Redhotpie.com.au: Guys want to hookup on NYE, well duh
I can’t decide if News Corporation have a love or hate affair with Redhotpie.com.au.
They certainly don’t sponsor them or have any ownership to the company so I kind of have a hard time explaining a seemingly blatant advertising plug.
One minute News Limited are reporting on the fact that Redhotpie have been busted scamming customers, and the next they’ve seemingly syndicated an advertising piece thinly veiled as an article.
What’s worse is their source appears to be AAP. I mean seriously what the hell are Associated Press doing carrying fluff articles that stop short of being paid content because the article doesn’t contain a clickable link?
And as for the content of the article… Cmon guys. Let me break this down, you surveyed a bunch of (statistically predominantly male) losers and asked them a. whether or not they’d like to get laid on NYE and b. how large a group of people they slept with.
…and then you superimposed the figures as if they were somehow representative of the Australian population itself?
Oh dear.
I can’t even begin to… no wait they just… oh my god I just want to… jesus christ is the News Limited news team mentally challenged or something?
As much as I desperately want to believe there’s something of journalistic value behind this article I’m really struggling here. I mean seriously anything, I’ll even take ‘excellent use of grammar’ at this point.
The only reason it was even written is so that the author could plug Redhotpie’s website URL not once, but twice!
Guys want sex on New Years Eve, this has been true since the first New Years Eve.
Guys on dating website want sex on New Years Eve…
Guys want sex on New Years Eve…
Guys want sex…
…OH REALLY?
Remember these are the same clowns that want to charge you for reading their ‘quality journalism’. I say hurry the hell up and bring it on already, this is Murdoch McQualityJournalism at its finest.
December 22nd, 2010 at 7:23 am sinders(Quote)
I am writing this as redhotpie will not delete my profiles. One is locked i cannot get into the name is sharaz the other is sinders.
I wrote them heaps of messages to get my profile deleted. They told me my profile would be gone but it is still there i do not want any part of this site. I was victimized accused of things this has scared me for life i just want my profile out of there right now thank u for your time
December 23rd, 2010 at 2:02 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Hey sinders, if you’ve got the time maybe a strongly worded letter from a solicitor might help. Failing that you could always try the ACCC (or is there an ombudsman that handles stuff like this?).