t1_istasy3 wrote
No, this is a scam website. Bukcscountybeacon.com is a propaganda spam site disguised as an established local newspaper.
There's essentially no local news on the site, it's 95% leftist propaganda, much of it not even specific to PA, and of the little content I clicked on, it turned out to be republished content from elsewhere.
It's not a marginally competent website. The average person off the street could build something more competent than this. Images don't load consistently, load time is terrible, layouts are broken, scroll jacking is broken, text is vibrating. This is not competent.
Any actual journalist is capable of building a proper wordpress site, given that they tend to have their own wordpress sites. Which are used for and presented as what they are, their blogs. They don't fake being the local paper.
It's beyond a budget issue, it's a basic competence issue, and indicates these are not professionals in any capacity. Like I said, it's a scam website. A bunch of political propaganda dressed up as if it's a local newspaper, and now the people behind this scam are in this thread lying about it and their intentions.
As far as me focusing on Bucks County Beacon being a fake newspaper, that's just what the discussion is. It's telling that you're jumping into this thread 60 replies deep demanding I change the subject. Bucks County Becon's a political spam site disguised as an local newspaper. It deliberately uses a dated logo and everything, despite not existing prior to late 2021.
scotticusphd t1_istb4p3 wrote
Yeah, you keep saying it's a scam and fake but you haven't shown any evidence of a scam. You really have no idea what you're talking about, but you're continuing to run your mouth anyway.
Goodbye forever.
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